Comparing Integrating ConceptsThis project continues the partnership between the Vocational College in Oulu, Finland and our vocational school, the Gewerbliche Schule Im Hoppenlau which has been going on for a considerable period of time. Both schools offer job training for bakers, confectioners, butchers, hairdressers and beauticians. At both schools there are also departments where students can do apprenticeships enabling them to work in professions related to hotels and restaurants (e.g. chef).According to our plan each school year 5 scientific and practical teachers (so that’s 10 teachers in two years) that teach in one vocational field are going to travel to Oulu for four days to do job shadowing by attending lessons, comparing curriculums, having a look at educational books, teaching methods , especially those using the internet, computers or other digital devices and to exchange experiences with their Finnish colleagues. The goal is to enlarge our staff’s pedagogical know-how, especially their media skills. Furthermore, the project is aiming at improving foreign language as well as cross-cultural competence.In the same way the Vocational College Oulu yearly send circa 5 of their staff to Stuttgart to do job shadowing.A lot has changed at our school. For one and a half years now there have been three classes especially designed for grownup refugees that have enabled almost all students to start a regular dual apprenticeship (which mostly takes place at a company) to become bakers or butchers after attending the refugee classes for only one year.To teach those aforementioned students and other refugees who already have closed an apprenticeship contract with a company as well as “Mobilpro” – students (Mobilpro being a measure that enables young unemployed people from Southern Europe to do a job training in Germany) is quite a challenge for our teachers. Our Finnish twinned school also has many students with a migration background so that one key aspect of the knowledge transfer is going to be how to work best with classes and students that are becoming increasingly heterogeneous when it comes to language and culture.