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During the last decades, superfluid helium clusters have been widely studied both experimentally and theoretically. As a result of the latter studies, a new spectroscopic domain has emerged (HENDI) where helium nanodroplets are used as ultimate matrices for accurate spectroscopic measurements, taking advantage of their very low temperature and their weak interaction with the impurity. However, many questions still are remaining about the helium nanodroplets, especially those doped with alkaline-earth atoms. In fact, the simple position of an impurity in this medium is far from being trivial for some doping species like the alkaline-earth atoms. This is particularly true when the impurity is the magnesium atom. Experimental evidence of a completely Mg solvated state is announced in the literature whereas very recent experiments advance the opposite situation for the Mg atom (near the surface). From the theoretical point of view, the position of the Mg atom in the helium droplet still remain ambiguous in the actual literature. In order to contribute to a better understanding of the alkaline-earth (Mg and Ca) doped helium clusters, we have determined, in this work, accurate interaction energies for both CaHe and MgHe van der Waals systems. For this aim, ab initio methods such as the coupled clusters (CC) as well as Møller-Plesset approaches (MP2 and MP4) have been successfully applied to both systems. The best interaction potentials have been then used as pair interactions for the diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) approach in combination with two accurate helium pair interactions. For both CaHen and MgHen, DMC calculations have been carried out for n = 1 up to 220, the result was a surface location of the dopant whatever the latter is. In the particularly delicate case of Mg doped helium clusters, constrained DMC calculations have been performed for He20 and He50. The results were a very flat energy profile in both cases. Finally, results concerning the dynamics of recombination of two Mg atoms based on an effective potential for helium inside an almost 2000 helium atom cluster are given. te l-0 05 84 39 2, v er si on 1 8 Ap r 2 01 1