The project intends  to intervene on determining aspects of the role of the teacher (including all the professionals who are involved in the learning process like tutors, mediators etc.) and to improve the ability of teachers to relate to their students, by establishing a fruitful rapport with them.
Sometimes in teacher training courses, this point is overlooked, whereas it should be considered a crucial aspect since it is a determining factor in the teaching-learning process. In this sense, the project intends to outline the present situation by means of two different types of approach: the top-down approach and the bottom-up one.

The former analyses teacher training in the various countries involved in the project by trying to identify the time dedicated to student-teacher rapport; the latter pinpoints the trainee’s requirements by means of group discussion of personal experiences
In this way, trainee teachers will gain further awareness of their roles.
The participating members of the project will be invited to a seminar, during which the results of the first survey will be illustrated and handed out.

A second part of the project will involve meetings in each participating school and will focus on the necessary procedures to meet the training needs individualised in the first phase (initial and life-long teacher training, the defining of the network of relationships inside the institute: parent- teacher, teacher-colleague) and consequently on the planning of a teacher-training course.
The institutions involved will put the defined procedures into practice and they will be constantly monitored by the project committee. At the end of this phase the procedures and the contents will be put forward for approval.

A third part of the project will include circulating and divulging the results. It will also involve seminars and a series of reports addressed to teachers, trade unions and policy-makers which are meant to put forward a proposal to promote and reinforce rapport in the teaching-learning process. These reports will be on the ability of teachers to relate to the students as part of the teacher-training process; the series of relationships inside the institutions and teaching units centred on these abilities that teachers can use for their teaching experiences in the class.