From a historical point of view, the history of the European Union is a great story of an uncomparable success. Despite the great achievements in the past, many young people and pupils have mixed feelings about pushing the integration in Europe to the next level. An essential reason for that sceptical attitude is that the pupils cannot collect any positive, individual experiences on private or on a professional level e.g. working or living abroad, because there is a lack of opportunities for them due to the high costs which come along with such a practical experience. The only chance to support the idea of a merging Europe, continuing the integration process in the future, is to secure that the ideas of the European Union will be supported by a convinced major part of our young citizens. Our school is observing this nuisance for a while and we would like to do our part to change this, making Europe to a practical shared perception for our apprentices. Therefor, we officially apply to the Mobility Program of the European Union to give our trainees the chance to participate and experience the advantages and achievements in Europe on their own. The vocational "School for Business and Information Technology" is a public institution from the city of Würzburg. We have the plan to offer our pupils and teachers the opportunity to participate in a practical training as an optional module in their apprenticeship. We expect that the pupils will benefit from the participation in the Mobility Program in several areas, as an individual reaching a higher quality in their education and qualification and as an apprentice on a private level (self development). These are the main points (for potential participants) to apply as a school to the funding program in 2016. However, we are doing this application for the first time, and we will apply in this round 20 eligible internships which will take place in a work experience in London for 3 weeks. Our apprentices have a very diversified level of education, (from Certificate of Secondary Education to General Qualification for University Entrance). They are learning their jobs in a full time school in the following professions:- IT management assistant- qualified IT specialist- businessman for office management- certified businessman assistantParticipating in the Erasmus+ program shall influence sustainable our apprentices, showing several positive effects. Due to the shortage of space, these points are given in headwords. - stimulate the curiosity for foreign cultures and civilizations- expand language abilities, fluently and spoken to a higher skill level- receiving the Europass certificate ("mobility pass" and "language pass") as a participant- boosting self independence of the participants in private while adopting to an unknown workplace and living in a host family for 3 weeks- increasing the willingness to show a higher labour mobility in the future- supporting the personal acquisition of knowledge about new or unfamiliar business processes on a long term basis - bringing new ideas from their internship abroad into their domestic apprenticeship during the 3rd year of their training, realising a transfer of their knowledge- inspire our pupils to create a positive attitude to the idea of a continuing integration in EuropeWe also hope for positive long term effects for our teachers. These points aren't the main focus in this application and they cannot be reached within one experience, because they are often linked with the long term goals of our school. Those points are listed in headwords below:- securing and increasing the professional skills of our teachers- our long term goal is to achieve a cooperation in which teachers can collect practical experiences in job shadowing or in a trainingship in a british company - a long term relationship and cooperation with colleagues and companies on an international level, increasing the quality of school education- a professional cooperation between school and companies to create a forward looking european job profile in our offered apprenticeshipsAs a school institution we hope for the following positive effects, working together with our co-operation partners. These are listed in headwords again:- a strengthened cooperation and networking with other schools and companies from the private business sector, on a national and international level.- the foreign deployment will increase the level of attractivity of our offered apprentices as a school. This will have positive effects on companies and interested young people as well.- a remarkable increase of the quality of our apprenticeships, offering the opportunity to participate and experience Europe as a young person by taking part in an Erasmus+ program- our school development has the long term target to have several partners in Europe for a close cooperation in the future and we try to establish it to a small margin with this application