This project was born within the context of the sending organization development plans and internationalization strategy (with over 20 years of investment/activity in R&D and Innovation, Cooperation and Partnership national and international projects) as well as a result of the specific needs of the project direct beneficiaries.The project involves 70 participants, trainees from an International Trade Technological Specialisation Qualification developed in CECOA. This is a level 5 qualification (NQF/EQF) and gives trainees a professional profile of “International Trade Specialist Technician”. The project participants, who prepare this qualification, are professionals who will carry out their activities in an international context, relating themselves with customers, suppliers and service providers coming from different countries and cultural backgrounds. It is, clearly, a profile where multicultural relations management is fundamental to perform well. One can easily understand that the description of the participant’s future profession points out to certain needs in terms of participants’ professional and personal development, which this project addresses:- Improvement of the participants professional competences, in the technical, relational and personal development fields, strengthen by the possibility offered by the project of exposing participants to different geographic, linguistic and cultural learning contexts and business practices and backgrounds;- Improvement of the participants’ language and intercultural skills and competences;- Improvement in the participants’ ability to integrate cultural diversity in the working and decision making processes;- Increasing of participants’ openness, tolerance and acceptance towards different business and cultural backgrounds;- Better participants’ professional integration and higher employability.The following activities are expected to take place:- A 4 weeks work placement, in an international frame, in companies from a geographic, linguistic and cultural reference different from the Portuguese one and that are likely to work in international markets different from the national, with the goal of allowing participants to practice and develop their professional, personal, intercultural and language competences;- A linguistic preparation programme, aiming to improve participants’ language and intercultural skills and competences as well as their personal development ability, including basic knowledge of the host country language (online and using the Erasmus + OLS platform) as well as reflection on acceptable business practices and field training on basic intercultural communication skills and competences (in Portugal during the training and abroad in the hosting countries with the support of the companies tutors and of the receiving organisation “reference persons”).Mobilities will take place in 2 cycles: 1º in Sept/Dec 2016 and the 2º in Sept/Dec 2017 involving receiving organisations that as CECOA belong to the NETINVET network (www.netinvet.eu) in in following countries (FR, ES, NL, IT, Sl) and workplace hosting companies that will be identified by the receiving organisations. Expected project outcomes and impact:- Improvement of the participants’ professional performance and competences (technical, relational, linguistic, intercultural, personal development) as well as of the organizations’ staff involved (mobility management, intercultural, integration of new working methods, networking, international cooperation)- Higher participants’ professional integration and employability- To stand out in the market as a provider offering high quality technological specialisation training in the international trade field, able to offer differentiating elements as a period of training in an international context- Higher international projection of the partners involved and improvement of their network of international contacts, strengthened by the participation in the NETINVET association- Higher prestige of the International Trade Technological Specialisation Qualification near potential trainees, companies and the national education and VET system as a result of the qualification international recognition within the NETINVET network and in the countries involved- Greater efficiency and effectiveness in the management of European mobility partnerships through access to the NETINVET improved mobility tools - A good practice example in the application of the ECVET principles and in the application of the principles conducting to a "recognized" learning outcomes mobility - National education and VET system greater openness to the benefits resulting from the requirement/recommendation of having a training period abroad in the International Trade Technological Specialisation Qualification - Greater mutual trust in the education and VET systems of the countries involved as well as in their training quality assurance systems