"General objectives : The project was focused on Quality Assurance and validation of Learning Outcomes in the framework of EQF en ECVET. Teachers played an important role in this process of describing Learning Outcomes for students. We had good experiences with our partners in Italy (Istituto di Istruzione Stanga Cremona) for Lifesciences, in Germany (Eduard Maurer Oberstufenzentrum Henningsdorf) for Engineering and Denmark (Techcollege in Aalborg) for Media Design.We also increased the number of mobilities of students throughout Europe and beyond. Our goal was to create more awareness of globalisation and its impact on our daily life and awareness of the European values, to make them realize that a good cooperation between the member states was (and still is) crucial for the economic development in Europe. The impact was shown through international projects within the school (s.a. Day of European Citizenship, Day of World Citizenship, Day of the Refugees). More specific: 1. The teachers made arrangements with partner institutes abroad for the description of Learning outcomes, in relation to the Dutch qualification framework which is mandatory in the national educational system for VET in the Netherlands. They compared curricula and exchanged information. We had good experiences in Germany, Italy and Denmark, although only the description direcly related to the coretasks and workprocess was accepted as a learning outcome.2. Activities of teachers and staff training in structured courses and jobshadowing supporting their professional development and their language skills. Guest lectures by teachers at partner schools abroad for exchanging knowledge and good practices. 3. We had an expansion of the number of mobilities in Europe and beyond of several educational institutes within Friesland College by adapting the curriculum and redesigning the time period of the workplacements in order to enable students to do an internship abroad. 4. Level 2 students from Facility Services with a low social background have participated in a three-week placement on Malta. That was a life changing experience for them. It strenghtened their selfesteem and had a positive impact on the employability and transition to the labour market in the region.5. We kept the quality of workplacements at a high level by cooperating with solid and well-known training companies and through our network of educational partners abroad. The placement coordinators and teachers described the content, monitoring, recognition and evaluation in the Placement Agreement of Friesland College. Validation of the experiences abroad remained the responsibility of the exam committee within the educational institutes. 6. There has been a special focus on subjects as Quality assurance, social inclusion of our level 2 students, sustainable energy, social entrepreneurship, watertechnology and Healthy Ageing.7. We made a start with international mobilities within the theme of Leeuwarden Capital of Culture 2018 in combination with Malta Valletta 2018We offered challenging education to our students, improving their flexibility, independancy and self confidence.The mobility also had a high impact on the personal and professional development of our teachers and staff members, They worked in a different context, out of their comfort zone and they improved their knowledge of foreign cultures and languages. Some of them had a better understanding of the advantages of a European cooperation. Others were rather sceptic about the possibilities of exchanging curricula and information because of the differences in educational systems in the European countries, being a national responsibility. Exchange of knowledge and good practices and the comparison of curricula had a positive and enriching impact on Friesland College and its partners abroad. New methods were explored and shared. Our international partners were very impressed by our method of Practice oriented education within the field of work. Validation of Learning outcomes was an issue as the Dutch regulations set by the government and the inspection did not allow many detours in the description of the tasks and work processes within the Dutch Qualification Framework. The experience abroad offered more perspective on the labour market in the region. The methods and activities developed in Friesland College are described in the Policy Document for Internationalisation 2015 - 2018 ( see enclosure).The impact of international exposure can be found in the ""Trendrapportage 2016"" (see enclosure)."

A network - Zealand Learning Mobility - of Danish vacational schools in Region Zealand ( Roskilde Technical School , Roskilde Business College , EUC Northwest Zealand, Selandia - CEU , EUC Zealand , ZBC and CELF) , which cooperates to send learners and apprentices from vocational upper secondary education and staff on training aasignments abroad . The project's primary objective is to strengthen students' international skills , making them more independent and make them aware that there may be opportunities across borders. This will be achieved through collaboration between a number of Danish partners and a number of foreign partners. This gives students a wider range of opportunities and partners will help achieve students' desire .In relations to staff mobility it is the aim to modernise our organizations og increase the level of international coorperation.