PaintingSkillsNetwork responded to current VET policy developments in the European Union. These in turn are a response to the economic policy objectives of the Agenda 2020. The EU wants to ensure that by 2020 75% of the people in working age people are in employment. The currently extremely high youth unemployment in many European regions shows what efforts are needed to achieve this goal. One of the causes of youth unemployment is seen in the lack of employability of graduates of vocational training. There is criticism that many VET systems are too remote from the requirements of the economy and offer insufficient opportunities to acquire professional and personal skills that are demanded by the labor market. The EU therefore calls its members, therefore, to reform the vocational education and training. Vocational education and training and the economy must cooperate with each other to compensate for the deficits.At this point the project PaintingSkillsNetwork started. VET providers of the European painting trade and business representatives (Association of the European painting trade - UNIEP and professional associations from different countries) agreedon the conceptual basis for a business-related training in this sector. They described units of learning outcomes and learning outcomes to arrange this. In order to facilitate the transfer of these units of learning outcomes in educational practice, pedagogical guidance for teachers and a method for measuring the learning outcomes were designed.The project results were examined during the project runtime in methodology workshops and student camps on their practicality and ability to match with the various training systems.In order to ensure sustainability and to support transfer of results into VET practice, a network (PaintingSkillsNetwork) for vocational training in the painting trade was founded. This network offers future of cross-border mobility, where participants can complete selected units of learning outcomes.To the products of the project therefore also belongs an organization manual for mobilities.The course of the project was documented in a review, which is also used to disseminate the project results. The project contributes to the improvement of the quality of education in the painting trade (strengthening the economy-orientation of the training), helps to improve transparency between European professional qualifications and opens up opportunities to strengthen the cross-border education cooperation (mobilities).