Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are relatively flexible and quickly adapted to change, and in this light, seen as key organisations for driving innovation and to promote employment. Employees' professional development is therefore often seen as a precondition to achieve innovations and to compete with other companies. However, small enterprises are often not able to develop or finance learning initiatives independently. Issues in the learning of employees of smaller companies are the work pressure, the management's low priority on learning, and rigidity of the formal learning environments such as trainings and courses. Recent ideas on transfer include a blend of learning and working, resulting in the concept of learning at the workplace. This informal-learning can be facilitated by communities of practice and of learners, especially when these communities address work-related issues or are rooted in daily-work processes. In the Work & Learn Together project, funded by the EU (Leonardo) virtual communities of practice of SMEs in the tourist sector have been set up in order to facilitate and support lifelong learning of employers and employees in the workplace. Results of evaluations of these COP's will be presented and discussed in the symposium.