We wanted for our school participants of the Erasmus internship and work monitoring to be able to apply the available knowledge in practice,to acquire professional knowledge at the international level,to get to know themselves better,to learn about learning and career opportunities,according to their competencies,outside Lithuania. We wanted them to learn to adapt to different social contexts and different requirements (business owners, mentors, program managers) to solve short-term problems or conflicts and to take responsibility for specific tasks and for themselves. On a cultural level, we wanted them to become more tolerant, to get to know better other European cultures. We also wanted to improve participants competences, to become more independent, more communicative, to take care of themselves in a new environment, to become more independent, to become real Europeans, to be more aware of general EU business policy. We wanted the project participants - teachers, to acquire international competencies - integration of communication and cooperation, organizational improvement and change management, knowledge society, culture, history, geography, assessing the diversity of EU cultures and their impact on our school and Lithuania.
The current economic situation in Lithuania and Europe, the rapid change of business and vocational education and training system, when a person has to constantly improve in order to compete in the changing labor market, encouraged writing the project. The aim of the project is to provide schoolchildren and vocational teachers with new professional knowledge, skills and competencies to improve vocational training by applying foreign experience, to increase the internationality of the study process at school, and to increase the competencies of students through internships and work monitoring in the European Union - Poland, Austria, Spain for their easier integration into the labor market.Through this project, we aimed to improve the professional, language and knowledge skills of all learners, to change the attitudes and behaviors of all project participants: to make students and teachers more tolerant,better understand business creation and development at European level, to integrate them more easily into global life and the labor market. In addition, we wanted international experience to motivate participants to pursue a career,boost self-confidence and improve participant's understanding of multicultural life and social skills.