Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients with life-threatening & chronic illnesses: cancer, severe cardiac & pulmonary diseases, Alzheimer, Parkinson etc. The palliative and end-life care is providing by personnel at hospices, hospitals, elderly care centers - nurses, healthcare assistants, social workers etc. who are frequently discovering obstacles in terms of opportunities for up to date knowledge from one side and from other side there is a prevalence rate of those who are moving to work in another EU country where they discovered competences mismatch. The shortages of accessible VET training guided our consortium to the need to develop a self-assessment tool that will capture competences gaps identified via comparison of competence frameworks in EU. It contributes to the national VET systems for palliative & end-life care providers according to the EQF level 3 & 4 (defer to countries and qualification levels according to NQF). Based on discovered palliative competences gaps this consortium provided a learning repository with up to date learning resources, which are available for free of charge accompanied by 16 modules aligned to ECVET.This project involves as LEARNERS: palliative and end-life nurses, carers, social workers, health care professionals etc. and as TRAINERS: VET trainers and educators, in-house trainers, coordinators/managers of palliative and end-life care providers;As final BENEFICIARIES from the improved services were: people with terminal and severe immobility diseases, their families, NGOs/Unions of people with disabilities and elderly people, policy makers in the field of health care, social care and quality assurance in VET.During the 24 months duration, the PT-CARE developed, iterative tested, piloted, optimised and exploited into practice the following INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS: IO1: Manual on Palliative Care Competences Framework in Europe by using the tuning method IO2: PTCare competences assessment tool IO3: PTCare learning resources repository for further VET training of palliative and end-life caregivers IO4: PTCare service awareness video on palliative care provision IO5: PTCare interactive learning portal The outputs are available in EN, BG, LT, GR, HU, NL and TR languages at www.ptcare.eu The project consortium consists of 7 partners from 6 countries. The project reached the following impact:- ON PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS - the project results enables them to enhance and widen their policies and core activities. It also generated improved knowledge and network links resulting in improved outcomes in their organizational culture.- ON IMPROVED COMPETENCES OF PALLIATIVE CARE PROFESSIONALS - for the first time in Europe (not existing in EU professional card) a comparative competence framework was provided, which identified the competences mismatch and suggested further training pathways for additional qualitative training provision offered by specific learning repository.- ON CARE PROVISION TO BENEFICIARIES AND THEIR FAMILIES - the PT-CARE project activities involved further training and assessment of the competences of the care professionals in Bulgaria, Belgium, Cyprus, Lithuania, Hungary and Turkey, who are providing palliative care services to people with severe health conditions and definitely decreased the burden to their families.