The project „EVST-European Vocational Skills Training“ is the following project of the four interacting mobility projects ProViso Berlin, ProVero Berlin, ProMove Berlin and Eurotrain with vocational trainees and learners subsequent to the vocational training. It encloses a further project for educational employees. It aims to enable the access to job-related internships and workplacements abroad in particular for less advantaged vocational trainees in order to improve their employability in the German and European labor market. The initial point was the finding that especially among young people in rural regions there exist widespread prejudices against leaving the traditional living environment and that it requires additional efforts to encourage this target group for the participation in transnational mobility projects. This is particularly true for young people from social disadvantaged groups and with a migration background who often provide only little international experience. The participants undertake their vocational training either in a full-time school program or in dual vocational training. They are working in professional fields in which international experience is in many cases already seen as a condition for employment, such as in the service-sector (hotel and catering, office communications), business-management and creative professions, like IT- and media-design. By work-related stays abroad they should get the opportunity to improve intercultural competences and the ability to foreign-language interaction, self-organization and in relation to digital competencies. In addition to work placements the project offers the possibility to promote in particular job-related language skills and to work in training and employment-related "European Vocational Skills Training” projects". The goal of these EVST-projects is the ability to prove the acquisition of professional skills even if a direct participation in working processes within an internship is restricted or the area of operation does not fully match the qualification profile of the beneficiary. In order to agree on learning objectives and contents of the internships abroad, the participants receive access to an online database (www.evst-mobility.eu). The goal of the EVST process is to motivate the beneficiaries in a dialogue process for the active participation in the arrangement of their stay abroad in order to increase their responsibility for the learning process and to optimize the subsequent documentation of learning achievements. Cooperation partners are chambers of industry, trade and crafts as well as vocational schools from different regions of Germany and receiving partner institutions in Great Britain, France, Ireland, Poland and Spain. A total of 325 mobility grants are applied for, distributed as follows in different activities: 3-week mobility for learners in companies (35 scholarships) 4-week mobility for learners in companies (70 scholarships) 4-week mobility for learners in school institutions (130 scholarships) 8-week mobility for learners in companies (5 scholarships) 8-week mobility for learners in school institutions (40 scholarships) 24-week mobility for learners in companies (12 scholarships) 24-week mobility for learners in school institutions (13 scholarships) Furthermore 1-week mobility will be offered to educational employees (20 scholarships) Vocational trainers, teachers, HR professionals and other responsible parties in the field of vocational training should inform themselves on European trends abroad, get an insight into the EVST-process and EVST-database, developed by Arbeit und Leben and its partners and also experience the organization and implementation of mobility projects in practice. They should thus become multipliers, able to inform and to advise trainees in their institutions about the added value of a stay abroad. Besides its contribution to employability the project intends to contribute to the supraregional and international networking of actors of general and vocational education and training in order to provide a better access to international mobility activities, particularly for young people from social disadvantaged groups. In addition it is striven for a promotion of a positive European image in the target groups: More than 80% of the returnees express that they could imagine to live and to work in other European countries in the course of their further career due to the gained experiences within their internships abroad.