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.

Since 2011 the Vocational School Papenburg (Berufsbildende Schulen Papenburg) has a very successful exchange of traineeships with the IES Puerta Oscura in Málaga. Each year we send apprentices in banking to Spain to train business conversation and conflict management in a foreign language and environment. During the last years we have learned that internships in stores, hotels and restaurants are best for these purposes as they offer the best opportunities to train these skills. The students have plenty of contacts with Spanish and foreign customers. After the three weeks training the inter-cultural abilities and the language skills have improved a lot. In 2014 we established a cooperation with the Finnish school RASEKO in Raisio. These two regions have increasing cooperations in shipbuilding and production of paper. To facilitate the work between these companies we want to offer apprentices in IT from these companies a traineeship in Finland. After the very positive feedback of participants of former exchanges. We decided to set up a project for dental nurses. This profession has changed a lot as they have more and more foreign clients. We have found a partner in Malta who will set up a one week language training and a two week internship for our students. In addition we want to offer apprentices in industrial management assistant to enhance their abilities handling business letter, telephone communication and e-mail correspondence in English. In addition these participants want to enhance their experience handling international trade and international transactions. We have found a partner GECKO Programmes Ltd. in Wolverhampton (England) and we are very much looking forward to develop this project further. We hope that all our projects will encourage even more of our students to welcome new inter-cultural experiences in Germany and abroad.

"""The sandals of Mercury II"" was the renewal of the project ""The sandals of Mercury I"". Started in 2015. It was renewed in 2017 and has been renewed since 2019. The Atheneaum of Verdi ( Verviers), the Atheneaum La Rive Gauche of Laeken, the Cefa of the Visé Atheneaum (Glons), the Atheneaum of Soumagne and the St. Joseph (Jambes) institute were willing to renew the project within the 2017 Call for applications. Four new schools came to join this project: the St-Marie Institute of Châtelineau, the Notre-Dame Institute of Philippeville, the IEPSCF Mariette Delahaut of Jambes (special education) and the Thérèse d’Avila Institute of Chênée.Together, the partners ensured the precise development of the internship objectives and their evaluation through the preliminary meetings between sending partners. Past preparatory visits have aimed to finalize the completion of the student internship. Youth preparation was provided by the sending partners. The realization of the internship, meanwhile, benefited from the presence of accompaniers from the sending partners who were the link between the youth and the host partner. They took care of the supervision of the students, the organization of cultural visits and the evaluation of the course.All these actions were overseen by the CCGPE-DGEO who followed the project from the drafting of the application file to the final report.Centered on the training of ""sales assistants/technicians”, from the economic sector, these 9 schools grouped in consortium with the CCGPE-DGEO involved in this project 105 students enrolled in the 3rd degree of Technical qualification education, 6th professional, (CEFA: Art.49) and specialized teaching type 1 form 3 (3rd phase). Supervised by their foreign tutors, they completed a 3 or 4 weeks internship in retail stores, shops or supermarkets, all areas combined.The host countries were: Malta, for Commercial Technicians, Spain and Italy for other students as well as France for the Specialized.The field of sales is a sector that goes beyond the borders of a country. The skills and aptitudes acquired by a student during his training in the French Community may be exercised abroad. These have been evaluated abroad, recognized and validated in Belgium, based on a common evaluation grid drafted in the Consortium. This project has enabled young people from a majority of modest backgrounds to live an enriching experience far from their families and their bearings, to adapt, even to excel themselves in face of new situations. They came out grown up with self-confidence and self-esteem restored or strengthened. They have strengthened their learning outcomes and acquired new skills for the majority, in language immersion. They realized that their diploma did not confine them to the Belgian labor market but allowed them, with a little adaptation, an opening on the foreigner.Young people overcame the language barrier, their fear of the unknown, from abroad by working in specialized shops, small shops or supermarkets. They discovered different sales techniques and their knowledge of the trade today exceeds that of their region that few had left since the beginning of their training. Some young people stayed in touch with their place of training and some were offered a holiday job: what better way to recognize their abilities and their work! This project also opened their eyes to the European values ​​of mobility, exchange, cultural enrichment ...The impacts for teachers, schools and host partners have been significant:- exchanges of good practices and discovery of the commercial practices of the host countries;- image of dynamism of the qualifying teaching and cohesion of the educational teams;- improvement of the image of the section Vendor.se: increase of the registrations because there is a possibility to leave in Erasmus + internship,- snowball effect e: new projects are emerging;- making contact with new partners abroad for Erasmus projects and EEPs;- the students provided real help in the work in the store from which the satisfaction of the managers of companies.The long-term benefits will be the recognition of technical, vocational, sandwich and specialized education as well as the in-service training of teachers and the expansion of the partnership.The results of this consortium will be integrated into all actions carried out under the umbrella of the Mobility Unit and disseminated by the CCGPE DGEO to the national authorities.It should be noted that 96.19% of students were satisfied with their participation in the project!"

