The project „To be ready for nursing exchange in Europe 2016-2018“ targets trainees of the Ludwigshafen Hospital Clinical Care Center who attend their 2nd, resp. 3rd. year (i.e. 4th, resp. 5th semester) of health vocational courses for Nursing.It is the aim of the project to prepare trainees for the European job market, to break language barriers, and to increase trainee’s self-confidence, self-dependency, and adaptability. Hereby, the project will focus on the development of practical skills in selected professional domains as well as the development of trainee’s intercultural competences, in particular with regard to health care and support of people with different cultural backgrounds. Foreign assignments are an integral part of health vocational courses for Nursing and are fully chargeable to total duration of vocational training. The project term will be two years, during which period 40 trainees shall complete their foreign assignments. First assignments are scheduled for August 2016 and the final assignments for June 2018. Colloborative partnership institutions will be the University Clinics of Innsbruck, Salzburg and Klagenfurt (all in Austria), and the St. Nikolaus-Hospital in Eupen (Belgium).