Istituto di Istruzione Superiore "Umberto Pomilio"

Italy

The Institute “U. Pomilio” was established in 1960 with the aim to educate and train professionals in metalworking and industry. The school was entitled to Umberto Pomilio, a brilliant engineer from Chieti who invented a new manufacturing process for papers at the beginning of 20th Century. Nowadays, our school has 5 education areas: 1. Technician of Clothing and Fashion 2. Technician of Mechanics 3. Technician of Energy Systems 4. Technician of Electronics 5. Technician of Electricity The Institute is located in Chieti Scalo, inside the Metropolitan Area of Chieti-Pescara, next to the Industrial Area of Pescara Valley, which has been a one of the most leading areas of our region; then the last years of crisis had "swept" all the area as well as the whole Abruzzo Region. We have almost 600 students in our 30 classes and 24 labs, tutored by 110 teachers. These are some of our main projects and activities, carried out in the past years and classified by topic area. [ Social issues ] • LEGALITY PATTERNS – we are member of a network of 16 schools which work together to share good practices in education to legality • ACTIVE LEGALITY – education of students’ teams about legality and social values • PEER EDUCATION – active citizenship in preventing sexually transmittable infections • FOOD EDUCATION – knowing and preventing diseases through a healthy lifestyle • HAWK WINGS – preventing alcohol and drugs addiction; enhancing students’ motivation towards their education • TRAVELS WITHOUT FRONTIERS – involving our students in seminars and discussions about migration issues, supported by experts of Chieti Province • FIGHT TO BULLYING AND CYBERBULLYING – guidelines and meetings with students to tackle these phenomena and to prevent them [ Entrepreneurship ] • KNOWING, ORIENTING, COMMUNICATING – project financed by Abruzzo Region to enhance our students’ basic skills in foreign languages, arts and communication • I LEARN ENGLISH – skill-up of technical English through a platform where students can autonomously access and study [ Early school leaving ] Our school has been tackling ESL by involving our students in WBL (Work Based Learning) activities since years ago. [ ICT and Robotics ] • “TOUCH” DIDACTICS – better using ICTs for education and inclusion • ROBOTICS – enhancing e-learning centered education and problem solving in our students • DRONES – mentoring for advanced electronics, mechanics and programming • ARDUINO MICRONCONTROLLERS – skill-up on Arduino micro controllers aimed at developing lab experiments in robotics • LIBRARY AS MULTIMEDIA HUB – applying CCR (Creative Class Room) model to involve our students in active citizenship and education • DIGITAL WEEK – demonstrations and labs of coding, robotics and Lego Mindstorms Key staff involved in this project :Michele GUERRA - head of the thermo technical department , Rosalinda D’Alonzo - responsible of innovation and ICT in IIS Pomilio, Antonella GUARINO - finance and administration manager.

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Kauno taikomosios dailės mokykla

Lithuania

Kaunas Applied Art School is vocational secondary education school. At present, the school employs  84 workers, of which there are 42 teachers, 1 social educator, 2 psychologists and 525 pupils of age 16 and more this year. Together with secondary education curriculum, we provide vocation training in areas like making fine, metal articles, making furniture, computer design operating, visual advertising, interior design. Our school is situated in the middle of the country, and Youth from all over the Lithuania come to study here, mostly from small towns. These are usually pupils from poor families, who cannot get a higher education. The school provides them with accommodation in a dormitory. The school created, nurtured and protected various traditions. Students and teachers organize different art exhibitions, professional and creative projects presentations, and interesting students' theses of the exhibition. Kaunas applied art school’s teachers train the students' entrepreneurial spirit and creativity enables students to freely express their thoughts, create and improvise, and this is best done during the workshops. School actively participates in lots of projects (like was Comenius, Leonardo da Vinci, Erasmus, innovation transfer), as here works 2 qualified project managers. The community is very friendly and responsible, has a big baggage of knowledge and actively participates in school’s projects. Detailed information about projects you can see on website https://ktdm.lt/projektai Project Managers are actively involved in Erasmus + projects. They attended training courses and seminars on European Project and Lifelong Learning programs. They is also strongly interested in European and lifelong learning projects. They takes part in participating in many European Projects as a coordinator or partners. Good experience in project and team management - leading workgroups and facilitation of team members as well as in organizing local, regional and national level events Organizational, decision making, time management, people management, multi-tasking, teamwork, creative thinking skills

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Ozel Beykent Egitimde Rasyonel Acilim Lisesi

TURKEY

It's a private school, which is located in the west part of Istanbul (a suburb of Istanbul, Beylıkduzu). It was founded in 2015. Our founder, Orhan ÖZBEY, has been in the educational sector for about 50 years. In our school, our purpose is to educate and improve the students’ quality of learning using highly developed technology. Each class is equipped with a smart board and very strong internet coverage to enhance, the flexibility for both teaching and learning. Modern electron zed bulletin boards placed in hallways attract students' particular attention and it encourages them to make good and attractive projects to be hanged on the boards. All these devices help to improve our students listening, reading and writing skills especially in foreign languages “English and German.” All teachers are highly trained and experienced. There are 30 teachers in high school. The total number of the students is 368 in high school. All the school walls have a beautiful mural drawn by the art teacher and students. The school has got front and backyards which allow students play football, basketball during school break-time and physical education. The school organizes tours to England. Students attend summer schools and learn more about British culture. They learn to interpret customs and traditions from other countries and cultures in a better way. Most students are keen on discovering new places and meeting English-speaking friends. So they take this opportunity seriously. We also arrange cultural tours within our country. e.g., we take the students to Cappadocia, Ephesus ancient city. Most students are interested in taking one to one lessons especially in languages. Some students have excellent command of English and German. So our school provides them with after school classes both on weekdays and on weekends to keep the standards of their language on track. Students are also interested in participating in talent shows such as karaoke shows. They are also willing to take part in drama; they sometimes attend TV live shows like “O Ses Türkiye”. This academic year we are preparing our students to participate in “MUN”. They will go to Antalya. We organize debates classes every month. Our students are motivated to read English novels and take part in reading competitions such as “Oxford Big Read Competition.” This year, we are going to take part in the competition for the second time. Our students are supposed to draw comic strips, make a poster or create a new book cover in order to win an award in the competition. Last year one of our students in the 9th grade came first in the competition in our district. We prepare our students for the TOEFL exams. Most of the students are planning to study engineering, medicine, law or such branches in English at the university and they also want to do their masters degrees in the USA or from other foreign countries. They are aware of the significance of learning English besides German.

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