Master craftsman occupations are highly regarded and acknowledged in the EU and project countries. Master craftsman exams enable the career progression, opening craft business and taking apprentices. Also, by becoming the master craftsman one gets the competitive advantage because it emphasizes the excellence and quality of products and services. Croatia and Slovenia have a long tradition of organising master craftsman exams and are facing the challenge of mismatch between exam questions and contemporary trends and technologies. On the other hand, North Macedonia and Montenegro have to develop master craftsman exam programmes and questions yet, since they have master craftsman exams only for one occupation each.In order to ensure standardization of master craftsman exam questions, the methodological framework with guidelines for the development of master craftsman exam questions will be designed. Together, partners will design questions for general parts of exam – parts for economy, law and pedagogy. Each partner will design questions related to the occupational theoretical part of the exam for occupations which have been chosen for the project.Furthermore, in order to improve the quality of exams and simplify the organisation of exam, the online platform for the preparation and organisation of master craftsman exam will be developed. The part of online platform will be open to the public so that everyone could get the opportunity how master craftsman exam looks like and how to prepare for taking the exam. All partners will introduce the online platform in their countries and pilot it during the project.General aim of Master 4.0 project is to increase the usage of innovative approaches and digital technologies for teaching and learning as well as to promote the lifelong learning.Specific aim of the project is to improve preparation and organisation of master craftsman exam by improving exam questions and programmes in accordance with labour market needs and contemporary technological trends and introducing ICT for preparation and organisation of master craftsman exams.Project target groups will be following: master craftsman exam candidates, potential craftsmen and entrepreneurs candidates, continuous vocational education institutions, expert and general public.Master 4.0 project includes 6 partners from 4 countries and 1 associated partner. One partner from each country is included in master craftsman exam organisation. Remaining partners were chosen based on their experience in the development and preparation of education programmes, exam preparation materials and exam questions. Also, a partner with the experience, knowledge and skills to develop online platform for preparation and organisation of master craftsman exam is included.Project coordinator is the Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts (HOK) from Croatia. Partners are Algebra College from Croatia, Chamber of Craft and Small Business of Slovenia (OZS), Chamber of Crafts Skopje and „Sreken Zhivot“ organisation from North Macedonia and NGO Chamber of Crafts and Entrepreneurship of Montenegro (ZanaPredaK). The associated partner is Chamber of Crafts of Montenegro.Master 4.0 project results are following: the improvement of master craftsman exam questions and programmes, the development of online platform for preparation and organisation of master craftsman exams and piloting of online platform. Other intellectual outputs results which will be possible to use after the project ends: the methodological framework with guidelines to develop master craftsman exam questions – it will be used to develop questions from general parts as well as from professional theory part for selected occupations during the project and for other master craftsman occupations after the end of project; the manual for administration of online platform, which will be used by staff responsible for organisation of master craftsman exams in project countries.Project partnership will enable future exchange of information and knowledge in the area of preparation and organisation of master craftsman exams in partner countries and will make the recognition process for master craftsman occupations in partner countries. Project partners will continue to finance the online platform for preparation and organisation of master craftsman exams with their own funds, national funds or from master craftsman exam expenses. After the end of project, partners will continue to search for synergies with other relevant projects, networks and initiatives in order to secure the connectivity and sustainability and to increase available resources. All partners will use every opportunity to disseminate project results after its end at conferences, publications, partner web sites and networks, etc.