Lyceum of Eleftherios Venizelos

Lyceum of Eleftherios Venizelos(senior High school) is a public school situated in the suburbs of Chania with more than 330 students. The school has a wide range of students from the age 15-18. Students come from a varied social, economic and cultural background. Along with children from the urban area of Chania many children come from less privileged, isolated and mountainous areas. A considerable number of students are descendants of immigrant workers, mainly from Balkan or from ex-Soviet Union countries. The number of teachers is about 40.

The school encourages extracurricular activities with drama clubs, traditional dances, cinema groups as well as environmental projects which involve student participation. Within the last 12 years our school has joined and realized three Comenius projects an Erasmus+/KA219 project with the title “Young Entrepreneurs” and currently we are participating in and implementing an Erasmus+ KA229 with the title "Passport to Europe" . All these projects have had a positive impact on the ability to work in a team and on the social competences of our students. Taking part in these mobility programs had significant and long- lasting effects on the teachers involved as well. They have acquired great experience and have also disseminated this to their students.

The teachers involved (5-6) in European projects have the following skills:

• They are qualified to use the English language.

• They are competent in the basic knowledge and skills of ICT.

• They are characterized by a positive disposition towards cooperation, socialization and active interaction with people from other countries.

• They all share a common dream of bringing a European dimension to the school.

These teachers are:

Pavlos Dotsos - ICT teacher

Aikaterini Stefanidi - English teacher

Georgia Aretaki - Chemistry teacher

Nektarios Solanakis - Sociology teacher

Petros Potetsianakis - Math teacher(headmaster)

Consequently our school is open to new cooperation with its experienced teachers and we are willing to create more partnerships within the context of Erasmus+ program in order to provide our students with all its positive effects. In case that someone leaves his post the other teachers involved so far could undertake the project and implement it.