Colegiul Tehnic ANA ASLAN, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
http://colegiulaslancluj.ro
Colegiul Tehnic ANA ASLAN is a Technical Secondary School located in Cluj-Napoca, the largest city in Transylvania and the economical and cultural capital of the North-West region. We have grades 9-12 with highschool classes of Environmental protection, Chemistry and Hairstyling. We have a total of 440 students and 45 teachers. Our students age is 15 to 19 years old; more than 30% of them come from rural areas surrounding Cluj, being daily commuters.
Starting with 2005 we have taken part in several European projects, like Socrates, Phare, Comenius,Leonardo da Vinci and Erasmus+.
In the last years we have had more than ten Environmental projects that won National and International Awards.
For the past 10 years our school experienced many positive changes:
- in September 2010 we were awarded the title of "College"
- in April 2011, May 2014 and June 2017 we were awarded three times in a row the title of "European School" by the Ministry of Education
- we were among the first schools in Romania to receive the Label of eTwinning School in 2018-2019
- we have been the European Coordinator for 3 Erasmus+ KA2 school Partnership (Math Around Us, 2015-2017, FOCUS 2017-2019 and Connecting Seas 2019-2021) and we were partners in five other projects: an Erasmus+ KA2, two Comenius Multilateral Partnership and two Leonardo da Vinci - a great opportunity for our teachers and students to get into contact and interact with different European cultures and educational systems.
Each of our previous partnerships brought us prizes at local, national and European contests:
- European Language Label 2019 for the Erasmus+ Project ``Our Common European Tale``
- 1st Prize at the eTwinning National Prizes in 2017 for the Erasmus+ Project ``Math Around Us``
- the 1ST PRIZE at the National Contest MADE FOR EUROPE 2012 and 2015 editions.
Our SWOT institutional analysis in 2018 reflected that our students need guidance in increasing their motivation for school subjects. They suggested using more digital content during classes. They are also very interested in discovering new cultures, new languages and being more creative in their learning. They also want to participate in extra-curricular activities, like debate and drama clubs.
Our role in this project is that of European Coordinator, thus we will collaborate with the other partners, coordinate all scheduled activities, act as resource and fulfill all scheduled project activities.
Agrupamento de Escolas Anselmo de Andrade, Almada, Portugal
website: http://www.anselmodeandrade.pt/
Agrupamento de Escolas Anselmo de Andrade is located in the Peninsula of Setubal, in the crossing of the Tagus river, having the Atlantic Ocean facing Lisbon. Being itself an individualized pole and at the same time the pivotal point of contact with other spaces, our cluster integrates students from different study levels going from ranges as kindergarten to secondary education. The three schools that belong to our cluster share the same Educational Project (Host, Guide and Integrate to Build the Future) although they have specific plans in which the different activities with the different classes and students from various ages are integrated. Our population covers a wide range of different social ranks, with distinct academic expectations. We have a great diversity of students, some having Portuguese as a second language, others children from migrants, as well as students with special educational needs (who are supported by a Unit Support of Multidisability).
Our school has a diversity of courses, including professional and vocational ones, aiming to fit our offers to the needs of students and their families.
We value the development of specific projects such as the methodology of consolidating apprenticeships, in constant interaction with the evolving environment, mainly with projects dealing with different areas such as environmental, artistic, civics sports, experimental, education for health and school interchange ( European schools), according to our Educational Project.
Having this in mind, we have established partnerships with academic and scientific institutions at a superior level (both national and abroad), with institutions of local power, enterprises from our community, with parents' association, non profitable social and cultural organizations, besides our training centre which supports our structured professional training.
Bearing in mind our school features, its dynamic and projection in the community, as the national and international projects which have been developed ever since, our goal is to go on betting in our professional training ( teachers and staff), students, in a European perspective as a means to be up dated.
We want to embrace new challenges in a constantly changing Europe in an educational and training perspective.
Having such a background we aim to get more knowledge, more awareness and make our community more conscious of a borderless Europe with common goals even though having different cultures, customs and traditions, bearing in mind the importance of giving the means and counseling students to succeed in choosing their own path after leaving high school.
At the moment we are partners with BMSZC Petrik Lajos Bilingual Vocational School in a Erasmus+ project "Math Around Us" and we are very pleased with the results of our collaboration. That is why we would like to have another project together, "Our Common European Tale" in which our students could increase their motivation for learning Literature/Arts and Dram as well as improve their ICT and English Skills.
Having such a background we aim to get more knowledge, more awareness and make our community more conscious of a borderless Europe with common goals even though having different cultures, customs and traditions, bearing in mind the importance of giving the means and counselling students to succeed in chosing their own path after leaving high school.
They can compare situations in various countries as each new information and experience from other foreign countries are for them very useful.
