Our school shows a great diversity in students (privileged as well as underprivileged) and therefore offers a wide range of different scholastic courses. We are confronted with great challenges such as the reformation of the secondary education system which poses high expectations regarding digital and other competences on the one hand and linguistic skills of students and teachers on the other. Additionally, we struggle with a lack of motivation of our students and consequently of our teachers as well. The executive board of our school wants to support the staff and offers them the possibility of professionalizing their competences, in helping them in their search for knowledge and methodologies from which students (low-achievement as well as high-achievement pupils) and the teachers themselves will benefit. Specific objectives on student-level imply an increase in students’ motivation, a lower dropout rate, stronger digital competences and extensive linguistic skills. These aspects are key to succeed in our students’ future educational as well as professional career. In order to achieve the proposed objectives with our students, we believe our teachers are able to ascertain the necessary tools in an ongoing and continuing training beyond national boundaries. By attending an international training course, participants (i.e. our teaching staff) picked up on examples of good practices abroad, which have proven to be efficient and sound, being evidence based. Exchanging experiences with international partners increases learning efficiency and offers the prospects of expanding an international network of partner schools for future cooperation. During the next passed two years, our school gave the opportunity to at eleven staff members to attend a training course abroad. At a later stage, we want to encourage them fulfilling foreign internships, job shadowing, … That way, they set the example for our students who hopefully will be inspired to take part in international mobility and internships which our school offers. For students and teachers alike, this heartened their European consciousness and urge them to proactively participate in European projects, organized by our school. In order to accomplish all of this, it is without doubt essential for the managing staff to be proactive in these international exchanges. The head teachers therefore committed themselves to take part in foreign trainee programmes. The executive board of our schools acts together with the responsible coordinator for professionalism and the Erasmus+coordinator. They strictly monitored whether the course participants are well prepared and supported regarding practical issues, whether the courses and experiences are efficiently assessed and whether the acquired knowhow is well implemented in daily teaching and shared with other colleagues. They evaluated if all of this will lead to an increase in motivation and a higher learning efficiency for our students. Additionally, external stakeholders can benefit from these developments (e.g. dissemination within the school community).