The Education for 21st Century involves the development of key skills for citizens to adapt to the instability, the continuous change and uncertainty characteristic of this Century. In fact, the acquisition of these key skills is assumed to be a route to economic prosperity, reduced income inequalities and social cohesion. Great efforts have been done within the European Union to move towards a competence-based approach, especially in the area of teacher education. Teachers are believed to be a cornerstone for competence-based education models to success. Some teacher competence frameworks to guide initial and developmental teacher education paths have been developed around the world, for instance in the EU, the USA and Asia. However, there is not a global teacher education competence framework. In addition, some countries are currently at the back of the competence-based education approach. This is particularly the case of China where teacher education programmes are divided in specialities and, therefore, teachers lack a cross-sectional perspective. This fact causes diverse education problems, especially at primary level. For this reason, the purpose of this project is to improve Chinese teacher training programmes through a competence-based curriculum. For this purpose, a global teacher competence framework is going to be developed as a baseline to adjust the teaching plans towards a competence-based approach. Besides, teacher trainers will be trained within the competence-based approach so that they can adapt the teaching plans to apply the approach and train other teacher trainers. The development of this project will build capacity in Chinese higher education institutions since they will become qualified within the competence-based approach. Moreover, the project will establish synergies between European and Asia higher education institutions, what will improve the transfer of knowledge and capital.