The overall objective of the project is to be seen as part of the school's strategy NEXT 2020, which strives for better education for more in a valuable cooperation with the outside world. NEXT will help to improve teachers and counselor qualifications, so that they have stronger abilities to work with internationalization within their respective fields. Working and studying in other countries must be made easy for both the school’s students and teachers. This project is geared towards the students and teachers at NEXT who wish to go abroad to further improve upon their competencies, especially in connection with language and culture. This opportunity provides a chance for many students to develop their personal competencies as well and, perhaps, to get the motivation to go abroad for even longer periods later in their educations. NEXT as an institution will create a clear international profile that will make a difference. Therefore, NEXT feels obligated to ensure that its teaching staff is kept up to date on international demands within individual professional disciplines and methodologies. To do so and to ensure quality teaching, there is a continuous need for employee training at the school. Also, the school’s high prioritization of internationalizing students helps to strengthen their professional profiles, as well as their personal and intercultural competencies. For the second time, we include ECVET in our mobility project. This involves the prepared ”Memorandum of Understanding”, which is signed by our partners and us and is attached to this application. We have also attached our ”Learning Agreement” form, which we will use to formalize the commitment of our partner, the student and us in connection with the forthcoming mobility initiatives. Learning Outcome will be agreed upon in advance in each circumstance and attached to the “Learning Agreement” document. Which competencies students will obtain in the course of each mobility initiative will be drawn up in a “Transcript of Records” and attached to the student’s EuroPass Mobility certificate. This application covers: 98 VET student work programs 40 EUX student school- and work programs 28 HHX- and HTX student language and work programs 4 accompanying teachers 8 teacher work or training programs We expect programs to run during the entire project period, as we also expect to incorporate programs in different European countries. The needs and wishes of individual students and teachers are considered in determining destinations. Most often, students and teachers have a good idea of where they can be challenged appropriately and obtain relevant professional inspiration. This project is expected to strengthen the school’s international work. The participation of more people in training abroad will set greater focus on internationalization in general. NEXT expects that a number of teachers and counselors will become more motivated to work actively on this front, using this opportunity to include international projects in their teaching. The level of professional language abilities will also increase. Students will be expected to have a more international profile and use their newly obtained knowledge in their educations.

It is the declared goal for Mercantec to give as many students as possible an international experience in the course of their edcation. Mercantec is working continuesly to improve the mobilities in order to give the students the best possible experiences and a strenghting of their education. Mercantec has kept the partners from the application submitted in 2017 but also bringing in new partners to broaden the selection of educations and to include as many departments as possible. Among these new partner there is a spanish partner M.E.P. Europrojects Granada for our IT students and IES Cotes Baixes for our EUX students and this partner will also send students to Mercantec. Mercantec sends students from every department of the school. Higher Business Gymnasium sends a class to Malaga for work placements and language courses. From the hotel and restaunt school, mercantec sends students to Malloca, Hungary, Hennef, rakvere and Cypres. The students come from GF2 and the practice center. House of Technology sends students from the practice center for IT supporter and Data technician to Granada and Neumünster. HOT has a cooperation with Grundfos, LEGO and B&O where students from these companies are sent to ABB and Neumünster. Auto Technical Center sends students from the practice center to Neumünster, Troisdorf, mallorca, Westport and Rakvere. Metalcraft sends students form the practice center to Neumünster, Mallorca and Ireland. Higher Technical Gymnasium will have visitors from Galway Ireland and also visit the irish school, with the intent build a mobility relationship for Game design. The construction school sends carpeters, painters and concrete workers to Hennef, Mallorca, Iceland and Pärnuu. These students come from the practice center, GF2 and main courses. The Business School sends students from the practice center and EUX to London, Mallorca, Ireland and we are working on a futur cooperation with two school from Ireland (Galway and Kerry), as well as sending students from the practice center to Portugal. Erasmus+ mobilities is the corner stone for Mercnatec's international work. The program enable us to give the most number of students an international scope on their education. Our experience is that our students come home with many positive experiences from their mobilities and they are willing to participate in new mobilities. Our experience is that more and more students are asking about the danish PIU (Pratice abroad) programme. We expect that there will be an introduction fase and we are palnning to visit the new partners before sending students. Mercantec has a goal to develop Erasmus+ mobilities which are longer than 3 weeks, and a new partner in Portugal has this oppotunity. This partner has a cooperation with two companies, which would be able to host business students for 7 weeks. We know that we might have a challenge with finding the students but nevertheless we know that the students would like these longer lasting placements. We plan to visit our German partners in June 2018. This visit is to improve our relationship and explore possible future areas of cooperation. The participants on this trip is the heads of educations from the individual departments as well as the head of the