The Catering Mobility in Europe project addresses a growing need in the hospitality sector in Glasgow and more widely in Scotland to change their staff from seeing the sector as somewhere to work short-term or on a casual basis, to seeing it as an exciting career to grow into and progress. The sector is growing rapidly and needs to keep and grow the staff it can get. Catering Mobility in Europe will create a set of ambassadors in the sector who are students, apprentices, graduates within a year or staff doing vocational qualifications. They will have the will to take a leap out of their comfort zones and see a new side of the hospitality sector that will propel them forwards in their careers. This leap will have at its heart a 5 week mobility in Amsterdam (2 people), Tenerife (2 people), Gothenburg (1) or Helsinki (1) to first gain cultural and local food knowledge alongside further language lessons over 4 weeks at hotel and restaurant schools and then do a four month placement in a 4 or 5 star hotel from October to February, including over the busy holiday season. The learning they gain will fit with their qualifications and will cover soft skills, cultural awareness and adaptablilty, and kitchen and cooking experience specfiic to the host country. The participants will be part of the Consortium of Hospitality and Accommodation Schools in Europe (CHASE) network's well-established model of learning and will share their experience with fellow learners from several other CHASE partners' countries. This will give them learning support and connections with young people from many European countries, in addition to the host country and establish them as citizens of Europe.While the participants are learning and working, they will be writing blogs and social media posts about their experiences and insights which will be shared around the Hospitality Industry Trust Scotland's wide membership of hospitality employers, as well as Glasgow Restaurant Association members and many other networks for people working in hospitality. While writing these blogs on cultural differences, local seasonings and the links to culture, recipes and the tourism sights, they will be acting as ambassadors for Scotland to their host countries and sharing their experiences with the sector back home, taking a step up in their career ambitions.While the participants are gaining passion for the hospitality and sharing it widely with their new discoveries, the consortium partners in Scotland will be learning about catering mobilities and making contacts in other countries. Light on the Path are well established hosts of shorter European placements and sending unemployed people on placements, Catering Mobility in Europe will give them experience of hospitality and longer placements, while establishing many new partnerships. HIT Scotland offers scholarships and bursaries for local and international short courses outside the EU but this will be new for them and give them new contacts and insights, as well as getting to work closely with the participants. Marriott Hotels is very active in staff development but has not been able to offer international placements to the EU for its developing staff and this will allow them to boost their connections and gain extra-passionate staff to inspire others and provide excellent services. Receiving partners in each country will get to know Scottish students and partners be able to send their own students to Scotland with their own projects.The project's participants will feed their experience into a flow of news while they are away, inspiring people working in the sector and thinking about working in the sector. When they return, they will help to plan and deliver a dissemination event to high-level leaders in the hospitality sector, students and colleges, so that their excitement and discoveries can be spread. The consortium partners and their networks will also promote the opportunity for the participants to do outreach visits on their return to inspire more people and share their stories.The end of the project aims to be the beginning of a long series of opportunities for more people in the sector to gain an international outlook on hospitality and their careers, to inspire others and to grow in their careers - both in Scotland and potentially elsewhere in Europe. They and the many people they inspire will be passionate about making a career in hospitality and no longer see the sector as simply a place for casual work.