The Berufsbildende Schulen Peine (Peine Vocational School, BBS Peine) cover the vocational fields of business studies and administration, technology and mechanics, construction and wood working, social nursing and home economics. Moreover, the school offers high schools in the fields of technology, business studies as well as health and social studies. The school is organized in five divisions, and each division is specialized in one of the vocational fields. The schools' long-term objective is to involve students of each division in international projects on a regular and continual basis. The planned project Workforce Europe encompasses the sub-projects Maintaining Europe, Managing Europe II and Bringing up Europe. Target group of the sub-project Maintaining Europe are trainees in automobile mechatronics; target group of the sub-project Managing Europe II are trainees in administration, who also attend additional qualification classes in the field of international business relations; target group of the sub-project Bringing up Europe are trainees in the field of pre-school education. Each of the sub-projects will be conducted by a different school division. The intention of the planned project is to offer students in different vocational fields the opportunity of a stay abroad including an internship in suitable companies. In cooperation with our partner schools in Italy, Hungaria and Slovenia, each sub-project will be organized in two phases: During the first phase, BBS Peine will welcome a group of students from the partner schools abroad and arrange internships in Peine companies; during the second phase, BBS Peine will send students abroad, and in return the partner schools will arrange internships in companies for the German students. The aim of the project is our students’ advanced qualification for both the regional and the European job market by acquiring new professional and intercultural as well as language skills. Professional skills will be acquired during an internship at companies abroad. The students will gain practical experience on the job and they will take part in theoretical profession-oriented lessons at vocational school (Maintaining Europe, Bringing up Europe). These acquirements will be certified in the Europass, which will complete our students’ CV and enhance their employability on the job market. The trainees in administration, who also attend additional qualification classes in the field of international business relations, will thus successfully complete the required three-week interneship abroad. Language competences will be improved by actively using the so far acquired skills in an authentic foreign environment outside school and language lessons. The internships are intended to support the students in overcoming their timidity to use their English language skills and to improve their communication skills in the foreign language. Moreover, the stay abroad is intended to spark the interest in learning further European languages. Apart from gaining professional skills at companies, the students will experience the foreign culture both in every day live and on the job. They will get to know typical cultural values, perception and behaviour patterns as well as traditional habits. By taking part in authentic working life situations, their experiences will get beyond encounters of a tourist, who merely meets apparent characteristics like greeting and reception, dress and eating habits. In a multi-cultural and polyglot Europe, both advanced professional skills and intercultural competences are of increasing importance. This project is targeted at conveying these special skills and competences to our students.