In search of excellence, 10 teachers for mathematics, IT and foreign languages are being sent to our partner schools in Poland, Italy and Spain. There mission is to find out how Poland managed to improve dramatically its position in the PISA ranking of mathematics performance, what our Italian colleagues do more and better in electronic teaching, how our Spanish partners use digital whiteboards and learning platforms and how we can build up a closer cooperation with them to improve our teaching of Spanish as a foreign language. We compare manuals, curricula, exam levels and teaching methods, learn how to use e-books and learning platforms to improve our teaching performance and to start an international cooperation which we wish to extend in the future. Benchmarking and best practice is to enable us and our partner schools to improve the quality of our teaching, to develop new opportunities for international cooperation and to sharpen the European awareness of our teachers, students and external partners.