2nd EPAL of Karditsa is a new Vocational High School (founded in 2001). Since the first year of its operation gave emphasis on the European dimension of education, on the creation of an open European culture, on the way of thinking and operation as well as on the implementation of innovative projects. It is no coincidence that just the second year of its operation it implemented a Socrates/Comenius program which lasted three years in collaboration with three other European countries, England, Denmark and Belgium. Between 2002 and 2015 it implemented seven successful Leonardo da Vinci projects of VETPRO Category and one Erasmus+ – KA1 Staff Mobility, on issues related to new technologies, management, adult education, educational software in virtual enterprises and the quality and evaluation in education. There is also no coincidence that the school is one of the two secondary schools of the prefecture involved in teachers4europe action, which for the first time this year was implemented in secondary education.
Learning outcomes of European programs implementation contributed essentially to the school to become a privileged framework for developing innovations in the daily educational process such as the high degree of ICT integration, the implementation of virtual enterprises, the use of new more effective methods of approaching students and developing the cooperation between teachers and students and the use of modern evaluation methods of the educational work in order to improve them.
But, as the total European vision for the initial vocational education has been redefined in the summit of Bruges (December 2010), the school considers that it is necessary to develop a new strategic approach of its internationalization and promote the participation of its teachers and even more of its students in various mobility actions.
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