I. Summary of the project „School catering in Europe – part 2“ Participants of the project “School catering in Europe – part 2” are students of the BBS Rotenburg – Europe School and the BBS Verden, which belong to two different administrative districts and cooperate in this project. Students of the domestic science department of the BBS Rotenburg offer school catering. For these reasons we would like to compare the catering conditions in Germany with the conditions in Finland and Poland. We would like to establish the dispatch of our students from the domestic sciences department for a practical training abroad, because for this specific service sector the growing internationalization of the job market is of major importance. According to BBS regulations an extra-occupational practical training is a compulsory part of the students’ vocational training. In this practical training the students are going to get the chance to test their skills in domestic sciences and their social skills. Also they are going to improve their language skills, working techniques and intercultural competences. They are able to do so in schools which are located in other European countries. Furthermore the students are going to be sensitized of justice, social solidarity and intercultural awareness within the EU. II. Over the course of this additional qualification course “Europakaufmann / Europakauffrau” (European businesswoman / businessman) 22 apprentices (car sales assistant; whole sale clerk; industrial clerk (Verden); office clerk) will do a practical training in a European country. This way they take part in internationalizing vocational education. Thereby they expand their competences to act in a vocational context as well as their intercultural competences. In addition they acquire important personal competences which enable them to become a politically mature European citizens. By integrating into the operational processes of their firms of internship they get to know the country-specific conditions and will evaluate them afterwards. With preparatory seminars and obligatory language courses the base for a successful interneship is given. The resulting measures of evaluating and reflecting the experience serve to prepare future endeavors. They also help to put European questions and ideas into the mind of a broader public audience. A longterm goal is to involve more and more companies and their apprentices from our region to educate them about the European idea and to inform them about the interdependencies of the single European market. At the same the exchange about the different European education systems is supposed to be initiated to make a border crossing discussion possible.