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The Parents Association European School Copenhagen (PAESCPH)  is a voluntary organisation of parents, who wish to:

• Contribute to a positive European School culture

• Support both the school and parents, to improve the children's lives in school

• Organise and implement initiatives to improve the school environment

• Create a network with other European Schools (CAPEEA & AES) 

Throughout the year, the PA organises:

• Welcome events for new parents

• Coffee mornings                                

• Bake sale, book sale and sale of school branded merchandise

• Fundraising

• Volunteers help set up the school library

PA funding is 100% parent based. The membership fee is 150 DKK per family/per school year - mobile pay 77972  (please add comment “PA 20/21” plus FULL NAME of one parent).  The member contributions pay for annual membership to CAPEEA and participation for 1 member to attend annual CAPEEA meeting, events, clothing, etc.

More information is available at:

PA website

PA Facebook page

PA email

Presentation from Parent Meeting about PA (August 2023)

At the first parents meeting of the year, the parents in each class elect four class contact parents. The contact parents play an important role in the cooperation between the class teacher, the parents and the school.  Of the four class contact parents, one is also elected to represent the class in the school’s Parents Council (Council Parent) and another is elected as a deputy (Deputy Council Parent). 

The purpose of the Parents Councils at the European School Copenhagen is to support a mutual and broad sharing of information and open dialogue between the parents and the school. 

There are two Parents Councils at the school - one for Primary and one for Lower Secondary. You can read more about the purpose of the Parents Council in the Parents Council Rules of Procedure.

Format of the Parents Council meetings

Each Parents Council meets 3 times a year. In order to involve the parents more in the planning and presiding of the PC meetings and ensure that the agenda is relevant to most parents, each of the Parents Councils have two PC Coordinators to: 

• ensure consistency in content and holding of the meetings throughout the year.

• meet with management to plan the meetings and finalise the agenda two weeks before each meeting.

• collect and prioritise issues from parents and bring them to the meeting with the management.

• facilitate the meetings, act as moderators and ensure a minute-taker is chosen among the parents.

Role of the Council Parents

For information about the role of the Council Parents, please see the Parents Council Rules of Procedure.

There are bike and scooter racks by the school’s three entrances - see Bicycles. 

There are several car parks in Carlsberg Byen. The closest (Franciska Clausens Plads) is located directly below the school and is accessed from Bohrsgade. It is operated by Apcoa, who charge a fee (further details can be found on the signs in the carpark). 

You can also park in the public streets nearby (blue and yellow parking zones). 

See Library.

At the European School Copenhagen, we sometimes use pictures or videos as part of the teaching and to document school life and special events at the school.

The school may, without your consent, post pictures and videos of your child on Aula. Likewise, the school may publish situational photos/video of your child on other platforms. In situational photos/video, it is the activity rather than the people who are the purpose of the photo/video, e.g. young people participating in a sports day or a joint class event.

Your consent is required:

• If the school would like to use portraits of your child e.g. in a brochure or on a poster. Portraits are images where the purpose is to show one or more specific people, e.g. a class picture

• If the school would like to post a portrait of your child on the school's website

• If the school would like to post a portrait of your child on social media such as Facebook, X (Twitter) and Instagram

The school encourages play dates between the students after school. In order to ensure that everyone experiences play dates and don't always play with the same children, the Primary class teachers can suggest play groups to parents.

The Primary School includes Nursery class and Primary 1 to Primary 5. The Head of Primary is Helle Degn. Classes in the Primary School take place in the Primary Building.