With this project, we are fundamentally pursuing the intensification of cross-border mobility of young people as well as the development of intercultural skills that require the understanding and acceptance of others' cultural Promote backgrounds at home and abroad. In addition to these general goals, we would like to use this project to improve the professional prospects of our improve students. Due to the location of the Jülich vocational college, preparation for the students is recommended the Euregional labor market, since they can find good training and jobs close to home with the knowledge and skills they have acquired. The Euregio Maas-Rhein offers such jobs, but young people use them these opportunities are often not available, although it is precisely in this region that there is a need for qualified workers in the various professions is high. With the additional qualification 'Euregio Competence', the project enables them to have their first, almost always positive, experiences in the working world in neighboring countries. We assume that the willingness to cross-border job search is increased. They also have a PLUS on the domestic job market if they apply appropriate skills in applications Language skills and operational experience in neighboring countries. This is especially true for the Border regions, since the economic contacts often cross borders. Mobility in the part-time school area also enables trainees in the commercial-technical area to get started Experiences in other European countries and an application and expansion of your previously acquired knowledge, both in area of the foreign language, as well as from previous vocational training. Above all, however, all participants are given the skills they have acquired in the intercultural and personal area be of great use in further life, as they promote a greater openness towards other cultures. This Openness is also increasingly required in the home working environment.
Our goals are to intensify the cross-border mobility of young people and to develop intercultural skills, understanding and accepting other cultural backgrounds in one's own country and in the promote abroad. In addition, we wanted to continue with this project in the area of the additional qualification 'Euregio competence' the professional prospects of the participating students in the border region Germany-Netherlands-Belgium improve. This additional qualification has been tried and tested our school has the necessary experience, as we have been running these mobilities very successfully for several years, which both students and employers in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine have confirmed to us. Based on the good experiences with internships abroad in the Euregion, the Jülich vocational college wanted to continue Carrying out internships in the dual area for other European countries and the willingness of companies to release their trainees to boost. The good experiences of the trainees in Seville from the last Erasmus+ application have this willingness increased. With the present application, we are addressing internationalization in vocational training at our school and with the partners involved in Spain (since 2015) and since 2020 also consolidated in France, where we have found a partner school in Vannes in Brittany.