This tool was created in the Peak project and it is intended for transferring the project’s best practices. The tool was born from the desire to respond to a challenge set by international cooperation – ”they had some good ideas, but we can’t utilise them in our country because our operating environment is too different” – by providing new means and tools for the identification and transfer of innovations. Another goal is to instil faith in the possibility of innovation transfer with the help of the examples described in this publication. The tools and operating models presented in this publication are suitable for use in both national and international cooperation.

Development expertise can and should also be a target for development. The aim of this guide is to bring together the key information about the prerequisites for successful peer development as well as the different challenges and pitfalls you may encounter during the process. The guide also provides practical advice for avoiding and overcoming problems and presents a range of examples of successful peer development projects. At the end of the guide is a collection of virtues and deadly sins of peer development; take note of these, and your next development project will be truly peerless.