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"Nicolae Bălcescu" National College dates as  back as  1863 and it was the first science-oriented high school in our country.
‘NicolaeBalcescu’ National College provides both general, theoretical and practical training lining up with the European standards in education. Students  trained in the college are aged 11-19. The school has both theoretical  and humanistic profile, which are divided in:
• 4 grades  for the V-VIII cycle;
• 8 grades for general theoretical (mathematics-computers);
• 8 grades  for mathematics intensive English (4), German (1) or Computers (4);
• 4 grades  for natural sciences (4) and social sciences (1);
• 3 grades – humanistic.
• Staff consist of 60 teachers.
Consequently, our school offers a great deal of trust in its members, this way creating responsibilities too, in what concerns creativity and taking positive action.Our college stands out also by other values such as promoting active involvement in school life, true character and team work, achieving common aims to be placed ahead individual ones for better results and accomplishments. This aim is constantly supported by numerous European activities and projects - initiated at institutional level – as well as a variety of European partnerships and competitions.Our school has a great deal of experience in European projects as both coordinator and  partner . Therefore, ”Nicolae Balcescu” National College has definitely made itself a name as a coordinator or partner of such international projects and as a sustainable source of challenge and satisfactions for involvement of both teachers and students in such projects. Even though it used to have only great accomplishments we can't help noticing a decline in results as current school matters are concerned or exams' results.This may be due to the economic and social context of our area.Once a great industrial and trading city, its being a port supported this, Braila is practically in dramatic economic decline.Families re truly and sadly poverty striken in our area. Therefore unemployment in families , migrant parents, monoparental families are common cases  met by our school.
Presently we feel the need to overtake the academism of our taeching, to explore a range of informal teaching, organising trips and getting out of the traditional class.So ,we firmly believe that school should be this bridge to help career, leadership  skills in every field of knowledge.
We have a national system of quality assurance , named ARACIP.Every school is assessed based on common standards every five years.

Domingos Rebelo Secondary School is situated in the town of Ponta Delgada, S. Miguel Island, in the Azores, Portugal, and receives students from both urban areas and the countryside. Although the school is not situated in a very poor socio-economical region, there is a high number of students coming from families with serious financial problems or low levels of education (4/6 years).
As we live in an outermost region of Europe, we are highly penalized by our insularity, which seriously  affects  our students. That is one of the reasons why we would like to participate in a European co-operation programme, such as the planned partnership, to encourage co-operation among nations and intellectual exchange, as well as teachers and students’ mobility, thus reinforcing the European dimension of education and intercultural awareness among students. Moreover, this partnership will not only motivate students and teachers to learn/use foreign languages, improve their level of proficiency, but it will also improve the quality of education professionals and, ultimately, that of the education itself. We hope this project will help us achieve the main goal of our school – to increase the rate of academic success among our students.
In addition to this, we believe Education is not limited to school or to the local community - it should be part of a greater community as The European Union. The contact established among teachers and students of different cultures and languages will allow the exchange of information, knowledge and experiences, making us better professionals, better citizens and human beings. By comparing our reality with the reality of others, teachers and students will be more aware not only of their own reality, but also of their European citizenship, sometimes forgotten due to living on a remote island.

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We have about 500 students in our school here in Nummela (28000 inhabitants ) in  southern Finland. They are 15-19 years old more or less heterogenous teenagers. Our school is a very typical Finnish school when it comes to the study possibilities. We have also many extra courses for students to choose from, for example applied course in arts, biology, sports etc. Our school building is quite new with modern equipment .When it comes to the national final exams the results of our school have been in  the best quarter of the whole country each year.
We want to take care of our traditions but still we are innovative and always looking for new good practices.
 We have been very active internationally and we have solide cooperation between some schools in France, Germany and Spain. We have student group exchange each year and some individual exchange students as well. We have taken part in many Comenius projects and have been coordinating them successfully, too.
We have taken part in various competitions and projects. For example our students have succeeded very well in entrepreneurship programs. One of their companies was chosen as the best company of Uusimaa region and two companies have been awarded internationally ( Tallinn Tradefair 2017). They are taking part in Central Baltic Enterprise without Borders Program