[vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="2461" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_tta_accordion style="flat" shape="square" color="white" spacing="1" gap="10" c_icon="triangle" active_section=""][vc_tta_section title="«Miguel de Cervantes» Highschool | ROMANIA" tab_id="1449490293672-36f75d19-e5dd"][vc_column_text]<span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em>"Miguel de Cervantes" Bilingual Highschool</em></strong> is a secondary school in Bucharest, including all three levels of pre-university education: primary (forms I-IV), elementary (forms V-VIII) and secondary (forms IX-XII). Both the teachers and the school board strive for each student to reach their maximum potential.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">Miguel de Cervantes encourages students to develop their sense of respect, responsibility, and courage to help foster bright and motivated members of society. The school also aims to inspire further education.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">During the 1990-1991 academic year, Miguel de Cervantes became the first high school in Romania to offer intensive Spanish classes (for the primary and elementary levels) and bilingual classes for the highschool level.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">The school is consistently involved in various European and local projects and programmes, which aim to broaden the educational offerings of the school and enrich students' learning experiences.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">Teachers of Miguel de Cervantes decided to partner in the European Project <em>School - Future Labs</em> due to their interest in both diversifying their teaching methods and improving the 12-13-year old students' language skills. This project represents a welcome challenge for both Physics and Spanish teachers, as an interdisciplinary approach has never before been adopted in Romanian schools.</span>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em>Liceul Bilingv, MIGUEL DE CERVANTES”</em></span>
<span style="color: #000000;"><em>e-mail: liceulcervantes@gmail.com</em></span>
<span style="color: #000000;"><em>web: <a style="color: #000000;" href="http://www.liceulcervantes.ro" target="_blank">www.liceulcervantes.ro</a></em></span></p>
[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title="School Benito Juarez | BULGARIA" tab_id="1449490293890-f1486505-0887"][vc_column_text]<span style="color: #000000;">Primary School № 49 "Benito Juarez" was founded over 30 years ago.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">The school, attended by one thousand students, is the largest school size within the Poduyane district. About 60 teachers are employed at Benito Juarez, leading classes from the nursery stage through 7<sup>th</sup> grade.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">The school offers unique programs such as choreography, art, and tennis. Our students have won awards at the national level in each of these disciplines. Also, both English and Spanish language classes are included in the curriculum.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">The school has three well-equipped computer labs and a hall with a seating capacity of 250.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">A representative of the educational department of the Instituto Cervantes invited us to participate in this project in April 2014. Our headmaster accepted the offer, believing that this new method of learning would be a highly constructive and inspiring experience for our students.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">We are thrilled to take part in the project <em>Schools:</em> <em>Future Labs.</em></span>[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title="International School Uwekind | BULGARIA" tab_id="1449490393350-706e8ae2-980a"][vc_column_text]<span style="color: #000000;">The mission of International School Uwekind is to cultivate well-rounded, responsible, independent thinking global citizens, with a passion for learning. Uwekind is committed to providing a supportive and nurturing learning environment in which all members of the community are motivated to achieve their individual potential.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">International School Uwekind provides IPC education (International Primary Curriculum) and is a member of IBO (International Baccalaureate Organization) authorized in MYP and a candidate for Diploma.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">At International School Uwekind we aim to foster a love of language as a means of engaging with society and developing an appreciation of culture. We want our students to develop the necessary and relevant skills to effectively and confidently understand and communicate language through quality learning and teaching.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">To achieve its goals Uwekind is open to new educational methods, which provide appropriate support for teachers and enhance children’s learning.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">The Schools: Future Labs project is committed to developing a methodology that transforms language and STEM subject education, so that students become more self-motivated, exploratory participants in their own learning process. This initiative harmonizes perfectly with the Uwekind school’s mission.</span>[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title="Społeczna Szkoła Podstawowa nr 4 STO" tab_id="1449568031341-6f5d5664-959b"][vc_column_text]
