Reduction and prevention of early school leaving is one of the most important priorities in the European education systems to reach the aims and objectivs of the Europe 2020 strategy. However in the European member states especially in initial VET the drop out rates are alarmingly high and VET teachers / trainers need particular support and competences. Even beyond this in dual VET systems where companies are playing a major part in initial VET training of young students, the responsible persons are widely lacking appropriate support to tackle the problem of recognition and prevention of drop out from initial VET. The STAY IN project therefore transfered the excellent and innovative outputs from two predecessor projects (School inclusion and CESSIT) which derive from general eductaion sector (school inclusion) as well as social pedagogics (CESSIT) and created a customized and localized training programme for VET teachers in 6 European countries (AT, DE, BG, FI, NL and TR) providing them with the competences and knowledege needed to recognise potential drop out and take the right measures to prevent drop out from initial VET in their environment. The consortium for the project consists of VET training organisations all involved in initial VET training, VET center associations, social partners as well as expert and consultancy organisations from the European VET policy sector. Main outcomes of the project are: a training programme (modular training programme, curriculum, learning materials for a duration of about 30 guided learning hours and 10 hours of self study) in 5 Partner countries(DE, BG, FI, TR, EN) and a web-based Training course in NL which were tested and implemented in the Partner countries with about 100 VET teachers and trainers as a immediate and short term impact. Moreover on the basis of a comprehensive dissemination and exploitation strategy the project envisaged to reach immediately more than 600 VET teachers and trainers in the European countries and to engage public sector organisations as well as social partner organisations (crucially important in the dual VET systems) to sustainably maintain the training programme as regular offer for VET teachers/trainers and VET training responsible persons in companies so to allow for a broad and long term impact of the staff involved in initial VET training and support the reduction of drop out and early school leaving in a particularly alarming education sector in Europe.