"<< Background >>The project is the result of a long-term collaboration between partners who exchanged in the past good practices in the field of Education from level 3 to 5. In the current context of growing concurrence in the professional market, VET students need to upgrade their intercultural skills to value their professional training for a market that is driven by multiculturalism and high quality and big scale events. However, as VET students and apprentices from group at risk of exclusion, they have less opportunities than students from general training to experience a mobility and to work in an intercultural environment. In this line, the need to provide an international programme that is integrated to partners educative pathway and certifications in a collaborative way is seen as essential. For that, the framework of collaboration, educative approach -offline and online- and the training of beneficiaries -VET professors and teachers- is crucial and are aspects addressed in Un dîner au château project. The aim is to strengthen the tools and instruments to facilitate mobility in Europe and support young people in their personal project and in their professional and personal future as EU citizens. The aim of student mobility is indeed to help learners to better master the chosen profession, to develop their professional competences, knowledge, skills and competences with the support of selected partner organizations, giving them the opportunity to become acquainted with new working methods and techniques, as well as unknown technologies. This will increase the level of knowledge of the learners and will allow students to better understand the chosen profession. The work experience gained will make a significant contribution to their personal development and career development in real dinners with high quality and multicultural approach. This project will contribute to develop intercultural exchanges and promotes the international openness of students, improving their English listening and speaking skill.<< Objectives >>Thus, the general objective is to develop VET learners’ and students inter-connected skills to boost professional empowerment for career growth and personal future as EU citizens. And the subobjective to reach this general objective are: 1. Combine professional (hotel-Hospitality and Gastronomy) and general (Cultural heritage-history, applied arts and English) disciplines with ecological practices as transversal subject through un dîner au château training approach. 2. Raising awareness on learners about the common European culture through architectural heritage and gastronomy with the visit of castles and the organisation of gala dinners in the three partner countries. 3. Provide a framework to promote quality mobility of VET staff and learners with automatic mutual recognition of qualifications to obtain their educative-professional certificate. 4. Connect vocational high school students, VET learners and students by promoting professional integration and open up prospects for further studies, from level 3 to level 4 (Upper secondary education (ISCED level 3) to Post-secondary non-tertiary education (ISCED 4)), and from level 4 to level 5 (Short-cycle tertiary education (ISCED 5) towards Bachelor's or equivalent -ISCED 6-). 5. Allow access to mobility and European openness to a public which is far from it (vocational students outside the European section, apprentices, persons with disabilities).<< Implementation >>The general objective of Un dîner au château project will be achieved by the specific implementation of activities linked to the sub-objectives which are: • A “Facilitator training programme on the castle's dinner approach” that provides work student-centred based learning as part of the innovation in educative blended experience (linked to sub-objective 1). • Provide clear instruments -inclusive digital tools- 2.0 digital castle's dinner approach that will improve the performance of beneficiaries and therefore VET learners and students into a European perspective for professional growth and personal empowerment; as part of the transformation of the professional path (linked to sub-objective 4 and 5). • To provide work-based learning EU level spaces to detect best practices ""A castle's dinner best practices handbook"" as part of Internationalisation strategies for VET providers (linked to sub-objective 2 and 3). Three mobilities of VET learners and students will complement the pedagogical work prepared in the previous activities. These mobilities will give students the opportunity to learn in an intercultural environment the educational content on the different Castle dinner’s topics and to strengthen their professional skills through the preparation of a castle dinner at the end of each mobility. These dinners will be organised as dissemination events and thus give the students the opportunity to test their knowledge and their competencies. It will promote the students’ results to a wider audience of VET learners, teachers, institutions and stakeholders. Another mobility will be organised for the VET teachers in order to foster collaboration and develop the digital tools for the castle dinner approach. The project will end with a final pedagogical conference presenting all the project’s results to a wider audience in VET and Pedagogy fields.<< Results >>The results are: 1.- A “Facilitator training programme on the castle's dinner approach”. This first Project Result will provide the educational content for the VET learners blended experiences in the different mobilities. 2.- “2.0 digital castle's dinner approach"": It is a complete and coherent digital support prior to mobilities, to initiate the integration of beneficiaries and target groups. It includes 5 online learning sessions with activities for European collaboration and pedagogical digital guidelines. 3.- ""A castle's dinner best practices handbook"": it will combine best practices from the Un dîner au château approach and comparison between the first student mobility and the other two after the digital support is implemented. 4.- 4 International training activities: a) Dinner at Rundalé castle international training with 11 teachers and at least 30 students involved. b) Castle’s dinner Training of VET Professionals with 8 VET teachers and professors, c) Dinner at Villa Olmo international training with 11 teachers and at least 30 students involved. d) Dinner at Versailles castle international training with 11 teachers and at least 30 students involved. 5. 4 Multiplier events (workshops and final conference) a) to present project results; b) to have a demonstration of the project results and assess them -e.g. final master piece venue-; c) to invite Stakeholders to join the project for future initiatives; d) to bring together an international community of scholars and practitioners in a forum setting. e) to open opportunities for discussion on practices in applications of blended digital learning, with a special focus on gastronomy and interdisciplinarity, will be enhanced by the project Consortium. 3 Master pieces final accreditation that are in the frame of gala dinner where Students will elaborate and coordinate the dinners to invited guests, at least 160 guests in total. Co-financed by Partners, associates and VET Stakeholders. Intangible results are: • Increased opportunities for the personal and professional development of teachers through more attractive and innovative enacted-based approaches that are in line with teachers’ real-life needs and expectations; • Building upon digital teacher education readiness and strengthening teachers’ responsiveness, adaptability, and flexibility towards future educational crisis; • Greater understanding and responsiveness towards high quality inclusive digital education to promote education for all; • Evaluation of Un dîner au château approach to collect evidence for the analysis and evaluation of the approach; • The enrichment of the VET curricula with the proposed learning objects and scenarios. • Exchange of ideas and good practices between the participating in the execution of all the planned activities; • Increased experience in teacher education via learner-centered based approaches and raise awareness among the participants, participating organizations, stakeholders, and EU decisionmakers, at national, local, and European Levels; • Promote future initiatives to improve educators’ skills and address impact on education through the use of Un dîner au château approach."