SAETO is the name of a cluster of  international research projects of the EU’s Leonardo da Vinci Programme
SAETO deals with the adaptation of the European Excellence Modells (CAF, EFQM, Project Excellence) to the language and reality of Education and Training Organisations (ETO) and with the dissemination and validation of the results in different countries.
Based on the original SAETO Project (2005-2007) two spin-off projects (TI-SAETO & Trans-SAETO, 2008-2010) extended, improved and fine-tuned the tools and training materials taking into account the participants' language and cultural background and being validated with over 85 pilots, thus developing a European Standard that respects local requirements.
End of 2011 three more "SAETO Projects" were added: ACES, Design for Excellence und EVET. All of them are developing new extensions to the existing solution and will be validated in about 15 pilots per project.
