Introducing partner schools and students- Estonia, Pärnu

  • Tere!

    "Tere" which means in English 'Hello!'. We are from Estonian city Pärnu which is located in South- West of Estonia. It is a small town, there are about 43000 inhabitants. Sunny Pärnu has been the official summer capital of Estonia for many years! In fact, this resort city has been synonymous with sun, sea and beach.
    We are proud of the fact that Pärnu is an internationally recognized city, housing spas, a theatre and wonderful places for staging concerts. Both the city and county offer multiple opportunities for enjoying active recreation and holidays all year round, and conference tourism is developing rapidly.


    Our school - The Pärnumaa Vocational Education Centre is known for the great variety of specialities. According to the structure of the organisation, our school has 3 departments: technical-, hospitality service and accomodation- and adult education department , besides that we have a training centre of Voltvet, which is focused on environmental learnings (forestry, horticulture). In our school, it is possible to acquire vocational education in following specialities:

    1. On the basis of basic education:

    • Car technician
    • Maker of electronical devices
    • Mason
    • Welder
    • Computers and networks
    • Customer service assistant for logistics companies
    • Carpenter
    • Finishing work in construction
    • Joiner
    • Horticulture
    • Hospitality service
    • Cook
    • Shop assistant
    • Forest management
    • Baker and pasrty-cook
    • Arborist
    • Cleaning services (special educational needs)

    2. On the basis of secondary education:

    • Machinery (CNC operator)
    • Hairdresser
    • Cook
    • Waiter
    • Tailoring
    • Secretarial work
    • Business administration
    • Sales arrangement
    • Hotel service operation
    • Cosmetician

    Besides vocational studies for students, our school offers a wide range of courses to adults and one of our priorities is to develope and encourage lifelong learning. We also participate in different local and international projects. Currently, our main priority considering the projects is to encourage cooperation with international partners to implement students and teachers exchange.

    Our school has all so a student home with free to use gym.

    Our class

    We are Pärnu County Vocational Education Center Paker-confectioner second course students.
    There are 10  students in our class and one of us is a boy. Our class is very friendly , diligent and  sympathenic group, even though we  are small group. Meanwhile, the company is smaller and larger problems, however, in any way we can cope with them. In general, we get along very friendly whit each other  and help each other when needed. We are a close-knit group.