Traditionally forestry has primarily been seen as an economic activity and most forests have been managed or established to supply wood and timber. However, the role of forestry as a provider of a wide range of other goods and services has become more pronounced during the past decade. Some new jobs have been created and new skills have to be acquired, for example in the areas of recreation and of environmental education. This will put new challenges to the forest companies with more emphasis on producing non-wood goods and services for the public, ensuring the competitiveness of the new forest based activities.Some studies reveal two principal concerns for the forest industries: The deficient technological development of the sector, and the lack of appropriate education, training and skills, and conclude that 8 key skill should be promoted: technical knowledge, management skills and ICT skills (among others). For that, the European strategy propose the collaboration among companies and education and training institutions for promoting a training strategy focused on the exchange of best practices, and the elaboration of training packages in the framework of the lifelong learning Programme. iForest project aimed to:- Improve the qualification of the management staff of the Forest companies, helping generate new entrepreneurial environments;- Promote the development of key competence for life;- Strength the training activities on working environments;- Promote the collaboration among several actors involved in training strategies; In order to obtain these aims, the operational objectives of the iForest initiative were the following:-To analyse the forestry sector regarding to the innovation managements and the training needs of the management staff;- To detect the needs on innovation of the forest industries;- To adapt the iModel tool to the analyse requirements;- To elaborate a training tool based on ICT platform for facing the needs on innovation management of the staff of forest companies.The partnership of the IForest project was formed of different entities and organisms (professional organisations, training and university centres, development and management associations..) from 5 different member states, the have ensured project implementation quality and the achievement of the results and outputs foresee.