The name of the project 'Eurovito' refers undoubtedly to Europe and our school VITO-Hoogstraten.With this project we want to stimulate our students to push their boundaries: geographical, to explore other countries and cultures and to be open towards this, but also personally to develop their own social and linguistic skills. The annex ’Hoeveproducten-Produits de la ferme’ represents the theme of this project.We strongly want to focus on the short food supply chain: from the field to the plate, from farmer to consumer. This sale (and processing) of farmproducts produced by the farmers themselves is strongly present in e.g. the French regions Lot-et-Garnonne and Ardèche. This theme will therefore be addressed extensively both during the preparation and the internship itself, but also during the postprocessing. The aim is that, with the acquired knowledge and experience, the participants are able to develop a project that will bring the field and the plate closer together.Agriculture is a sector in which its policy is strongly internationally determined: European, by the EU, as well as world-wide, by the OESO and WTO. There is hardly any question of international contacts at the level of individual companies. Many employers are often physically committed to their company through their kind of activities and working with living plants and animals. We experience this as such with our pupils: many of them are grown up into a similar family business, but have hardly ever left their own region. With this internship we want them to experience the need of international contacts which can lead to an enlargement of knowledge and experience on technical, cultural and social level. Eurovito is composed of 4 flows. Prior to each internship special attention is paid to a good preparation of the internship in terms of language, culture and a positive awakening of consciousness of EU-citizenship and knowledge of the Europian institutions. To this end, language courses are organized, participants themselves will need to do research and have to look up relevant information according to the socialeconomic data, cultural visits in spare time, different possibilities for their journey and their stay. Visits to farms who sell their products directly to the consumer will be made and also a visit to the Europian Parliament or the Europian quarter in Brussels. There will be a website and a facebookpage with an exact outline of the preparing activities, the progress of the internship and the personal experience of all participants. This information will be widely distributed among the participants, parents, sympathizers, agrarian employers and trade unions. Flow 1 and 3Is organized for 18-19-year old pupils of the 6th form BSO Agriculture and Horticulture. In accordance with the field of study profile these participants receive practical tasks they can perform in group and under immediate supervision. During the internship the participants will take part in harvesting activities and winemaking process. in the vineyard of the cooperation ‘Caves La Cévenole’ and the vineyards from the members of the cooperation in the Rhône-Alpes region (dep. Ardèche). Besides the acquisition of practical technical skills the emphasis is on the acquisition of social skills and attitudes: live together, work and relax in a group, with respect for linguistic and cultural diversity.Flow 2 and 4Is organized for 18-20-year old pupils of the 7th form specified years Horticulture production and Agriculture (BSO) and the 6th form Plant Technical Science and Veterinary and Agriculture Technical Science (TSO). During this education they get a firm theoretical footing and they acquire practical skills. The professional profile of these branch of studies puts an important emphasis on the fact that students can work with a high degree of autonomy in a company. The purpose of this flow is therefore to assign the participants individually or in pairs to a company and that they participate in various working activities of that company. To select the companies who are open to internships we work together with an agricultural education centre, het CFAA47, which itself has a lot of experience with placing interns in agricultural and horticultural companies.To keep down the social threshold, the stay and the leisure activities will take place in group. The participants will also be accompanied by their teachers during their stay. These internships are situated in the region of Aquitania (dep. Lot-et-Garonne) where you can find a great variety of agricultural businesses. Therefore these companies can perfectly link up with the participants'individual interests, both for agriculture and for horticulture. The concrete activities are related to the nature and specific crops of the company and the season. Special attention will be paid to the possible processing and marketing of farm products in the short food supply chain.