iLAEBOR aims at promoting innovative crossway connections between labour and (vocational) education for individuals who, due to multitude of issues (functional handicaps, negative social circumstances, low educational level, immigrant status, criminal past, or a combination of these) are at a significant distance from the labour market. Despite numerous, sometimes successful initiatives in the partner countries, the employment policy for the target group remains fragmented. The project will therefore focus on an overarching crossborder approach, searching for a structural connection between (vocational) education & employment and a successful, sustainable transition from school to work for the target group. An important priority in each of the participating regions will be to prevent drop-outs in education and to promote sustainable participation in the labour market. The issue being Addressing the issue from different perspectives in the participating countries, this project will offer the opportunity to enlarge increase the knowledge and ways to deal with this problem through collaboration between the partner organisations. An implicit and important goal of the project will finally be the metamorphosis of companies into social entrepreneurships namely through diversity management.