Summary of POWER – final report The project responded to the needs of the students attending the Secondary Technical School No. 24 in Warsaw for whom such apprenticeship was the first work experience. It gave its participants the opportunity to improve (or acquire) their professional skills in a small enterprise responding to changes in the European labour market and performing well during recessions. Thus, the main objective of the project was to improve (or acquire) the participants’ professional skills through skilfully combined practice and theory acquired in the process of vocational education, learning about their employers’ requirements and the specific character of the European market, and broadly defined personal development. This allowed them to realise what they learn at school and beyond, what professional skills they possess and need to acquire in the future, and how to plan their own professional careers effectively. To accomplish this objective, the employees used the Ecvet system to assess the trainees’ possessed (or acquired) professional skills. Another equally important objective of the project was to improve key competencies, particularly language skills, as the participants worked in the linguistically and culturally alien environment, which also improved their social and organisational skills. The apprenticeship for 50 students attending school in the 2014/15 and 2015/16 school years took place in 2015. It was divided into three rounds: the spring (April/May), summer (August), and autumn (November) apprenticeship. Third-class students of the Secondary Technical School No. 24, whose curriculum provides for a month-long apprenticeship, participated in the project. They were trained for the job of an IT Technician and a Digital Graphic Processes Technician. To equalise opportunities, each group of trainees included students requiring some support, e.g. students with physical disabilities – using wheelchairs, experiencing family and financial problems, living in rural and suburban areas, and girls, who seldom choose these professions. The apprenticeship was held in several small or medium IT companies or companies using IT in south-west England, near Plymouth. The following activities were carried out in the course of the project: recruitment of participants (according to clearly defined rules); preparing for departure: establishing workplaces, agreeing on the apprenticeship programme and validation with employers; organisation of the journey, accommodation, food and care over the participants with the intermediary organisation; organising and conducting obligatory classes for students – English course (vocational), psychological support workshops, classes regarding the apprenticeship programme (taking participants’ suggestions into consideration); evaluation of the project in the country and abroad (partial and final); validation compliant with the assumptions used in the application with the use of Europass Mobility and Ecvet, and dissemination activities (information meetings for students and their parents, running the website of the project, the conference for the teachers of the district Warsaw Ochota, etc.). Hard deliverables of the project include, first and foremost, organising 56 mobilities and classes preparing for departure, entering into cooperation with several English employers, issuing 49 Europass Mobility certificates, 49 Ecvet certificates and the apprenticeship completion certificates, the participation of 4 students with special needs, organising a few meetings in the course of the project with the participants and guests, creating and running the website of the project.