Móricz Zsigmond Református Kollégium, Gimnázium, Technikum, Általános Iskola és Óvoda / Hungary
Zsigmond Móricz Reformed College, Secondary Grammar, Technical and Elementary School is the largest educational institution in Kisújszállás. The number of pupils is more than 900 students. The institution is supervised by the Reformed Church of Kisújszállás. Students of different existential environment and different learning abilities from Kisújszállás and the neighbouring towns attend the secondary school. About 40% of the students are locals and almost half of the students are commuters. Students who live far from school can have the opportunity to be accomodated in the school’s students’ hostel. The number of the students in our secondary school is around 470. Students can attend a 4-year grammar school or a 5-year technical school training program. The school offers Information Technology, Economics, Commercial and Police and lastly Transport, freight forwarding and logistics trainings in secondary vocational education. Apart from this a 5-year language preparatory training is offered to students in order to learn a foreign language in high number of classes. Secondary school education ends up with a state school leaving exam. These students would be the target group of the project. Those who finish their secondary education can continue their studies in our school in the fields of Information Technology, Logistics, Financial, Commercial administrator or Civil service administrator in a 1 or 2-year training program to get a trade. Our school is equally open to students of the Reformed religion, or those belonging to other historical churches and those outside the denomination, as long as they are ready to respect universal human values, their own denomination and the values of the Reformed Church, in addition to the free practice of their religion. Our school puts an emphasis on the development of IT skills, foreign language skills, entrepreneurial skills and information literacy and which is very important it conveys Christian values to our students, parents and our environment. The secondary school consists of four educational buildings, a training workshop and a students’ hostel. The buildings of the institution are situated in the centre of the town very near to each other and directly connected to the Reformed Church of the town. The building of the grammar school, which was built for more than a century ago (1894), determines the image of the city. The school itself has its own library and natural science museum which are very popular among its guests. The secondary school has about 63 teachers with all the required qualification to teach. The school has used its own developed teacher evaluation quality system since 2009 which is approved as a good practice. The same is true for the training programme which aims at developing our students’ enterpreneurial skills. It is a computer programme, which helps our students in choosing a carrier and in getting familiar with taxation. The number of students in secondary vocational training specialized in informatics is about 80. They are trained to become system administrators or software developers and in order to do so, they learn various programmimg languages. During the recent years our school has been participating in several EU found projects such as Comenius, Leonardo and Erasmus+. We have a wide experience in organization and reception of partners.
Sultanahmet Suphi Paşa Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi/Türkiye
Our school, established in“1883”, is not only the first commercial vocational high school of İstanbul but also of Turkey. Since our school is among of the exclusive ones which are over 100 years old, it has great experiences on education and academic knowledge.We have Ottoman Turkish and French student archives dating back to Ottoman Empire period.This makes our school quitely qualified. ur region holds a significant place in this respect with“Hagia Sophia”(UNESCO World Heritage Site),the 1500 years old holy monument for Orthodox Christianity and Muslims. With its this characteristic, it is located on the historical peninsula of the city called Sultanahmet which is known as “the heart of İstanbul”.Sultanahmet is the center of historic and tourist attractions having a great cultural heritage closely related to the history of Europe too. Our region holds a significant place in this respect with“Hagia Sophia”(UNESCO World Heritage Site),the 1500 years old holy monument for Orthodox Christianity and Muslims. So population of domestic and foreign tourists is always high in our region.It tends to recieve internal immigrants from eastern part of Turkey who work in tourism industry and are at the risk of social exclusion owing to the lack of the sense of belonging to their residence.The children of these families who are mostly divorced are 30% of the pupils in our school.Some of those children work to pay a domestic help in the region out of school time. We have also 25 gipsy students at the same social exclusion risk. There are about 590 students(14-18) coming from the town and the surrounding areas,who are chosen according to their success levels of a national exam being made after primary education.Also In recent years the number of migrant students coming from other parts of Turkey and other countries outside of Turkey has constantly increased. 