Our project is entitled “Opening up towards our European neighbours and international economy” (We commonly voted and agreed on this as one of three new school guidelines which we regularly have to communicate to our school authority.) By launching it, we intend to progress our lessons as well as the vocational qualification provided at our college. Furthermore we want to pave our students' way into an increasingly globalised world of work. The project is headed by Susanne Braune, who is not only a member of our school administration, but also the person in charge of quality management issues. Being really motivated fifteen colleagues additionally volunteered for taking part in the project. They are mainly language or vocational (technology/business/social sciences) teachers. The latter are also involved in the organisation and supervision of our local work placements. The extended project team furthermore consists the principal, the young teachers' seminar facilitator and the head of our work placements team. Due to all this there is an enhanced focus on the vocational character of our project. The team meets regularly in order to agree on short-term aims and imminent tasks. For each partner school there is a core team of at least one language and one vocational teacher. They gather information on the peculiarities and features that need to be taken into account and that could be of special interest for the visit. The project serves the purpose of raising the teachers and thereby the students' awareness for our European neighbours' working and cultural environment. Apart from sharing our findings and experiences with the our colleagues and students, we will glean the results of our project in an exhibition, for which we are going to invite our educational partners (a local middle school and a senior technical college) as well as the companies that provide the local work placements for our students.