Meeting the needs of its students, the Secondary Schools Complex in Malbork No 3 prepares the youth to find their own place in demanding job market of these days. Creating friendly atmosphere, the school enables the students to achieve a wide range of professions such as hotel management technician, tourism service technician, logistics technician, information technology technician.While teaching the school devotes attention to cultivating proper attitudes of its students. For years the school has been a leader among vocational schools that meets the needs of local job market. Successes of students who succeeded in plentiful vocational competitions as well as high results of the final exams, which are much better than local and national results, prove the fact of the quality of the school. Close cooperation with the colleges educating in similar occupations, organizing visits promoting the culture of professions and meetings with successful businesspeople undoubtedly help our students look forward to the future.“European experience – a better start” is a project which the Secondary Schools Complex in Malbork No 3 is going to elaborate together with the foreign business partners ADC College from London, Casa da Educacao from Lisbon and VFBQ Association from Bad Freienwalde near Berlin. The aim of the project is to use and develop the professional skills altogether with Information Technology, as well as social, personal and language skills. This way the trainees will be enabled to gain work experience, professional awareness by finding out about opportunities and perspectives of the chosen occupation and it may enhance their chances to get desired professional skills. To show comprehensive approach in January 2017 the Secondary School Complex no 3 in cooperation with Casa da Educacao has planned to organize one-week workshops with job shadowing lessons for the teachers educating the youth in the main professions such as: Hotel Industry, catering, and logistics. The project presents the idea of four- week professional apprenticeship, prepared from 17 September to 14 October 2017, for the group of forty-five students from the third technical classes in the occupations of: hotel management, tourism service, logistics, information technology technicians. There are also three attendant teachers who take care of the participating students.The school is responsible for recruitment and preparing the participants of the project to departure. The students are to take part in series of classes which are especially arranged to equip them with the appropriate knowledge about culture, character of professions and other useful information. The participants will take language tests to check their language skills.The participants of the workshops for teachers will take part in an intensive course on culture of Portugal.The transit from Malbork to the destination places is ensured. The foreign Partners in the cooperation with our school will organize accommodation at host families, with full board. Appropriate places of apprenticeship will be also chosen accordingly to the aims of the project and all local transfers will be provided. Additionally, all the participants will be insured.The quality and progressing will be observed by the Partners, attending teachers and the school. Planned accomplishment of the apprenticeship will be inspected by checking notes in the apprenticeship journals and on visits. The journals and a detailed plan will be prepared before the beginning. The supervisors will be responsible for marking the students’ apprenticeship time. The mark is an integrated part of the journal and it will be the primary and essential part to complete the training.Taking part in such project will influence personal development of the participants, increase their independence, responsibility and resourcefulness, it will increase their self-confidence and self – esteem as well as improve their self- assessment. All the partners in agreement with the employers will deliver a special document certifying completing the apprenticeship. Achieved competences will be confirmed with Europass Mobility document. By participating in the project the school will increase the attractiveness of vocational educating program and will improve its quality. The school will be regarded as modern and pro-European one. That will be the chance to indicate young people where new development’s and work’ s perspectives after completing the school are.The position of school in the local environment as well as regarding the school by the local society will also benefit. By completing the project the school will develop even closer relationship with the press, administration units, students’ parents, local businesspeople and will share its experience with other schools with similar educating profiles.