CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT Our strategy is to be present on the international market to provide our students with a period of training in a European country in collaboration with other schools and thus promote and provide a broader view of their foreign languages competences and their professional skills. Under the framework of LLP programmes, we are experienced at bilateral Comenius (2010-2012 and 2012-2014) with a High School in France. Under the call of transnational exchanges in Europe, it´s three years since we started to collaborate in a European program of integration for exchange and mobility whose aim is to increase the opportunities of youth employment with the German institution BBZ (I Project Going Explorer! 2010-2013). It involves hosting German young students who are at a disadvantage in the labour market or in society and teach them in local working centres during a 4 weeks´ training period. Besides, an increasing percentage of our students in the vocational cycles come from different countries. The opportunity to do their professional training period in another EU country and have their European Skills Passport or the Europass Mobility document filled in is a must. CALENDAR OF ORGANISATION In terms of management and organisation , our international cooperation projects will be ruled by a coordinator and a team formed by the deputy director, the councellor, language teachers and vocational cycles teachers. The tasks of each team member will be clearly assigned. Their missions shall be : 1 – Searching partners among teaching institutions with a similar course catalogue promote the students´ mobility and a preparatory visit 2 - Informing students of advanced vocational training about the selection process and conditions for the traineeship in Europe 3 - Advising and assisting the pupils from the partner institution with their integration and achievements 4 - Coordinating monitoring processes, activities and visits 5 - writing individualised plans and agreements with companies for each participant and translate them into language of the host 6 - regularly updating all the information in the high school website and reporting it to the candidates 7 - preparing the guide for welcoming students and write a guide of guidelines to take part in Erasmus projects . To help the students with the languages needed for their mobility, language departments will operate a virtual classroom resource in English, French, German and Portuguese in order to ensure proper integration. In addition the candidates will attend a one months´ intensive language course (30h) of the language of the destination country or in English. There will be a process of selection whose criteria will be published in the webpage of IES Perdouro. The student´s degree of maturity and sense of responsibility will be evaluated besides his/her the academic results and his/her foreign language proficiency. METHODOLOGY Promoting a quality control system through the mobilility and cooperation between European countries. Cooperation and mobility between international teaching institutions are the only guarantee that Quality Standards are being applied accurately and that the students get a diploma which is valid within the European Framework. Issuing documents such as the European Language Passport, the curriculum vitae, the letter of mobility or the European Skills Passport helps to clarify the confirmation of European qualifications framework through Europass. IMPACT EXPECTED Increasing the number of qualified technicians in vocational cycles to contribute to the EU needs Today, any educational institution is sensitive to the process of modernisation and internationalisation of Spain and must help prepare citizens for Europe or a world without borders. Our modernisation agenda should contribute to higher skills or qualifications which should respond to the needs and job profiles of the EU. We are committed to act as partners to host students from other EU countries through the provision of the network of companies and institutions of production and service sectors collaborating in our region as well as to send our students to hosting institutions with a similar course catalogue during a traineeship period. LONG TERM BENEFITS On the other hand, it is essential to set certain qualification parametres at European level for Higher Education in a common framework. Vocational cycles are still undervalued in Spain and there´s a need to modernize their teaching approach. Setting up institutional agreements and developing a declaration of principles will imply deep changes in the candidates, such as improving their technical, personal and linguistic skills; this will enable them to deal with unknown situations in the working environment.