The measure carried out by the Bildungszentrum Saalfeld GmbH offers students of grades 7 to 9 of the State Regular School Oppurg of the Saale-Orla-Kreis a practical support of their career selection process. The objective and content of the measure is to optimise the transition from school to education, for participants with no funding needs, especially in the areas of technology, health and social care. Practical experience is taught within the scope of professional field surveys and professional field trials, carried out gender-sensitive and takes place outside the school in the vocational training centres and in companies. The aim is to strengthen the readiness for career selection and to improve vocational choice skills by empowering students to use the gained knowledge for the selection of a targeted internship. Integration into the overall concept of the local authority and schools The measure “Praxis-oriented vocational orientation” provides the regular schools in the Saale-Orla district in state or free ownership together with the Chamber of Crafts for East Thuringia (HWK), Bil-dungsstätte Rudolstadt, an offer of support for practical professional orientation. It is based on the “Landing Strategy for Practical Vocational Orientation in Thuringia” and is financed by the Schulför-der Directive from funds from the European Social Fund. The support offer is complemented by the complementary measures “Transitional Coordination” and “Practical Test Methods for Potential Analysis in Thuringia”. In addition to the regional workforce requirements, the selection of the offered occupational fields is based on the “Tren-Datlas 2020” for the Free State of Thuringia as well as on the “Specialist Perspective Thuringia 2025” and complies with the eligibility criteria of the ESF School Promotion Directive. The Bildungs-zentrum Saalfeld GmbH offers practical experience in the following professional fields/focuss: Professional fields – Construction, Architecture, Surveying – Gardening and Landscaping Tourism, Leisure, Foreign Languages, Dialogue Marketing – Gastronomy Electrical – Electrics Medicine, Psychology, Care and Therapy – Health Care Computers, Computer Science, IT – Other Metal, Mechanical Engineering – Metal Construction Wood and Paper – Woodworking Mechanics Glass, Paints, Paints, Plastics – Colour and Spatial Design Technology, Technology Fields – Renewable Energies Transport, Logistics, Transportation, the project will be carried out in the workshops, specialist cabins and classrooms of BZ Saalfeld GmbH at the sites Unterwellenborn, Maxhüttenstraße 14, 16 and 21 as well as in Saalfeld, K.-Kollwitz-Str. 2 and 2 a, Bahnhofstraße 6 a and Am Steiger 10 respectively. In addition, regional practice partners from the field of health care/care facilities are involved in the project implementation. The concept for the implementation of practical vocational orientation was confirmed for the school years2017/2018 to 2021/2022. The application is made separately for each school year and the period for 2020/2021 covers the period from 24.8.2020 – 31.7.2021.