ROC van Amsterdam is one of the largest Regional Education Centres in the Netherlands based in the international and multicultural Amsterdam metropol area. We have students and staff of about 150 different nationalitiesand over 50% of the students have a non Dutch background. These facts explain the goal we want to achieve by 2020 to become a multilingual and fully international institute. ROCvA, a 'Podium for Talent', wants to be the bridge between the potential workforce (all our students) and the demands of the labourmarket. It also aims for improving the quality of the education and to become one of the top five educational institutes within MBO/VET by seeking strengthening the professionalism and working towards excellence in all levels and areas. Internationalisation will help provide the tool for all learners in ROCvA to be internationally and interculturally competent, acquire the 21st century skills and be prepared and skilled for the global workfield.ROCvA provides an added value to its vocational educational programmes by enhancing the quality and quantity of its international mobilities for learners and staff. It is necessary to achieve a better uderstanding of the educational systems within Europe and by cooperation with institutions and enterprises within Europe to share best practices that help to develop personal, generic and professional competences of teaching staff and learners; thus improve the quality of education, the learning - teaching process, internships and thus enhance employability for our learners and staff. International activities form an integral part of the Team Plans and thus integral part of the complex educational programme.Erasmus+ KA1 is about mobilities so most of the planned activities are student and staff mobilities. Individual mobilities, internships, study programmes, language courses, job shadowing, study exchanges will have been offered and organised by ROCvA for all its students and teachers on a decentralised level by the Team internship coordinators and Programme Teams in cooperation with the College International Cordinator of the ROCvA MBO Colleges. The International Office, as a central hub, coordinates all international activities monitored and supervised by a Steering Committee, reporting to a Senior Leadership Team (diretieplatform), thus providing guarantee for the quality of all international activities.Activities are planned for learners and staff already working with international programmes but also for the planned new bilingual courses for the creative programmes already mentioned; Art and Design, Dance, Hospitality, International Jean School and Make-up Art. Activities are planned in the field of sustainable tourism and hospitality etc. programmes for teams offering these educational programmes, and are willing to have it integrated into their every day work to improve the quality of work and learning.Next to that study career coaches (SLB) of the Programme Teams need to get a better understanding of the international possibilities and need to develop a more international character to be competent to bring that element into their work and be able to prepare learners for a greater variety of international, European pathways in further education. Through Internationalisation@home, intercultural values, EU citizenship should be promoted through internships, trainings, foreign experiences, exchanges, virtual international classrooms etc. to be aware of and to help understand and accept cultural differences.Multilingualism should improve within ROCvA and even Management Teams will take up language trainings to enhance their skills and competences and motivate their staff by giving a good example!The project will stimulate and add value to the cooperation within the EU vocational qualifications, VET providers and between small and medium size enterprises. It will support the implementation of best practices for the educational programmes and internships by exchange of experiences; special emphasis regarding quality assurance.The most important impact is to improve the quality of mobilities on a European level, and on national and institutional level as well. Through successful mobilities new sets of skills and competences will be obtained by all the participants, learners and staff, and a new way of thinking will have an added value to the personal and professional development of all the participants. The focus will be to gain new competences and be a better prepared professional by that. (vakmanschap!)