Communities of Practice and Web 2.0 to support learning in SMEs

Web 2.0 combined with E-Learning can support a fast transfer of knowledge by meeting European small and medium sized-companies (SME) needs of flexibility, a learning process oriented to their business and easier integrable into their workflow with a suitable personalized content at a lower cost to the organization In this paper after the presentation of the use of E-Learning in European SMEs examples of building learning strategies including E-Learning 2.0 within Communities of Practice are given.