CONTEXT IES María Sarmiento is a public education center, located in Viveiro - Lugo-Galicia - Spain. Middle and professional teaching of middle and upper level, in the ordinary regime and adult education are taught. GOALS The objectives achieved through this project can be summarized as follows: - Conducting training practices in companies that achieve participants' own skills profile senior technician in electrical systems. - Encourage students to participate in European mobility making them aware of a single workplace. - Strengthen training students and meet the professional reality of companies outside the environment and the country where the participants live. - Open new links to have a network of contacts for future employment. - Enabling our students, who resides in a semi-rural area, an openness to other cultures and other cities to be extremely rewarding. - Travelling to a country with a different language, will provide the student the boost learning and practicing different languages. - Students must share a flat or residence with other students, learn to respect the spaces and practices of others in the day and far from the comforts of your home, you also learn to fend for himself and solve on their own their problems, it will help you in your personal growth. PARTICIPANTS The two participants are students of upper Electrotechnical and automated installations of 22 and 24. They realized practices in April and May 2015. They have no work experience of any kind. Cultural and social conditions are similar to each other and had a great motivation for participating in the project. ORGANIZATIONS Shipping company: I.E.S. MARIA SARMIENTO Intermediate partner Istituto Regionale per la FORMAZIONE & LA RICERCA, Societa CCOPERATIVA (I.Re.Forr.) Host company: I.M.E.P. GIUSEPPE DI PIANCAZZO DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES Students performed the probationary period during the months of April and June 2015, the company IMEP GIUSEPPE DI PIANCAZZO city of Potenza (Italy). The activities and work were: - Interpretation of electrical diagrams. Knowing the risks and electrical safety in different work areas. - Perform maintenance facilities and premises. - Perform wiring boxes protection facilities. - Maintenance of video surveillance systems. - Maintenance of facilities intercom lines and telephone exchanges. - Check data networking systems. - Maintenance of security alarm systems, fire stopping and remote control. OBTAINED RESULTS AND IMPACT Practical training is part of the curriculum achieved the student and the training module in the workplace, and serves to obtain the title of Technician in Electrotechnical and Automated Systems. The experience helped participants to include it on your resume and will then be a means for future employment, since the chances of finding employment increase. For our center was the first time we participate in this type of project, sending students to do internships in companies outside our country. This new experience, is undoubtedly an important incentive and motivation for our students vocational training, opening new avenues of education and possibilities of opening up to Europe. For our students opens the possibility of widely complement several different aspects and its formation. Locally we are the only center offering this type of placements and there are many regional centers in European projects, so we must be among them, thus meeting the demand of our students. Our population is relatively isolated and poor communications with the main capitals of our environment; yet we have a great fishing port and a renewable energy-related industries and aluminum, which increasingly need trained personnel to interact with other countries, mainly in Europe, so the project was not only interesting for our students, but also for our industrial and productive sector to promote openness and the establishment of new markets.