The project „pedagogical practice in Denmark and the Netherlands” is firmly embedded in the strategic aims of the Berufliche Schule für Sozialwesen der Hoffnungstaler Stiftung Lobetal. It contributes to increase the attractiveness of the training. In the last 10 years the Berufliche Schule für Soziales Lobetal has carried out 18-week long foreign placements for students of social pedagogy and care curative education as the final practical training and part of the final examination. Evaluations of former mobility projects and activating interviews of students showed a significant interest among students in the second year of training in shorter practical education phases in other European countries. So, in cooperation with our educational partners, we created a new offer enabling students to get insight into the contents of the education and the pedagogical work of neighbouring countries in 2015.Our school is planning to send 12 students for a practical training to social pedagogical institutions in Denmark and the Netherlands. We are planning 2 programmes:4 students of the vocational training course social assistant are going to spend their last 3 weeks of their 9 weeks second practical training in Denmark from 4 November until 25 November 2016.Up to 8 students of the college training course social pedagogy and care curative education are going to spend their first 3 weeks of their 10 weeks second practical training in the Netherlands from 1 November until 21 November 2016.Our Danish co operational partner SOSU Sjælland in Ringsted supports the project by providing practical training facilities for social pedagogy in Ringsted and Greve. Our Dutch co operational partner ROC van Twente in Almelo supports the project by providing adequate facilities like kindergartens and integrative institutions in the region of Twente.Students of the college training course social pedagogy and care curative education are going to learn new as well as modern and accepted pedagogical concepts within Europe and are going to familiarize themselves with principles of elementary education in day care institutions and preschools as well as educational support. The comparative exchange in the Netherlands will be supported and made easier by the tandem procedure in which the students will be accompanied by a Dutch student during the whole practical training. In so doing we lower possible communicational barriers and emphasize personal contacts between students of the same professional background.Moreover we aim at achieving to broaden our student’s professional and social skills as well as practicing their English language skills in a professional context because both cooperation partners demand good English skills for the 3 weeks stay. Our students are also going to familiarize with the culture and way of life of the other country. This contributes to an appreciation of differences and similarities. According to German college regulations our school is obliged to visit its students at their practical training at least once during the training period. In both cases, the project in Demark as well as in the Netherlands, teachers of our school are going to visit the students in our partner schools and practical training institutions respectively towards the end of the training period in order to reflect the training together with mentors, practical instructors and colleagues of the cooperating institutions. Moreover the 12 students will have a personal mentor in both countries providing individual help and support whenever necessary.Thus this project will be understood as a comprehensive school project and should contribute to additional discussion topics in the education at our college by adding the experience and learned conduct approaches of our students attending the practical training in Denmark and the Netherlands.Preparation, appraisal and analysis of the 3 weeks stay are part of the after-training reflection in a classroom environment at our school because both parts of the project „pedagogical practice in Denmark and the Netherlands” are a section of the second practical training period. Thus there will be a direct interlocking of the experience from both the German/Dutch and German/Danish side and also those students not directly participating in the project will participate in the exchange of experience in the classroom. The students will also be propagators of intercultural and functional aspects for professionals in social pedagogical institutions in Germany because after finishing their 3 weeks stay in the Netherlands they will continue their practical training in partner institutions of our school in Germany.