"The project was born in the Centro Autonómico de Formación e Innovación (CAFI), a member of the teacher training network. We are responsible for training around 30,000 teachers of all levels (pre university levels). Besides the CAFI, the network is made up of other 6 Centros de Formación y Recursos (teacher training centres). CAFI is in charge of organizing online teacher training activities, designing and assessing innovative instructional programmes.Within this context and following the recommendations of the Council of Europe, the department of training and innovation at CAFI developed a framework of teacher competences in 2015. Several universities have similar proposals, but they often lack an essential component: the context (the school). Lifelong teacher training should go beyond transmission of specific knowledge. It is essential to reflect all their functions in a holistic training that takes into account all the needed competences for their job, as well as the context and the team.Bearing this in mind, the CAFI set out to generate a Framework of Teacher Competences. This was a ""common"" framework inasmuch as it would be useful to agents of initial teacher training (universities) and agents of state and public teacher training. The term also intended to be global and validated for different European contexts, allowing us to export our proposals at the same time as we imported cross-border solutions.To attain this global aim we allied with the following international partners:Universities:PHW - Pädagogische Hochschule Wien, Viena, AustriaIPL - Instituo Politécnico Leiria, Leiria, PortugalTeacher training centres:LFEE - Le Francais en Ecosse, private teacher training centre in Edinburgh, Scotland UPC - Ugdymo Pletotes Centras, public lifelong centre in several areas of expertise in Vilnius, LituaniaLegislative agent in education at a regional level: Consejería de Educación, Junta de Castilla y León.With all these partners, we designed the following objectives for the project:1. We developed a Common European Framework of Teacher Competences (hereforth MCCPD) made up of 9 competences and 31 subcompetences articulated around 3 levels of performance, defined in descriptors of competence level.2. We created a system to assess initial training needs according to this framework, which takes into account both real and sensed needs. This system was implemented with self-assessment forms and self-reflection questions linked to descriptors of a specific competence level.3. The framework was translated into a set of rubrics to assess teaching practice, which can be used for self-evaluation and hetero-evaluation by many different agents. These products were developed in the 6 official languages of the strategic association: English, German, Spanish, Galician, Portuguese and Lithuanian.Later, as outlined in the initial project, a practical turn was taken, and we generated:4. Two online courses, one for new teachers and one for mentor teachers. These courses were tested in the CAFI during 2017/2018.5. A good practice in teaching guide, with multimedia, multilingual examples which illustrate each and every one of the competences and subcompetences defined in the MCCPD.The results reached in the lifetime of the project have been highly satisfactory. The Framework has been presented to university students in the two contexts of further education level of the association, and teachers have assimilated it as a framework to develop their syllabi. In the Pädagogische Hochschule Wien, they succeeded in proposing and integrating the framework within the context of their KA3, PREPARE to elaborate audiovisual teacher portfolios. The project has also left its trace in institutional programmes in the context of educational regional policies: from the CAFI and in collaboration with the Junta de Castilla y León the framework was implemented in the context of Observa-acción, a job-shadowing programme within and among schools. 12 Galician and 12 Castillian schools participated in this programme. Likewise, and following the spirit of the porject, the teacher training network in Galicia reached and agreement to work with universities and try to find a common thread related to competences that articulates study plans both in initial and lifelong teacher training. Both through these actions and thanks to dissemination through the website, university teachers and their students, and teachers in primary and secondary will be able to use the resources, modifying and adapting them to best suit their needs and understanding their training and tasks in a global, holistic way to reach excellence in education."