PROJECT’S PARTICIPANTS – vocational training students of vehicles’ business employee and small business services provider professions. PARTICIPATED ORGANISATIONS: 1. Aukštadvaris Agricultural School (project‘s coordinator), AŽŪM 2. Šilutė Agricultural School, ŠŽŪM 3. Elektrėnai Vocational Training Centre, EPMC 4. Visaginas Vocational training Centre of Business and Technology, VTVPMC 5. Idea - M (United Kingdom) 6. IZI Ltd. (Malta) 7. Wisamar Educational Institute (Germany) 8. AMFI Agenzia per la Mobilità e la Formazione Internazionale (Italy) IMPLEMENTED PROJECT’S MAIN GOAL: small business services provider and vehicles’ maintenance business employee professions students were provided with practical vocational knowledge and skills, they have improved their competitiveness and entrepreneurship. OTHER IMPLEMENTED OBJECTIVES 1. participants have acquired the following specific professional competences: • vehicles’ maintenance business employee professions students: -abilities to maintain chassis and transmissions of German-made cars (in Germany) -abilities to maintain chassis and steering systems of right-side steering model cars’ (in United Kingdom); • small business services provider professions students: -abilities to coordinate different activities in company and know business organization peculiarities (in Italy) -abilities to organize development of small business for tourists and recreation, communicate with clients (in malta) 2. participants have acquired better occupation and employment opportunities, improved perspectives of future career; 3. raised the level of participants’ self-confidence, self-esteem and sociability, educated participants’ awareness and understanding of other cultures, tolerance; 4. improved participants’ foreign language and communicative skills; 5. participants have acquired entrepreneurship skills, increased initiative skills and innovation. IMPACT Participants have acquired specific professional competences, improved and deepened practical vocational skills. International practice in companies has enhanced participants’ European dimension and tolerance, participants have acquired entrepreneurship, innovative and initiative skills. Long-lasting impact for participants: successfully passed qualifying examination, improved employability opportunities. Participating organizations have raised the level of international collaboration between educational institutions, improved process of vocational training. Organizations’ staff have improved organizational and international management skills, got familiar with good practices and work methods of the partners. Projects long-lasting impact is assured by projects dissemination, recognition documents. IMPLEMENTED PROJECTS WORK ACTIVITIES • Preparation and signing of grant agreement; • Participants information activities and selection; • Preparation of participants; • Final adjustment of internships’ programs; • Organisation of internships; • Signing agreements with partners and participants; • Implementation of internships; • Participants reports and questionnaire filling; • Presentations of internships, certification; • Dissemination; • Preparation of final report. ACHIEVED PROJECT’S RESULTS • Completed professional training under the internship program; • Acquired internship’s evaluation certificates – Europasses, certificates of hosting organizations and project’s coordinator. Professional competences, acquired during the internship, are evaluated by ECVET. • Made reports of internships; • Raised level of the participants’ professional competences according to their professional requirements; • Improved participants’ vocational skills, giving better employability opportunities in labour market; • Raised level of participants’ self-confidence, innovative and initiative skills, entrepreneurship, sociability as well as tolerance and cultural awareness; • Improved language and communication skills of participants; DISSEMINATION Project’s dissemination was addressed to: • entrepreneurs, youth, local authorities and society of Trakai (Aukstadvaris city is situated in Trakai district), Silute, Elektrenai, Visaginas and surrounding districts; • present and future students of AŽŪM, EPMC, ŠŽŪM and VTVPMC, their parents, teachers and school’s community; • potential trainees of hosting organizations. Used methods of project’s dissemination: articles in web-pages and regional newspapers, stands and booklets about project, presentations of the internships and consideration of project’s results. PROJECT’S DURATION 2015 06 01 – 2016 06 01, total 12 months. During this period were four internships: to Germany. United Kingdom, Italy and Malta. Total number of participants – 32 (plus 4 accompanying people).