The project „Higher qualifications through work experience’, was the second project of Learning Mobility of Individuals: VET learner and staff mobility, carried out by the Complex of Secondary Schools (Zespół Szkół Ponadgimnazjalnych) in Ornontowice.The objective of the project was to raise students’ professional competences and the prestige of school as well as to improve the skills of collaborating with foreign partners. During winter holidays twenty students, trained at the secondary technical level as electricians, economists, gardeners, food technology technicians, and glass production technology technicians went with two minders to Valencia in Spain. They performed their 3- week apprenticeship in fourteen different institutions which were carefully selected according to their needs by the intermediary institution. The target group was recruited among the students of the third and fourth class. All the participants were provided before the mobility with linguistic (English and Spanish), cultural and psychological support. The extra lessons were run on Saturdays or after regular school classes. The students got to know English and Spanish vocational vocabulary.The school organised the round-trip flight to Spain, a coach transport to the airports and 27/7 care on the spot. The intermediary institution prepared the workplacement, accommodation in the city centre, public transport cards and cultural activities during the weekends. The host insitutions assigned for each apprentice a tutor who was directly supervising, and assessing the progress of the student, accordring to the training programme, which had been prepared by both institions.The apprenticeship was monitored by: accompanying teachers who compared students’ workblogs with the planned workplacement programme and visitied the employing institutions; the representatives of the intermediary intitutions and tutors who regulary evaluated the students’ progress. At the end the participants received apprenticeship certificates as well as Europass Mobility and ECVET documents which confirmed the skills and qualificatons they had aquired. Back in Poland the marks given by tutors were validated by the deputy head in education and vocational training field and transformed into school marks according to the criteria in the school statute. All the participants acquired the basic Spanish phrases and improved their communicative skills in English. The students of the techincal school for electricians learned how to plan and perform assembly work in electrical installations and how to maintain electrical machines. The students of a technical school of nutrition and food industry services got familiarised with Spanish consumers’ nutrition habits, the ways of preparing, making and storing healthy Mediterraean dishes, like e.g. paella. They also gained some experience in serving foreign customers in high-standard restaurants. The gardeners observed the cultivation of plants in a different climate zone and the glass production technology technicians learned new techniques of decorating handmade products. The students from a technical school of economics acquired skills in the field of customer service in English, distributing and recording correspondence, archiving documents and entering data into the database. To disseminate the project the participants presented their films, multimedia presentations and posters to their schoolmates. They ran workshop for the school an local community on how to preapre paella and on how to trim shrubs. They also prepared a Spanish flowerbed on school premises and published vocational vocabulary in English, separtely for each profession, in a free internet application: Quizlet . The coverages from the apprenticeship were published reguraly in local press and on the school internet profiles.The result of the project was acquiring vocational skills by our students, developing their personal, social and language competences as well as the ability to adapt to different working conditions in Poland and abroad. They got to know the specifics of working in Spanish companies and learned how to compete on the European labour market. For the majority of the participants it was the first contact with a multicultural society. They became more tolerant and open to racial and religious differences. The school enriched its educational offer and raised its prestige. It also gained experience in planning and managing European projects and international collaboration. Also, more teachers have been involved in the project work and motivated to learn foreign languages.