The project is open to interested 9th and 10th grade students who attend the municipal Riemerschmid commercial school in Munich (RWS). Our students are in the preparatory phase for a commercial vocational training and a graduation can be accredited with up to one year on the training period. As today’s training companies more and more demand social and intercultural skills as well as they expect high geographical flexibility, we want to offer our students the possibility to develop into this direction through this Leonardo project. The participants shall be strengthened in the development of their personalities and their European identities by staying in host families, immersing into a foreign culture and gaining work experience abroad. This shall take effect not only when staying in other European countries but also shall it support open conduct with European trainees here in Munich. At the same time, the willingness of the participants to live and work abroad in Europe shall be increased.In four flows, a total of 24 students shall complete a work placement of four weeks in Finland or in Spain, which will be documented by the Europass mobility to increase the students’ chances of finding a vocational training position. Apart from deepening their professional practical competences through initial training at the new workplace and an introduction to new work practices and organizational structures, the participants shall first and foremost realize the importance of foreign languages as a prerequisite for communicating at their workplaces and in their social environments. Furthermore, this period abroad serves the purpose of improving social skills like the ability to work in a team, gaining a sense of responsibility and dealing with conflicts in a culturally different environment. In addition, personal skills such as politeness, punctuality, independence, resilience, perseverance, dealing with homesickness and the ability to adapt at the workplace and in the family shall be strengthened likewise.The RWS and its partner schools are responsible for respectively organising the selection and preparation of their own students and for finding suitable work placements and host families at their own locations. The work placements facilitate above all the practical competences but naturally also social and intercultural skills. The host families integrate the students into family life; they give the students an understanding of their culture and facilitate especially social and intercultural skills. While completing the work experience abroad, all participants keep in touch by e-mail. Furthermore, the project coordinators visit the partner organizations and the students at their workplaces. This stay also offers the possibility for a cultural programme together with the participants. At these meetings, the students can give personal feedback. They commit themselves to informing the project coordinators about their further activities via e-mail on a regular basis. In addition, they shall keep a report book and update a blog with current reports and pictures. Students of the partner organisations accompany the participants at the work placements, help with the initial training and support them.Once the participants have returned, all phases of the project will be evaluated. The results enter the planning and realization of future flows and projects. Together with our students, the results will be disseminated on a local and regional level.