Target group and training objectives Our target group are students being trained to be state registered educators. The studies and work are devided in the fields of child and youthcare as well as remedial education care. At the time of the vocational training period the students are in their 2nd year at the department of the professional training college , respectively in their 3rd year at the department of the professional grammar school (doubble qualification as an educator with with highschool diploma).The training at the professional college takes 3 years. The study topics are as following: 1) infant pedagogics (below age 3) 2) intergration / inclusion 3) youth welfare/ schoolchildren 4) residential provision / home 60 female and male students have undergone a work placement of four, six or eight weeks abroad in the last two years. All the students could choose an institution of their professional priority. Aims The aims are the development of cross-cultural key competences during the professional training of educators. Acting and practising strategies in the respective workfields shall be applied and modified according to the concepts of the foreign institutions, that means in particular the different techniques and methods of the various European educational systems. This process aims to strengthen self-competence, social competence, professional and methodical competences of the students. An important effect is the experience of mobility and the acces to European educational institutions and jobs. The aims and concepts are prepared, coached and evaluated in co-operation between Erzbischöfliches Berufskolleg and the partner institutions. Activities During the next 2 years about 60 students shall have the opportunity to participate in a 2 -, 4- or 6-weeks stay in one of our partner institutions in Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Malta, Poland, Turkey and the United Kingdom. The preparation develops during the complete schoolyear ( every 2nd week, 2 saturday workshops, 1 weekend workshop in a youth hostel - focussed on adventure /outdoor pursuits) and comprehends the presentation and information about the EU- programme lead by the responsible teachers of the EU-Team including special exercises for sensitizing cross-cultural understanding. Information about the different countries and their educational system is given by the students. Results The benfits of the Europe Mobility are various. The students gain professional competences and by enlarging the awareness of different qualities of different nations, become open minded which then enables them to find jobs abroad. The teachers of our school are involved in networking as they visit our students in their institutions.Thus they gain experience and strengthen their competences for their own work. The public image of the college attracts possible applicants who understand the European idea. Workshops and an annual meeting with our European partners at our college unite students, teachers and foreign collegues.