Santo Tirso Professional School (EPST) has idealised this Project to promote training in two different areas of the school: a) a teacher in the Commerce area, and b), elements of the School Board. With this in mind, we have created a partnership with NorthWestAcademy, which will cooperate in implementing the project. Participants will start the project in January 2015 with the case-study of some institutions (companies, public institutions and commercial areas) as well as schools, teaching systems and professional courses taught. After September 2015, they will head for Northern Ireland, where they will put into practice the work plan prepared for each area/study. a) EPST is renowned by the local community for its experience in the areas of ICT, Management and Secretarial training, and especially in the area of Commerce training. This recognition comes from the quality of its faculty, which has been working on continuing professional development. Because we are aware that this is a major contributor for the quality of our teaching, we find this project is of the utmost importance, as it allows for the acquisition of new skills and the sharing with a partner from a different market, with its unique skills and naturally different responses. In order to gather and understand these models or market needs response processes, we have designed an exploratory study based on research tools, like questionnaires and direct observation, which will be implemented throughout the stay in the host entity. At the end of this project, we expect results to be produced for two major recipients: first and foremost, the teachers of the technical subjects of the Commerce Course, through the acquisition of new pedagogical skills, which will later on be taught to students of these courses. The second group will be The Santo Tirso Commercial and Industrial Association and, in an indirect way, its associates. b) This project was idealised by EPST and it’s directed at Course Directors and elements of the School Board. The main goal is to experience the reality of a European School which teaches vocational courses in loco, in this case in Northern Ireland, for a period of seven days, as a way to do a comparative study of the planning and organization of these specific courses, based on the country’s law. The acquisition of technical and innovative skills is also intended, as well as the adoption of organizational strategies, especially at the level of on-the-job training and of a more effective entry in the job market, as a way to fight youth unemployment and possible school drop-out rates. This project is meant for one Course Director and an element of the School Board, as they coordinate the monitoring and assessment of the courses, ensure the pedagogical liaison between the different subjects and training components of the courses, and also with the school management body, in what comes to On-the-job Training and Professional Aptitude Test. The training will ideally take place between the months of September and December 2015. Until then, for the first months of the year, it is intended that the participants, while still in Portugal and after getting acquainted with their host entities, begin to study them, research on Irish vocational teaching laws and organization, so that they can enforce the fieldwork in loco at the time of the mobility. The activities planned for this project are cultural and language preparation, as well as the direct observation of how the school and its vocational courses work, giving students and teachers the questionnaires, the in-depth knowledge of the school management bodies and their skills, especially the Course Directors’, and the presentation of a final report. The tools used will be direct observation, the questionnaires, the use of platforms like moodle and the blog, which will be created for the follow-up of the training and the dissemination of the learning accomplished. At the end of the training it is intended that the participants disseminate the acquired knowledge to the school management bodies, implement promotion actions, such as workshops in neighbouring schools, as well as the creation of a report with the results of the training, which will be available for everyone. The intended results are the enriching of the skills and competences of Course Director and pedagogical Directors. The foreseeable success of the study of this Irish reality will allow for the educational best practices to be divulged in regional entities and near the Ministry of Education. NWA, the partner school, will be responsible for the logistic organization in Northern Ireland and for securing a host entity for the accomplishment of the training.