"The project of the 2018 call consortium, ""Internationalisation of Vocational Training in Madrid"" (IFPMadrid) was created to meet a demand from a large number of schools with Basic Vocational Training, Intermediate Level and professional studies in the region. It has been successfully carried out in two calls and in the third one, due to the closure of the borders due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the planned mobilities had to be cancelled. The consortium, led by the Directorate General for Secondary Education, Vocational Training and Artistic and Professional Education in Music, Dance and Languages (DGESFPRE), had the participation of 62 vocational training centres, 40% of those existing in the Community of Madrid, whose aim has been to reinforce European mobility in the region with the key action 1 of mobilities aimed at students and teachers of this level of studies. The participating schools represented all the Territorial Areas that make up the Community of Madrid. The profile of the participants has been diverse, practically from all the professional families and with the objective of this consortium to promote activities with all of them. With all the mobility activities carried out in the project the students were able to carry out, in a European company, their Workplace Training (FCT) module, which is a compulsory part of their formal training. In this way, the international dimension is added to the practical training in the company as a fundamental part to fit the transition between the world of education and the labour market. Teachers were able to carry out training activities in Europe, both in the form of observation practices and internships and/or teaching activities, which enabled them not only to improve their knowledge of the subjects but also to improve their language skills to be able to teach bilingual modules, which is a growing modality in the region at the moment. In terms of methodology and management, partners were chosen according to the profile of students and teachers, communication mechanisms were foreseen and precautions were taken regarding the safety of participants, their supervision and follow-up, timely evaluation, as well as ways to measure the impact and to ensure adequate dissemination. The results of this mobility on students have been in the short term, the improvement of their professional competences and specific skills linked to the specific occupations, their linguistic competences necessary to access quality employment, an increased sensitivity towards European values, towards other cultures and countries and the interest to participate in European programmes.In the medium and long term, they are expected to acquire transferable skills, increasingly demanded by employers, such as problem solving, learning to learn, teamwork, entrepreneurship and critical thinking skills that will drive creativity and innovation in the future. The acquisition of all of these will undoubtedly benefit their future, creating greater employability and employability in the European labour market, and will encourage interest in continuing their learning process throughout their lives.The results in the centres participating in the consortium have been, on the one hand, the increase of European awareness and the benefits of participating in Erasmus+ in the VET centres of the Region of Madrid, which means a progressive increase in the number of centres participating in mobility projects for vocational training. Through this consortium, the way has been opened for those schools that had not participated before, to share the experience and good practices with the other members of the consortium in this collaborative environment, acting as a motivating element and increasing the knowledge and interest in this type of projects. The institutional participation and that of the 62 centres of the consortium transcends the temporary scope of the project and thanks to the dissemination activities carried out and the good practices, it will act as a multiplier element for the remaining centres of the Region of Madrid.Finally, this impact in the region is reflected at national level, with the participation in these actions as regional educational administration contributes to promote mobility projects in education, will increase the number of beneficiaries and their chances of employability, will end up having its reflection at international level, in the education systems of the participating countries, creating bridges between the educational world and the labour market. Evidence shows that young people who study or train abroad find employment more quickly than those without international experience and are quicker to adapt to new situations and better problem solvers."

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.