Issues of managing multi-apartment residential buildings (MARBs) are related not only to residents and owners but also to overall interest of the country. Currently only a part of the buildings corresponds to modern energy efficiency requirements. Therefore, renovation of these buildings should be enhanced. More attention, support and knowledge are needed to promote the renovation of MARBs, which can be encouraged by involvement of the housing managers that are responsible for building management. However, housing managers often lack the knowledge and skills to initiate and implement such projects. The housing management qualification system in Germany, Poland and Latvia has been studied and compared within the framework of the European Climate Initiative (EUKI) project “From Housing Manager to CLImate Manager”. The results of the study include an overview of the place and role of housing manager, as well as their relation to building renovation processes in the country. To eliminate the insufficiencies in the qualification of housing managers in Germany, EUKI has already financed the project “Klimaverwalter”, within the framework of which an innovative training scheme was developed and introduced for the acquisition of the required competence. The goal of the study is to identify strategies on how to improve the existing training and/or education system in Latvia and Poland through knowledge transfer from Germany.