144 Secondary School “Narodni Buditeli” is a big school with 1280 pupils and more than 120 teachers in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It has been working out traditions and its own profile for more than 30 years now. It is specialised in Arts, Music and Choreography. The profiled training in these subjects includes intensive studying of English language. We also have classes in Spanish and Russian. Our students are aged between 6 and 19. They are of different social status; children from intermarriages; disadvantaged for socioeconomic reasons; suffering from chronic illnesses and partial disability and students with special educational needs. There are special and individual programs for their education and upbringing. The school has modern and advanced facilities for the acquisition of European education and has numerous honors and awards in competitions at home and abroad. Our teaching staff has extensive experience working on various national and international projects - from 2004 on we have worked on various projects under the Socrates, Comenius, Lifelong Learning Programme and now - Erasmus +. Three years ago we finalized a Comenius project “Singing Europe” whose main topic was European citizenship and civil rights. Two years ago we finished our work on an Erasmus+ project entitled "United in diversity through stories of Europe" and last year - a KA1 project about how to prevent early school leaving and KA2 project “Crossing borders” where we worked together with the future coordinating school from Denmark as well as the school from Wales who will be our future partners.. We have also worked on eTwinning projects and three of them are awarded with eTwinning Quality Labels. Our eTwinning project “Life on the Europlanet” was given the 3rd price for European citizenship by our HRDC. The director, the deputy directors, head teachers and teachers of primary and secondary schools of education in 144 Secondary School teaching different subjects will be involved in the project. They are characterized by good communication skills, rich social experience, abilities for teamwork. Besides, there is a Project Committee in our school whose members have a lot of experience and enthusiasm about working on different projects and they will take intensive part in all the project activities.

Some of our teachers have extensive experience both in teaching the relevant subject and work on various national and international projects. So they are familiar with various European systems of education and best practices on how to help students develop their social and communication skills They have the skills and knowledge on how to assist the processes of teaching and learning by means of music , dance and fine arts. Another part of the teachers are young and ambitious people who, despite their not great professional experience are open to innovative approaches and methods of work and willing to constantly enhance their competence, knowledge and skills in class.