The network was set up with the financial support of the European Commission as part of the LEONARDO DA VINCI programme (for a project phase from 10/2005 until 09/2007). The project started out with 13 partners from 10 countries. Today, more than 40 partners from 16 European countries plus South Korea are involved in ENETOSH. The network is coordinated by the Institute Work and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV). At the European and international levels, ENETOSH collaborates with other networks, for example the network of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA,) the European Network for Safety and Health Professional Organisations (ENSHPO) and the Robert W. Campbell Award Global Network of the US National Safety Council (NSC). In October 2009, ENETOSH was presented with the “LEONARDO Preis 2009 Innovation in der Praxis”, which is awarded by the National Agency for Education in Europe, based at Germany’s Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), for outstanding EU projects that produce inspiring results and impacts on workplace practice.

The scope of ENETOSH:
The idea that safety and health are an integral part of lifelong learning guides the work of ENETOSH, which is why it covers all areas of education, from kindergarten to school, initial vocational training, higher education through to continuing vocational training. The network activities promote the following at both the national and international level:
- joint quality assurance of education and training on occupational safety and health,
- high-quality mainstreaming of health and safety into the education system and
- active knowledge-sharing between the OSH sphere and education experts.