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">Social Primary School no 4 in Cracow is one of the schools included in the unit of Juliusz Słowacki general education school of welfare education community in Cracow. In addition to primary school the team includes Social Nursery “Julek”, Social Gymnasium no 7 and III Community High School.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">Furthermore since 2014 alongside the school a non public House of Culture “Juliusz” exists. Our school is situated in historical centre of Craco, the Małopolska Capitol and an old Capitol of Poland. Attendance in all our schools is over 500 pupils, and over 300 in the Primary school itself. Our Students are learning English from the age of 6. Spanish, French or German is introduced in 5<sup>th</sup> grade.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">Ample educational program, diversified after school clubs, teachers with very high qualifications, small classes and small groups for foreign languages lessons provides children with perfect learning conditions and enables them to expand their talents.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">The school allows the perfect development of physical fitness. During PE lessons activities are carried out on various levels of play. Classes are conducted both for general development but also offering swimming, tennis, skiing and ice skating lessons. At the school also operates a sports club “Glosator”. In our schools we emphasise respect for the traditions and values and our mission is based on love, freedom and wisdom. Our pupils are volunteering in organising a Christmas Eve in Brother Albert’s Shelter and other charity based events ongoing in the Cracow area. Our tradition also includes activities integrating the whole School Community such as the Inauguration for the beginning and at the End of the School Year at Wawel Cathedral and a solemn procession with the banner of the school, as well as school Christmas Eve wafer event or summer school picnic or skiing picnic. Furthermore research and sport camps have become a new trend, which was designed for holistic development of our pupils.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">Taking under consideration all of the above and also the pressure we put on general and wide progress of our students we joined the International SCHOOLS: FUTURE LABS Project. Interdisciplinary undertake on process of learning and in this case combining science and Spanish it is a very important step in a young person educational progress. Entering the new Project we aimed to foster the interests of science among students by simultaneously forming their sense of the need to develop language skills so necessary in the modern world.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">Through the training included in the project our teachers have the opportunity to learn new teaching methods – CLLIL and to include them in their day to day work. Purchased with the project funds laboratory equipment will also enable our students to develop their practical skills and shape their attitudes of a young explorer.</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">The National College "Ion Maiorescu" located in the center of the city of Giurgiu in Romania, is the oldest secondary school of our city and was founded in 1869. It consists of several buildings: lyceum (grades 9-12), high school (grades 5-8), sports hall and home (this building needs to be repaired). It has several laboratories (physics, chemistry, biology, computer science laboratory) and a library (27000 volumes).</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">The College has classes for mathematics - computer science, mathematics - natural sciences, philology, Intensive - English, social sciences. Every year, the students participate in the National stages of the Olympics and they get prizes and commendations</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">This project is an opportunity to broaden the study of the German language in a bilingual context for our school. In a united Europe, in today's society, communication and understanding play an important role. The bilingual teaching offers students the opportunity not only to master the language itself, but also technical terms from different fields (physics, chemistry, etc.)</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">The cooperation with colleagues from other countries leads to a better experience. We can see how our colleagues work in the classroom and vice versa, and choose the best methods for language and subject.</span></p>
[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title="Ellinogermaniki Agogi - A school with tradition and future perspective." tab_id="1449568034692-38eeb3b0-6549"][vc_column_text]<span style="color: #000000;">Ellinogermaniki Agogi pursues with great interest and a restive mind the developments in the field of education: It is a multi-unit educational institution comprising 2200 students of pre-primary, primary and secondary education, and 235 teaching and 330 administration staff. Today it is one of the most modern educational institutions in Greece, using the most up-to-date facilities, an enriched curriculum, experienced and skilled teaching staff. Moreover and, most importantly, through consistency on principles and respect towards pupils and parents, the school has pursued a multifaceted education for its students.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">Since 1969, the school has introduced the German language as the first foreign language its students get exposed to, systematically and intensively at all levels (therefore the name “Ellinogermaniki Agogi”). Within the scope of the broadest possible education and through a series of social and cultural activities the school aims to achieve what is suggested by its very name: a balanced combination of the restless Greek spirit with the German precision.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">Consistent with its pursue of educational innovations in general, but also more particularly in science education and new technologies, Ellinogermaniki Agogi has joined the project “Schools: Future Labs” which introduces the teaching of German in the teaching of science of 5th and 6th school year students, via the CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) approach.</span>[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][/vc_row]