The project contributed to the implementation of the school's 2021-2025 strategic action plan: to enable every student to participate in international projects, professional competitions, competitions, Olympiads, non-formal education programmes; to develop cooperation relations with social partners in Lithuania and abroad, associations and other organisations; to continuously initiate the search for international cooperation partners and to establish cooperation to prepare and implement international cooperation agreements. The project also aimed to contribute to the implementation of the School's internationalisation strategy and its action plan: to promote mobility of pupils, teachers and administrative staff in foreign countries and to improve their professional and general competences; to attract specialists from foreign countries; to improve the content and quality of the mobility in order to better align the content of the programmes with the programmes offered by foreign vocational training institutions. The project activities aimed at giving students the opportunity to improve their professional competences and skills by working in a modern environment, using the latest technologies and equipment. During the traineeships, students worked with state-of-the-art equipment used in vocational schools and companies in Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Finland, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey and Germany, thus improving their professional competences, familiarising themselves with the high standards of work culture and occupational safety, the host country's history, culture, traditions, developing their linguistic skills and professional motivation. The aim of the Vocational Mobility project was to encourage teachers and administrators to familiarise themselves with the content of vocational training, curricula and qualification requirements for employees in foreign countries, to analyse how the work process is organised in practice in companies, what services are provided to clients. By participating in the activities of partner organisations, they improved their professional and social competences, adopted the best educational practices and applied them in their work. The school staff used the results of the professional development for the school's strategic activities and development. Teachers of pastry cooks, waiters and bartenders, hotel staff, business and chefs, and teachers of special needs students were trained in foreign organisations. During the placements, teachers and other staff had excellent opportunities and conditions to evaluate from the outside traditional and not always effective forms of qualification development, to acquire new knowledge and skills - to better understand the systems of education and teaching practices in different countries; to better understand and take into account social, linguistic and cultural diversity; and to better address the needs of special needs learners. They have gained experience in transferring knowledge to pupils and colleagues, in using new teaching methods in the classroom, in increasing support, promotion and encouragement of pupil mobility activities, and in improving their foreign language skills. The results achieved by the international mobility of students have been validated and recognised through the use of ECVET elements, which ensure transparency, mutual trust and mobility within the VET area. Each participant who successfully completed a traineeship in a foreign partner organisation was issued with a Europass mobility document, which best reflects the new skills and competences acquired during the traineeship. The host organisations also issued certificates from their own institutions confirming the trainees' practice abroad and the acquired competences.
The Professional Mobility project was designed to provide mobility activities that help people develop professional and general competences and contribute to improving school efficiency. The project includes activities contributed to the implementation of the Kaunas Food Industry and Trade Training Centre's strategic plan and internationalisation. The project was implemented in accordance with the objectives, goals and targets set out in the Internationalisation and Transnationalisation Plan and the Internationalisation and Transnationalisation Strategy: - to provide opportunities for school managers, educational process organisers and vocational teachers to undertake traineeships, to acquire professional, technological and general competences, to adopt best educational practices from foreign countries and apply them in their own work; - to improve students' technological knowledge and skills through internships in educational establishments in foreign partner countries; and improve their social and general competences: intercultural communication, socialisation, teamwork and foreign language skills, international mobility, the ability of pupils to assess their competences and to integrate into to integrate their competences into the international labour market; - to improve the results of internationalisation activities by broadening the professional and professional skills of pupils, teachers and other school staff improving the competitiveness of the activities. The project is aimed at pupils and vocational teachers of Kaunas Food Industry and Trade Training Centre, education The project is aimed at teachers, vocational education and training staff and administrative staff. The project activities were aimed at to cover the widest possible range of curricula at the school, which is why the project had 12 hosts partners in 11 countries. All the partners are vocational schools or institutions closely linked to vocational Some of them have Erasmus+ mobility charters/accreditations.