"Vocational orientation at secondary schools in Lower Saxony has improved but is still not ideal. Despite regional vocational training offers, many pupils struggle through their last school years and the Abitur, only to start an apprenticeship. The same applies to the Lycée in France, whose Baccalaureat as a prerequisite for any professional advancement cannot always be successfully completed and then the alternatives appear unattractive. Our objectives were: 1. to develop strategies for improved career orientation at the Gymnasium and Lycée, i.e. to create a concept which enables the pupils to apply for a vocational internship or even an apprenticeship in other European countries. With the created concept they receive tips, tools and contacts with which they can determine their professional development on the European labour market themselves and thus - supported by their teachers - can decide more easily on a professional field or a profession. 2. to set a link on the homepages of the Gymnasium am Markt and the institution Notre Dame de Sainte-Croix Neuilly/Paris under ""School profile"" / ""Erasmus+"", which helps underage students and their teachers access our career orientation concept with all its application training tools and some contacts in the regions Achim/Bremen and Neuilly/Paris.The following activities were carried out:The German and French vocational training and higher education systems as well as companies and businesses in the Bremen / Achim region were researched and presented. All the 16 pupils participating in the mobilities have drawn up a CV and a letter of application in German, English and French. In preparation for the internship abroad, observation sheets were designed for pupils, parents and companies. All students took part in the annual job fair of the French school and - after collecting important possible questions - managed a simulated job interview in the three project languages.A two-day job shadowing with a parent of the host students in the respective other country with documentation, feedback and interim evaluation by the participants prepared them for their internship abroad. Seven German students completed this 7-day internship in a French company through the agency of their French host parents (law firm, bank, gift shop, primary school, paediatrician, telecommunications, advertising agency). Due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the French students' internship in German companies had to be postponed until next year.The subsequent student reports, feedback from everybody involved and the overall evaluation led to our FINAL RESULTS, i.e. a roadmap called CHECKLIST: YOUR INTERNSHIP ABROAD, a practicable procedure for pupils, parents, teachers and company staff along with a TOOLKIT of useful templates and contacts - to be found on the respective homepages (checklist plus 10 templates in English, French and German): www.gamma-achim.de (Schulprofil/Erasmus+) and www.saintecroix-de-neuilly.com. The templates include CV’s, motivation letters, language preparation for job interviews/internships, agreements between school and company, feedback sheets and internship reports.The Europasses “Mobility” have been applied for and will be issued soon. All documents were created in workshops. The host parents have fulfilled their obligation to offer a job shadowing and to assist in finding a work placement.We expect that in the medium run, the results of our Erasmus+ project will provide not only secondary schools, their 15-17-year-old students, their parents and teachers with a roadmap for career orientation in other European countries but will also be useful for vocational advisers in the respective regions. We are going to send our checklist and tool kit to our partnerschools in Latvia and Spain."