Our innovative, continuously developing institution that also relies on its traditions always seeks for profound, wide-ranging solutions to the challenges of our time. The aim of this project is to utilize the so-called best practices offered by a school abroad to achieve our goals in terms of renewing our teaching processes with special attention paid to teaching professional skills and foreign languages. Since our school has an increasing number of socially disadvantaged students and students with special learning needs resulting in a growing number of premature school leavers, it is of high importance for us to motivate our students in order to strengthen the sustaining force of our school and as a result more and more students who finish our school would speak foreign languages and would acquire professional skills more efficiently. To achieve our goals our school started to look for foreign partners and our colleague succeeded in getting into contact with some Swedish schools at the eTwinning conference in Stockholm in the autumn of 2013. Through making contacts, our colleague had a chance to get acquainted with the Swedish educational system and it was clear from his account that both from the respect of our colleague’s professional development and from the respect of our school’s strategic plans, we could make use of a job shadowing experience. Since Swedish schools have long-lasting traditions concerning project-based teaching, the use of IT tools in education, and the integration of students from various social and ethnic backgrounds, our school would support gaining direct teaching experience through job shadowing in the given country. The participant teacher teaches general and business English at our school, who speaks some Swedish, too, which means that besides visiting and getting involved in the English lessons, he would also be able to get more insights regarding the teaching and organizational processes within the Swedish partner school. The short term and medium term benefits of this project will be the expansion of international connections, which we can later take advantage of in school partnerships, as well as methodological development, which will include the extension of project-based teaching in our school and the involvement of IT tools in a wider range of teaching practices. Since our school is a reference institution, we can share our experiences and best practices gained in our partner school with the teachers from other Hungarian schools as we always do that in connection with our own best practices. The long term benefits of the project will be that with the help of the adopted new methods and best practices our school will be better at motivating our students and as a result we can decrease the number of premature school leavers and increase equal opportunities for our students.