The Manual “The Charter of Fundamental Rights as living instrument” was prepared within the project “Making the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union a Living Instrument”, implemented by partner institutions and organizations from several member states. The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFR) guarantees the protection and promotion of more basic human rights than any other Charter or Convention has done before. Still, its concrete implications and relevance for national legislation, jurisdiction and legal practice is not completely clear. Knowledge about its scope and effects is not anchored in legal professions, nor do NGOs, trade unions or other stakeholders of relevance in this regard know how CFR rights can be fully protected. This is especially valid for the social rights vested in the CFR. Based on this acknowledgement, the project “Making the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union a Living Instrument” rolls out a wide range of activities that, on the one hand, aim at clarifying the CFR’s relevance at the national level as well as for EU legislation and, on the other hand, aim at developing methodologies how to transfer the content of the Charter as such and knowledge about its concrete implications to those who should apply its provisions in practice – making it a “living instrument”.