The vocational school Jean-Pierre Champo located in a rural environment hosts about 210 students. Newly approved ‘school of maintenance jobs’, it offers trainings in the field of maintenance of farm machinery, construction machinery, garden machinery and motorcycles.Involved for more than twenty years in the projects of European mobility, the project 2016-2018 will allow about 30 students preparing for a vocational training certificate or a vocational school leaving certificate to carry out a work placement abroad within the framework of the training skills base of the prepared certification. Develop their partiality for learning languages, give this learning a new interest, leave the local background to build a true European identity, recover confidence in one’s ability to study, consider an occupational future in Europe, learn and gain autonomy in everyday and technical life, prepare and pass a European-sounding certification are the main targets set by this new project.This will also enable the school and the members of the educational community to go on improving the European image of the school, create a dynamic of work with a multidisciplinary group around a project, perpetuate the exchanges with our European partners, keep the pairings with the schools we are linked to, active and productive…To conclude, strengthen and reaffirm the European openness of the school of maintenance jobs Jean-Pierre Champo.