During the past decades VET schools and providers in Bulgaria and Turkey experienced difficulties in provision of dedicated proper internship programmes for VET students who have completed Business and Entrepreneurship courses with regards to agriculture and eco-farming fields, especially for those that would like to initiate a start-up of a new enterprise. In the rapidly changing labour market, youngsters are faced with the lack of practical skills and support that could help them to bridge successfully from the education system to the actual business. Internship programs, as a type of work-based learning, have been recognized as an effective method for alleviating youth unemployment and equipping young people with relevant skills. However, major barriers for that is the time availability of the mentors at companies as well as the lack of tangible assessment standard which can measure and proof the effectiveness and impact of such internship programme. Furthermore, the VET students experienced geographic obstacles to visit the premises of the employers which in agricultural/eco-farming sectors are mainly at the rural area. Especially this is highly problematic for students with poor income and/or disability. In Bulgaria and in Turkey majority of VET staff and students as well as mentors are hesitant to recognize the value or learning benefit of such internships. Due to the lack of familiarity with that type of experience usually the time spent to complete internships are often not eligible for educational and school credits/value.In order to address these concerns and educate both employers and educators about a modern form of internships, this project will set up a model for the blended virtual internships by drawing up a structure that can work in a feasible and simple manner. This was the main motivation of the project consortium: to produce a programme for conducting blended virtual internships in the field of business and entrepreneurship, where a guidance material, assessment standard and virtual mobile internship application (software) will cover this gap and ensure via sustainable cooperation synergies the implementation and long-term exploitation/sustainability and usage. Our target groups will be:• VET learners in agriculture and eco-farming sectors• VET trainers & educators• VET schools/centers who are providing further training• SMEs/ Employers active as mentors/tutors in internship programmes• Policy makersAims and objectives:• to increase the entrepreneurial skills of young agriculture and farming students by provision of dedicated blended virtual internship programme• to deliver tangible and sustainable outcomes in establishing a guidance material for educators for its conducting, assessment standard of its efficiency and mobile solution for conducting the virtual part of the blended model, which will ensure better transparency, comparability and recognition of the acquired knowledge, skills and competence of young VET students• to further strengthen overall the quality, relevance and attractiveness of the VET provision• to implement blended virtual internships as part of the work-based learning, addressing ECVET learning outcomes and proper recognition and validation of the learning achievements• to cover skills mismatch and shortages as well as the need for higher level skills at sectoral level in the agriculture sector.Intellectual outputs:IO1: Guide for conducting blended virtual internships for acquisition and validation of entrepreneurial and business skills in agriculture and eco-farming sectorsIO2: Assessment standard for validation and recognition of the acquired knowledge, skills and competences related to business and entrepreneurship during blended virtual internships in agriculture and eco-farming sectorsIO3: Mobile application for conducting blended virtual internships towards business and entrepreneurshipPartnership:P1: Leading agriculture university with a VET center from BulgariaP2: SME from Bulgaria implementing further work-based ECVET based trainings and internships in the field of entrepreneurshipP3: Inclusion institute, who is responsible for further VET training of educators in the field of entrepreneurshipP4: SME who is conducting blended internships with an expertise in validation and impact assessment of the implementation of virtual internshipsEnvisaged impact will be:• Further validation of knowledge, skills and competences of young VET learners in the agriculture and eco-farming sectors.• Covering the learning gap in terms of lack of provision of proper and effective VET internships and training materials for their conducting.• Provision of targeted training materials (guide for conducting, assessment standard, mobile internship application) that supports the National plans for further development of VET sector in Bulgaria and Turkey.