The Building an Expertise Network for an Efficient Innovation & Training System (BENEFITS) project aims at providing solutions for keeping the skills trained in the regions of Exeter, Greenwich and Haute-Normandie. To this end, the partnership envisages 3 action steps: study of French work/study programmes and the British Knowledge Transfer Partnership, support for entrepreneurship and business start-ups or creation of new activities and maintenance of a strong industrial fabric of small and medium-size enterprises by optimising relations with contractors.