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On May 16-18, 2018, a training school on qualitative and mixed methods in writing research was held in Skopje, Macedonia. It was conducted within the framework of the COST Action IS1401 “Strengthening Europeans’ Capabilities by Establishing the European Literacy Network” (2014-2018), supported by the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation “Horizon 2020.” The training was organized by the Blaze Koneski Faculty of Philology, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius. Nineteen young researchers from Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Macedonia, Malta, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, the UK and Ukraine were selected for participation on a competitive basis. One of the invited trainers of the School, Prof. T. V. Yakhontova, conducted two workshops, focusing, respectively, on genre analysis and the writing of a qualitative research paper (the latter one was prepared in collaboration with Dr. Bojana Petric, the University of London, and Dr. Mira Bekar, the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius). Another guest from Ukraine, Dr. Oryslava Ivantsiv, a former postgraduate student of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, and nowadays an Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and Practice of Translation, Volodymyr Hnatyuk Ternopil National Pedagogical University, was a participant and an invited lecturer of the Training School.