During their time at HTL Rankweil, our students receive their education and training both in theory and practice. This makes high demands on our students in both areas of expertise. We at our school are firmly convinced that in the export oriented, global setting our local companies operate in, English skills among students must be improved and fostered as much as possible. This is only partly true for technical vocational colleges in Austria, as the number of weekly English lessons is lower than in advanced general secondary schools. This is one reason why we offer internships abroad to our students. These internships do not just add to the above aim. In addition to the general linguistic development of the participants, they offer the students enormous leaps forward in terms of technical language and cultural understanding. What is more, they open up new job possibilities for the students and provide them with new perspectives on their future career. For this reason, our school is highly interested in continuing our sucessful cooperation with our partner companies and even expanding it by finding new partners. This year, eleven students will do such an internship in the UK and in Finland, all of them having just finished the fourth year of their five-year-training at our college. All of them are shining stars in terms both their technical and social skills. The project is planned, carried out and reviewed in close cooperation with our partner companies, all of which have been reliable and precious partners for years now.