The project field of interest is the cultural heritage; the partners underline that it always received much less attention with the result that the quality and availability of such training across Europe is fragmented, uneven and often confusing to potential users and students. The project aims at 1) introducing common VET standards, within the field and across Europe, through the eventual creation of a European Conservation Practitioner’s License training course: its structure foresees six detailed modules and is divided into a number of stages aimed at ensuring a smooth transition from one stage to another; 2) diffusing and consistently adapting the module-based contents to the specific needs of target groups, which are educators, existing / prospective workers, and will be divided into six levels (operator, skilled craftsman, senior craftsman / conservation technician, master craftsman / assistant conservator, conservation professional, senior conservation professional); 3) realising three distinct work phases: a) surveying the state of the art of sectoral VET provision across the 25 member states; b) a competence-based skill-level definition and a related minimum development in 12 areas (stone artefacts, stone architectural sites and monuments, wooden artefacts, wooden sites and buildings, metals, ceramics, glass, paper, books, textiles, paintings, furniture); c) creating a consortium of institution across Europe which would undertake the responsibility for reviewing, administering the standards and granting license which could eventually be recognised as a de facto standard within respective states.