The District Government of Düsseldorf is responsible for 78 public vocational colleges with about 7700 teachers and roughly 167000 students from all vocational sectors of which about 93000 are apprentices in the initial dual vocational training. The EU Office of the District Government of Düsseldorf (GEB) co-operates with different vocational colleges in the region in order to promote and to use European transparency instruments and to implement partnerships on the vocational level and related work placements for students and teachers for high-quality education at vocational colleges. Through mobility projects the beneficiaries will acquire international vocational work experience. Additionally, the training personnel will be able to offer competence needs within the European context on a high level and to implement European quality and transparency instruments such as GQF/EQF, ECVET and EUROPASSS-instruments. The project EVC is focussing on mobilities of students (25), teachers (59), in-company instructors (13) and persons in school supervision (3) as partners from initial dual vocational training and initial school-based training. The project provides 100 mobilities in total into 14 countries. EVC offers four activities for training personnel … 1. FinECVET - a model for vocational education in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) 2. Teachers and in-company instructors open up work placements for their apprentices 3. Europe on the move: learning outcomes with regard to occupational health and safety in vocational training in comparison to other European countries. 4. Development of a common evaluation scheme of mobilities in selected sectors (i. e. trade, transport and logistics, retail trade, office and business administration, air-conditioning technology, electronics, industrial technology) … and two activities for learners: 5.and 6.: ‘Blended mentoring within work placements of students in both initial dual vocational training and initial school-based training’ is about the formation and assessment of a structured and work-orientated mobility. Both groups will gain international vocational competencies. The activities for training personnel will be mentored by GEB experts during the whole project period by means of both accompanying workshops and the Internet. The students will be coached by their teachers. Targeting at the teachers the GEB offers workshops concerning the topic ‘mentoring of mobilities’. For on-site support a ‘Blended-Mentoring-Instrument’ will be used. All beneficiaries will receive the Europass-mobility. The procedure for the organization and realization of mobilities are based on the European Quality Charter for Mobility. Based on their vocational background the students discover a different environment and enlarge their vocational work experience through communication and evaluation of their mobility experience. They have the opportunity to get to know working procedures within a different cultural context as well as to scrutinize their understanding of work that is affected by their experience in their home country. The training personnel of the vocational colleges and companies have adequate instruments for the encouragement of individuals. In addition, they get an insight in the development of competencies through European work placements for a systematic and sustainable inclusion into work placements of learners. This gain acquired with regard to profile and competence is of essential usage for companies, vocational colleges as well as teachers and students. In the long term the mobility project EVC has an important effect on quality objectives in vocational training in the region. It increases the employability of the beneficiaries on the labour market and enhances the competitiveness of all companies.