Our project involves both pupils and staff. For the pupils the project focuses on building and construction where 12 pupils in our 4 year alternance training and education scheme by placements in French enterprises in the department of Eure will acquire new skills and competences relevant for their work in their companies in Norway. The integration of the Norwegian pupils both in the French enterprises and in their French host families will enhance their cultural and professional learning. We have established a close contact with Lycée Hébert in Evreux which will help us with every aspect of the placement. The pupils who will benefit from our placement project will be chosen among about 30 possible candidates. They will have to write an application. This application will be considered together with other aspects of the pupils beaviour at school and during placements in Norwegian enterprises. It is our ambition to only recruit the best candidates with the highest motivation. It will be of crucial importance that the pupils speak very good English and that their parents give their support of their children for the participation in this project. Our pupils will stay in France from the two weeks in the spring of 2015. The placements will be organized in collaboration with our partner in this project: Lycée Augustin Hébert. The enterprises used for the placements will be enterprises that already are collaborating with Lycée Augustin Hébert.. These enterprises are all situated in the vicinity of Evreux. Lycée Augustin Hébert will also help us with the lodging of our pupils by ensuring house and boarding in families that have pupils at their school. It is important for us to show our pupils the possibilities and challenges there are in having the opportunity to work in another country. We would also like to see them open up their minds to the competence and the “savoir-faire” in other countries and cultures. We will together with Lycée Augustin Hébert also set up a cultural programme for the participating pupils so that they will discover other aspects of French culture and history. This will be done both by the French school and the the French families where the Norwegian pupils live. The project-period for the involved pupils will last for two weeks. This might seem a short period but the way the project is organized will give our participants a total immersion in French culture because they will live in a French family and will will work with a French pupil in a French enterprise. The language to be used in the day to day communication in the enterprises and in the families will be English. The chance to use English in several natural settings will give our project a significant added value. The mastering of the English language will be invaluable in their careers and future employments because of a more mobile European workforce. We expect that the participation in the project will motivate our pupils to pursue their careers in concrete and carpentry and their studies to establish their own enterprises or take their competence to their future employeres. We also think that our participants will be positive leaders and that their experience will motivate other pupils in this sector to choose carpentry as their future profession. For our school we see the collaboration with Lycée Augustin Hébert in this project as a starting point for future extensive collaborations activities in othe educational fields. Knarvik vidaregåande skule see this project as a catalysator for more focus on concrete and carpentry and its associated professions and thus helping local enterprises in their recruitment of professionals. The staff-training/job-shadowing we want to carry through should promote the intercultural and linguistic competence of our teachers. We see this a specially interesting because usually there are fewer teachers in VET who participate in Erupean activities. They will get experience in their own field of work in Norway by participating in activities organizes by our French partner schools. This will enhance their skills and competence both in theoretical teaching and in on site guidance of pupils in placement in Norwegian enterprises. Our ambition is to increase considerably the number of teachers who participate in European collaboration activities. We want them to learn new and better practices in other countries and also to clear the ground for future school partnerships. Focusing on collaboration with non-english speaking countries in Europe will certainly motivate our teachers for foreign language learning but also strengthen the European dimension in our school generally and by the teachers specially.