ECVET STEP contributes to making VET provision more flexible and responsive to evolving labor market needs. VET stakeholders will be induced to “take the ECVET STEP”, by means of an operational and transferable framework for adopting and managing the ECVET process. This approach will allow VET-related actors across Europe to understand and reap the benefits of ECVET from their perspective as well as to track their performance and to control the quality of its integration into their existing processes and workflows. ECVET STEP responds to the high priority requirement for Strengthening Training to Employment Pathways, starting with agriculture and expanding to other domains and sectors. The project exposes major innovative aspects, in the sense that, apart from supporting the adoption of ECVET, it will also provide an infrastructure for the development of online services to facilitate the ECVET process and the technical specification of reusable units of learning outcomes.ECVET STEP aims in making the best value of the ECVET system, facilitating the transfer, accumulation and recognition of credits and learning outcomes or competence acquired otherwise between countries, thus promoting mobility learning in VET. Towards this aim, the main goal of ECVET STEP is to bridge the gap between descriptions of job profiles and training opportunities, while at the same time promoting mobility of people engaging in VET activities. ECVET STEP aspires to support organisations to “take the ECVET STEP” by following a step-wise, quality-controlled approach in adopting ECVET. ECVET STEP aspires to build a harmonization basis, combining ECVET with other leading European instruments and valuable outcomes of European standardization and LLP projects to develop (1) an operational and transferable framework for managing the ECVET process, for all VET stakeholders, starting from the agricultural domain but ranging to other domains and sectors (2) design patterns for reusable units of learning outcomes associated with credits and methods for assessment, validation and recognition, covering the perspectives of different stakeholders and different contexts including formal, non-formal, informal VET activities and (3) valuable technology based solutions and services. The expected benefits for European citizens, being life-long learners engaging in VET activities with trans-national mobility are equally important, ranging from enhanced possibilities to expand and enrich their professional competence, to opportunities for individualisation of their learning paths and integration of internationality in their personal study plans, enhanced quality of mobility and easier to validate competence acquired abroad, easier job hunting across Europe and, generally, a more transparent and understandable system for life-long personal development and matching of preferences with existing job opportunities.