The complex requirements in today’s constantly changing structures in the labour market offer new challenges to concepts of work qualification. Practical connection and flexibility to adjust to the needs are becoming basic requirements for successful, effective qualification measures. For better teaching results employees should be seen as part of their companies rather than being considered as individuals without company background. To teach employees accordingly “Learning Factory" offered a wide variety of possibilities, in particular introducing process-optimizing methods to employees in the frame of a simulation of company planning processes as a basic requirement for sustainable business activity. The participants gained diverse competences by this way of learning, the project-oriented learning: independent learning, ability to work in a team, analysis and communication competences as well as intercultural competences. Aspects of project-oriented learning were team work, discussions, acting independently and assuming responsibility. Young employees as well as people in career orientation or in apprenticeships experienced important and necessary skills in a creative, playful way. These competences required no further training but could be used immediately. At the same time companies could benefit from the competences acquired by the young employees. These skills were be an asset to the optimization of processes. The project consortium consisted of eight partners which were active in vocational qualification. They were situated in Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Estonia and the Czech Republic and intended to adjust the existing method of "Learning Factory" to the needs of the project’s target group (young people under 25) and to transfer it to all partner countries and throughout Europe.