The e-Future project will develop, test, evaluate and disseminate an innovative e-Business course aimed at assisting SMEs in moving to the forefront of global e-Commerce competition.The basis for this development is firstly, that European SMEs lack the necessary knowledge to take full advantage of the vast possibilities provided by e-Commerce and secondly, that Europe is therefore lacking as regards global competition within e-Business in general.The course itself, to be developed in 5 languages (DA, HU, EN, PT & ES) will provide practical tools for SMEs to be able to explore their own future business potential. Content is expected to focus upon issues such as: consumer demands, sales strategies, new methods and technical solutions, all relating to e-Business and will be output onto a final CD-Rom.Beyond development of the course, initial piloting will take place with SMEs across each of the partner countries with the results being evaluated and influencing the final development of the course.A dedicated website will also be established to further promote the activities and results of the project and a series of additional dissemination activities is planned involving the circulation of information to all European Information Centres (currently a network of 275 centres) and a planned individual partner approach (HU) to the remaining associated countries.