The ESN project is included in the ESF Operational Programme in Thuringia 2014 to 2020 in priority axis A as well as in point 2.3 “Projects to support the recruitment of skilled workers with transnational links” in the projects for the “necessary, transnational acquisition of skilled workers for small/medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the establishment of an active action structure”. The project’s main objective is defined as: successful retrieval/response. Specialists for Thuringian SMEs with the aim of increasing the number of MAs with a migrant background in Thuringian SMEs and contributing to the problem of skilled workers. Other goals are to increase know-how in SMEs to attract/binding. MA and the establishment/densification of regional/needed action/work structures to advise SMEs on the acquisition process and on professional/life-world integration. Professionals + families.