Scoala Gimnazială "Emil Isac" is a general school comprising both primary education and lower secondary education, gymnasium, students aged 6-15. The number of students is 558 and the number of teachers is 36. The education field of our school is general education, we provide our students the basic necessary skills for their further studies. The goals of our institution are to provide an open, flexible, active education, being focused on our students and the evaluation of their skills in a modern way, developing their abilities and key competences, throughout all means. We believe that the activities we provide, both curricular and extracurricular, are means of achieving a high quality education which we offer to our students. We have both compulsory courses and optional courses which can be chosen by our students together with their parents. The goal of this is to help our students develop in the fields they are interested in.

• Our school is situated in a neighbourhood called Dâmbul Rotund of Cluj-Napoca city, which is a major city in the heart of Transylvania, Romania.

• The total number of students is 558.

- Social background: the area of Dâmbul Rotund (Round Hill) neighbourhood is a quiet area, many of our students live in houses, but in the last few years many blocks of flats have made their apparition, thing which is beneficent for our school because young people move to these flats and this assures us that we will have an increasing number of students.

- Economic background: the school is situated in an area with a low potential, near the train station, where families have suffered from the economic crisis and some of them are struggling with financial problems every day. Thus the school has the role to identify resources and help these students fulfill their needs. We also have a few students with special educational needs, 32 students, for whom we have assured a teacher and a counselor who helps them in keeping up with the school requirements. We don’t have refugee students, but we have 20 Roma students in our school.

• Our school is a very flexible school and both students and teachers are eager to learn and to be involved both in local, regional, national and international projects, fact demonstrated by the wide range of projects we are involved in and the projects’ increasing number every year. We have a very good collaboration with the local community and we try to make the results of our students visible in the community.

•The general needs of our students and their priorities are the overall needs of students aged 6-15 who try to find a vision for themselves, who are in search of their own personalities and their own possibilities. We focus on different learning styles and we help our students identify the possible career paths, prospects they can take when they leave our school. We try to help them identify their strengths and to cope with their weaknesses. When our students leave our school they usually go to higher secondary schools and the vast majority of them finds a way to integrate in the new environment they find. Our students’ level of interest in school and education, generally speaking, is a good one, every student tries to focus on their academic prosperity, according to their own intellectual possibilities.

• Our school has a wide experience in national projects, every school year we have at least 5 projects running with schools from our area/country, and we also have a good collaboration with the local authorities, that is why we have projects in partnership with different local organizations. In all our projects we usually use technology and all the modern means we can in order to make the best experience out of the collaboration.

• We have teachers who participated in individual mobilities and teachers who attend international conferences or send papers to different symposiums. Our last international project was called European Schools Rock Around, and it was an Erasmus project, coordinated by our school. We also participated in an E-twinning project last year. National projects offered by Romanian schools usually include drawing competitions, hand made projects, collages and we also organize every year a competition called "Hristos Se Naște, slăviți-L!".

• The needs of our school are:

-to improve the competences of both students and teachers by involving them in a European dimension in which they can learn from other teachers and students and experience different learning and teaching styles.

- to improve the quality of our school by implementing practical education and modern teaching techniques instead of theorizing the aspects that are to be studied for the benefit of our students and to assure the applicability of the learnt items.

- to adopt a new strategy regarding the means of conveying knowledge to our students by making the information to be taught accessible to all students