The project “Vocational Education and Training in the Working World 4.0” wants to promote work-based learning in the sectors electronics and mechatronics with special regard to the existing and future challenges of working world 4.0. in the European vocational education and training. The project wants to provide and improve the open and innovative education in the field of working world 4.0., embedded in the digital era.Industry 4.0, digital revolution, intelligent production and service – these are keywords for the actual development in the working world. In order to maintain a competitive and innovative economy, it is important that already during the vocational education and training (VET) the basis is provided to face the recent development in “working world 4.0” properly. Professional tasks and required competences will change Europe-wide and will have to be revised and adapted but still there is little concrete information how to handle this challenge. In various discussions and literature review we found out that there is a huge need from different kinds of companies and VET institutions in the results of the project all over Europe.The project aims at identifying the future qualification requirements on a broad European basis and to exemplarily develop modules for the further education of teachers, trainers and VET students in order to enable them for future-oriented teaching and learning. In the framework of a project like this, this can only be achieved by a sectoral restriction and by examples which are to be transferred to other sectors. The focus will be on mechatronics and electronics by integrating IT, because IT competences are increasingly necessary for all. In these sectors the digital revolution started already and first experience of companies is available. The modules aim at improving cross-section competences like successful communication in a cross-linked working world , adequate use of IT skills, adaptive thinking, which will be important for the whole future working world.A various European consortium with nine partners from Finland, Sweden, Lithuania, Germany, The Netherlands, Poland, Italy and Spain will develop the modules in cooperation with VET teachers, in-company trainers and experts from industry. They shall be practical, need orientated and based on innovative methods, e.g. e-learning, cooperating in multi-national groups. Some partners are from VET colleges (FI, SE, NL, ES, DE), one is a university institution for VET development and responsible for an initial analysis (LT), one is a chamber (PL) and two are VET providers in Italy with high interest to foster work- and future-oriented learning in their country. Different views and experience from different countries and backgrounds shall be exploited in order to achieve sustainable results which are useful in all European countries. These results are supposed to be first concrete learning modules which serve to face the challenges of the future working and learning world and which help to acquire the new competences required. They will be available on an open learning platform and thus can be further developed. The initial analysis of competences required in future will be a basis to develop further learning modules in future, besides the ones of the project. The results are supposed to be broadly disseminated, to be improved and enlarged and to build a basis and be a model for revision and adaptation of curricula with regard to the needs of future VET in a completely digitalized world.The project is planned as a participative cooperation among the partners and has the claim to develop vitally needed results, instruments and tools that are sustainable. They are supposed to be integrated in national VET education and training and are appropriate to be transferred in other sectors and other European countries by widening the established network.