32 Syrian immigrant students have been among them.The socio economic profile of our students varies a lot.We have students and families at different levels from the poor segment up to the richest one.The children of these families who are mostly divorced are 30% of the pupils in our school. We have also 25 gipsy students.For them we are carrying out a compatible to school and work,an integrative educational policy with their lives and their peers.There are 4 autistic students who study in ICT class.They will take part in this project by using their ICT skills. We have 32 teachers-11 of them from professional and 21 of them culture teachers, 3 deputy managers -one of them is in charge of administrative and financial affairs, 2 are responsible for student affairs and one is in strategy development and responsible for the projects. In our school,mentorship service has been given to the teachers from İstanbul’s prestigious universities(İstanbul University,Yıldız Technical University and Marmara University)A protocol has been made with them to complete their nomination education.In this regard, school has both pedagogical educated excellently, experienced teachers in their fields and also new teachers whose careers at the beginning level yet.This is an indication of our organization’s having a learning, open to change and demanding innovation school culture.The school gives a 4 year education with its 16 classes. All the students at 4th grade have been taughted in the school for 2 days and for the other 3 days they have been taking course of trainings in the companies. “ ICT” and “Accountancy- Finance” are the departments giving education in the school.Particularly in “ICT” we are highly experienced at teaching “Web 2.0, C++ Programme, Web Design and Programming.And in the field of “Accounting and Finance” in addition to having Special Computerized Accounting Laboratory and Programs(Marketing,Logo Bussines, Eta)we are giving education of Office Management and Secretarial, Human Resources Management, Business Enterprise .
Liceo Scientifico e Linguistico Leonardo / Italy
The “Leonardo” Scientific High School, established in Agrigento in 1957, flanks numerous national experiments from the beginning of its foundation, to the present day, like ‘sperimentazione Brocca’, ‘liceo Linguistico’, and ‘Piano Nazionale d’Informatica’. It is classified as the leader High School in the province of Agrigento, supperted by EDUSCOPIO, welcoming about 1,300 students both from the city of Agrigento, and neighboring municipalities. Our school offers a selection of courses beginning with a traditional scientific direction. It addresses the connection between scientific culture and humanistic tradition. It also favours the acquisition of knowledge and methods regarding mathematics, physics and natural sciences. It guides students to deepen and develop their knowledge and skills necessary to follow the development of scientific and technological research and to identify the interactions between the different forms of knowledge, ensuring mastery of languages, techniques and related methodologies, which are also carried out through practice workshops. Furthermore, it prepares our students to understand the fundamental issues of the development of thought, also in a historical dimension, and the connections between the proper methods of knowledge in mathematics and experimental sciences and humanistic investigation. These train students ito recognize and grasp the relationship between scientific thought and philosophical reflection, even through mastering logical-formal language leading students to be able to grasp the potential applications of scientific results in daily life, making them “women and men of our time”. The “Biomedical curvature” guides and prepares students, through extra courses involving laboratory practice, by giving them more opportunities to enter medical faculties and health professions. The “applied science” course provides students with particularly advanced skills in studies related to scientific-technological subjects, particularly in mathematical, physics, chemical sciences, biological and computer science. Our Linguistic high school aims at the study of multiple linguistic and cultural systems. These guide students to deepen, develop and mature their knowledge and skills, necessary to acquire linguistic competences in the communication of the three languages (English, French and German).
Evening High School of Aigaleo / Greece
The Evening High School of Aigaleo was established in 1994. It is located in the west suburbs of Athens and is intended for people of various ages, teenagers and adults who work in the morning. The last five years, due to the increase of unemployment in our country, unemployed students may also enroll to our courses. In our school there are about 20 experienced teachers who follow the developments in the field of education, receive further training and are willing to teach all subjects in a way that will be comprehensible to this delicate group of working students. In a three- year period, our students cover all the material taught in a typical secondary high school (mathematics, literature, history, science, foreign languages and computer studies) and through nationwide examinations they have the opportunity to get into higher educational institutions and universities’ departments. There are about 200 students in our school this year, all coming from a low socioeconomic background. Although they are dealing with major financial problems (most of them they have a family to support) they are nevertheless willing to fight for a better life level. The main goal, set by the founding of our school, was and still is, to give all students, regardless of their age, the necessary knowledge for professional and social fulfillment, to stimulate their confidence and to foster their self-esteem