The objective of making European vocational education and training globally competitive and attractive has put teachers, trainers and leaders in VET in the spotlight and pushes them to continuously expand their horizons and to adopt new teaching methods and skills. Especially the integration of mentoring principles in VET trainers’ continuing education has proven to be highly effective and is considered as highly desirable. The concept of mentoring can be an important step towards offering students and want-to-be entrepreneurs of all ages a better training and in general support the aims and goals of VET by shifting focus from teaching to learning, and from formal, inflexible systems to active self-directed learning and participation.Students can significantly profit from VET trainers that are able to act as mentors: guide and council mentees, provide psychosocial support and act as role models. Mentoring skills and competencies help to respond better to mentees’ learning needs and play an important role in the acquisition of new skills and competencies through autonomous and self-directed learning (CEDEFOP, 2009).However, mentoring training for VET trainers is limited in most EU countries (CEDEFOP 2009). Thus, educational systems and policies must consider the new role of VET trainers as mentors, standardize mentoring training and validate mentoring skills and competencies in the career pathway of VET trainers. mENTERing addresses this identified limitation and transfers the innovative Mentor’s Training Manual from the project MAITRE to the target group of VET trainers in the business sector who are interested to learn how to mentor entrepreneurs. The project aims to update, adapt, localize and translate the Manual to match the needs of the target group and to develop a blended train-the-trainer course in mentoring skills and competencies especially designed to address their mentoring needs for the facilitation of entrepreneurship. mENTERing will be implemented by a European consortium involving 6 actors from 4 EU countries (BG, EL, ES, UK) with complementary expertise in VET, mentoring, blended learning, dissemination and European project management.Through the project’s combined activities, VET trainers will be better equipped to undertake their role as mentors of entrepreneurs in a changing European market and economy. mENTERing creates a sustainable blended train-the-trainer course on mentoring skills and competencies especially designed to encourage entrepreneurship while contributing to the cooperation between VET institutions, trainers, mentors, and stakeholders at a national and European level. By this it supports the modernisation of VET practices and systems and promotes blended lifelong learning.