A KA219 Project ”From Knowledge to Competences” aims to bring together very diverse experience of tackling the challenge of basic skills across Europe in order to foster an effective good practice exchanges among the participating countries: Turkey, Portugal, Bulgaria, Italy, Estonia, Poland and Romania as a coordinating country. The main reason for initiating the present project is that many of our students have rather poor ability to apply the basic elements of mathematical literacy (addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, percentages and ratios, weights and measures) in everyday life situation.