Work-based learning in Vocational education and training provides important benefits, by increasing employability and smoother school to work transition. It contributes to reducing skill shortages and gaps, reduces youth unemployment, increases entrepreneurship and innovation and finally has the potential to foster social inclusion. In view of these potential benefits, VET institutions underlined the increasing need to promote work based learning in all its forms and the need to introduce systematic approaches to and opportunities for initial and continuous professional development of VET teachers, trainers and mentors in both school and work based settings across the EU.