Tartu Kesklinna School is a basic school (grades from 1 to 9). The total number of students is 500. There are 35 teachers and 15 other people (the headmaster and two deputy heads included) working in our school. Four of the teachers are special education teachers. 

Tartu Kesklinna School is situated in southern Estonia, 220 km south-east of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Tartu is the second biggest town and the culture capital of Estonia. Kesklinna School is not an experienced organization in international activities. We have only had two international projects before. The first one was the Comenius project “LEADERS - Leaders in Europe aiming to develop, evaluate and review their schools” from 2005-2008. The second one was an Erasmus+ project "PaCo" ("Participation in Society through Classroom Activity and Cooperation") from 2018-2021. Now we are really eager to take part in the project named "D-escape" as it supports our curriculum and schools` developmental plans. 

International cooperation gives us the possibility to exchange good practices among different countries. We (our students and teachers) would like to learn from the best practices of our partners and of course we would like to share our best knowledge and skills. In the last PISA test results, Estonian schools were ranked high. Our school will try to share pedagogical know-how within the partnership. At the present time we are really concentrated on developing our students` social skills and digital competences (other important competencies in our school are: value competence, self-management competence, learning to learn competence, mathematics competence, entrepreneurship competence). Within the "D-escape" project we definitely want to mostly focus on digital competences, social skills and entrepreneurship competences and we definitely want to share our knowledge, experience and skills in these areas. The other important focus for us would be local culture, heritage and traditions. 

The key people in charge would be the ones who lead the Comenius and previous Erasmus+ project, Kristi Paju (English teacher) and Andra Kalda (history and social studies teacher). In case one of them leaves her post the other one will go on and find another teacher from our school because there are several active and cooperative teachers who love challenges.