This project is aimed at students from VET paths attending their senior year and focus mainly on students at risk of social exclusion, namely those facing difficult family and socioeconomic hardships, who are demotivated and, consequently, at risk of dropping out of school. In fact, these students who sometimes may pass unnoticed are youths with fewer opportunities and must be given all our care and attention if we want, in fact, to promote fairness and parity for all. The consortium, constituted by 6 teaching organisations and by the Industrial Association of Aveiro’s District (AIDA) realised there were many students from VET technical courses facing these dilemmas and understood it was their social responsibility to intervene in order to improve these youths’ qualifications, showing them that “opportunity” is much more than a word. By writing this project focusing on them and on their needs, the consortium hopes to improve not only their qualifications and skills but also to improve their chances of finding a better job after finishing their course. At the same time, it will be contributing to the idea of what being European actually means and to the European dimension of the organisations involved. This consortium decided to take the risk to really make a difference by covering three municipalities of Aveiro’s region, therefore assuming a regional length. It is a project that wants to give 60 young people with the profile already identified above the opportunity to have a work-based experience abroad and, at the same time, offer 20 teachers/staff members the opportunity to do a training course, during a week, in the countries/regions where the students will be doing their internship. During this week, the teachers/staff members will be able to contact with innovative work approaches and methodologies and, at the same time, accompany the students’ internship, witnessing first-hand their integration in the hosting company and in the local community, their interaction with local actors and the execution of the work plan and the Learning Agreement previously established.This consortium also set as main goals: to give students the opportunity to be acquainted with other entrepreneurial cultures in a foreign context, helping them understand the diversity of people and ways of being and working that exist; to prepare them to the needs of the labour market; to improve their possibilities of finding a better job after finishing school and to promote the development of cultural, linguistic, personal, social and technical competencies.It is also the consortium’s objective to continue the work already done in the two previous consortia, related to the learning sharing of good practices, this time by integrating two new educational organisations. This means to be able to answer a double need that is being felt over the region and which has to do, on the one hand, with the lack of equal opportunities for all and, on the other hand, with the increasing need that companies have for qualified staff. In this regard, AIDA will be a great asset, since it will play an important role in the preparation of students for the internationalisation process. Ultimately, this experience will also promote the development of skills, both in students and teachers/staff members in at least 2 foreign languages, as it is required by the Council of Europe. This project will also stimulate encounters and spaces for discussion of subjects related to the continuous improvement of whole process involving the selection, placement, monitoring and evaluation of students doing an internship in a foreign company.We will also be using ECVET, which means a bigger transparency of the process and the recognition of certain skills/units at a European level.All the beneficiaries will have access to non-formal learning contexts, which will increase motivation. New skills and techniques will be learnt – students will profit from these when searching for a job and teachers/staff members will replicate them among their peers and use them to improve their working practices as well.The contact with new realities will enhance adaptability to change and help cope better with stressing situations. The contact with different cultures will lead to an increased disposition to accept others and their differences.The European dimension of all the organisation will be enriched and new partnerships may result from this experience.The projects outcomes will be disseminated at the local press and at the project’s webpage and some information will also be made available on social networks, such as Facebook. There will also be arranged structured meetings, workshops and seminars (involving not only the school community but also the local community and local companies) to disseminate the project even further. Another asset will be the dissemination of results at Aveiro's Europe Direct Centre.