Work Experience AbroadThis project was conceived in the beginning of 2016 with the main goal of continuting to provide students and recent graduates of our school the unique opportunity of work experience abroad. It is going to offer them knowledge and skills which it would be very difficult to obtain in the Czech Republic. The next goal is to activate their existing passive knowledge of English language and help them acquire specialized business terminology in English during real work experience. The overall goal is increasing participants' qualification and motivation for further studies and work. We also wish to help the participants to see the importance of living in Europe together with other nations, of European citizenship and of the importance of own uniqueness as well as the importance of respect for other cultures.There are going to be 18 students of the 3rd forms of our school participating in the project and the opportunity for joining is also going to be offered to our recent graduates. The project is divided into two cycles with work experience in spring/summer 2017 and spring/summer 2018. During the work experience the participants are going to be employed in London companies where they are going to participate at work and do their tasks and thus improve their knowledge and skills. These tasks are going to be recorded in Learning agreements, which are going to contain the goals of the work experience and which are going to be agreed on by all participating parties.A part of the project is a wide scale preparation of the participants before the work experience itself which is going to take place both in the Czech Republic and in London. The preparation is going to include vocational-language and culture courses and it is going to try to help the participants of the work experience in the beginning and during their stay abroad. The project is going to be implemented by our school, i.e. Masarykova obchodni akademie, Jicin, and by ADC college in London. It is going to be divided into two cycles with each consisting of several logic steps which are going to be performed by one or both of the participating organizations. The cooperation of these is going to be outlined in Memorandum of understanding where the roles and responsibilities of both partners are going to be specified.Expected results of the project are mainly increased vocational and language knowledge and skills of the participants as well as their increased self-confidence and motivation for further studies and work. We also hope that this experience will help them in the future when looking for a job. Another result is going to be a substantial enrichment of the educational program offered by our school by including this work experience abroad. We believe this project is going to motivate also those students who are not going to take place in it thanks to discussions with participants which are going to be held after their return from London. This, we hope, will be also visible in our region thanks to articles in local newspapers, on our website and during meetings with future applicants for studying at our school. And one of the goals of this project is also to improve the quality of provided work experience, both in the vocational and language fields and in the field of culture.