LICEO SCIENTIFICO STATALE "B. ROSETTI", San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
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The LICEO SCIENTIFICO STATALE "B. ROSETTI" is a Senior High School in San Benedetto del Tronto, a town on the Adriatic Coast important for its fishing and, above all, touristic activities. We have 1 to 5 grades with about 1000 students, aged between 14 and 19, and more than 70 teachers.
According to Italian Education Regulations (Art2,comma 2) " The Lyceum study courses offer students the cultural and methodological tools to get a deep understanding of reality so that, thanks to a rational creative, projecting and critic predisposition, they can face situations, phenomena and problems and acquire knowledge, skills and competences to go on studying at superior levels, approaching social and working experiences while respecting their own attitudes".
Our Lyceum was born in 1939 as a private institute and acknowledged as State School in 1952; 3 years ago was added a Sport Course specially addressed to students involved in sport competitive activities.
Since the beginning our school has been giving the young a good preparation to attend University, basing its strong point in offering a perfect balance between Humanities on one side and Science and Maths on the other.
Actually our students, besides specializing in Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Biology, are also required to achieve solid competences in 3 Literatures ( Italian, English and Latin), in Philosophy, European History, Technical Drawing and History of Art ,so receiving a complete education which offers them the chance of attending any university faculty. The majority of them, anyway, goes on specializing in Engineering, Medicine, Economy, Informatics and Law.
We have always cared about the learning of English offering mother tongue teachers in 3rd and 4th levels and the majority of our students reaches the B2 Level at the end of their 4th year , a few of them also obtain good results in the national competition KANGOUROU. English Literature being required, we have been included in "ReadOn" project by Oxford University Press and students have taken part to English THEATRE performances for the last 10 years.
CLIL methodology is required in all our sections being evaluated in the final examination for Physics.
We are deeply convinced of the necessity of ICT support in any stage of the teaching/learning activities, so we are developing CODING, ECDL and AUTOCAD courses.
Our students regularly take part in the Maths Olympic Games of SCUOLA NORMALE DI PISA, in the Maths Games of BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, always obtaining good results.
In the field of humanities , students are regularly involved in national competitions like Latin CERTAMINA, DEBATE 2017 by WeWorld ( qualified at national level) , TEEN REPORTER (qualified at national level), A DAY AS A RESEARCHER, scientific journalism by SCUOLA NORMALE DI PISA (qualified at national level).
Besides our students are running a school radio , RADIOJEANS, supported by the Italian Ministry of Education.
For what concerns our sport section, many of our students have obtained qualifications at national level and won first prizes, individually or as team, like the 1st prize in National Competition of ORIENTEERING
In the last years we are taking part in European Projects:
2015/2017: KA2 - ERASMUS+ " MATH AROUND US" as a partner together with Romania, coordinator, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Denmark, Greece, Portugal-
2015/2016: KA1 - PROGETTO ERASMUS+ "4S+"2016/2017: KA1 - Erasmus+ "REcircle".The Erasmus+ projects have proved to be the best opportunity for both teachers and students to keep on developing didactic competences, opening horizons to new teaching methods, sharing idea and cultural basis with European partners.
LICEUL TEORETIC ``AVRAM IANCU`` Cluj-Napoca
website: https://www.avramiancucluj.ro/
The "Avram Iancu" Theoretical Highschool was established by the Order of the Minister of Education on 5 February 1990. Our mission is to offer a complex and well-balanced education to our pupils in order to enable them to get to know themselves better and to value their potential and skills, to develop their personality, so that their educational path is a success. The values we promote are performance, professionalism, excellence, creativity, initiative, responsibility, team spirit, dynamism and communication. From the beginning, the school operates with grades P-12, hosting over 1000 pupils every year. They come from school proximity but also from various other districts of the city and from the rural areas as well. Of great importance for the school is that a significant part of the students have remained in our school for all 12 years of study, which reveals the fact that pupils and parents appreciate the quality of the educational act. Currently the grades 9-12 (high school cycle) specializes in the scientific profile: 2 classes of mathematics-computer science and 2 classes of natural sciences. Since its beginning, our school's excellent results at the national exams and competitions have brought local and national recognition. We have a very high percentage of graduates admitted to universities. In the national ranking (based on the Baccalaureate results), in the last consecutive years, our high school has ranked among the top 10 high schools in the country and placed 2nd at county level. Over time, our pupils were Olympics at national and international subjects such as Mathematics, Chemistry, Philosophy, Biology, Romanian and English Language. In its 31 years of existence, our school has encouraged excellence in education but also the development of students' creative skills, in the school running clubs of extra-curricular activities (volleyball, cheerleading, robotics, journalism etc.) and various local and national projects.