We have been involved in partnerships with schools throughout Europe for years. We love meeting new people, students and teachers alike, and we enjoy hosting them as well! Our students learn English, German and French at our school, so we like to use these languages.
Our oldest partnerships go back more than a decade with Hungarian students from across the borders, from Kolozsvár in Transylvania, Romania, and Péterfalva in the Lower Carpathian region of the Ukraine. Every year we have a group of students visiting both schools, and we celebrate Liceum Day, our very own cultural festival, together. Students do a lot of entertaining activities together, visit sights and live in their host's home.
Another exchange program with a long history is with high-schoolers of Dresden, Germany. Here we use English as the language of communication, and it is typically our ninth-graders taking part in it.
We regularly visit the UK and Austria, and some of the other destinations included France, Finland, Poland, Italy and the Czech Republic, recently.
We sometimes use Erasmus+ grants to fund our programmes and we are part of a strategic partnership with three other European Christian schools.
We are looking for more contacts for online or offline projects, and are open to short and long-term programmes for groups of students and even individuals. We currently focus on the following themes: sustainability in our school, the well-being of our students and teachers, and expanding our international network.
We have been involved in ERASMUS+ funded mobilities too. Our teachers use this opportunity to learn about how to teach us better in training courses and they visit schools in other European countries. We would love to host teachers and teacher trainees too!
In September 2023, we are organizing a special workshop with keynote speaker Jukka Sinnemäki, Global Teacher Prize Winner teacher from Jyvaskyla, Finland. We already visited his fifth-graders and we are looking forward to hearing about his innovative ideas about schools.
In 2021 we started a four-country partnership with the following Christian schools: Jyväskylän kristillisen koulun yhdistys ry from Finland, Církevní základní škola a mateřská škola in Třinec, the Czech Republic, as our project coordinator. The aim of this project was to exchange ideas of teaching the English language, and it has been funded by the EU Erasmus+ grant. We hosted 7 students from each school at the start of this programme and took our students to each country afterwards. We have formed great relationships, both academic and personal, and we are looking for more opportunities to meet new people and see new places!
