Slovakia is already established member of the EU. Therefore it is important to prepare pupils for the European work market and to enable them to participate in international mobility programmes. This project involves realization of four stays for the pupils of Spojená škola in Detva and Secondary Vocational School in Žarnovica - specializations of Business Academy, mechanic setter and mechanic of computer networks. Thirty-one pupils of the 2nd– 4th grades will participate in this stay. The selection is based on the language, job and character skills for the successful accomplishment of the foreign stay. The second mobility will be the training for teachers of specialized subjects and masters of practical training in partner Czech vocational schools. Altogether four teachers will participate in this mobility. The professional stay will last from three to four weeks and will be held in companies and institutions in Germany, the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic. The contents of the professional stay will correspond with the school standards and curriculum. We have set these main goals: - to improve professional knowledge and skills in the subjects in the frame of the particular school educational programmes - to improve language communicative skills in German/English language - to gain new professional knowledge in the profile subjects of participating study programmes - to compare working of business sphere in Slovakia and in the target country (study programme Business Academy), - to compare the working of modern engineering production in Slovakia and in the target country (study programme mechanic setter, mechanic of computer networks) - to develop independence, reliability and creativity of the pupil in new circumstances and thus enable their better preparation for the first enter job market with the emphasis on the possibility to implement themselves in the EU. - to get to know the culture, mentality and the way of life of the visited country and to contribute to the involvement of the participants into multicultural society, - following of the current trends in the EU and increasing mobility and integration in the frame of the particular states of the EU - linking the content of the education and professional training with the needs of job market - comparison and linking contents of education in the frame of the professional training in the EU - transfer of gained knowledge and experience into the content of the specialized subjects - to develop contacts with the partner organizations for the purpose of further cooperation when organizing mobilities for the school pupils. Host organizations are: Internationaler Bund Bildungszentrum Jena, Siawns Teg, SOŠ Třemošnice, Jenaer Bidungszentrum and SOŠ Plzeň that will prepare places of the professional stay for the pupils and will enable the pedagogical employees to realize training in their school. All the pupils will obtain evaluations from the companies, certificates and Europass –mobility after finishing of the stay.