Bundeshandelsakademie 

Wien 10, 

Vienna (Austria)

Topic: Digitalization

Die BHAK Wien 10 ist eine berufsbildende, kaufmännische Schule. Somit werden neben allgemeinbildenden Fächern wie Mathematik,

Naturwissenschaften, Deutsch und diversen Fremdsprachen, auch noch kaufmännische Fächer wie Unternehmensrechnung und Controlling,

Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Officemanagement, Informatik, Übungsfirma und andere unterrichtet. Die SchülerInnen der 5 jährigen Handelsakademie und

des Aufbaulehrgangs schließen mit der Matura ab, womit der Zugang zu jedem beliebigen Studium, ohne Einschränkung von Universität oder Fach,

möglich ist. Die SchülerInnen sind zwischen 14 und 21 Jahre alt. Es gibt auch eine berufsbildende mittlere Schulform,die Handelsschule. Diese wird nach 3jähriger Ausbildung mit einer Abschlussprüfung abgeschlossen, die einer kaufmännischen Lehrabschlussprüfung gleich kommt. Weiters gibt es eine Abendschulform am Standort.

An der BHAK Wien 10 unterrichten in etwa 150 LehrerInnen und es besuchen ca. 1.600 SchülerInnen die Schule. Die meisten SchülerInnen der BHAK Wien 10 haben Migrationshintergrund. Wenn diese SchülerInnen gefragt werden, woher sie stammen, sagen sie zumeist, dass sie aus der Türkei, Kroatien, Serbien, etc. stammen, obwohl sie größtenteils in Wien geboren sind. Die Arbeit in dem Projekt soll den SchülerInnen helfen sich als WienerInnen zu fühlen. Im Projekt ist die ursprüngliche Herkunft nicht vorrangig, eher verwirrend, für die andern internationalen ProjektteilnehmerInnen. Die Arbeit über das kulturelle Erbe in Wien soll die Integration fördern und den SchülerInnen zeigen, welche Wurzeln Wien hat, die Stadt in der sie jetzt leben. Weiters soll die Arbeit in einem internationalen Projekt die Sprachkompetenz der SchülerInnen fördern und diese damit noch besser für die Arbeitswelt vorbereiten.

Istituto d'Istruzione Superiore Majorana

 Avola (Italy)

Topic: Enogastronomy

The Secondary High School “Majorana” is located in Avola, a lovely seaside town in the South East coast of Sicily, close to Syracuse and Noto, two famous UNESCO sites. There are about 1.400 students, aged 14-19. Many of the students come from different countries, above all from Poland,

Morocco and Tunisia, and are very well integrated in the school community. There are different courses: Lyceum, Technical on Tourism and Business Administration, Vocational in the fields of Food, Enogastronomy and Hospitality Services; there are also evening courses for adults in the field of business administration. The school is very well inserted in the territory of which represents the only educational system provided, and offers a varied opportunities for the young to study and develop their skills. It promotes lifelong learning with the training and education to those (adults and NEET) who are outside the school circuit. The school investigates some issues considered particularly significant for the human and cultural development of the student, such as the importance of human rights and the cultural heritage particularly significant for the human development. The school promotes and encourages the acceptance and integration of foreign students, because the Majorana teachers think that only by educating the young to civilrights could help to build a better world.

The Majorana school will join this project to motivate the students towards the important topic of cultural Heritage in order to encourage them to feel integrated in a European dimension. As the school is close to three out of the five Sicilian UNESCO cultural sites, Noto, Syracuse and Mount Etna, it promotes the studies and knowledge of these sites in order to make students understand the value of culture as means of bridge among the European countries. In order to make young understand the value of respect and tolerance towards diversity of any kind, the “Majorana” school organizes lectures and seminaries with local entities to make students reflect on the importance of acceptance in order to strengthen the attitude to tolerance about differences. In the Food and Enogastronomy Fileds, the students attend school-job internship activities since the 2nd year, with local, national and European stakeholders, and the school laboratories are new and functional to the studying through experiences learning methods. Moreover, students attend workshops and seminars with agencies and associations on the value of healthy eating and the Mediterranean diet, another UNESCO intangible heritage, while there are curricular activities with the foreign students attending our school on the importance of cooking traditions for a real inclusion and integration. The school is also partner in an Erasmus+ KA229 project, call 2018, on Gender Differences aiming at lower the demotivation of students towards school life as result of their difficulties in coping with differences of language, sex or religion.

Springwood High School

King's Lynn 

(United Kingdom)

Topic: Creativity

Springwood High School is a comprehensive school with specialist performing arts status and a long history of providing an excellent education to pupils in West Norfolk. The school is part of the West Norfolk Academy Trust with over 1500 students’ boys and girls, aged between 11-18 years.

The school believes that excellent academic qualifications provide each student with the best life chances and opportunities to ensure a successful and fulfilled future. In the last two years the percentage of students gaining 5 higher grades including English and Maths has risen significantly.

Springwood High school offers a wide range of opportunities, both within and beyond the classroom - it is vital that every student participates in other areas of school life. Springwood expects every student to take part in other aspects of our offer to them including; Competitive Sport, Dance

Performances, Duke of Edinburgh Award, Drama Performances, House Competitions, Music Performances, Lunchtime clubs, Computer

Programming, Numerous foreign visits and exchange.

Springwood High school shares a common passion with the other European schools to exchange knowledge and good practice in trying to encourage our youngsters to value the place where we all live and the cultural heritage of our hometowns.

King’s Lynn is a town located in the east of England in the county of Norfolk. It has a population of approximately 40,000. The nearest city to King’s

Lynn is Norwich, which is 44 miles east. King’s Lynn is close to Sandringham house which is where the royal family stay for Christmas.

We have been one of the coordinating schools in one of our previous Erasmus and have gain a good knowledge and experience which we are looking

forward to bringing into this new project. We take every project with almost pride and joy.

We have highly trained Computing and ICT teachers who are an asset to our current Erasmus+ project. We also have other qualified teachers in different subjects like English, Maths, Science, Food Technology, Arts, Drama, History, Geography, etc who are always involved in any aspect of an

Erasmus project. Most of these teacher are involved in our current Erasmus project.