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Istituto Istruzione Scolastica Superiore "CarloAlberto Dalla Chiesa" / Italy

The upper secondary school "Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa" is located in the town of Montefiascone by the Lake Bolsena in Viterbo County; the school delivers both general and vocational education classes and it is organized in five different dipartments: Lyceums (Classical Studies /Scientific Studies/ Foreign Modern Languages), a Technical Institute for management of territory and building techniques and a school of Economics, Administration, Finance and Marketing: 

Our school is one of the biggest in the area: 90 teachers work there for about 960 students. Different associations, enterprises, economic stakeholders co-operate with the Institute, which is also a partner of the Foundation of the ITS Participation "Services for the internationalization of enterprises ", based in Viterbo. The school is actively engaged in a large number of projects that relate to our educational priorities such as: inclusive education, innovation, students’ guidance, collaboration with families, companies and the territory around us, curriculum internationalization and improvement of teaching and administrative procedures. 

Recentely we have also become a Cambridge School and we are now part of a “global community of schools working to equip learners for success in our changing world”. 

For what concerns K1 and K2 projects we have already carried out one project as coordinating country focused on the topic of entrepreneurship, approved in 2014 round call and called BuddERS - Budding 

Entrepreneurs Running School, the project has also been awarded of a special mention being bringer of good practices. 

The school is also a centre of excellence for Debate on a national base: our team named Space Ace was ranked first in the Regional Debate Selections held in Rome, at the Plinio Seniore High School, on January 29th 2019 and a large group of teachers has been working hard to spread Debate methodology and to organize many debate contests. Many schools from all over our Lazio region participated in the meetings, thus creating an active network with many institutions.

Photos from the school

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Agrupamento de Escolas D. Sancho I Portugal

The D. Sancho I Aggregated Schools is located in the municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão, district of Braga. In the academic year 2019-2020, the school population consists of ±2 650 students and ±285 teachers allocated in four kindergartens, four 1st Cycle schools, one school with 1st cycle and 2nd cycle and one 3rd cycle and secondary school. The project will involve students and teachers from the secondary school which is located in the town centre. 

D. Sancho I Secondary School offers all levels of our national system with General courses such as: Science and Technology, Social Economic Sciences and Humanities and Languages for students who wish to continue studies in Higher Education and Vocational Courses that include: Restaurant /Bar skills, Trade, Tourism, Electricity, IT programming and management, Industrial maintenance and Accounting for those whose aim is to obtain intermediate vocational training to enter the labour market. 

The school works from 8.20 am till 11.30 pm continuously. It teaches post-elementary levels (7th, 8th and 9th forms) and secondary ones, either during the day or at night since it also runs an Adult Education and Training Centre to improve the qualifications of adults. 

D. Sancho I Secondary School is committed to responding to the needs posed by the business market, at this time increasingly globalizing, more complex and competitive. By betting on improving the quality of the training provided, our Educational Project is a reflection of the training requirements of the Region, specifically the preferences of potential trainees and the qualifications required today by local companies / organizations.

Portuguese School_novaversão (1).pptx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oigcCh17aOM (students´video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpPcOy8yICw (promotional video) 

Zespol Szkol Da Vinci Poland

Da Vinci schools consist of a primary school and a high school. In high school we have 260 students and employ 34 teachers.  

One of our main projects is Young Malta Festival - an annual international theatre festival gathering since its first edition six years ago young people from all over Europe. The main aim of the festival is to create a forum for discovering theatre, developing acting and directing talents. The idea of the festival is based on multicultural exchange and integration and focused on building and promoting tolerance, respect and openness to alterity. This year the seventh edition of the festival will bring together over a hundred participants from Poland, Germany, Catalonia, Portugal, Spain, and Ukraine. For them it will be time spent at theatre workshops, while for the audience- twelve performances providing them with incredible emotions and allowing to experience the magic of the theatre.  
 

The school is the initiator of the eTwinning Oxford Style Debate project, which has been successfully functioning for over 2 years. Before we started international online Oxford style debates, our school had gained a lot of experience and expertise in the debates locally. Namely, our teachers received intensive training at workshops devoted to oxford style debates promotion. For several years, our students had been taking part in different local middle school and high school national championships in Oxford style debates in Poland. Knowing its beneficial effects on our students and their achievements, which is for example winning the second place in Poznan Oxford style debates last year, we decided to start thinking internationally. Every semester new partner joined this project. In the online debate project we have cooperated with schools from Germany, Spain, Italy, Croatia and Portugal.  

  Since the project has attracted a lot of interest, not only from our students but also, from our partner schools, we decided to expand our project into face to face meetings as a logical next step.  As leaders and initiators of this project, we have noticed its motivational effect on our students.  

Debate is also one of our language activation methods, used during regular language lessons. 

