We would like 10 of our students to have the opportunity to go and do a training period in Portsmouth so that they could put into practise their professional skills in a foreign country thanks to the European Lifelong Training Programme. These 10 students study administrative work in our vocational high school. We want them to improve their ability to use English in professional situations, use their administrative skills and gain a better European open-mindedness, both professional and cultural. In England, the partner we are working with is TellUs Group and we are having a preparatory visit (financed by our school) next June. Our students will work in companies where they will have the opportunity to perform administrative work that corresponds to what they study in our vocational school. Therefore they will do their training period in companies such as a job centre, a recruitment agency or a real estate agency. We also work with the "Maison de l'Europe Provence" and have contacts with the European Commission in Marseille. In addition, Laure Neron, a journalist working for Vaucluse Matin regularly visits us and has already written several articles about our projects. The added value of such a project (for the VET learners) is obvious on the following aspects: • making them more successful by promoting their motivation all along the project, • helping them get a better European culture, • contributing to the building of their European citizenship, • getting them to know a different professional environment, • allowing them to improve their professional skills and gain new ones, • helping them pass the Europro Certificate, increasing their adaptability, • making them aware of the importance of the occupational and geographic mobility • improving their English writing and speaking skills. This project also fits into the objectives of Europe 2020 strategy which highlights and promotes youth training mobility. We also want our school to get recognition for our willingness to be innovative about European programmes and we wish to create long term realtionships with our partners. We also consider the cultural aspect of this project very important for we are working on several visits our students will attend during their stay in England. These are the results we are expecting from this project: - for the VET learners in vocational institutes: improve their working and English skills, their flexibility, open-mindedness, autonomy at work and their taste for occupational and geographic mobility as European citizens. - for the teachers benefiting from staff training abroad: • reflect on own teaching and increase range of teaching techniques; • understand which teaching methods are the most effective; • create motivational authentic material, which will promote efficient and effective outcomes for students; • help students become more motivated and autonomous learners; • share experience of material creation with other European teachers; • share the benefits of our training with our French workmates as soon as we come back to work; • foster the innovating teaching techniques (learnt during this lifelong training programme) in our vocational high school. - for the project leaders: • create long term relationships with our partner schools, • create a vertuous dynamic in our school thanks to the project • help other teachers through meetings and trainings organised by our District Organization for European and International relations and cooperation, • communicate about the project and the benefits for our school and students. - for the partners: the host organization: create long term relationships to be considered as a key partner when it comes to European programmes. the companies in France and abroad: be considered as key companies willing to improve their knowledge and share work practices and willing to meet the European expectations as lifelong training relevant stakeholders and promote their involvement thanks to the local media.