SCF is a no-profit organisation joining together 45 organisations managing about 100 VET centres distributed in 10 regions in the North, Centre and South of Italy. SCF is recognised by the Ministry of Labour as a national training association, according to the Law n.40/87. SCF is also registered to the National Register for Research Institutes (n. H18907U) and is certified under UNI EN ISO 9001:2008 standards. SCF works primarily to offer a representative support and an effective coordinating action to all associates, with a specific interest on methodologies, evaluation, innovation and transfer of best practices. Main activities of associated partners concern: counselling, vocational training for young people aged 14-17 still in compulsory education, for adults, for workers and unemployed people, targeted programmes for the disabled and the disadvantaged groups (counselling, support, training and activation measures), apprenticeships, work-experiences, activation measures, employment services, alphabetisation for migrants, cultural mediation.