The project partnership consisted of Clevercherry (UK), UCB (UK), IUC (Bulgaria), ESHTSI (Spain) and TTVAM (Lithuania). VESBU provided business expertise to support educational institutions to enhance the way in which they developed learners’ entrepreneurial knowledge and skill and used digital resources to support that process in their institutions. It also positioned learners to use digital resources to promote themselves in the marketplace. VESBU has proved a significant development, as it has demonstrated the added value that business-led HEI collaboration can bring to the LEONARDO TOI Programme and the contribution that business enterprises can offer educational institutions (Higher and Further Education) involved with facilitating regional and local economic development and, in the process, assisting VET students’ transition into employment, self-employment and starting their own business, should be formally recognised in the LEONARDO Programme.VEBSU can be seen as a triple case study: why a web design and media specialist SME’s multifaceted expertise was able to act as the creator, manager and deliverer of VET projects; why it is helpful to make all institutions, roles and resources that support the development of entrepreneurship transparent; and, why social capital is vital to VET courses.As such, the benefit of a business-led Leonardo TOI partnership has been;• VET organisations tapping into the forms of expertise SMEs have in order to diversify the design and delivery of VET programmes, and enhance entrepreneurship in appropriate programmes;• formal recognition by the VET partners of the forms of expertise SMEs have to plan, design and deliver VET programmes and embed entrepreneurship in those programmes;• encouraging transparency and audits of approaches in relation to the impact of entrepreneurship methods and pedagogies in VET programmes