The objectives of the project for IES Santa Engracia were to innovate and improve the quality of teaching, improve the foreign language skills of the school's teaching staff and students, increase the relevance of European programmes in the school, enhance the value of vocational training and improve the employability of students. All are considered to have been achieved to a large extent.
IES Santa Engracia is a public vocational training centre in the Community of Madrid that offers training courses in the Professional Families of Personal Image and Textile, Clothing and Leather. The project involved teachers from our two professional families and students from all the intermediate cycles of our centre: Hairdressing and Hair Cosmetics, Aesthetics and Beauty and Dressmaking and Fashion. The mobilities took place in Italy, Portugal and Malta. The project has been requested in order to continue to carry out our activity of internationalisation of the Institute, to increase the employability of the students of intermediate level and to enhance the value of vocational training at this level, as well as to consolidate relations with companies and counterpart centres and to establish new ones.