This project is relevant because all four partner countries send a lot of students abroad every year, but we all have different ways of preparation/coaching students, who want to go abroad. It provides some different expectations of all the parties. Sometimes it creates misunderstandings and frustration for stakeholders. When we have the same frame of reference as a common toolkit, all stakeholders will understand each other better and our students will feel more secure and confident and better equipped and also having a feeling of being more professional when they take an internship abroad. Students will be more confident with their objectives, they have an idea of what is expected of them from the internships. The project is innovative because the outcome involves participants from internships/ labour market, employers and students during the process of this strategic partnership and also after the expiry of the EU funding. The new element is that we establish a local student board to hear their views and experiences on how this toolkit works best. The student board is an equal partner and is participating and giving feedback. The students will bring their opinions and also act as a pilot in the project in two levels (locally/nationally and internationally) The main objective of this project is to improve the preparation proces for students who want to go abroad in internships in the collaborating countries. The project partners want to develop and to test a toolkit in a project period from September 2015 to spring 2018. Project partners consisting of four partner countries from Finland, The Netherlands, Estonia and Denmark (all VET schools/ colleges) and several assistant partners as local work placements /local internships will also participate in this project. - Finland´s representative is an ECVET expert. In addition, the Finnish school (Omnia) has for the last 2 years worked with "Individual learning pathway". - The Netherlands (Vitalis College): has a long experience working with innovative cooperation exercises and teamwork. - Estonia (Kuressaare Ametikool): Big experience in using information technology in teaching students in VET-programmes. - Denmark (SOSU Nord College): The teachers teach daily in innovative learning methods like: cooperative learning and "Theatre of the oppressed" (Forum Teater) A phased project model implements the project. The project is legally anchored in the applicant organization SOSU Nord where a steering committee has been established to ensure that the project is implemented according to the Danish rules for ERASMUS +. The coordinating group has divided the project activities in 6 phases. The six phases vill ensure coherence and clarity for all parties in the project. At each phase transition the coordinating group discusses whether the milestones are reached and weather activities are managed well. Then the group plans in detail the next phase. The steering committee approves the coordinating group´s coming things to do. The tangible result of the project will be a toolkit. The toolkit will be a flexible and dynamic open online platform. The project partners will ensure the existence of the toolkit after the expiry of the project period. It means that after the project, other VET schools with related internships in Europe have the opportunity to contribute and add materials and create databases and therefore the toolkit remains to the benefit of all European stakeholders. Activities related to the toolkit are the other intellectual outputs mentioned in this project. These intellectual outputs are essentials elements in the toolkit and they are connected to a lot of activities. One of the milestones is a beta version of the toolkit, which will be ready for the national pilot beginning 2017 and later on the toolkit will be fully functional for the international pilot (2018) Another milestone is (C1) Learning/Training Activities in innovative learning methods, for teachers only, which will support the project's objectives: "Improving the preparation proces for students who want to go abroad in internships". This training/learning activity is necessary for the project's results and further implementation. The final result = the toolkit will have a positive and enhancing impact of students´: - social skills - personal skills - foreign language skills - professional skills The project partners use an online web portal based on a CMS-System to create our toolkit, because it is a free web software. This is beneficial for the long term benefits of the project based on the assumption that there will be a greater chance of continuity and maintenance after the expiry of the EU funding. The final result of this project is sustainable because the online open toolkit will be relevant in the future because of its its relevance usefulness and function. Form and contents of the toolkit will probably change according to the needs and wishes of the future Europe.