This year 2014, in the framework of Erasmus +, the University Medical Center Freiburg is going to lead the " Learn & Live - Practical training in the UK " project. For the fifth time, a group of 7 trainees in the business and the medicine sector will begin ¬– in mid- September 2014 – a 6-week stay in the UK (Wales). The University Medical Center Freiburg has over 10,000 employees and provides 24 different apprenticeship programs. Thanks to its previous projects that took place in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 within the framework of the EU program Leonardo da Vinci, it has already acquired an extensive experience abroad. The possibility offered to trainees to acquire technical and language skills abroad has become a key feature in the vocational training program of the University Medical Center Freiburg and – thanks to its continuity – it gives a valuable contribution to the outstanding quality of education at the University Hospital Freiburg. The University Hospital will lead this 2014 project in collaboration with the European Centre for Training and Regional Cooperation in Llangollen. During the first two weeks, the trainees will take part in an intensive language course in order to improve their English skills. Afterwards, the students will spend four weeks working for a suitable partner company. During their internships, the trainees will make use of their newly acquired or improved language skills and become familiar with the UK everyday professional life. Our partner organization will take care of the whole organization of the trainees’ internships, as well as that of the language course. A staff member of the Human Resources Department at the University Hospital Freiburg is in charge of the preparation of the stays and of the follow-ups in Germany. The trainees’ stay abroad gives them the opportunity to acquire various skills and is enriching not only for the trainees themselves, bus also for their respective departments. Due to the increasing internationalization of the world of work and the increasing requirements that trainees need to meet, education methods need to be modern and forward-looking, especially as regards ways of improving language skills. For example, the medical assistant trainees increasingly have to deal – by phone or by mail¬ – with foreign, English-speaking patients or employees At the beginning of the project, in January 2014, all trainees of the University Hospital Freiburg were informed by their instructor about this project. Additionally, an information meeting for all trainees took place. Moreover, we are going to provide our partner organization with the CV’s and target agreements of all trainees, so that they it be able to assign the work placements, and we will coordinate the accommodation of trainees in host families and discuss the content of the language course with our partner organization. We will prepare our trainees for their stay abroad by having them take part in a cross-cultural workshop, as well as an English course in Freiburg, and by putting them in contact with trainees who took part to last year's project. The University Medical Center Freiburg expects that, following this project, its students will be able to make use – in their respective departments – of their improved language skills and practical experiences acquired abroad. * Our partner organizations’ final evaluation of the project by will enable us to identify potential for improvement and to optimize the collaboration in the future. Thus, we will ensure both of our project partners with the continuity of our project. As regards public relations, the results of the project will be published in the magazine of the hospital and in the regional press.