Lycée des Métiers Jean Perrin is a vocational secondary school located in Longjumeau, 20km South of Paris. Our school offers studies in different fields of activities: Service, Health and care and Industry. Our establishment has been involved since 2002 with European awareness and travel projects that are part of our school plan. In 2003, we opened the European Section of the Baccalaureate in Secretarial Studies and since that time, students go on work placement in the UK or Ireland for 4 or 5 weeks. Within the institution, the project steering committee is composed of the school management, administration, the works manager, English teachers and the secretarial teacher ( also teaching business English ) .In 2012, we opened the Baccalaureate in Business Management and Administration which now incorporates the European Section. For this project, participants will be in their final year of Business Administration and Management. The objectives are: • Become aware of European culture and gain a real sense of European citizenship. Indeed, Europe must not remain a concept. Through this project, the importance of the European Union takes its legitimacy and becomes very concrete. •Allow students to become more motivated in their studies and prevent dropout. Early school leaving is a real problem in French vocational schools today and too many young people leave school without a diploma.The project unites students around it and gives them extra motivation. •Give students in the section better access to higher education. For them a good standard of language skills is required. Most of our students continue their studies with Btec HND (2/3) either in Admin assistant courses or Executive assistant for small and medium size company courses. • Allow students to explore other ways of working. Indeed, the English or the Irish have a different pattern of the working day. • Gaining confidence. Our students have often been “broken” by the school system. They arrive at the vocational school with bad attitudes and thinking that the requirements will be revised downwards. With this project, they discover that it is not so, and that this type of school offers innovative and enriching projects. • Develop a taste for travel abroad. Many of our students who have benefited from training abroad have felt encouraged to have other experiences abroad. A service provider is necessary to organize professional internships abroad. • find the appropriate company in line with the professional skills of the diploma, and the student’s skills or abilities. • ensure the regular monitoring to each student and help them if necessary in their relation with the families or the companies. • Greet students and facilitate their integration • Find suitable accommodation with host families, people willing to accept French students in their homes. • Be in constant contact with students in order to intervene with families and businesses if necessary. These service providers are selected on the quality of services offered. We have already worked with several of them : Interconnection, INI, Eurostaff, TestEnglish, CEI At the beginning of each training placement, we study the quotations and award the contract to the provider that offers the best service. The next work experience abroad should take place in January 2015; It would be a four and a half week period in Ireland. 14 students from the management and administration group should take part in the project.