All participants are 11th grade students of the vocational schools for social care, child care and housekeeping, as well as of the dual system of vocational education. Many students grew up in rural areas and in a rather uneducated environment. They are still very young- mainly underage. Therefore, they have barley any experience with mobility projects. All students are already in their second year of their initial training programme, which means that they already have some good knowledge of the particular everyday-working-life. Due to the fact that most of the students just hold a successful certificate of secondary education (CSE) they have limited (native and foreign) language skills, which need to be improved. Additionally, most of our students haven’t had any experience with migrants so far. Their experiences refer to asylum seekers and gastarbeiter and they are rather based on prejudices. However, it is getting even more important in their kind of jobs, to get insights into working structures of other countries and to develop intercultural and personal skills through the exposure to strange cultures. As a result, basic project targets must be:- Application of the English language in daily life and to reduce fears of contacts with foreign languages and cultures- To gain professional skills by learning about new educational focuses in the partner country and through exploring the differences and similarities in the education. - Establishment of personal skills, like self-confidence and so on.The number of participants is limited to 20 students per flow, since most of them are underage, which leads to a higher need of care and support. Additionally, financial costs are playing a big part, because many of our student’s families live in limited monetary boundaries, who can barely accomplish any additional cost. To develop a feeling for the language and to learn how to act self-respondent in an urban area, it is absolutely necessary to have a one-week language course before the placement takes place. The placement in the different professional areas lasts two weeks and gives first insights in the working-structures of the host country. The dealing with the different culture of the host country will be supported by the accompanying teachers in the afternoons of the first week and at the weekends, additional to their lives in the host families and at work of social facilities. The organisation of the mobility, like insurance, transportation to the airport, flight booking and flight, transportation in greater London will be done by the sending organisation. They will also help to organise special needs like visa applications. The partner organisation is responsible for the organisation of the host families, the placement companies and the first information for the participants. During the whole mobility, the participants will be accompanied by both organisations. Placement visits as well as personal and intercultural care and support will be done by the accompanying persons. Regular meetings at the partner organisation will be done to monitor, evaluate and ensure the learning progresses. There are many expected effects:A strong personal effect on the participant’s self-confidence can be expected. The certainty to have been able to orientate in a metropolis supports the self-confidence as well as the experience to handle a new and strange situation. In the future, the willingness will be enforced to face and go through new and uncertain, anxiety-ridden situations. Effects on the language can be already expected during the first week of the stay, when the participants realize, that they are always able to find ways to express themselves – the main thing is that they dare to use the language. Language skills in vocabulary, through frequent speaking, as well as active and passive understanding will be improved, because the contact to migrants and British dialects require concentrated listening. In London-Harrow, in their families and working facilities, the participants will have contact to British people with different cultural background, which can be from Rumania, Jamaica or India. In that way they will be forced to deal with different cultures on a personal and culinary level and as well as the differences in values and conventions. This leads to a questioning of own prejudices and to a curiosity of foreign cultures.To compare the professional facilities, the concepts and the working structure of the host country to the working situation at home and the questioning of familiar habits, lead to the ability to recognize connections and dependencies in values of different cultural backgrounds. On a long term, that will result in a changed attitude towards foreigners and a reduction of prejudices.