Together with our partners in Hatfield and Rovaniemi our vocational college aimed at achieving the following objectives: - Students shall improve their language competence in English as well as their intercultural competence and shall acquire a positive attitude towards mobility and flexibility, which consequently shall provide them with better chances of finding a good post after their traineeship - not just in Germany but also in another European country; - students' independence, their personal development shall be promoted; - the quality of our vocational education shall be improved; - a strengthening of the European idea among our students; - a strengthening of our partnerships with Hatfield and Rovaniemi so that similar projects can be carried out in the future; - an improved image of "the German as such" among the students' colleagues, host families etc.
We carried out this project to (financially) enable our very good vocational school students - mangement assistants in office communications, management assistants in dialogue marketing, management assistants in sports and fitness - and our students in higher commercial school to do a four-week internship in companies and institutions in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England or Rovaniemi, Finland.