The Youthcoach project is a transnational European VET partnership which aims to transfer, adapt and implement innovative projects and products which a) strengthen the partnerships between education and employment in initial VET, b) help reduce the high number of drop outs in VET, c) develop basic and transversal skills especially entrepreneurial skills with young VET learners and d) validate skills and competences of these young learners in accordance with Europe 2020, ET 2020 and Erasmus + goals. The project addresses VET dropout prevention from a multidimensional point of view, involving companies, VET organisations and VET teachers and trainers by focusing on capacity building in both VET teachers and trainers and young VET learners. The project aims to establish better measures of support for young people in VET by bringing together different concepts, amalgamating them into a comprehensive competence profile and curriculum for competent Youthcoaches and producing a toolbox for youthcoaches. The consortium exists of four key partners (from Germany, Slovenia, Czech Republic and Austria) and four transfer partners (in Croatia, Spain, Greek and Italy), among them non-profit and private VET-training providers, counseling organisations - some of them directly connected to social partners and enterprise associations – and a regional network. The key partners provide good practice concepts and products from their own country experiences, particulary the concepts of Vocational Training Assistence, Toolbox, Youthcoaching and EBC*L enterprise, and adapt them together with the transfer partners to the specific needs of their countries. On this basis they develop together a train-the-trainer-course and pilot this course with local stakeholders in their regions. A common transnational workshop in Croatia with selected participants of the pilot training promote exchange of experiences, the feedback/evaluation and adaptation of the program and ensure the transnational dimension and networking. The products of the project include a needs analysis report of the partners, which is developed via desk research of the partners and interviews of local stakeholders. The train-the-trainer program is based on a common competence profile (defined in terms of learning outcomes and provision of ECVET) and a curriculum with training material, translated in all partner languages. A toolbox provides further tools, instruments and methods for VET-teachers, -trainers and social workers who work with young people with disadvantages in order to avoid their drop-out from VET. They focus especially to - work with companies in bridging gabs between VET and the world of work - promoting intercultural competences - enhance personal development - the promotion of competences related to entrepreneurship (EBCL) Further products of the project are the transnational workshop with selected participants from the pilot trainings and the common final conference in Spain. The overall results of the project can be defined in - Increased knowledge and competences of the actors who deal with the different target groups in order to prevent drop-out from VET - Transfer, adaptation and implementation of best practice in other European regions - Promoting joint programs of public and private stakeholders on local/ regional level to prevent drop-out from VET - Enhance transnational cooperation and networking in this manner The project has several impacts on - young people with several disadvantages (increased capacities and promotion of personal, social and methodological competences), - VET-teachers-, trainers-, -instructors and social workers (better guidance and coaching and increased capacities to develop entrepreneurial skills, personal and intercultural competences of youngsters) and - companies (better cooperation with VET institutions and local stakeholders). Furthermore the project contributes to - increase the capacities of training providers (new concepts, tools and train-the-trainer courses) and - of regional/local stakeholders (increased capacity for joint drop-out prevention). In the long-term the project contributes to promote cooperation in VET and employment for young people with disadvantages and a better matching on European`s labour markets.