The trainees should be enabled to do a work placement abroad by participating in this project. This should increase the attractiveness of and interest in vocational training in the field of gastronomy and the food industry. In addition to hard skills, the trainees' language, communication and intercultural skills should also be promoted. The ability to analyse and evaluate processes at the workplace and in production, as well as in food preparation, processing of local food, dealing with guests was to be sharpened. On the institutional level, the aim was to intensify and expand international cooperation with other educational institutions. This was in order to improve the implementation of mobilities, to enable discussion and reflection on different educational systems, as well as to analyse and evaluate work placements in.
The project "More Knowledge through Exchange" (MWDA) aimed to enable the trainees and teaching staff of the "Emma Hellenstainer" vocational school from Brixen (Italy) to do job shadowing, company visits and internships abroad in Cham (Germany). By participating in this project, the participants should gain a better understanding of educational systems, cultures, ways of working and production as well as attitudes to life in another country. Furthermore, they should be able to develop themselves as "European citizens". Within the framework of this project, the trainees were to be given an insight into the culture and working methods of one of the largest customer groups of our catering businesses in their country of origin. In addition, the participants' language skills should be increased and their personalities strengthened in order to be able to cope with the economic and human demands of working in the tourism industry. The educational staff should be enabled to compare the educational systems and to build a network for their future work.