„Quality management in the company – an inclusive project with hearing and hearing-impaired trainees“ provided a 5-week learning mobility for 18 trainees of Robert-Schmidt-Berufskolleg (RSIBK) and Rheinisch-Westfälisches Berufskolleg (RWB) in Essen.The participants were trained in the German dual system of vocational education and training. Students of RSIBK trained to work in occupations related to business and administration, RWB students additionally trained in industrial occupations.During the 5 weeks they did a workplacement in companies. They also worked on their learning agreement on QM. They improved their job related knowledge and skills, improved their command of the target language, improved their communicative skills and learned to work in a virtual team using a web-based learning platform.Most of them intensified their insights about Europe, some of them made friends with other Europeans and want to hold on to these friendships. The Brexit vote of June 2016 has led to a different understanding of the EU. They do no longer take the EU for granted, but now see it as an achievement. Some of the participants had a mind-opening experience from discussing the latest developments and worries with their Irish and British colleagues.Planned receiving partners were Etalä Kymenlaaskon ammattiopisto, a college of vocational education in Kotka/Finland, Green Horizons in Cork/Republic of Ireland and the training network of the Carinthian University of Applied Science library in Austria. During the project we came across three new partners which we could integrate into the project: three participants were offered work placements in the UK (WMK UK and Atlas Copco UK), one participant worked in the library of the University of Boras/Sweden.In June 2015 and 2016 workshops were held to prepare the participants (Friday afternoon and Saturday morning). Apart from professional, geographical and intercultural preparation participants also received training in working with the web-based training platform. With the hearing impaired student we discussed what kind of handicap compensation he would need.We could continue our cooperation with „Rheinisch-Westfalisches Berufskolleg for the hearing impaired“, which not only helped us to include hearing impaired participants but also led to more awareness in the hearing participants.As we did not know in advance if there was a hearing impaired participant in each flow, we addressed hearing impairments in the preparatory workshop. In 2015 a hearing impaired student took over this part together with the teaching staff involved in the project. In 2016 we did not have a hearing-impaired participant. However, the hearing participants were very interested in the subject and learned about causes for a hearing impairment, about communication rules, national sign languages and the use of the finger alphabet. They also did some exercises and were informed about the Spreadthesign App which you can download on your mobile (Spreadthesign is a sign translating project sponsored by the EU).According to most participants the project improved their chances on the labour market where they have to compete with university graduates once they have passed their final examsKnowing more about QM increases their professional knowledge. Participants who went to countries where they had to use English increased their command of the language in everyday communication; they also learned special terms needed in their respective occupation.Participants who went to Finland and Sweden learned basic phrases of Finnish and Swedish. All the participants improved their soft skills such as communication skills, intercultural awareness, autonomy, asking for help and providing help.Participants who went to Caranthia in Austria learned that some professional terms used in Austria differ from those used in Germany. Initial problems with regional accents could be overcome very fast.All participants worked with the web-based learning platform to write blog entries and to upload project tasks at the appropriate dates. They improved their ICT competence.Our participants improved their chances on the European labour market.