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Within the European Union today there are more than 5 million “craft” enterprises. Two million of the enterprises have been created within the last 10 years. SMEs and the craft industries have also created the most jobs within the last decade. The working environment has also undergone major changes for enterprises in this sector. Even if the major part of the SMEs market is the local environment and services of “proximity”, the playing field for more and more enterprises has become regional, national and even international.

It is therefore essential to work on the development of the skills and competences of the SMEs managers of tomorrow, to ensure that they are able to work in the European labour market. The development of “European” training pathways and the integration of mobility as one innovative tool in the lifelong learning process is essential for the training of the employees and managers of tomorrow’s enterprises.
European action programmes and initiatives but also initiatives at national, regional and local level had produced a confusing amount of projects, developing materials, information, tools, databases, websites, … but expertise and experience seems still difficult to share and to transfer in order to make organisation of mobility more efficient. The main difficulties are to “organise” the dissemination of project results in order to facilitate access to adequate information for local promoters, final users and beneficiaries of mobility and to consider specific issues for craft, SMEs and – apprenticeship training system (adaptation of existing materials).
Euronaver aims at structuring a European network by connecting at European level already existing local, regional, national initiatives and project results dealing with mobility, European training pathways and exchanges.

The main idea is to facilitate organisation and strengthen the quality of European training pathways by providing a specific European quality system, integrating the specific needs in the field of apprenticeship training system within craft based industries and SMEs.

At the heart of the process can be found the creation and development of a platform of expertise and the exchange of good practice with the following specific objectives:

• Development and dissemination through the sharing of experiences and resources in engineering mobility and the development of common quality criteria
• To provide decision makers and actors in the field with useful and relevant information on developments, innovations, and examples of good practices in the field of transnational mobility for young people in training including apprentices, young workers, trainers and tutors in craft based enterprises
• To provide operational support for the conception and development of mobility projects or complementary action programmes

The Euronaver target groups are the following:

• Representative organisations of craft industries
• social partners
• training organisations
• SMEs
• craft based enterprises
• training institutions

The indirect audience:

• young people in training including apprentices
• young workers
• economic actors
• trainers in the field of craft based industries