The BBS Soltau are striving to extend, in continuing the Project” European competence for apprentices of the Lower Saxony in the Dual System” their strategies of internationalization and are seeking to create possibilities of participation in the EU employment market for their students, especially considering the apprentices. The mobility measures of Leonardo da Vinci are particularly suited to achieve this goal, as previous project executions have clearly shown. The demand respectively the need at the BBS Soltau for internships abroad has constantly increased from the apprentices as well as from the on the part of the employers. This was enhanced by reports on the homepage and by local newspapers as well as through the distribution of school flyers and by word of mouth from interns who worked abroad. Due to the broad spectrum of professions at the BBS Soltau the internships abroad are to be exectued in several profession fields. The connection to various european partners and their organizations will be applied beneficially. The apprentices are drawn basically from the following recognised occupations requiring formal training: automotive mechatronic technicians, joiners, plumbers, carpenters and bricklayers, hairdressers, qualified IT specialist, IT qualified traders, industrial business administrators. The internship will be completed during the second year of apprenticeship before or after the interim examination, which ensures that essential knowledge and skills are provided to successfully complete an internship abroad. This is accompanied by the following aims and anticipated outcomes: - growth of intercultural knowledge within the european employment market - improvement of the foreign language competence - extension of the job-related skills - extension of the skills and competences concerning the professional topics - guarantee of the learning results with the backroud of ECVET - augmentation in quality of the individual skills and knowledge - extension of the internal and external apperception as an apprentice within and outside of an internship abroad - Improvement of european competence of teachers and trainers.