The project “EXMO 2016 – Let’s experience mobility” is submitted by the Secondary Education Institute “Garfagnana” (http://www.isigarfagnana.gov.it/),. The Institute was created on September 1st, 2013 and brought together four existing secondary schools located in Castelnuovo: the VET institute (IPSIA) “Simoni”, the Institute for commerce, accountancy and surveying (ITCG) “Campedelli”, the Technical institute (ITI) “Vecchiacchi” and the Scientific high school (Liceo Scientifico) “Galilei”. Currently approximately 1000 students are enrolled and 141 staff members are employed.The project aims at expanding the opportunities offered to students in terms of education and training, professional practice, individual learning and development, so to boost school achievement and success and improve one’s own employability. The international mobility experiences contribute to increase individual autonomy and the acquisition of knowledge and competences that will make up the “toolbox” for students. They will be then able to take informed decisions concerning their training and work conditions, fully playing their "active citizen" role. EXMO 2016 plans mobility programmes for 50 students to be spent in French, British and Maltese companies.The Garfagnana Institute considers the EXMO 2016 project as an opportunity to enhance its quality training and education supply and to take a step further:- To experiment a rotation system which complement study and work at international scale, so to adapt and improve its training programmes and curricula consistently with students’ and companies’ needs.- To have an impact on students’ motivation to achieve learning goals and overall school success, fighting back early school leaving phenomena and other forms of youth vulnerability.- To develop the competences of the Institute’s staff with respect to administration, finance and organisation of European mobility programmes, building on the hands-on practice resulting from EXMO 2016.- To enrich the in-service training opportunities for the Istitute’s staff with particular regard to soft skills (e.g. problem solving, group work).- To raise awareness among the Institute’s staff about the opportunities that “Europe can offer” .- To implement the tools to recognize, validate and certify competences, e.g. by means of the ECVET system and the Europass Mobility and CV tools.- To improve the capability to create meaningful networks with local and international partners. The ability to “listen to” requests expressed by economic and social actors allow to design innovative training programmes that are aligned with the needs of the labour market and of the local contexts.As regards students’ needs and expectations, the EXMO 2016 project meets the following necessities: - To improve their professional and technical backgrounds putting their knowledge to the test in novel and challenging working settings which also require adaptation to different cultures and working approaches and the use of a foreign language.- To acquire or refine relational skills and the so-called soft skills, considered as key competences in the EU. The experience of living and working far from home determines great changes in each participant, in terms of individual flexibility, adaptability, ability to work in team, problem solving skills, stress and time management, management of intercultural relations. It is indeed a crucial and valuable stage for an individual’s development process.- To open the Garfagnana area to broader, EU-wide dynamics, fighting back isolation and enhancing the possibility to get to know in a direct way new ways of living, studying and working.- To further study a EU language to be used as working language in different contexts, so to improve one’s own employability.The project, lasting 24 months, will be carried out in the school years 2016-17 and 2017-18.