Secondary School of Hotel Industry, Gastronomy and Services, SČMSD Šilheřovice, s.r.o., Dolní 356, 747 15 Šilheřovice is the applicant of the grant project: „To Bavaria for experience“. A partner organization is the restaurant Vita Alpina in Ruhpolding, Germany. Our school effort, in connection of the participation in the Erasmus programme and the aim of the project „To Bavaria for experience,” is to achieve first-rate practical preparation of students for their future profession. Besides other things, the experience helps to easier employment on the labour market as in the Czech Republic so abroad and it will bring to the students strengthen of the work self-confidence, self-reliance and their personal prestige. The students of the following branches of study: Hotel industry and Gastronomy, both ended by Maturita exam and a branch of apprenticeship: A Cook – Waiter, ended by apprenticeship certificate, will be involved in this project. The project is expected for 8 participants who will have 4-week practice on a place of the internship. There will be 2 courses in the period of January – March 2015. Before the realization of the internship, there will be organized language courses and cultural and professional training, which will be compulsory for all selected participants, possibly substitutes. All training will be organized in the school building beyond normal teaching classes during the months of September-December 2014. The duration of the planned internship is 4 weeks in 2 courses. During the first days, the participants will get to know with a receiving organization, coordinator and authorized workers who will carry out a professional supervision at individual workplaces. An accompanying person will be presented in the first week of each run. All students will be informed and instructed about safety and hygienic principles. The students will work in a restaurant and a kitchen in pairs and they will carry out the practice according a schedule in 6-hour shifts six days a week. The students will get to know with the organization of work in different sections, with daily work schedules and with the economic, organizational and management activities of the company. The students will work in this catering facility throughout the whole period of internship. They will improve their work skills, learn new working methods and improve their language knowledge at work in the kitchen, especially during communication with guests. We are convinced that they can acquire similar experience only in new surroundings, while learning and getting to know about other cultures and traditions. In agreement with the partner organization is planned a special excursion to the school: Beruffachschule Dr. Kalscheuer in a district town Traunstein. This school is focused on teaching of the branch of study: Gastronomy and Tourism. There are also planned other activities during the internship including a visit to a historic centre of the close city Salzburg in Austria and sightseeing in Bavaria. After the internship there will be organized discussions of the participants of the internship with classes of Gastronomy and Tourism. The project participants will share, via presentations, their knowledge and experience from the internship with their schoolmates. These pieces of knowledge will also enrich our school's promotional material, which includes all the information about already realized projects in a framework of former programme Leonardo da Vinci. This material is provided to those who are interested in study at our school. The participants of the internship will also take part in preparation of the Bavarian cuisine, which is already implemented as a tradition of our school. The benefit of those events is increased attention of the students to participate in other projects. The results will be presented in our local and regional press: Deník, Region a MF Dnes.