Global Local looks to explore and challenge the idea that outward mobility is only accessible to a minority of young people from privileged backgrounds. Whilst many opportunities for mobility exist within Erasmus and HE, the problem is that these experiences are far too daunting for students who have never left their local area. Indeed many teachers working in disadvantaged areas simply dismiss participation in mobility programmes as unsuitable for their students, since even encouraging them to travel to the next city presents a major challenge. For many leaving the familiarity of their (often quite small) local area for any kind of learning or work opportunity is a stumbling block with multiple barriers (financial, emotional, social) to overcome. Such attitudes usurp any of the career development, confidence building and growth opportunities of mobility, failing to acknowledge it as a key part of transition for all students. This can have a particularly great impact on young people considering their options for further education and future careers. Part of preparing school students for FE/HE or work means developing their readiness to move away from home, so that the full range of training and employment opportunities are available to them when they reach key transition points. Teachers and career professionals in school need support in addressing the issue from an early stage so that they are able to inform both the young people and their main influencers (parents etc) of the personal and professional benefits of being able to thrive in another city, region or potentially another country. A step-by-step approach is needed to guide young people through different degrees of mobility, from going to the next city for an FE Open Day to eventually taking part in an Erasmus exchange. To achieve the project’s aims, Global Local looks to engage with two main target groups: education and career professionals and the young people they work with. At the very least 96 participants will be involved across the project’s research, 200 participants during piloting and a further 200 attending the launch events. In terms of young people, the project will develop resources for them to use independently which both provide a new, challenging dimension to their learning and helps them to better understand the potential career options open to them in the future. Alongside this, the project will look to develop support tools for education and guidance professionals which help to improve these practitioners’ skills and confidence when it comes to engaging with digital resources and promoting outward mobility (regionally, nationally and internationally). This will have a positive impact on the quality of teaching, helping to improve the impact of guidance sessions on students’ overall aspirations and learning outcomes.Partners will look to harness digital advancements, in particular, in the use of game-based learning, to develop an interactive tool which allows young people to immerse themselves in mobility in a way they never have before, all in the safety of the school environment. This will include engaging with different ways of overcoming barriers to mobility (e.g. finances, transportation, social/emotional). It will also offer a fresh perspective and an entry point into discussions around broadening horizons and raising aspirations more generally – either by understanding local, regional, national or international labour markets (e.g. how) or looking at the benefits of mobility in terms of self-confidence and personal development.Whilst the project looks to produce an approach that can be used in a variety of locations across Europe, each partner will use a local region as a test case. These interactive games will be complemented by a series of offline resources (e.g. case studies, best practices, lesson plans, media, guidelines for engaging with parents etc), which will both add value to the learning process and make sure that project resources can be used in a variety of contexts. The experiences of developing these tools will also feed into a teacher toolkit, which will be designed to allow education and career professionals from across Europe to both make the most of the project’s outputs in a blended learning approach with young people, and understand how they can develop similar resources in their own context.Thus, the focus of project outputs will be on positively engaging with the idea of travel and mobility as a key part of career transitions. The project will challenge stereotypes and attitudes (I/our students/child would never leave my/their postcode) and, as a result, young people will be both more confident about employment opportunities outside of their local areas and be better informed to make career and education decisions that may involve moving to another city, region or country.