The general objective of this project is to spread innovative training techniques, mainly developed in the UK, to all the stakeholders in veteran tree management who expressed a need for knowledge and skills. To date training initiatives have been set up, but they remain scarce and scattered. This project aims at boosting the quality and quantity of vocational education and training in veteran tree management throughout Europe and at 'short circuiting' the learning process in all partner countries, without repeating mistakes and unnecessarily losing veteran trees. We are not aiming directly at the end-users of veteran tree management training, but potential trainers. By training these and by providing them with free quality training material that sets a European ‘standard’ in veteran tree management, they will be able to independently organise training courses on a basic level.The consortium consists of an array of organisations linked to veteran tree management or arboricultural training: the NGO Ancient Tree Forum is the European centre of expertise in veteran tree management and has developed the bulk of the innovative training. These have been put to practice by Amigos de los Arboles Viejos in northern Spain and by the research and consultancy firm Pro Natura from Sweden. Inverde is Flanders’ lead training centre in nature conservation and Progresul Silvic is the main information exchange organisation in Romania and is managing two major nature conservation areas with thousands of veteran trees.The main ‘products’ of this project will be training material for an innovative training course in veteran tree management (presentations, case studies etc.) and a ‘Train the trainers’ package for preparing trainers to independently organise the basic training course. The training material for the basic course is freely available for all trainers throughout Europe and they are supported with online training tools (videos, e-learning) and an online mentoring system where they are backed up by a European Veteran Tree Network.The direct impact of this project will be the training of specialist trainers throughout Europe. The results will be further cascaded out to key stakeholders in veteran tree management so they have easy access to basic veteran tree management training. The potential end users of the basic training course are estimated to be between 5.000 and 20.000 persons per partner country (and more in the rest of Europe).