The article deals with the issue of ensuring the quality of professional training in the university framework. The central idea we valorize is that project-based learning is a process of professional training for the future specialist with focus on the development of research competencies, self-perfection, initiative, individual and collective solving of problems in the professional reality. Project-based learning (PbL) is the strategy that stimulates authentic learning in real contexts, personal engagement and involvement in social change at community level.