international department and the international coordinator. Another goal for the trip is to explore the possiblity of finding PIU placemnts for Danish students in Germany. The focus is on VET and EUX students. A visit to the Xarxa partner Munich is also palnned for 2018. Mercnatec is a member of the Xarxa FP which is a cooperation between cities in Europa and their VET schools. We are working on a cooperation with Alcoi in Spain for both KA1 an KA2. The cooperation with Alcoi has resulted in two PIU placements, in which Danish students are doing work experience in Spanish companies. Mercantec is already welcoming students from Xarxa partners and therefore there is a big future potential in developing Mercantec's Erasmus+ mobilities. We are sending a teacher along on mobilities due to the fact that most of our students are coming from the practice centers and these students are not the most ressourcefull students. A lot of them has never travelled for longer periods before. It therefore nessesary to send a teacher along to secure the success for the student in order to make future international experiences possible. This is in line woith our international strategy to send 30 students per year on PIU work placements. Mercantec applies for 6 mobilities in ErasmusPRO. We plan to offer these mobilities to students who finish their education and thereby give them the oppotunity to add an international dimension to their education. Mercantec is furthermore working with Grundfos to offer their apprentices the same possiblities.

On the basis of Koege Business College's international strategy 2017/19, appendix 3, we send students and staff abroad on Erasmus+ mobilities. Today we have a lot of experience in Erasmus+ KA1 and since we were awarded the Charter in 2015, we have developed a clear international strategy which is updated every year in close cooperation with the management of the school. Today the focus on internationalisation from the management is more significant and we continously work on improving and developing international initiatives. Today we have a procedure regarding Erasmus+ Vet and staff mobilities with a well-run cooperation and a good knowledge about our foreign partners, who fulfill the conditions we both have signed in MoU. This cooperation we want to continue with our partners in Germany, Spain, UK and France the next two years with our Upper Secondary Education(HHx). We hold on to our development plan concerning information about Erasmus+ to students, selection on the basis of teachers' assessments and students' maturity, prepartation and signing of Erasmus+ documents, parents' evening, stay abroad, assessment of stay and writing recognized ULOs in the students' Europass Mobility Certificate. We continue sending Erasmus+ participants in three week stays where workplacement and language tuition are included as these are assessed very well by the students. We send students abroad three weeks before and after the autumn vacation and in March as these time slots fit into the two departments' annual cycle. The vet students we send to Malta in autumn and as they have social and professional challenges and are not experienced travellers, they travel with one accompanying person the first week so the students feel safe when they travel, are accomodated in apartments and start their work placements which challenge the students and therefore the accompanying teacher is involved in this process. On the basis of our experience, we now select EUX students(combined vocational and general upper secondary education)individually and no longer send an entire class. We have experienced from assessments from students and accompanying teachers that this concept works well. In autumn 2017 we sent 8 EUD students to a new partner in Malta which worked out satisfactory. For some of our EUD and EUX students a Erasmus+ stay is a motivational factor to complete their studies. The students are rather young when we send them to Malta and therefore we apply for two accompanying teachers, one week, for the 25 EUX students and 1 accompanying teacher, one week, for 8 EUD students. The accompanying teachers help the students with everything from departure from DK, accomodation, transportation, visiting workplacements and help when problems arise. Furthermore, the accompanying teachers work out a cultural program in Malta and give relevant information about trade between Malta and Denmark and country information. In the English lessons in Denmark the students receive lessons about how to write a good CV and information sheet and how to present yourself when Skyping with our Maltese partner. Hereby subjects such as Marketing, Economy and English are part of the students' Erasmus+ stay. In our international strategy our focus is also to participate in the Erasmus+ KA2 strategic partnership programme. We now participate in the project Qual4T2 with four other partners and in Sowing the Seeds with the trade union 3F as lead partner. Another topic in our international strategy is to formalise and make Erasmus+ staff visits more systematic. In Qual4T2 we have started a cooperation where each partner makes an interesting five day programme for staff participants and you can as staff sign up for the programme from the four partner schools. In this concept we try to improve the quality of the staff visits. This concept enhances our cooperation and network with our partner schools and is a good opportunity for staff exhange. However, if staff want to improve their competences in another country and school, this will still be a possibility in close cooperation with the management of the department. We were very inspired from TECHCOLLEGE's presentation by Gitte Rye Larsen in Fredericia at our annual seminar on internationalisation. We are right now in the planning process and would like to send a HHx class to GB in 2019 and approach the same partner as TECHCOLLEGE uses and therefore we apply for 25 mobilites more for this destination. The 3 week Erasmus+ stay links part of the students' curriculum with elements from specific subjects and focus is on marketing and presentation techniques. We think that TECHCOLLEGE's idea of combining the students Erasmus+ stay with two teachers' staff visit in GB is good, however, the first year we would like to use two accompanying teachers to start this new concept. This project does not appear in our International Strategy as we first heard about it in autumn 2017.

