Project partners

Engineering Lyceum of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

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In 1963 Vilnius 22nd secondary school was established. In 1993 the school was named after Mikalojus Dauksa. On the 1st September 2015 the school became Vilnius engineering lyceum, and on the 1st September 2016 it became engineering lyceum of Vilnius Gediminas technical university. There are 1319 students and 125 teachers.

Lyceum implements specialized engineering education for 7-18 year old students in both formal and non-formal education. Engineering – an interdisciplinary subject, so Lyceum education is implemented by integrating general education subjects, non-formal education programs, engineering education subjects and engineering practice. Emphasis is placed on students’ engineering competence development, subject integration, education differentiation. Engineering subjects and exact and natural sciences stimulating learning environments are being created as well as engineering curriculum is being formed.

VGTU engineering Lyceum 2016-2020 year strategic plan intends to pursue higher education and learning outcomes, to expand the school network of cooperation, to achieve permanent teachers’ general, vocational and engineering competence growth, to create opportunities for students to express themselves through various activities. It is also intended to increase students’ science and math learning motivation, to improve the quality of education of STEAM subjects.

Sirius Academy West (The United Kingdom)

Sirius Academy West situated in Kingston upon Hull in East Yorkshire. Hull is the UK‘s City of Culture 2017. In our school we employ around 100 members of  teaching staff and have roughly 1500 students aged 11 – 18. Sirius Academy has been judged outstanding in the last OFSTED inspectin report and is a forward-thinking and highly inclusive school. As this is a STEAM project the Faculties of Science, Maths and Art as well as Modern Languages are highly interested in participating in this project and all staff in those faculties (45 members of staff) are on board.

Escola Secundária Campos de Melo, Covilhã

Campos Melo school is a state secondary school, educating teenagers from the 7th grade -12, 13 year-olds to the 12th grade – 18, 19 year-olds. School community consists of 92 teachers and about 802 students. The school is 132 years old and it is the oldest school in the region, preserving cultural and historic traditions.

The mission of the school is to prepare conscious, active citizens of EU, taking advantage of the intellectual potential of both teachers and students, their creativity and their commitment to projects they design together. The school is very well equipped and has modern multimedia that enables the use of modern technologies and IT in didactics and pedagogy. Apart from traditional activities school enables access to other forms of teaching – learning, charity actions, meetings with representatives of science and culture and art.
There are several professional courses in this school, ranging from Laboratory Tests Technician, Health Assistant Technician, Computer Equipment Management Technician, Secretarial Studies, Equipment Design Technician, Industrial Maintenance Technician and Sales Technician.

I.E.S. La Cala de Mijas

 

ES LA CALA DE MIJAS, was opened in 2007 but we have been teaching in this área of Málaga since 90’s. This school is both a secondary and a post-secondary school. Around 400 students and 31 teachers and 5 administration staff work together in a great atmosphere filled with students from different nationalities. The school is really concerned about innovation projects to improve their teaching and the qualifications of their students. For about nine years the school has been doing students exchanges with dutch students (St.Canisius) and some international projects with the Finnish and English colleagues.

The has participated in different national projects related to robotics and Augmentated reality.

Also this school has got local and national grants to support their projects and now they are involved in a new innovation project related to technology and Augmented Reality.

R.-K.Sg. Canisius

 

Canisius Almelo, The Netherlands is a secondary school for VMBO, HAVO and VWO, so three levels of education.

The school in Almelo has 1100 students age 12 – 18 years old

The department in Tubbergen, a small village at a distance of 8 km., has 800 students , level VMBO and HAVO, age 12 – 17/18 years old.

All together 1900 students visit 2 schools.

In this school there are TTO-classes, meaning that subjects are taught in English (e.g. mathematics taught in English).

The school is very interested in international projects and for all levels and classes teachers try to organize international projects inside the classroom.

The school partcipates in many project with European countries and in ,South Africa, Taiwan, Canada and organise exchanges to partnerschools in Europe and South Africa.