Being a vocational school we want to offer high quality foreign language teaching that meets the requirements of a growing European and international labour market. This implies the integration of modern communication technology into our teaching methods. We further intend to intensify European exchange especially in our target languages English and Spanish to enhance cultural awareness. Our start-off project aims at improving teaching skills that support these targets. 6 teachers will be sent to Spain and the United Kingdom to follow courses in modern language teaching and to build up a communication network. We intend to intensify an existing school partnership in Spain and to implement e-Twinning. The next step will be to establish a school-partnership in the United Kingdom , so that our students can get actively involved in the project. Within the next three years we want to launch an international project with direct exchanges of teachers and students.