"The project is aimed to explore these good practices from Germany and Austria that could improve not just the youth inclusion on the labor market but also could help the clothing businesses to find high motivated and well prepared young workers. The main reason/background of this project is that there are good practices for dual education in old-EU member states. These dual education practices are connected as to the professional competencies of the youths as well as to the national frameworks in Secondary education, human resource management and economic growth. But neither of these good practices are applicable to the Bulgarian Education and Labor systems and they need to be modified to be more helpful for the economic, social and demographic reality in Bulgaria.Participants in the project are four organizations - SCIAT-Danube, Ruse, Vocational School of Clothing (PGO), Weis Consulting Association, Aschaffenburg, Germany, IHC Ltd., Achenkirch, Austria.SCIAT – has experience of Bulgarian business practice in clothing industry. Most of the members of the SCIAT cluster are business entities, so the SCIAT well-knows the needs of their members, especially labor force requirements. PGO – has 117 years of experience and tradition in vocational education in Clothing industry. The main priority of PGO is to respond to the aspirations of young people to successful professional start by providing innovative vocational education. IHC – has 20 years of tradition in Central and Eastern Europe. The IHC is working with the Austrian Development Agency ADA, Wien, together with international manufacturers of clothing in development projects to enhance the cooperation between schools, universities and the business. WCA – has 25 years of consultation in the textile and clothing industry worldwide. Thereby WCA have very familiar with the requirements for dual education in specific and education at textile and clothing school in general.The basic issues that the project is addressed could be summarized to: state analysis education excellence in dual education in Textile and clothing industry; gap analysis of the perspectives and challenges of the dual education in clothing industry in Bulgaria; identification of preliminary knowledge and skills that is needed for successful implementation of dual education. The basic intellectual outputs of this project are: Requirements for dual education during the professional VET in textile and clothing, Needs and expectations of business in professional vocational education in textile and clothing, Model of dual vocational education in Bulgaria.Following activities have been conducted: рrojekt management; four transnational project meetings, four learning, teaching and training activities: training VET teachers, training pupils, training business’ mentors, training different stakeholders, one multiplier event; dissemination activities.The participants of the project are:- 18 managers, teachers and administrative staff directly involved in the project and intellectual outputs;- 8 pupil participating in international exchanges of pupils;- 38 trained participants - business experts, VET teachers, stakeholders, pupils;- 142 participants in the multiplier event.Finally, the basic project’s impacts are:- modified teaching programs combining State educational requirements and Business Practice’s requirement in Textile and Clothing;- improved international business and social cooperation;- better recognition of dual education and its impact on pupils, labor force and business in Textile and Clothing.- establishment of business-training European cooperation;- promoting transparency, international mobility and business cooperation.The long-term benefit of the project is the start of the dual education in apparel industry at PGO ""Nedka Ivan Lazarova"" at the beginning of the current school year 2017/2018 on curricula developed within the framework of the project. Another long-term benefit is the start of a project for introduction of dual education in the apparel industry through the transfer of good practices from the project to a country outside the European Union - Albania."