The project background is characterised by the need to internationalise vocational training courses for fashion designers and to more closely orient the training towards the tertiary sector. The fact that the home institution is a vocational school means that it is often difficult to sufficiently document this high level of quality, especially when dealing with international decision-makers. The project aims for the 8-week-long flow are to gain experience by working in an interdisciplinary manner in project teams with international members and different approaches to vocational training, including approaches from the tertiary sector. The participants will also acquire knowledge on the different requirements involved in the textile industry in the partner countries. The students' intensive experience with the trainees and students at the partner institutions will enable them to extend their skills and expertise on a technical, human and social level. In two consecutive years, 14 second-year students with the required specialist expertise and social skills will be sent abroad to positively integrate themselves into life at the partner institutions. The activities planned for their time abroad are project work in interdisciplinary teams and visits to a specialist trade fair and to a number of companies. The aim of the 6-month-long flow is to enable the participants to extend their skills and expertise with regard to the more industrial approach to work in England and to gain both experience in carrying out research work on a student level and professional experience in all areas of the production process. After the flow, participants should be able to consider and implement their decision to either concretely work towards achieving their BA degree or to work abroad or for internationally oriented German companies directly after completing the project. A total of 6 graduates who have shown potential to generate direct opportunities to start their careers abroad with this project will be selected as participants. The activities planned for the project are participation in university modules on the development of collections and concept-based work and an industrial placement over several months. The project is expected to increase the participants' ability to break into the international employment market. The aim of the lecturer exchange is to internationalise the vocational training provided by FAHMODA, which includes further orienting it towards the curricula of the partner institutions and attracting additional project partners in Europe. 4 lecturers will be sent for a period of two weeks each. The activities planned for the lecturer exchange are a workshop for curricular coordination, peer observations of lessons taught by the project partners and a seminar held by each lecturer at his/her respective partner institution. The exchange will enable the lecturers to extend their teaching skills and expertise on both a methodological level and in terms of content and to further coordinate the curricula of the partner institutions. All of the projects will be carried out using a procedure involving the organisational development of the project implementation and the management of the project resources by the home institution. The preparatory courses will also be run/organised by the home institution. The learning targets will be determined in cooperation with the participants, who will be selected according to a pre-defined procedure, and the host institutions. A joint evaluation procedure has been developed. The structures for the documentation and publication of the results of the projects have been established. The forms to now used for evaluation are to be converted under the next project on ECVET instruments. The projects are expected to result in a general acceptance of the international approach to vocational training courses for fashion designers among both the students and trainees at the partner institutions and among other interested parties such as parents, potential students, German Chambers of Skilled Crafts (HWK), German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (IHK) and cooperating companies. They are also expected to enable FAHMODA to become more closely oriented towards the tertiary sector. The long-term benefit of the projects is that they will give students and trainees a better opportunity to become integrated into the employment market on a lasting basis. A clearer awareness of FAHMODA on an international level will enable the institution to attract more partners and expand its international network. The documentation and distribution of the positive project results across the international cooperation will strengthen the requirement for other educational institutions toalso implement internationalisation strategies.