Such internships add value in terms of professional competencies, language development, social skills, general education and have a positive impact on critical European thinking. With this mobility project, participants also have the opportunity to improve the quality of their work. By carrying out specific assignments of administration and stock management, the participant acquires increasing final responsibility and independence. The focus of the internship activities was in the area of office skills. By performing specific assignments for the automatization of administration/stock management/websites/, the participants from both schools acquired more and more final responsibility and independence. It is also an added value to carry out this project with two schools because you bring together multiple fields of studies. This has the advantage that the participants exchange and apply multiple professional competencies from the different fields of study.
Two schools in Brussels, i.e. GO! Atheneum Kalevoet en GO! Technisch Atheneum Zavelenberg, and their project ‘ " acquiring soft-skills in Europa!", make the difference in Spain, Malaga". The participants are all secondary school pupils studying Informatics, office management and electricty. Most of them come from a disadvantaged home situation. During their internship they indulge in professional skills and competences. Meanwhile, the intention is that the participants have time to look more closely not only at business culture and working method but also at culture in general and nature of the host country.