The INFLOW project will develop a model for the identification of informal learning taking place in SMEs. The project will promote the acquisition and recognition of key skills in informal learning and will develop sustainable partnerships for training in informal learning to promote an integrated transnational approach to the recognition and validation of informal learning. Given that most workplace knowledge is obtained through informal learning with co-employees, the project sets out to enhance the competitiveness of European SMEs by enhancing knowledge about and improving models for informal learning. The project targets those groups who, having left formal education, no longer participate in formal learning/training. Methodology will be developed for the accreditation of informal learning achievements by a recognised UK body. Having piloted the methodology with the UK's engineering sector, a dialogue between accreditation and government bodies in other EU Member States will be sought to develop an integrated accreditation approach able to address issues such as technical and instrumental criteria (reliability and validity) and normative criteria (legality and legitimacy). Transferability of the model will be tested across partner countries in the following way: firstly, the methodology will be piloted in the engineering sector in France and Sweden, then the same methodology will be tested on the hotel and hospitality sector in Spain, France and the UK in order to compare its application between the production and service sectors. The project will be disseminated through a variety of means including: websites, e-marketing, conferences, networks and exhibitions. At the end of the project there will be a European Conference for the dissemination and exchange of the project results.