Implemeting The Red Thread in the internationalisation of Østerhøjskolen. At our school we have so far taken only small steps towards becoming a school with an international dimension. We have participated in a school partnership and this school year we have a Comenius assistent from Austria. But by now we feal ready to take further steps towards shaping our profile as a public school with an international outlook and profile. This school year we have done a lot of work to become ready to walk down the path towards the internalization we wish to succeed with. We are divided into three sections; sinfant 7-9, middle school 10-12 and lowe secondary 13-15, we want that all employees and pupils as many as possible are involved in international exchanges these two coming years and the years to follow to improve the learning of the pupils. That is the background for, that we are aiming to target different competencies and reach out to a big number of staff, so that as many as possible fell involved and have ownership to the process. We are therefor focusing on four different areas/competancies; language, innovation, it/science and inclusion. The reasons for that are that these are the competancies that we have identified as necessary to develop and be better at targeting the different groups of pupils. As the other hand it is also what the staff has required as needs to develop their competencies. We want to qualify our staff to become better at teaching early foreign language, both in English and in German. Our partner i UK and Germany can help us becoming better at that. So here quite a big number of staff is going for job shadowing, to acquire better competencies in teaching young learners foreign language. In Scotland we will also study how they work with early language development in nursery schools. We also want to offer Spanish as a language our pupils can choose to learn before they leave elementary school. That is why we send a member of staff to a Spanish course, and our headmaster is going to be better at German because we plan to do a school partnership with one or both our partners in Germany in the future. We also want to focus in the Nordic dimension, so that is why two members of staff have go to a school in Norway on a 1 week course to upgrade their qualifications to implement the Nordic dimension throughout the whole school and all grades. We have good experiences working with entreprenurship, we want to develop that further and to be inspired to work closer with businesses in our local area. One of our German partners are already working with private companies, so we want to learn from them and we are going to show them how we are working with innovation as part of the older pupils teaching. By that we hope to ease older pupils, which are a bit tired of going to school, further education. We are focusing on it/science because our staff ask for new competencies in that field and they want to develop teaching that go beyond borders. One of our partners in Germany has good experiences in using IT in their sciences classes, so our staff is going there to do job shadowing and at the same time hopefully develop common materials and teaching practice so they can keep in contact and still work together. We are also going to send staff to as well E-twinning and ESP seminars. We have to become better at using E-twinning and we hope that we both places will be able to find partners for cooperation over E-twinning and the ESP platform and maybe develop it into new school partnerships. Inclusion is a big issue at all levels and our partner in Germany has quit a lot of experience of that, so that is why we want staff to go job shadowing to see what we can learn from them. At the same time our partner in Spain has good experiences in inclusion and working with the international dimension, so staff is going there as well. We will distribute our new competencies to other members of staff, to other schools in our community, and to parents and the public by using our community' website didu.dk By becoming a European citizens it is important to cooperate with partners abroard you need to communikate in a foregein language all the time. This fact makes the outcome greater and more efficient and valuable. At the same time we learn a lot about the way of living, traditions, culture, history and local customs which you an not learn at home. You discover differences and similarities and challenge your prejudies. You strengthen your intercultural competences and hopefully your knowledge and understanding of the diversity of Eureopean cultures, languages and its values plus a different way of thinking and doing things will grow and develop further. Back in school you share your experiences with your colleagues and create a Eureopean awareness which encourages others to learn abroad and you let the international dimension into the classrooms for the benefit of our students.