CONTEXT/BACKGROUND The Social- and Health Care College wants to promote our students' international competencies in order to improve students' further training and employment possibilities. The College wants to encourage students to share their knowledge and professionalism in being a mobile workforce within the Child Care and Social and Health Care Sector. With its international approach the College aims at increasing the recruitment of students to attractive education programs and hereby provide appropriate challenges for the talented students. NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS 28 students within Child Care and 19 students within Health Care. Total 47 students. PARTICIPANT PROFILE The participants are young people or adults, mostly women, between 17 and approx. 40. They are in the process of an education within Child Care or Social- and Health Care. DECRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES On the selected location, the Health Care students will carry out 4 weeks internship at a nursing home for elderly people and the Child Care students will carry out a 8 weeks internship at a children's institution, e.g. kindergarten. The students will work side by side with the permanent staff. As our students do have a high level of professionalism in their field, they will be able to inspire their foreign colleagues with new professionalism. Through this working experience the students will be able to reflect and see their professional skills in a new context and at the same time be more aware of their own working conditions in the Danish environment. METHODS USED TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT For each student the internship is individually planned and implemented in close cooperation with local partners in the Netherlands, Spain and England. The methods are planning, communication, evaluation and reporting DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANNED RESULTS AND EXPECTED IMPACT • The possibility to participate in international internship will attract more resourceful students to attend the education programs at the Social and health Care School • The students will strengthen their cultural, professional and personal skills • Through cultural encounters the students will gain an understanding of the conditions in the foreign country • The student will be able to handle it their own positions in an unfamiliar cultural context. Hereby the students acquire knowledge to "think and act for themselves • The students are personally challenged, to establish a working day in a different context and culture than the Danish. • The students acquire greater clarity in their competence to act, because they are “forced" to a deeper reflection on what she/he does in the internship situation because professional subjects needs to be explained , translated and disseminated to a supervisor from another culture. • The students will be aware of the differences between the Foreign and the Danish Health Care system. • Students will through an attachment to an English-speaking supervisor during the internship have practiced and used their English skills. • To give students the opportunity to understand and express the most basic words in Spanish and Dutch.