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Project-based learning is a comprehensive teaching concept that leads to the holistic development of the learner's personality. It is a method that effectively develops learners' key competences and fulfils the basic objectives of the educational dimension for the 21st century [1]. It focuses on the pupil's independent work, transforming extrinsic motivation into intrinsic motivation. The main objective of project-based learning is to link school with real practice, develop critical thinking, change the way knowledge is acquired and integrate knowledge into a coherent system. The ability to present and argue factually, while respecting other learners, is an equally important part of the objectives of project-based learning.  The learners are given the opportunity to learn about themselves and work on strengthening their confidence in their own knowledge and skills [2]. Moreover each school subject offers opportunities for project work and at the same time creates a unique space for the implementation of cross-curricular relationships. The aim of our study is to identify those global skills that project-based learning enables to develop more intensively in lower secondary education.  The study is the outcome of the research project KEGA 016UMB-4/2021 Global skills and their implementation in foreign language teaching in secondary schools as a means of developing students' key competences and the professional identity of future teachers in the context of the 21st century.