Partners in the QUAVETS developed a project whose aim was to support improvements in quality in vocational education and training and build bridges between providers of education. The main objectives of the partnership, in accordance with the EU policies for EQF and NQFs, were to investigate and compare competencies and qualification required, as well as the concept of quality of education and training in four programmes: in Construction, Tourism, Health & Social Care and Food & Hospitality. The partnership aimed to find out and describe differences in the educational and learning systems between the six partner countries; to compare National Qualification Frameworks, the content of current national qualifications, the requisite learning outcomes and quality indicators in four study programmes of each partner country. The partnership also strived to develop a platform further to build bridges between training institutions and other providers of education in VET programmes, to establish the level of school-based and work-based education in each country, to compare and lead the way to integrate good examples into the process. The methodology was to devise questionnaires for programmes at different levels, but principally at Level 3 and to address the issues in the four different target groups. The aim at all times was to involve stakeholders in each country in discussions about quality indicators in our four study programmes. The aim of the questionnaire was to list and rank in importance the quality expectations of students, teachers, work place instructors and employers in relation to job related skills and competence, personal and social skills and competence and general skills and competence. At subsequent project meeting all the results were analysed, statistically and a common set of key competences determined for the skilled worker as a chef, care worker, painter and decorator and receptionist.