The ESSENTIAL (Education Staff Studying in Europe New Training Involvement And Learning) project had been born from an educational need of teachers and staff of the school "Istituto Comprensivo G. Leopardi Calcinelli - Saltara". The goal of this project was the “staff training “ trough an experience of job shadowing in order to refresh the teaching competences of the participants and learn new teaching methodologies to be applied in their educational field but also to improve their managerial competences. 17 people were involved in the project: - 10 teachers of the primary school - 3 teachers of the secondary school teaching English - 2 teachers of the secondary school teaching German - 2 people of the staff (headmaster and deputy headmaster) The participants spent a period of 14 days (in the period 01/09/2014- 30/08/2016) in the partner schools: - Gorsemoor Primary school in Cannock - Lode Heath School in Solihull in the area of Lichfield in the UK (pupils from 12 to 16) - Ernst – Benary – Schule in Erfurt in Germany (pupils from 6 to 14). In order to achieve an improvement in teaching methodologies and managerial skills, in the morning, during the mobility period, our teachers had been observing the teaching methodologies applied by their colleagues in the partner schools classrooms. Besides, the teachers observed new technologies use applied to foreign languages teaching. In the afternoon the participants attended a specific ICT course in order to improve their competences in new technologies applied to teaching. Furthermore, the observation of class group managing strategies by teachers in different school moments was relevant to acquire new competences in leading classes. ESSENTIAL has led to the following results: - Acquisition of new teaching methods, thanks to games and simulation - Acquisition of lesson plan procedures - Acquisition of the procedures for the adoption of new technologies applied to foreign languages teaching - using a language and multimedia laboratory - Acquisition of different class group managing strategies - Acquisition of the use and apply social networks to foreign languages teaching In addition the school staff has improved their managerial skills thanks to a direct experience working with the headmasters and staff of the partner schools in the UK. The participants' skills upgrade have been having a positive effect not only on the teachers and their expertise, but also on their motivation, leading teachers to experiment with new teaching methods in their classrooms as well. These new teachers' skills have been having a positive impact on students of our Institute promoting listening, speaking and writing activities. In the long term this project is leading to an improvement of our educational school system and at the local level, as it is allowing the incorporation of new educational tools within the curriculum of the institute.