CONTEXT ET OBJECTIVES SEPR has been developing a voluntarist policy for 25 years in order to allow students to have a vocational and personal experience abroad. SEPR works in the framework of the Leonardo da Vinci program since 2001 et was awarded with the Leonardo certificate in 2012. The present project aims more particularly our vocational highschool students. The objectives for the students are as follow : - Learning further vocational skills and discover new way of working - Getting new abilities such as maturity, autonomy, self-confidence, open-mindness, adaptability - Opening to the world, get an European identity - Fighting prejudices and stereotypes. For SEPR : - Enhancing the European scope of our vocational training centre - Encouraging students and their family to enter the vocational training pathway and do a placement abraod with the Erasmus+ program - Being a local and regional actor with an international scope as well. NUMBER AND PROFIL OF THE PARTICIPANTS 14 vocational highschool students will be selected for this project. They are between 18 and 22 years old and are enrolled in the following trainings : jewellery, cabinet-making, graphic design and fashion design. They are mostly modest socio-professional group. Many of them have never travelled abroad and don’ know Europe very well. Moreover, they are not self-confident enough and can hardly speak a foreign language. It is absolutely necessary for these students to broaden their vocational outlooks with the prospect of the labour market. ACTIVITIES Before the placement : - Meeting with administrative and pedagogical staff to explain the project - Beneficiaries information and selection - Meeting with the students and dealing with the following topics : accommodation, transport, language, multicultural life, stereotypes, prejudices… - Linguistic training for students, thanks to the Erasmus+ platform and to different supports (books, grammary, podcasts, websites…). During the placement : The 14 students will do their placement in Italian, Finnish, Spanish and German companies. After the placement : - Meeting with the students in order to assess the benefits of the placement on a vocational, linguistic, cultural and personal point of view - Work on the basis of the Europass certificate in order to check all the new skills, competencies and abilities. METHODOLOGY - Collaborative work with the international office manager and assistant, the vocational high school director and the pedagogical team - Regular meetings with the students before the placement - Regular communication with our foreign partners : vocational training centres and companies - Assessment of the placement for each participant - Assesment of the overall project with all parties involved : positive aspects and aspects that must be improved. IMPACT AND EXPECTATIONS For SEPR : - Involvement of the overall teaching and administrative staff in a federative European project - Better esteem for vocational training pathway - Equality between vocational training and general / academic training pathways For the participants : - Better employability on the labour market - Desire for mobilities abroad - Better involvement in their vocational training after the placement (usually, students want to improve their linguistic skills in order to go abroad once again) - Better creativity, open-mindeness, entrepreneurship - Better examination rate. POSSIBLE ADVANTAGES IN THE LONG TERM - Better employability on the labour market - Better esteem and image for the vocational training pathway.