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The Istituto Comprensivo "Mons. Valoti" of Chiuduno - Italy - Co-ordinating institution

It is a primary and lower secondary government school accounting for 798 students. The school undertakes the resposibility of the educative and learning path of all the pupils without any distinction of social class, race, religion or economic conditions in order to educate them to the values of the international charts, of the children rights and the Italian Constitution.

It belongs to the schools participating in the STRESA network.

 

Associazione RETE STRESA (STRumenti per l'Efficacia della Scuola e l'Autovalutazione) Osio Sotto - Italy

It is a no profit association of 30 schools whose main aim is to implement and monitor self-evaluation and organisational learning activities. These include action research, workshops, seminars on varioous topics, job shadowing, peer observation etc. In the last 2 years some 2000 hours of INSET activities for teachers were implemented through about 100 different modules attended by about 700 teachers. The network carried out, in these years, an intensive work focused on the improvement of school quality and made surveys about pupils', parents and teachers' perceptions on school functioning, teachers and headteachers development plans as well as performances tests. These actions proved to be an important bench mark for some significant aspects of the innovation brought in by school autonomy and provided experienced instruments and procedures, comparison areas and conceptual references. The activities undertaken enlightened the relevance of such a work and the great potential of networking and of modelling experiences. The STRESA network, with the important collaboration with the CSA of Bergamo (Local Education Authority at provincial level), has organised through the last years many international activities and participated in various international meetings presenting its experience.

 

Pedagogisk Psykologisk Senter Karmøy

Karmøy is a municipality on the west coast of Norway just north of Stavanger. There are 37 000 inhabitants in the municipality with 6 000 pupils in the age group 6-16 and about 600 teachers in its 29 schools plus a supporting staff of about 100. The municipality has responsibility for 29 schools with some 600 teachers. The smallest school in the Karmøy area has just six pupils, the largest has 450 pupils.
The Educational and Psychological Advisory Centre (Pedagogisk Psykologisk Senter) is a support department of the local authority department of education.
The main working areas for the Educational Advisory Centre department are to:

The Department of Education and Culture, Educational and Psychological Advisory Centre and many schools in Karmøy have been and are involved in several Socrates projects funded by EU.

 

King's College University of London (London-UK)

King's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of London and the second oldest College, established by royal charter over 100 years ago in magnificent buildings on The Strand in the heart of London.

King's college is renowned internationally for its excellence in research and nationally for its teaching and research activity. It attracts scholars from across the globe to its range of departments. King's is especially well known for its departments of Languages in particular Spanish and Portuguese, Theology, Law, Music, Management and Education

Education is part of the Department of the Department of Education and Professional Studies. A large number of schools have worked in collaboration with the Department and have been the beneficiaries of the research undertaken with them.

The college has ambitious plans for expansion to include cross- department research and the establishment of new research groups to include European Studies, reflecting the increasing engagement of the College with European initiatives.

 

Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament d' Ensenyament (Barcelona- SPAIN)

It's the regional body for Education in Catalunya. It has full competences in education matters for all the region in any field related to education. It promotes many initiatives at all the education level.

 

Gymnasium Dr Alese Hrdlicky in Humpolec, Czech Republic

It became a national centre of excellence through its participation in the SLAM programme. There has been a great deal of interest in work to date and the school (an 11-18 Gymnasium) is now acting as a regional centre (the former head is now Deputy Minister of Education, CZ) and is looking to develop wider community provision and use of its facilities. The school, together with its regional group of secondary schools, has been tasked with organising preparatory teachers courses for ECDL tests across the region.

The Gymnazium has participated in a number of international projects in recent years. It has been a successful participant in the worldwide Globe Programme (since 1996). This programme provided an opportunity for the Czech students to participate in a global programme involving hundreds of thousands of students and contributing their regular weather observations to build up a worldwide database. Working with students from outside their community enhanced the Czech students understanding of global environmental systems.

The Gymnazium has also participarted in Project Europe, a project managed by the Norwegian Society for Nature Protection and looking at air pollution through measurements of acid rainfall and ozone concentrations together with a survey of lichen in their area. Working with students from Germany and Sweden, students from Humpolec participated in 'Peace in Time' a project looking at one historical area (Westphalia).