PROCSEE is a policy-oriented project, aimed at strengthening the provision of professional higher education, by strengthening the policy-work conducted by umbrella organizations representing professional higher education institutions in Central and South-Eastern in Europe. Working together over three years, the project intends to: (1) identify the main challenges facing PHE in the region; (2) propose policy solutions to address those challenges in the short-to-midterm, through a mixture of good-practice identification and stakeholder consultation; and (3) bring together the main actors in PHE in each participating country, so as to build implementation roadmaps for the identified policy solutions The result of the first year of activities of the project, this document outlines the main challenges facing professional higher education in the CSEE region, with the aim of highlighting potential areas for reform in the next project phases. [A list of abbreviations is included.]