The aim of the VET Learner Traineeships in institutions/companies abroad is to provide learners with a successful practice in a EU country with the highest added value in the vocational field, which the learners are acquiring. The goals of these traineeships are: 1.to develop and strengthen professional skills and competences that correspond to the European standards and demands of the EU labour market; 2.to link the acquired theoretical knowledge with practice in a institution/company abroad; 3.to promote the development of personal qualities such as mobility, activity, and communicability to help project participants with improved opportunities to start and build an independent professional life and other. VET Staff/Specialist Training Mobility goals: to study the concept and quality management of VET as well as implementation of innovations in VET institutions in different European countries (lifelong learning, work-based learning, cooperation between institutions and enterprises, professional foreign language, internationalization, “green thinking”).
“The Internationalization Strategy of the Vocational Education Competence Center "Daugavpils Construction Technical School" for 2017-2021" is based on international cooperation, therefore the technical school follows the European changes in the field of vocational education and provides activities promoting the vocational development of students and personnel. According to the technical school’s development vision and mission, one of its activities is the development of a cooperation network of international partners. The VET Charter application developed and approved in 2017 stipulates that the Internationalization Strategy is based on providing mobility opportunities for students and personnel in all educational programs, creating a favorable environment for the growth of intellectual resources, integrating students from social risk groups into vocational education, developing the establishment of the European Vocational Education Area. The internationalization strategy is inseparably linked with the technical school’s development strategy for 2015-2020; it promotes student and personnel mobility, participation in international projects and improves the overall quality of vocational education.