Dr Gunilla Johansson, Luleå tekniska universitet . Project coordinator in Sweden.  Abstract: The aim of the project is to describe, analyze and highlight cultural knowledge, decolonizing and vitalizing processes in teacher thinking. The project will focus on how knowledge and discourse influence on the pedagogical activity and the development in indigenizing Sámi schools.  To identify good examples of potential for teaching and teacher competence with focus on involvement, communication and cooperation, but also to identify to what extent the existing teacher educational systems are adapted for development of cultural understanding in the potential for teaching? How can this project contribute to the improvement of teacher competence during teacher education in terms of development of Cognitive, Cultural, Communicative, Creative,  Critical, Social and Didactic Competence?