This internship and international experience will enable students to live a work experience in an EU country, and to open doors towards integrating them into the European labor market . It is our mission to optimize the formative paths towards excellence and to supply our pupils with best learning tools that may permit them to be easily accepted either by local, national or the European labour market. It is also a project committed to the promotion and adoption of a culture that encouraged the learning process and motivated pupils and teachers alike towards better school results. We also involved the students´ respective families in this project and in its process. We emphasised the need for improvement of processes by valueing our formative experience. The participants selected for this project were young learners currently studying in the 12th school year in a range of five Vocational Courses - Management (Business), Tourism, Computer Programming, Industrial Metallurgy Planning and Cooking & Pastry. We therefore proposed a two year mobility programme which benefited 30 pupils and three accompanying teachers. The main aims of this project were: 1. To learn new professional practices that will allow for creativity and innovation in the development of vocational aptitude projects; 2. To promote the sharing of knowledge, processes and working methods between the pupils and the receiving organizations; 3. To develop skills and practices that support problem solving and foster creative and entrepreneurial spirit. 4. To develop skills in foreign languages, improving educational outcomes ; 5. To contact with other cultures, promoting European citizenship based on the use of technical and multi-language skills; 6. To make mobility a motivating element in relation to school and learning. Thus, this project proposal tries to answer the needs felt by these youngsters to broaden their horizons, to get to know other ways of life, to try new work procedures and methodologies, to improve on their vocational aptitude projects, to develop the domain of other languages, to contact with other cultures, to comply with our entrepreneurial educational approach and to provide evidence that the European Community can offer important labour market possibilities. Mobility took place in Seville (ES), Valencia (SP), Palma de Maiorca (SP), Berlin (DE) AND Dublin (IR) in tHREE periods of six weeks each: between May and June 2021 and between April and May 2023. These choices sought cultural, linguistic, labour and economic diversity.
Our school assumes the project “Building and developing professional skills ” as yet another challenge and an opportunity to promote and adopt a culture of entrepreneurial spirit, which allows for the development of improved and creative vocational skill projects and for the inclusion of significant changes in the dynamics within the learning and working process. Due to the fact that some of our regional work places do not provide us with the opportunities and solutions we wish for, specially regarding the need for the students' vocational aptitude projects to be developed and enriched during the international training period by means of a strong and continued contribution on the part of the technicians and tutors of host companies, we believe that a set of new solutions and new techniques to improve students´ vocational skills can only came about by indulging them in this mobility project.