PGEE"Kapitan Petko vpyvoda" with new international Comenius project

A new significant Comenius project, part of the Lifelong Learning Program  aimed at all levels of school education, started in PGEE "Kaptain Petko Voyvoda", Kardzhali, Bulgaria.

The project entitled "Learning to Live Healthy" is a part of the activity "International Partnerships" and is funded by Comenius at a value of 20,000 Euros for a period of two years. The partners of PGEE "Kaptain Petko Voyvoda" are schools from 8 countries: Austria, Germany, Estonia, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Turkey. The working language is German.

The project objective is to seek another opportunity for the school environment to be perceived by students as their desired territory. Through engaging in local activities and activities with their peers from other partner countries, they will reach the main products that are provided: The project Logo is Green Class 2012 and Comenius school.

The topics covering the project activities are provoking the students to think in interesting ways about how to combine work with pleasure: health and sports, health and healthy nutrition, health and culture, violence prevention, students’ rights and obligations in the state, health and nature, health and family habits, healthy activities in work and leisure, health and the Internet.

What are the benefits to the students of this project? They are significant because they provide many opportunities for youth to learn about their peers from different countries, their lifestyle and habits while communicating among themselves in German or English. Familiarization with the regional culture of the partners with healthy living through various areas (sports, nutrition, leisure, work, prevention, addictions) will enrich young people. In the implementation of activities purely human contacts will be created and the students will be able to spend their free time active, will learning about fair-play.

Teachers, who will work with students, will be able to achieve a new kind of experience, be familiar with specific methods and systems to solve problems with their students, and also increase the level of their language competence.

All this will benefit the school, making it attractive on the existing education market.

There are also benefits for the city and our region, because the expected tourist flow in May 2012, when all eight partner schools will visit Kardzhali and will be guests of PGEE, will make the best advertisement for our country, city and region for all of us.

First meeting - Lithuania, October 2011

ONE MORE SUCCESSFUL PROJECT FOR PGEE

For the fourth consecutive year 20 students from PGEE hold their training in Spain within the project “Intelligent energy – resources and technologies”. The project was directed at acquiring practical skills and techniques in the use of innovative energy technologies. Electricity consumption by humans increases with each passing year. Producing clean energy has become a major policy goal in Europe. This requires training of cadres with appropriate qualifications. Spain is a leading country in Europe in the production of electricity from renewable sources and therefore we have chosen a Spanish partner in this project.

The main objectives of the project:

- Assisting students in learning to absorb and apply new knowledge, skills and qualifications to support their personal development.

- Improving the quality of vocational training and employability for participation in the European market.

- Promoting mobility and increasing the attractiveness of vocational education.

- Introducing European standards of quality.

- Enriching language skills for improving intercultural dialogue and finding other values, beliefs and behaviours.

- Increasing knowledge of the culture, lifestyle and traditions of other European countries.

- Building citizenship in Europe on issues related to global warming and ecological use of natural resources. 

As a result of the practice students acquired new knowledge and skills to support their personal and professional development, increased their mobility and established the citizenship of Europe on issues related to global warming and ecological use of natural resources, increased their knowledge of the culture, lifestyle and traditions of other European countries, enriched their language skills. They met friends and created lifelong relationships.

created by: Borislav Draev 12g grade

THE TEACHERS OF PGEE WITH A SUCCESSFUL PROJECT AGAIN

Ten teachers from PGEE have visited the vocational school Reichspräsident-Friedrich-Ebert in Fritzlar, Germany for the second time. There they were received as old friends and partners. The visit was within the project "Vocational training and renewable sources of energy - exchange of ideas and experiences”. The hosts provided a various program, including a presentation of vocational education in Germany and Bulgaria and a visit to the training facilities in the vocational school in Fritzlar. There was also a discussion about what the guests have observed along with introduction of the national core curriculum in Germany, Hessen province, under the theme of "Renewable Energy sources ". The Bulgarian teachers have also had the opportunity to visit the wind farm and solar park, WPP (EON Ederzee), the vocational training centre in the WPP as well as the manufacturing unit for practical training.  The teachers with interest examined the local industrial plant "Inverter" in the city of Kassel. Impressed by the vocational training centres in the plant and the manufacturing sector for practical training, they participated in the evaluation of student projects in the field of renewable energy sources. 
        As a result of collaboration with colleagues from Germany, our specialists have learned new skills and competencies in the use of European experience and innovation in the vocational training.  It was particularly useful for them to acquaint with the German experience in vocational education and renewable energy. 
       Reichspräsident-Friedrich-Ebert school is a vocational school for training students in the following specialities: electrical engineering, metallurgy, construction, woodworking, economics and administration, feeding (nutrition) and household agrotechnics, mechanical engineering, interior design, data processing, information technology.  The projects within the Comenius program in Finland, Cyprus and Czech Republic were also implemented in Reichspräsident-Friedrich-Ebert-Schule. Partnership events in the form of students exchange with Lakeshore College, Cleveland, Wisconsin, USA, were also carried out. Reichspräsident-Friedrich-Ebert-Schule has been a partner with the Vocational School “Kapitan Petko voyvoda” for the second time. 
       The first project entitled "Partnership in Education" in 2008 has been awarded by the Human Resources Development Centre with Quality certificate. 

The Vocational School of Electrical Engineering and Electronics “Kapitan Petko Vojvoda” with a Quality certificate

TheVocational School of Electrical Engineering and Electronics “Kapitan Petko Vojvoda” has been awarded a Quality certificate for the project “Partnership in Education”, which was realized in 2008.

The deputy minister for Education, Youth and Science attended the conference for Adult Education in Bulgaria where she presented the award of Lifelong Learning Programme".

The event was held on the 10.12.2010 as a celebration of the 10^th anniversary of sector program Grundtvig. The event was organized by the Human Resources Development Centre. In her speech Mrs. Evtimova outlined the main priorities in the field of adult education.

The conference was attended by Mrs. Helene Barry, representative of the Implementing Agency of Education, Audiovision and Culture - Brussels, who presented the policy development in Adult education in the context of strategy Europe 2020, and also the combined activities on the section programme called Grundtvig.

Mr. Stoyan Baev, a representative of the National Statistical Institute and consultant for Refernet network Bulgaria, presented the results of the national statistical survey on "Adult Education in Bulgaria".

The official ceremony of awarding certificates was also included during the function. Certificates were awarded for the quality of the completed projects of European section programmes Grundtvig and Leonardo da Vinci. Some schools and kindergartens, winners of the competition for the best website "My school online - a window to Europe”, were also awarded.

We acknowledge that our website is currently one of the top 10 in this competition.   

The project award of PGEE is for exchange of specialists in vocational training.

Ten teachers from PGEE participated in the project where they visited Fritzlar, Germany from 27.03.2009 to 02.04.2009. The host organization was "Reichspräsident-Friedrich-Ebert-Schule Fritzlar.

The project has close and regular contacts with the partner organizations and are continuing to work together to form an ideal working relationship.

Days of program Comenius

The traditional Days of programs Comenius and  eTwinning in Bulgaria were held from December 6th to 8th . The workshop took place in Sofia under the form of a forum.The latest issues in education and the suitable solutions to these problems  were also discussed.
      During the event the assistants within the program Comenius  (4of them in Bulgaria, including our colleague Marcus Ulbricht) had the opportunity to share information about their assistantships at the host institutions. The projects and partnerships in Comenius 2009, awarded to the overall quality realization, were also presented.   European CNC-Network and the project of our friends from PTG “Dr. N. Vasiliadi”, Gabrovo - "Train for Europe ", were among them .