The purpose of this project was twofold, and based on a needs analysis of what are challenges in each of the regions to which the schools in this project belong. This needs analysis was carried out by taking into account the European Development Plan of each participant school and it resulted in that all partners decided to focus on a set of common objectives in order to improve the quality of education and contribute to the construction of a European identity based on democratic principles. On the one hand it focused on job shadowing as a method to increase students’ motivation, and at the same time we used the job shadowing to look into important social issues. The project objectives were, briefly summed up, to get students to finish their education, increase motivation, make students better equipped to choose career path, make students see the link between theory and practice, prepare students for the shared European labour market and to make students become aquainted with trials and triumphs of work life. Additional objectives addressed were teachers’ and students’ communicative and linguistic skills, students’ creative skills, teachers competence through exchanges of good practice and linguistic and foreign languages skills, students’ critical thinking, participants’ self-confidence, organizational and leadership skills and teamwork and initiative spirit and entrepreneurial skills.All four schools who ended up taking part in the project (the Greek school withdrew at the beginning of the project period) had issues they wanted to address In Trysil, Norway, the refugee crisis has led to an increased inflow of newly arrived immigrants. Antalya and Turkey have struggled with recruiting women to working life. Kielce, Poland, is located in an area which once was rich in minerals such as copper ore, lead ore, and iron, and this was used as a starting point to look into sustainable living. Spain was hit hard by the financial crisis of 2008 and still struggles with low employment rates. The purpose of the project was to use job shadowing as a method to increase students’ motivation, and at the same time use the job shadowing to look into the current issues described above. The participants were in a way forced to face the challenge of meeting something which was different, where they themselveshad to relate to these challenges without a given solution. The interpersonal relations would help shape and influence the process of learning, we hoped.The participants attained, through their experiences in a new learning environment, knowledge about and got an understanding of the similarities and differences between working life in the different countries. This gave the participants an opportunity to reflect and achieve a deeper understanding of the shared European labour market.When the project started, the coordinating school contacted all partners to start preparations for the first project meeting in Trysil, Norway, in November 2016. The focus of the meeting was “Settlement of migrants due to the refugee crises” and workplaces for job shadowing were recruited within this field. These were then presented for the guest students so that they could choose workplace. The host school also made teaser videos about their hometown and school. In addition all schools had to prepare for what we had chosen as ‘Special Topic’ in the Norway: “The European Fair”. Here each school, region and country were presented through PowerPoint presentations, posters and traditional food and costumes. The purpose of this was to get to know each other better. The focus topic in Poland were 'Sustainable Living', in Spain 'Entrepreneurship' and in Turkey 'Working Women'.The meeting last for eight days and the structure of this meeting, and all the following meetings, were:Day 1: ArrivalDays 2 and 3: Get to know the school and local community. Days 4 and 5: Job shadowing for students. Teachers will observe.Day 6: At school to (1) share the experience of the job shadowing and (2) present ‘Special Topic’ that has been prepared on beforehand.Day 7: Preparations for next meeting. Evaluation of current meeting. Day 8: DepartureThe students lived with host families during all the meetings.Even though some of our goals were phrased in such a way that it is difficult to measure whether we have achieved them or not, there is a general feeling among the partner schools that the students who participated got an insight into work life that they would otherwise not have got, if you take into account that these were students attending general studies, and not vocational studies.If you look at longer-term benefits, we can see that we now got a better and more close relationship with our local municipality leaders, something which we plan to take advantage of in the way that we arrange job shadowing activities also after the project has ended.