EFTA - Escola de Formação Profissional em Turismo de Aveiro, Lda. is a private secondary school founded in 2006, specialized in the area of tourism and leisure. Since 2013 she has been involved in several European projects and has successfully implemented 5 LdV / Erasmus + projects with a total of 100 mobilities. This new project pursues the objectives of the educational project and strategic plan: EFTA internationalization strategy, students' training and employability, tourism and leisure dynamism, and human and organizational learning. Likewise, it will continue to be implemented using good practices recognized by the National Agency during the year 2016. Participants attend Professional Courses (Level 4), are between 16 and 21 years old and reside mostly in Aveiro. They come from families with low / medium socioeconomic backgrounds, with unemployment or precarious work in the household, which increases the risk of dropping out of school. The general objectives are: - Encourage students to get involved in their own training - Ensure quality training that meets the needs of students and society - Creating cooperative networks of thought / action on training and employability - To know and participate in a global Europe, beyond the neighbor countries In relation to the specific objectives we highlight: Students and recent graduates: - Provide them with an international internship - Support the development of transversal competences that favor the labor insertion - Support the training specialization of graduates - Enhancing young people's contact with the world of international work - Make mobility a motivating element in relation to school and studies - Raise awareness to a wide range of career opportunities - Contributing to European citizenship Teachers and non-teachers - Ensure a more up-to-date faculty capable of introducing new pedagogical practices - Establish partnerships with European schools in the area of tourism and leisure - To know more deeply the training references applied in a European context - To allow the exchange of experience and good practices among European trainers on training and educational principles - To know, to implement, new specific practices in regular contact with the outside - Enable more effective school management - Bring the EFTA school context closer to the European reality - Improve the capacity of vocational accompaniment of students and their integration in the labor market The planned activities are: - 8 students to carry out 14-week internships in Tourism, Restaurant / Bar and Cooking / Pastry courses and 4 accompanying persons - 4 new graduates to carry out 14-week internships in: Cooking / Pastry, Restaurant / Bar, Tourism - 2 teachers in shadowing job: technical area and socio-cultural area - 2 non-teaching staff on shadowing job: head of administrative services and psychologist DESTINATIONS - Austria - Spain - Italy - Greece - Slovenia - Czech Republic - Finland (staff) - Denmark (staff) Participants will receive the following certificates: - EFTA certificate - Certificate of internship - Europass mobility document In relation to the impacts we can highlight the following: Students and Recent-graduatez - Integration in the labor market - Betting on new horizons, with better perspectives and motivation - Greater competence in intercultural contact - Promotion of continuous training - Internationalization as an enriching experience Impacts on staff - Greater pedagogical competence and ability to work - Greater proximity to the EFTA mission, values and identity - Increased ability to work in teams and in interdisciplinary and intercultural environments - More motivation to invest in quality and excellence - Adoption of habits of continuous assessment and systematic review of procedures and training content - Exploring the realities, practices and trends of tourism and leisure at European and international level for the classroom - Use of mobility and globalization as tools to convey sensitivity to languages and interculturality Impacts on EFTA - Reaffirmation of EFTA values - Greater capacity to respond to the needs of the county and region - Updating of pedagogical methods and techniques for improving training references - Improved school and professional orientation process - More competent and up-to-date teachers capable of motivating students - Reducing dropout rates - More efficient school management - Establishment of a wider network of contacts at European level - New international partnerships between EFTA and tourism and leisure organizations - Validation of ECVETs established for this program - Europeanization of EFTA, contributing to its promotion