Main focus of the "Leinen Los!" project is the promotion of vocational integration for young, socio-economically disadvantaged individuals into the german and european labor market. Proof of intercultural skills and experiences are gaining increasingly importance for the successful transfer into employment. This is especially true for the service sector and skilled craft and trade related sector as well - which are the occupations of our target group. But in cause of the socio-economic situation of our target group those young people do face considerable obstacles when it comes to the acquisition of work experience abroad. There is considerable danger for them that this lack of opportunity and hence experience and key skills will result in a life defining disadvantage and / or exclusion regarding future job chances. In most cases, a stay abroad holds especially for young people with precarious socio-economic background the first opportunity to try and develop an indipendent lifestyle out of the framework of their family and social structures. Following the feedback of those who benefit from work related international exchange programmes, those youg people experience considerable personal growth, feel more empowered and more purposeful in regard of their vocational perspective than they felt before their departure. At the same time they felt more intercultural tolerant and more affirmative towards the European Project. In respect thereof the "Leinen los!" project is making an important contribution to the fight against ethnic, social and gender related discrimmination and towards the promotion of a european citizenship. In the context of the project 70 students of vocational schools (age 18 - 29) who are in training for a cereer in skilled craft and trade or servcie jobs (i.e. baker, salesmen, confectioner, stylists, hairdresser, childcare worker) will be offered the opportunity for a month-long internship and work experience in Spain, Italy, Great Britain or Ireland. This is meant to give those young people the chance to acquire work related international and intercultural skills to facilitate an easier transfer into the domestic and european labor market. This constitutes one important goal of the project: To present affordable oppotunities for qualification and continuing education and professional development to our participants and to boost their chances for the german and european labor market considerably in the process. The acquisition of participants, the the intercultural training and the organizational preparation will be the reponsibility of ARBEIT UND LEBEN Saxony-Anhalt. The care and support of our delegated participants lies within the responsibility of our partners on-site. During the deployment-phase will ARBEIT UND LEBEN still function as a contact for our participants and will monitor and ensure the successful implementation of the project. ARBEIT UND LEBEN as deployin organisation is responsible for the information, selection, preparation, post-processing and mentoring of all participants. Recieving organizations are: SISTEMA TURISMO S.R.L. (Italy), Twin UK (Großbritannien), Foyle School (Northern-Ireland, UK) and ESMOVIA (Spanien). These partners have have great experience and expertise in regards to the work with foreign internship participants. The long-term benefits of the impulses and developments described above will be evident on a individual and societal level as well. For the participants the benefits of the program will manifest themselves in increased social and professional skill with an positiv and progressiv impact on their proffessional opportunities, their mobility and their life planning. In addition to the participants increased intercultural skills and their expectable affirmative stance towards the european principle of freedom of movement and european values this will accumulate to an iportant societal benefit as well.