The interns should improve their job qualifications but also linguistic competences By doing international work placements they should get to know how business works and improve their intercultural competences. The participants should have the opportunity to enlarge their business knowledge and to put it into practice. By discovering differences and similarities to their own situation at home. The participants should learn about foreign culture, different business activities and local customs and enlarge their social, intercultural and commercial competences. The colleagues doing job shadowing in Spain or Great Britain should have the chance to visit partner schools in order to exchange ideas and to get some new impetus for our school and lessons. Furthermore, they should have the opportunity to enlarge their intercultural competences, their language competences as well as their teaching skills by doing job shadowing or language courses. After their return they should be able to pass on their experience to their colleagues to implement new ideas and strategies on their teaching. A professionalized and more international staff should contribute to preparing, carrying out and evaluating European projects at our school.
As the participants are trainees at a vocational school it is very important to provide practical training in order to prepare them for a professional career on the European job market. The general aim was to give the students an international survey on the world of work in the three participating countries. As the three languages Englisch, French and Spanish are taught at school, it is evident that they should not only prepared for job qualifications but also linguistically. An international work placement is a good occasion to get to know how business works in these four countries and to improve intercultural competences. The participants should be given the opportunity to enlarge their business knowledge and to put it into practice. Processes within the companies should be recognised and compared. All in all, the participants should learn about foreign culture, different business activities and local customs and enlarge their social, intercultural and commercial competences. Four colleagues who are interested in doing job shadowing in Spain or Great Britain, had the chance to visit partner schools or attend structured training in order to exchange ideas and to get new impetus for our school, lessons and European project work.