Przewodnik_poznan.mp4

Da Vinci Szkoła - presentation.pptx

Vereniging voor Christelijk Voortgezetonderwijs Rotterdam en omgeving, ChristelijkeScholengemeenschap Comenius CollegeNetherlands

The Netherlands: Comenius College, Capelle aan den IJssel

website:
www.comenius.nl

Comenius College is a school of secondary education that offers all levels of our national system, meaning from Practical VMBO till VWO. In this campus we have about 2500 students and our scope is regional, combining the city center of Rotterdam, the suburb of Capelle aan den IJssel and the wide countryside of different regions. Our school is specialized in internationalization, bilingual education and we do have excellent arts and exact science departments. We offer a variety of languages like Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish.  Most of our students come from the nearby area and countryside, but because of the metro stop in front of the school yet more students come from the Rotterdam City Centre. So we have a mixture of students. We have students from a lot of nationalities, partly of our Dutch history, but also of the latest migration waves. So, we do have a number of students involved in the project coming from other countries, but that’s not a real problem. What is a problem nowadays is, that because of the economical crisis, some families have great difficulties in their daily life. They just have the minimum income and that is for Dutch standdards not that much. All HAVO 4-students of the DRawing class will participate in this project as it is part of their curriculum.
As Rotterdam is a very international orientated city, we as a school would like to offer our students the opportunity to work in international surroundings as well. We think it is very important to let them experience the European Dimension in a lot of aspects and getting to know students from other European countries.  The countries involved in this project are very appealing in the minds of our students ( and teachers) and great countries to cooperate  with. Beside  the topic of water itself, the possibility of mobility's during the project is a great motivation for our students to work on the project. International projects are part of our curriculum and are supported by all: students, parents, teachers, staff and overall staff. In our school we have a task force internationalization.
Our school has started a bilingual department in 2010. That’s another important reason why we focus on international projects like this one.  The bilingual stream has reached the examination year, so the stream is completed from year one to year six. So we are proud to be the first school in our region to offer this great possibility to our students. We like to work on international topics that have real meaning for our students and teachers for now and in the future. We think that this topic: Debating is of the utmost importance for our students, because it makes them think over their own way of living..

Daugavpils Valsts gimnazija / Latvia

Daugavpils State gymnasium 2019/2020: 

Number of students: 271 

Number of teaching staff: 26 

Number of technical staff: 29 (canteen, swimming pool, sport hall etc.) 

Number of classes: 11 (7 till 12) 

Resources: sport hall, swimming pool, library, canteen, school hostel. 

The idea of school is a united student, teacher and parent body to reach the main goal-to develop students` personal ability for their future life to be an open minded and critical citizen in the whole world by improving their researching skills, by implementing principles of sustainability in educational programs and learning and teaching process. 

The students have possibility to acquire 4 foreign languages (English, German, Russian and French). In addition, pupils acquire some subjects in foreign language (Math and Natural Science in English). 

We offer many out of class activities: choir, folklore dance group, debate club, sport sections (basketball, volleyball, football, swimming). 

The participation in different European projects is one of our school brands. Gymnasium serves as a basis for City education board in arranging methodical activities, providing materials and human resources. 

Debates are integral part of school curriculum since 1998. We offer debates for 13 - 16 years old students in native language (Latvian), for 16 -18 years old - in Latvian and English. Twice a year there are regional and national tournaments organised in Latvia. ~ 10 schools take part in the regional tournaments and ~ 24 – in the national tournaments. The motions are about important social and political topics (Brexit and EU, Votes and Media, Corruption etc.). 

The school offers debate camps for young debaters and professional development courses for teachers. 

video about the school

SUAT TERIMER ANATOLIAN HIGHSCHOOL Turkey

Suat Terimer Anadolu Lisesi" or "Suat Terimer Anatolian High School", whose students are elected by the nation-wide exam, is one of the prestigious high schools in Istanbul. Our High School started to Education in 1995 and has been training since 22 years. The aim of our school is to be a high quality, distinguished school within the Turkish National Education System that has reached the level of competition with the equivalent institutions in Turkey and in contemporary countries. Our goal are Ensuring that the education system and its functioning are carried out effectively, following the contemporary innovations and developments in education, making researches and increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the schools and studies, and catching 100% success in LYS examinations. Suat Terimer Anatolian High School is located in the Bayrampaşa in the city centre of Istanbul. Istanbul is the most populous city in Turkey and the country's economic, cultural, and historic centre. Istanbul is a transcontinental city in Eurasia, straddling the Bosphorus strait (which separates Europe and Asia) between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. Its commercial and historical centre lies on the European side. Istanbul is one of the world's most populous cities and ranks as the world's 7th-largest city proper and the largest European city. Local service line, tram and minibus can be reached to our school. Our school is 15 km far from Ataturk International Airport, 2.5 km far from the International Bus Terminal and 9 km far from the Historical Peninsula. Our school has 636 students in the age group of 15-18. The majority of our students are children of families who migrate from the Balkans at various socio-economic levels. In addition, our school has 1 student with visual impairment. Of the 44 teachers who work in our school, 11 of them have completed their master's degree and 2 are still studying doctorate. Themajority of our teachers have actively participated in the projects of TUBITAK (Scientific and technological research institution of Turkey) and the European Union. We give our students a lot of lessons such as Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, Literature, History, Geography during 4 years of education. We also offer English and German foreign language lessons as well as hands-on lessons such as Music, Painting and Physical Education. The academic success of our students is high. They are social and culturally active individuals. Training in high-ranking sections of universities is their most important goal. Depending on this situation, they are well prepared for their targets by working in a planned and regular manner. Our school was admitted to the Comenious Bilateral School Partnership project for the period 20011-2013. Name of the Project: 'Crossroads over the Aegean Sea - Human soul remains the same through centuries and borders.

School presentation