Background: The apprenticeship and work based learning at European and national level is recognized as a very good factor of integration into the labor market. However, in France there is a decline in recruitment of apprentices, while countries such as Romania and Portugal with a very strong SMEs face the challenge to grow and involve more businesses in their apprenticeship system, while Finland has a very strong systme. The relationship with businesses is organized by learning on doing by training centers for apprentices. This relationship between training center for apprentices and SMEs is today done empirically and is not supported by a training system or tools that allow a professionalization of the staff of apprenticeship training centre. Objectives: 1 - Increase the number of SMEs involved in the learning offer .allow businesses to self-assess their ability to hire apprentices; • improve expertise to SMEs and support in the implementation of learning; • support SMEs in hiring apprentices; • improve the skills of apprenticeship training centers and intermediary organizations on supporting SMEs. 2. Preventing the dropout of tutors from SMEs: • improve the support of tutors in difficult situations; • prevent conflict; Participants: AGEFA SMEs: association under the CGPME employers' organization of SMEs in France, apprentice training center SEDU: main center for training and learning of Finland associated with the regional authority AERLIS: Main business association that covers the whole region of Lisbon (Portugal) CENTRUL NATIONAL DEZVOLTARE A PROFESIONAL INVATAMANTULUI IF TEHNIC: authority under the Romanian Ministry of Education, specialized in initial vocational education and apprenticeship Imanovation: independent Portuguese expert with a European reference expertise in ECVET and many projects with business associations Ten trainers professionals and support organizations will be mobilized by partner country, a total of 40 trainers, counselors in CFA a dozen potential employers of apprentices SMEs in difficulty or with tutors will experimenters country, a total of 40 companies; One hundred participants (representatives of national, regional, local authorities, training centers, business organizations, associations ...) will be involved in the final conference to ensure dissemination. Activity and methodology: Activity 1: management and strategic coordination Activity 2: "Diagnostic Tools, formative evaluation capacity of SMEs and mediation of tutors in difficulties" : identification of best practices, defining a set of key indicators: governance action modalities educational, skills required by SMEs with a project recruitment of apprentices, organizational prerequisites, design of formative tools firstly for SMEs and also for trainers of the CFA and for intermediate agencies, these tools will integrate recommendations on learning outcome; Activity 3: "European Platform SME relationship/Apprenticeship" with work on the technical and functional specifications, content aggregation; this platform is multilingual; Activity 4: "experimental tools and training for trainers CFA" is based on an experiment with CFA and SMEs with self-assessment of trainers of CFA and tutors and SMEs; Activity 5: "recommendation guide " draws a qualitative analysis of the results of the experiment, and the evaluations of the different tools in order to develop a guide that allows ownership by the largest number Activity 6: "Dissemination-communication" is based on a strategy and communications plan, publishing and distribution of newsletters, transnational conference; monitoring, reporting and analysis of the impact of dissemination actions. Main output indicators: rate of development of apprenticeship contracts, number of CFA and involved business, platform attendance Expected results: 1) European platform of business relationship / learning 2) A tool box "diagnostic and formative" learning projects to provide the best support companies and training centers in their relation to companies 3) A recommendation guide on experimentation to ensure transferability; Impacts: professionalization of the relationship with SMEs by teams of apprenticeship training center, the enhancement of the link and relationship between SMEs / apprenticeship training center Potential benefits: securization and improving the quality of apprenticeship to enhance the image of apprenticeship reduce the rate of unemployement of young people