Pierre et Marie Curie, a vocational high school, specializing in services and business studies, decided a few years ago to make the openness to the world a priority for its curriculum and included it in the school plan. Located in the heart of the “Pays de Caux” in the city of Bolbec (Normandy), the school is essentially composed of female students coming from underprivileged families. Therefore, their mobility is often low or even non-existent (this is made clear when they have to find a training or when they consider continuing with studies). Fully aware of that fact, we conducted our first Leonardo mobility experience in May 2013. It involved 8 girls who stayed and did their training period in Eastbourne, England for 4 weeks. This enthusiastic experience comforted us in the legitimacy of such a project. Our partnership with Breakaway Agency which was in charge of finding companies and families for our pupils was such a success that we decided to renew it. Our new mobility experience will involve 30 pupils taking their BTEC National exam in business ; 14 in their final year (out of 3 years) and 16 in their second year. This will be a 2-step-mobility-process : the latter will leave from Jan 25th to Feb 21st 2015 whereas the former will be in Eastbourne from March 8th to April 4th 2015. In the past, most of these students have had a particularly hectic and difficult time at school, thus being part of a “European section” often helps them to restore their confidence in the school system and has enabled them to attend “business in English” lessons since their first year in Pierre et Marie Curie. As regards our students, this experience is to impact several areas : - the professional field (acquisition of professional reflexes in connection with the business world, adaptation to the workplace and an unfamiliar environment, work on professional attitudes such as punctuality…), - the linguistic field (improvement and development of in-depth knowledge of professional and “everyday life” English…), - the personal field (gain of maturity and autonomy), - the cultural field (discovery of the Eastbourne area, trip to London…). The team is composed of 5 teachers (3 English teachers and 2 sales teachers who are qualified to teach their subject in English), the headmaster Mr HEBERT, Mrs LESUEUR, the person in charge of training periods and Mrs FALCIONI the superintendent manager. After a number of meetings required to set up the new terms, the team embarked on writing the Erasmus + project. Regarding the assistance on the mobility trips, it was decided that two teachers would go with the students the first and the last week of each trip (the latter being dedicated to assessments). Teachers will also be there during the weekends to prepare and supervise the various cultural outings. Mrs CHEVALLIER, the head of Breakaway Agency, is our provider. She is in charge of finding training places in Eastbourne, such as supermarkets (Sainsbury’s for example) or charity shops (such as British Heart Foundation). As she is on the spot, she is available 24/7. As regards mobility, three periods are to be distinguished : - beforehand: In addition to team meetings, we plan to keep parents and students informed of the project’s progress through regular meetings at school. The previous experience has shown us that we absolutely had to remind them of the importance of administrative documents. We will involve students in coaching courses : 2 hours a week will be dedicated to the outings program and to situational dramatization (at the station for example..) - on site, teachers will ensure the installation of students in collaboration with Mrs CHEVALLIER who will also make sure the whole training period goes well. All of them will help the participants with the necessary things of daily life (bus ride, various purchases…) and plan the weekend outings. - downstream, a “festive” meeting will be held for all the mobility actors, the students will present the key moments of their stay in English, slideshows will be projected, skits played... On this occasion, we will ask the newspapers and television journalists to come along and spread the results of our experience as broadly as possible. A survey shall then be conducted among students to get to know how they feel about this experience... We will help them to get their European passport (EUROPASS) as well. As the English language is often being undervalued in vocational schools, we first and foremost aim at creating a dynamic within the institution. Ideally through various communication paths, the European section of the school and our mobility project will increase our attractiveness with respect to other schools in the area and the academy of Rouen. We will also make sure our students get ready for their special oral exam (sales subject in English) in order to enhance their training period carried out abroad.