Youth unemployment is a growing concern in the European context for its economic and social effects in the medium and long term. At the same time, the qualification of youth as well as a strong businesses´ involvement, would promote youth employment. With the implementation of the dual education model some European governments hope to combat the rising unemployment levels amongst young people. The suitable qualification of young unemployed would promote their employment. It is clear that in countries with work-based learning systems, young people have better opportunities for access to employment. These experiences in many of the countries of the European Union are still scarce, and there is still no firm and institutional commitment to guarantee its greater weight within the formal education systems in many of the European countries. The PADAWAN project aimed to design a collaborative and transnational online platform that involved stakeholders, hospitality businesses (SMEs in particular), VET providers, public authorities and apprentices, from 4 countries, for the provision of training, employment opportunities, and services aimed at ensuring the success of any work-based learning process in the hospitality sector, and where the learner, as an apprentice, is the key proactive element. The PADAWAN project, through the virtual environment developed, has promoted a new methodology for the improvement of 3 actors’ competences during the process of the work-based training model with the use of all intellectual outputs implemented in this EU project. The main results were: (i) A transversal training module for the development of soft key-competences for the trainee (apprentice) in the hospitality sector (ii) The creation of a collaborative virtual environment – European Apprenticeship School PADAWAN and PADAWAN Community (IO1) had the goal to promote the pro-activity of the learner (apprentice), to foster the communication between the VET trainer and the hospitality business tutor, to monitor the training path of the apprentice and to exchange good practices among stakeholders from different countries in the hospitality sector. The collaborative virtual environment PADAWAN was designed to guide, to normalize processes and to establish tasks for each one of the 3 actors involved in the work-based learning system. (iii) A Handbook for company tutors in the hospitality sector was meant to guide them through the training process and to have a clear vision of their role and their tasks (iv) Four national conferences organized in order to disseminate and exploit the Intellectual Outputs (v) One Learning activity (Short-term joint staff training events) meant to pilot the collaborative virtual environment – European Apprenticeship School PADAWAN and PADAWAN Community (IO1) The PADAWAN project has benefited the following main target groups and beneficiaries in Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, and Germany: (i) As potential apprentices in the hospitality sector: Young people aged 16-30 who were about to enter in the labor market, unemployed persons who need up-skilling, NEETs and early school leavers (ii) Education and training institutions in hospitality sector and taking part in work-based learning offer (iii) SMEs in the hospitality sector in their twin role of employers and beneficiaries of the Handbook and Protocol of communication. Thanks to the PADAWAN project, the following impact was expected and achieved in target group community: (i) Better awareness of the potential contribution of work based learning experiences who contribute to the improvement of youth employability in the hospitality sector (ii) Improvement of soft skills in the work place of apprentices (iii) Improvement of the capacity for establishing creative partnerships between education and business in support of youth employability (iv) Improvement of the awareness on potential of hospitality sector as a driver for development in the European economies The PADAWAN project has demonstrated that the collaborative virtual environment is a tool which must be taken into consideration for the monitoring of the apprentice’s training pathway and where the transversal training module should be available to enhance the employability of young people and give them adequate skills for work. And finally, the PADAWAN project has shown how the Handbook for company’s tutors is useful to give support to SMEs in the hospitality sector to implement with high quality in their part of training in the work-based learning system.