Participating schools

Balvu profesionala un visparizglitojosa vidusskola, Latvia

Meet the Latvian team of students-participants in the project:

More about the Balvu profesionala un visparizglitojosa vidusskola

(BPVV) is located in the northeast of Latvia in small-town Balvi with a total population of 8 thousand inhabitants, in the beautiful region Latgale which characteristic landscape is lakes and forests. Choosing to study secondary education students can choose general secondary education or general secondary education with vocational education trend in “State protection studies”. The total number of the school staff is 68 people. From which teachers are 38. The number of students - 249. Many of the pupils who learn in BPVV come from the nearest regions and towns. The main idea of the school is to provide students from different age groups and social backgrounds qualitative education and to develop many-sided talents for our students. The student's age differs from 13- 21 years. Our students are quality-oriented in all fields – subject learning, vocational training, participation in various contests, training, and participation in sport competitions. Many of our students are involved in leisure time interest groups such as folk dance, drama, singing, sewing, IT.

Alparslan Anatolian High School is in İstanbul – Pendik

There are about 1700 students and 80 teachers. There are science laboratories, an IT room, and a fitness center. The main language of instruction is Turkish. We also have English and German classes. Various sports activities are organized in our school. We participated in tournaments with our football, basketball, volleyball, handball, athletics, and table tennis teams within our organization and between schools. We won second place in the football tournament held in Istanbul and first place in the taekwondo tournament. The music group regularly presents fascinating concerts every year and returns with honors from the competitions they participate in. We also organize school trips to the cinema or theatre and also to other cities every year. We care not only for our student's academic success but also for their social and healthy development. In 2014, our school came first in STUDENTS LEARNING ABOUT THE EU project in İstanbul and second in Turkey.

IISS F.sco D’Aguirre- Salemi - D.Alighieri-Partanna

Our school is situated in three different little towns and we have different courses: tourism, because we believe that our students can find a job in this field easier after their education. In our Province tourism has been increasing steadily. Large tourist flows from every part of Europe have added advantage of allowing schools to encourage our students to have a much broader and less insular outlook which traditionally was always a problem in the west part of Sicily. Another important course is Computer Science. The students use ITC, digital devices, and software programs. Then we have two general courses Classical and Scientific Lyceum where the students study different subjects, maths, literature, geography, history, chemistry, and philosophy. Our school’s vision is that of a European school and we have always tried to organize our activities following this idea. Our mission is to become nearer the other European countries as much as possible. We have a lot of experience with Erasmus projects.

Get to know some of the students working on the project from Turkey.

Dante Alighieri High School, Romania

St. John Paul’s II gymnasium,
Vilnius, Lithuania

First Private Mathematical Gymnasium, Sofia, Bulgaria

Dante Alighieri High School

Dante Alighieri High School, Bucharest, Romania is an active promoter of a healthy and active lifestyle, acting under the slogan “ Healthy Body = Healthy Mind - Dante Alighieri High School, Bucharest, Romania is an active promoter of a healthy and active lifestyle, acting under the slogan “ Healthy Body = Healthy Mind - means sana in corpore sano ” We were offered by the City Hall the support for monitoring the state of health of the children - height and weight, through the program " Educated and Healthy " trying to prevent the problems of the spine and non-endocrine obesity. The results of the study reinforced our policy to fight the rise of obesity, eating disorders, the harmful use of tobacco and alcohol amongst students and to promote an active and healthy lifestyle inside the school premises and in the community. ” We were offered by the City Hall the support for monitoring the state of health of the children - height and weight, through the program " Educated and Healthy " trying to prevent the problems of the spine and non-endocrine obesity. The results of the study reinforced our policy to fight the rise of obesity, eating disorders, the harmful use of tobacco and alcohol amongst students and to promote an active and healthy lifestyle inside the school premises and in the community.

Meet the diligent romanian students taking part in the project.

St. John Paul’s II gymnasium

The school has 330 students aged 15-19 years. The school operates in accordance with the high-school curriculum of Lithuania, but most of the items carried out in Polish, as most students are of Polish nationality. Many courses are taught in the Lithuanian language, foreign languages are English, German and Russian. We love sport and play a lot basketball volleyball and football. Our students are very ambitious and take part in various national and international competitions and all involved in various extra-curricular projects and International DOFE award is one of the most popular.

Here you can get to know students from Polish school in Lithuania who are taking part in the project.

First Private Mathematical Gymnasium

First Private Mathematical Gymnasium, Sofia, Bulgaria is a private mathematical school with extended learning of mathematics, IT and English. There are 400 students, range from the age of 12 to 19 years old and 36 teachers. The main goal of the school is to develop students’ knowledge not only in mathematics but also to make them creative personalities. Our students have taken part in lots of national and international competitions in Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Mathematical Linguistics and Informatics and have won lots of certificates, bronze, silver and gold medals. They are also active participants in other projects related to science: Young Energy, Play Energy and EGS (Energy, Education, Governance, School) aimed at saving energy and environment and establishing of energy management system at school. For the last 10 years, our students actively participated in different types of activities and projects, national and international, related to Science and Environment. Here is a brief description of some of them: International Children’s Ecological Forum Green Planet, second prize; Second prize in the National stage of Balkan Environment Competition; Second Prize in the International School Project on energy, Climate and Environment SPARE; A second prize in the international Educational Project CO2 Detectives. A second prize in the National Science and Ecology Competition; A European school panel for involving local communities in energy efficiency programs; a Comenius project Energy is Life held with Srednja poklicna in strokovna šola Krško 2011-2013; An annual campaign “We recycle and think green”. In 2018 a 28-month Erasmus+ project “Responsible traveller values the diversity of people, cultures, and environment” was successfully completed. In 2011 an Eco-club “Friends of Nature” was founded at school. Its aims are: to protect the environment; to implement an energy management system at school; to educate students, parents and local community about environmental issues. As part of its actions, students adopted an eco-path in Vitosha Mountain (a mountain next to Sofia) and take care of it, cleaning the area and helping the wild animals. The students are involved in a number of after school activities, too. They have a Cinema Academia club, do a lot of sport, and take part in different charity actions. For the last four years, we have been holding a project “Eating in Balance – Health in Advance” and working hard on creating healthy lifestyle habits of our students.

The Bulgarian team of students participating in the project: