Our institution has been a member of a network of 16 hospitality and accommodation schools in Europe called CHASE (Consortium of Hospitality & Accomodation Schools of Europe). For 11 years, we have been implementing mobility projects with the EU schools within this network, acting both as a sending and receiving partner. We aim to continue exchanging beneficiaries with 15 partners from the network within the Erasmus+ placement project. This time we will focus on “ECHOS in Europe – Evaluating Catering and Hospitality Skills for Young Workers through ECVET-Phase 2”. By doing so, we believe that our project will be more efficient and functional. The beneficiary group are our final year students who have completed a five month industry placement during their second and third years of study successively. The aim of our project is to improve our students’ vocational knowledge and skills and enhance their foreign language skills, to follow the innovations at the right time and place, to learn about the EU standards and promote the principles of life long learning, to disseminate the certification system, to share culture and form the awareness of European citizenship. The project will also give them an insight on eating habits of different cultures, European hotel and tourism schools and working conditions in Europe, and give them the opportunity to make comparisons to theirs and set career targets. Discovering the similarities and differencies of the different cultures and being able to accept and tolerate the other cultures, harmonizing the different cultures and managing to work and live in these cultures is aimed. The mobility will take place at partner schools and work placements arranged by the partner institutions in 9 different cities of 9 different countries. The destinations for Istanbul participants are BE, IT, HU, SE, FR, FI, NO, DE and LV. Placement period covers a 4 week cultural preparation period at the host school followed by a four month work placement experience at a hotel or restaurant in Europe. The dates of the placements are from 23 February to 10 July 2016. We will send 20 participants and host 6 of them. The incoming students are from BE, FR, HU and SE. The emphasis in one-month cultural preparation period will mostly be on 'health' and 'nutrition' issues to create/increase awareness on those issues in tourism and hospitality sector. Participants are aimed to understand the importance of healthy eating, healthy living and producing healthy food. Students will watch their daily diet and keep a diet diary of their own eating. They will improve their skills on how to prepare tasty, nourishing and healthy food and how to take the customers' special dietary requirements into account, etc. The participants are wanted to make observations and prepare a report ( they will be given a health and nutrition questionnaire) about their subjects during their placement period and make presentations of these reports when they return. The data that are gained from this Project will be used as a guidance to the participants of the next Project. ECVET, as a European credit system for assessing vocational skills acquired abroad will be studied within our project together with the partners in the network, at an experimental stage. Our partner in Finland has already experimented ECVET for a long time in vocational education, so we will use the Assessment Forms used in Finland for on-the-job-learning, at least to start with. The experience gained from the previous year's project on the same theme will enable us produce better assessment forms and make better evaluations of the vocational skills.