Enabling 80 young people with disabilities to profit from professional internships in four European countries, between June 2014 to May 2016. Thanks to its past mobility projects, which were supported by the sub-programme Leonardo da Vinci, the Volunteering Service Centre “Volontarimini” has enabled over 350 young people with special needs to enjoy internships which are beneficial to their professional formation and employability. In continuity with said projects, and also considering the enthusiastic reactions of previous participants, the present project is similarly centred on the world of disability, and relies on the network of support and contacts which the project’s proponents have already developed. The project “Exploring Talent” is a reaction to the inadequate support which disabled people receive during the transition from school to work. This inadequacy was emphasised to Volontarimini by associations of families with disabled members, which observed it during the “interinstitutional provincial work groups for the educational integration of young people with disabilities” (GLIP), and by virtue of their own experiences. The inadequacy of such support is also confirmed by the schools involved in the project. Work opportunities being especially rare and problematic for young people who received special help during secondary school, we see a need to work on building thier autonomy, organisational wellbeing, empowerment, and above all to reinforce their awareness of their professional vocations through a highly formative experience. As a concrete and effective aid to overcoming difficulties and maximising strengths, the project “ET – Exploring Talent” aims to enable disabled young people who recently finished secondary school to experience a professional internship in a European context. A key aspect of creating these experiences will be the alliance between the third sector, public services and the world of education. The third sector is not only an important source of jobs in its own right, it also has a distinctive emphasis on social inclusion. The institutions of education and training will participate actively at the local level in all regions involved in the project. Creating synergies between the world of school and employment, we will create 80 three-week internships for disabled young people in the later years of school. The European dimension will enable them to acquire professional skills which their previous experiences have not provided. The travel will be arranged in small groups assisted by helpers, to enable the young disabled people to find spaces and times appropriate to developing their personal and professional self-fulfilment. Before the trips, there will be linguistic and cultural work, and research into the internship jobs. The “sending partners” will be Seven Volunteering Services Centres, which thanks to their localised activities have appropriate contacts with associations of disabled young people, to whom they offer advice and assistance in the course of their normal duties. The Volunteering Service Centres will be supported by a network of supporting partners, namely the secondary schools, which will act as consultants as regards the young people, and also have a role in the follow-up of their experiences. The internships themselves will be in the spheres of tourism, business, IT and technology, socio-educational services, and craftsmanship. They will be arranged by four European organisations, selected on the basis of their ability to best match the curricula and education of the young people. In particular, MEP Granada in Spain will be responsible for internships in tourism, Your International Training in Ireland for internships in business, Inter in Poland for internships in socio-educational services, and Paragon Europe in Cyprus for internships in IT and technology. The impact resulting from these experiences of mobility will be to increase the employability of the participants, and also to increase their personal empowerment, complementing and enhancing the contribution of school and public services to the participant’s independence and working life. The project will last two years, June 2014 to May 2016.