- Applicant organisation: Staatliche Berufsschule II Aschaffenburg. The project was presented to apprentices in the logistics sector (warehouse logistics operators), wholesalers and retail sale with an emphasis on logistics processes in their second year of apprenticeship and their apprenticing companies. Those students had access to the project and were asked to apply for it. - Partner Organisation: WorkplacementsUK, United Kingdom. The organisation was involved with the realisation of language courses, with the placement in operations side companies, with organisational issues the participants might have during their stay in Brighton and the selection of host families. - The need for the project is a result of different developments: 1. The world of work is constantly changing, especially in the field of logistics, where processes, documents and organisational structures are subject to rapid change. Due to Europeanisation in logistics, those aspects are becoming more and more international and require a good command of the English language. 2. In the curriculum of vocational schools, English is being scheduled for a single lesson per week, and thus does not take those developments into account. Hence it is essential for the students' future career prospects and their personal development to enhance their foreign language skills in combination with practical work experience. Furthermore a project like this may always develop the participants' personal competences und leads to a better understanding of joint European values. 3. The apprenticing companies in the logistics sector in the Aschaffenburg region have expanded their branch network in the last years beyond the German boarder and are now increasingly working with partners and customers all over Europe. Apprentices with practical work experience made in the United Kingdom are therefore, in combination with good language skills, an important gain for every apprenticing company. That is why many apprenticing companies in the Aschaffenburg region have the burning desire for some time to have the possibility to integrate a part of their apprentices' training into a work placement in the United Kingdom. 4. The participants had the opportunity, while doing a work placement, to gain a deep insight into the operational procedure of a British logistics company. They reflected processes at their apprenticing companies and hence develop their practical skills. This project offered apprentices at the Staatliche Berufsschule II Aschaffenburg the possibility to qualify sustainably for the future challenges on the labour market. 5. The one-week language course that the students attended before their work placements included contents that are part of the curriculum as well as general language skills and prepared them for their work placements. - Sebastian Weyres, the project leader, monitored and evaluated the project in collaboration with the teaching staff of the working "international relations" at the Berufsschule II Aschaffenburg and the quality management team of the school. Futhermore, Mr. Weyres was in close contact to the participants and their apprenticing companies to ensure that the project goals were reached. - The dissemination of the project was carried out on a regional, as well as on a national level. This application refers to two three-week projects from 26th of October 2014 to 16th of November 2014 and from 1st of November 2015 to 22nd of November 2015. The first week was a language course to develop the participant's language skills and to prepare the participants for the following work-placement. The second and third week was a work placement in a company. The project was taking place in Brighton, United Kingdom UK (first week) and in companies in and around the Brighton region (second and third week). Hence, the project was meant to largely improve the participants's; professional competences as well as their language and social skills and, as a result, contribute to the improvement of quality of the vocational eduction in the Aschaffenburg region. Furthermore several teachers took part in mobility projects that thourghly enhanced their competences in foreign language teaching and helped them to gain a deep insight into the British world of work and British everyday life.