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.

"""Who do we think we are?"" explored culture, stereotyped attitudes to migration and challenges intolerance of difference. ""Human beings cannot help but learn from the culture or cultures of the communities within which they grow up"" Renato Rosaldo (1993). Groups of up to 5 students and 2 teachers from a range of backgrounds and experiences from each participating school in UK, Germany, Spain, Poland, Lithuania and Croatia, took part in transnational learning and transnational meetings in order to promote cultural and linguistic diversity.Our project addressed five themes:1) Who are the young people in your school community? Students collected and present data about how they describe themselves and conduct interviews in the local community to define their culture. 2) Who do we think ""they"" are? The participants identified groups from within and outside Europe in order learn more about the wider local community, challenge stereotypes about partner countries ie their established cultures and those of new arrivals.3) Each partner school presented how young people express themselves in art, music, language, faith, dress, interests and big issues and investigate ""What is the youth culture in your country?""4) Parents and the wider community were invited to contribute via interview and survey to ""Is youth culture in conflict with the wider society"" as students explored how their youth culture may conflict with adult culture in the partner country.5) Is there a shared culture? Students learned together about Europe, the EU and considered whether Europe has an identity crisis or is socially cohesive.With an over -arching theme of social inclusion, the project promoted positive attitudes to diversity. It provided groups of less advantaged young people with the chance to live and work alongside their peers in European schools and live with their families for short periods of time. It challenged their attitudes to family life, education, mobility and provided opportunities for engagement in the cultures of the local community of the host school. The participants learned more about their own community and culture as well as experiencing life within another culture during their transnational visit. By showcasing a broad range of European culture we enhanced skills and attitudes to equip young people to be work ready and live in a global community. We encouraged our students to appreciate the multiple cultures of Europe and overcome the obstacles and misunderstandings often resulting from lack of access to information and opportunity.Our project aimed to: overcome linguistic and national barriers and celebrate cultural diversity raise awareness and foster curiosity about others,encourage creative and innovative skills in young people and value learning. During the three year project, students accompanied by a teacher from each partner school took part in six transnational learning activities in UK, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Spain and Croatia. The teachers attended and contributed to four transnational planning and training meetings and had the opportunity to visit European schools, sharing ideas and teaching methodologies with their project peers and colleagues. Results will be available on the project website and on the Erasmus+ dissemination platform and resources including online survey templates, monitoring questionnaires, town guides, Euro Youth Culture passports, country presentations, a Euro Youth Culture Glossary and films and a photo gallery. These can be be available for use in other European institutions."

2017-1-FI01-KA109-034916 is first project for Raseko under VET charter. 52 students at Raisio Regional Education and Training Consortium (Raseko) perform their 2 - 12 weeks work-based-learning period abroad. Host organisations are from Spain, Great Britain, Norway, Germany, Malta, Sweden, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands and Portugal. There are 24 teacher mobilities also included from which 14 is responsible teacher for student's training periods, 4 special needs teacher/ accompanying persons and 4 teachers for advanced planning visit. Additionally, we are applying 4 mobilities in teacher/training assignment for foreign lecturers from partner companies. Participants study vocational basic, further and special qualifications. They practice their professional skills and some basic vocational qualification student will perform a vocational skills demonstration abroad. 2017-1-FI01-KA109-034916 continues Raseko's OPSM projects where students has performed several work-based-learning period abroad and tested skill demonstrations. Raseko will continue testing skill demonstration abroad in this new project. Raseko will test new local offered learning unit for international Work-Based-Learning which is created based on new VET legislation in Finland and also for new Raseko's international strategy where is a aim that all student will achieve one study module when being abroad. The learning outcomes will be evaluated based on ECVET principals (knowledge, skill, competence and lifelong learning) by the work instructor, student him/herself and responsible teacher (local and teacher from Raseko). Gained non-formal learning will also be recognize into student's studies. In Autumn 2018 we will offer student's own individual study path (international study path) and local offered study module. During this project Raseko will have ITSLearning e-learning platform for the student's travel, language and cultural training and vocational training before the period, mentoring during the period and a report training after the period. Through this project Raseko will gain, as an outcome, skills demonstration tasks and procedures which will be used when developing internship periods abroad and overall quality of the international activities. Raseko gets information on work practices and work cultures in other countries. Through this project Raseko is able to develop ECVET system with the help of host organisations and will be able to further develop mobility periods for special needs students. Through this project it is new feature for Erasmus+ (Erasmus+ Pro) will be tested in FabLab environments. Deepening FabLab cooperation and testing local offered study module are new priority areas in Raseko's new international strategy (will be made during spring 2018). In this project Raseko will apply grants for foreign company specialist who will work as lecturers in Rasekos' new development/Innovation centers (Raseko Foodlaboratory and Raseko FabLab). Articles in local newspapers, national seminars and national (SOTENET) or international (EREIVET, EfVET) networks of VET field are the means to disseminate outcomes. Internet site http://www.raseko.fi has information on project, travel stories, seminar material and experiences in skills demonstrations.

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 five 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 new partner GECKO Programmes Ltd. in Wolverhampton (England) and we are very much looking forward to this new project. We hope that all four projects will encourage even more of our students to welcome new inter-cultural experiences in Germany and abroad.

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 four apprentices in banking to Spain to train business conversation and conflict management in a foreign language and environment.During the three years we have learnt 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 intercultural abilities and the language skills have improved a lot. After the very positive feedback of students and banks we decided to set up a second 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 (PARAGON Europe) who will set up a one week language training and a two week internship for our students. In 2014 a local shipyard (Meyer Werft) established a cooperation with a finish shipyard (Meyer Turku). Now we have two enterprises (UPM Nordland Papier + UPM-Kymmene Oyj) with daughter companies or mother companies in Finland. To facilitate the work between these companies we want to offer apprentices in IT from these companies a traineeship in Finland. We hope that all three projects will encourage even more of our students to welcome new intercultural experiences in Germany and abroad.