In association with European partners and experts, in relation with the Community programmes, CEFORALP leads pilot-projects for the development of new tools and innovative methods, addressing currently and common issues among European SMEs.
Through its international activities, CEFORALP anticipates on the requirements of adaptation faced by companies and brings European practices and culture into firms' organisations.

CEFORALP experiment, at a European scale, new approaches for innovation and skills development in companies.

Thus, in the frame of the European Programme ADAPT, Lean Production and Lean Services were first designed and implemented at a European scale with the support of EC. It allowed launching a collective programme in Rhone-Alpes as PPJ RA.