Faculty of Education Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica in cooperation with University of Borys Grinchenko in Kyiv, Ukraine as leader, and partners: University Ostravian and University of Silesia acquired positive decision for realization and financial support from International Visegrad Fund for project: High school teacher competence in change No 21720008 Grant recipient of the project – Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Department of Theory and History of Pedagogy Project Coordinator - Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Chair of Theory and History of Pedagogy, Liudmyla Khoruzha Supervisor of the project - Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Vice-Rector for Informatization of Educational, Scientific and Management Activities, Nataliia Morze Co-coordinator of the project - candidate of historical sciences, associate professor Olga Melnychenko Project partners: The University of Silesia in Katowice, Łukasz Kwadrans, PhD. assist. prof. University of Ostrava, Josef Malach, doc. PhDr., CSc. Matej Bel University, Bronislava Kasáčová, Prof. PhDr. , CSc. Ukrainian academy of acmeology (Kyiv, Ukraine), Fruktova Yana, Ph.D., associate professor, scientific secretary of UAA Context Under the conditions of educational reform and social transformations the requirements set for the activity of all education practitioners, professors included, are being changed. The changes in the sphere of their professional competencies are irreversible. There appears a need for the conceptualization and harmonization of professional activity of professors at high schools. Taking into account the fact that competences of high school professors are an important indicator of their activity, the urgency of implementation of the idea of this project is connected to the unification of approaches to determine the sphere of competences of professors in the conditions of changes and development of a toolkit for diagnostics. The above-mentioned idea promotes further standardization of results of professional activity of high school professors in partner countries. The aim of the project "Competences of high school professors in the era of change: V3 and Ukraine" is the definition and diagnostics of the complex of competencies of high school professors that meet the demands of the time and further standardization of their activity in 3 countries of the Visegrad Group (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia) and Ukraine.