The project was originally applied for by SOPU. During the project period, SOPU has been merged with another Social and Health School and we are now a different organization - The schools have had each their KA1 project underway in the same project period and these projects are now completed under our new name SOSU H .In the initial phase, the merge caused some changes in the organization of the international work. There has been a replacement of project employees as well as management in the area.The 2 Erasmus + project coordinators from each school Annie Philipsen and Bettina Kronqvist, are now collaborating on the implementation of the projects.The purpose of this project has been to offer mobility stays in the form of international internships partly to make the SOSU educations more attractive and partly to increase the retention and recruitment of talented students.At an individual level, we wanted internships to make our students reflect on their own education and job function at the end of their education in Denmark and compare their education and job function with that of the host country. Internships abroad should also contribute to mutual learning, understanding and development for the benefit of both the individual student, the schools and the workplaces in both the host country and the home country.Through international internships, the goal for the students eas to strengthen their cultural competencies and to a greater extent be able to reflect on their own practice. It should strengthen their professionalism and prepare them to cope in an increasingly global labor market. We have had 21 main course students in mobility stays for approx. 5 weeks each. The stays have been held within the work area of ​​the education in question and at the professional level corresponding to the education in question. We have had 24 basic course students for 2 weeks mobility stay. The stays have been located halfway through the basic course 2. During the stay the students have worked both practically and theoretically with goals from the education, and have participated in observation practice at a workplace in the host country.Also we have had 3 accompanying teachers on the Basic 2 mobility stays. This to ensure the learning and support of the groups durign the mobilities.Further, we have had a flow of Basic Course students in Spain which is not registrered in this projekt. Unfortunately our grant could not finance these mobilities. Therefore we transferred some of these mobilities to CELF and registered some of the students in our parallel KA1 project applied for by the previous SOSU C.

The central project goal needs to be considered as a part of the school’s internationalization strategy. Working and studying in other countries must be made easy for the school’s students. This project is geared towards the students at CPH WEST who wish to go abroad to further improve upon their competencies, especially in connection with language and culture. This opportunity provides a chance for many students to develop their personal competencies as well and, perhaps, to get the motivation to go abroad for even longer periods later in their educations. CPH WEST as an institution will create a clear international profile that will make a difference. Also, the school’s high prioritization of internationalizing students helps to strengthen their professional profiles, as well as their personal and intercultural competencies. For the second time, we include ECVET in our mobility project.This involves the prepared ”Memorandum of Understanding”, which is signed by our partners and us and is attached to this application.We have also attached our ”Learning Agreement” form, which we will use to formalize the commitment of our partner, the student and us in connection with the forthcoming mobility initiatives.Learning Outcome will be agreed upon in advance in each circumstance and attached to the “Learning Agreement” document.Which competencies students will obtain in the course of each mobility initiative will be drawn up in a “Transcript of Records” and attached to the student’s EuroPass Mobility certificate.This application covers: 54 VET student work programs 14 HG student work programs 100 HG-EUX student language and work programs 24 HHX and HTX student language and work programs 15 accompanying teachersWe expect programs to run during the entire project period, as we also expect to incorporate programs in different European countries. The needs and wishes of individual students are considered in determining destinations. Most often, students have a good idea of where they can be challenged appropriately and obtain relevant professional inspiration. This project is expected to strengthen the school’s international work. The participation of more people in training abroad will set greater focus on internationalization in general. The level of professional language abilities will also increase. Students will be expected to have a more international profile and use their newly obtained knowledge in their educations.