<< Background >>The COVID-19 pandemic made the world face a completely changed situation. Therefore, in 2020, numerous adaptations had to be carried out also in the field of tertiary education.The project's aim is to develop, implement and evaluate a free-access, innovative and high- quality website training, which will strengthen the participating lecturers' professional development. The acquired knowledge, skills and competencies will be included in their practical classes. By doing so, they will upgrade their digital and didactic competencies, cooperative and innovative practices, and develop new distance teaching methods.The key purpose of the project is to empower the practical contents lecturers to implement high-quality teaching situations in digital environment. This should be a reply to COVID-19 and all possible future challenges which might render non-virtual teaching impossible.<< Objectives >>The project's objectives are:Upgrading pedagogic and digital knowledge, skills and competencies of the practical lessons lecturers and qualifying them for an adequate implementation of teaching situations of the practical contents at distance learning in order to be comparable to non-virtual teaching (efficiency, quality).Boosting informal professional distance education of lecturers, which will be accessible anywhere and anytime.Enabling distance learning to all students, including those with learning difficulties or the socially-deprived ones.Boosting the adaptability of the practical classes and its successful inclusion in distance teaching, in the so-called hybrid classes or using the model of distance teaching in the cases of a needed teacher's replacement.Ensuring sustainability and sharing the results of the project with other interested public (e.g., adults included in life-long learning programmes, vulnerable groups, etc.)Target groups:The primary target group of the project are mentors of the practical training and mentors/caretakers of the vulnerable groups. The secondary group are the lecturers, school leaderships, political decision makers, employers.Indirect target group or final users of the project competencies are students in practical classes (independent study), vulnerable groups, and adults included in life-long learning programmes.<< Implementation >>Four partners from the three various states (Spain, Croatia, Slovenia) are participating in the project.The project is structured on two levels: intellectual results (IR1) and transversal activities: project management and implementation, project monitoring and evaluation, and dissemination of the project's results.The project will bring the following results: IR1: THE ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING TOOLS, ENVIRONMENTS AND APPLICATIONS FOR A DISTANCE PRACTICAL CLASSES AND STUDY CASESIR2: THE CURRICULUM OF THE WEBSITE TRAINING »E-PRACTICAL CLASSES« AND PREPARATION OF PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTIONSIR3: APPLICATION DEVELOPMENTIR4: E-APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND THE PREPARATION OF THE WEB-HANDBOOK (it will be a free-access handbook, easy to read for the vulnerable groups, except for the part on the academic level).IR5: SAMPLE E-CURRICULA, THEIR IMPLEMENTATION (ON TERRAIN) AND EVALUATION IN PRACTICE<< Results >>The expected and most relevant effects and long-term benefits of the project Didactic-digital tools for the practical contents training will be (among others) the improvement of the pedagogic and digital competencies of mentors, their improved professional confidence, openness for international cooperation, project work, etc. Students will acquire equal vocational competencies and skills regardless of form and implementation of practical classes. Besides vocational competencies, the improvement of the students' digital competencies is also expected.The project presents a great potential for adaptation of the classes to different situations and emergencies.The materials in the project will be developed in English, Spanish, Croatian and Slovenian language. They will be free-of-charge, accessible on the web of the project, functioning also as an educational platform. There will be varied levels, from academic to easy-reading level.