From September 2008 - October 2009 EDTI surveyed and benchmarked practice in order to map and analyse the knowledge and skills of designers and design stakeholders, audit their training needs and get input to incubate new training. The methodology was both quantitative and qualitative using online questionnaires and in-depth interviews. The quantitative questionnaires covered 25 topics ranged on different design-related target groups such as designers, design managers and design students. By the end of September 2009 over 400 questionnaires had been completed. The EDTI qualitative surveys were carried out in 6 EDTI partner countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, France, Germany and the UK. In all those countries the same methodology for interviews was used with 10 different qualitative questionnaires for different design-related target groups. Altogether approximately 700 in-depth interviews were carried out.