Latvia Culture College, one of the most experienced and rich in traditions colleges in Latvia, offers modern cultural education according to the demands of labor market. Currently LCC provides first level professional higher education programs in arts, media and culture management.
College offers further education programs as well as distance learning courses in culture management and performing arts subjects.
LCC is an active member of Latvian college’s association academic quality committee and contributes to the analyzing our best practices and suggesting innovations according to LLP national strategy in Latvia and Europe. Recently LCC has introduced new instrument - a European Marketing Innovation Centre, which is a joint activity with similar centers in Portugal, Estonia, Spain, Italy and Turkey, where the main aim is university-business co-operation and implementation of academic field innovations in business.
LCC has serious international projects experience from year 1999, where the main project topics includes development of new programs, alumni services and quality management. Special attention is being paid to the role of new information technologies in the training process as well as to placements.
Creative specializations e.g. theatre studies, event production etc. study courses , besides culture management study units, include such study subjects as theory and practice of arts forms and genres, history of costumes, theatre direction and production, visual processing of event, stage speech and movement, presentation skills etc.
Dance specializations includes study subjects as visual communication , dance history, improvisation, dance composition, music production , jazz dance, contemporary fashion dance, historical dance, contemporary show dance etc.
Latvia Culture College has expertise in educational and cultural processes in Latvia and Baltic region, as well as appropriate manager and researcher/lecturer staff enabling active participation in and coordinator of many transnational projects. Among partners of LCC are more than 30 partners in 21 countries.
LCC has strong expertise in following areas:
-Development and implementation of innovations in culture management sector
- Consultancies and research activities in creative industries area
- Students enterprise for implementation of creative projects and co-operation with industry
-Creative solutions for bringing education to remote areas
-Co-operation with labor market and line authorities
South Iceland College is one of the largest colleges of further education in the country, outside the capital. It serves the whole of the southern part of the country with a population of approximately 19,000. The college is situated in Selfoss, in the municipality of Árborg, with a population of just over 7,000. There are approximately 900 students and 120 members of staff. Most of the students are aged between 16 and 20, although there are also many older students who attend daytime classes.
South Iceland College has chosen the motto Diversity – Creation – Enlightenment. One of its main objectives is to provide diversity in courses on offer, and thus it is possible to choose from 20 different vocational and academic programs of study. Most of the students are enrolled in the academic programs, i.e. Natural Sciences, Social Studies, Languages or Business Studies. Examples of vocational programs are Carpentry, Metalwork, Nursing Assistantship, Art and Electricianship.
In partnership with various sporting associations, the college runs five academies: basketball, handball, football (soccer), athletics and gymnastics. Students in the academies are chosen by the partners. In addition, courses dealing with the Icelandic horse and horsemanship have been added and a special program involving horsemanship developed.
A number of students attend the special education department. Courses there are intended for students with learning disabilities and sometimes with additional physical disabilities.
A number of exchange students also attend the college each year. Classes in Icelandic as a foreign language are part of the curriculum, and support is available for students of foreign origin as well as for Icelandic students who have spent a considerable length of time abroad.
Teachers from the college are responsible for teaching inmates at Litla Hraun, the main prison in Iceland, as well as in the smaller one at Sogn in Ölfus.
The institute G. Caboto Gaeta has always been a school of great importance since the first year of its life (1854) because it is the only nautical school existing between Rome and Naples, and it is for this reason that its catchment area is distributed over a wide geographical area that stretches from Rome to Caserta, through Latina and Frosinone and also including the Pontine Islands.
Besides the fact that it is now one of the few, perhaps the only schools to ensure concrete job opportunities after graduation, so many families and so many guys have always relied on it.
Its population is predominantly male, although the number of women has grown over the years and continues to grow, just as the institution which since has annexed a second address: the Professional and Commercial Services " which is in addition to the other already present: "Transport and Logistics „for a total of 934 students divided into 51 classes.
The institute currently consists of three addresses:
1.Istituto Tecnico Settore Tecnologico Indirizzo “TRASPORTI e LOGISTICA
2.Istituto Professionale per i SERVIZI COMMERCIALI
3.Istituto Tecnico Settore Economico
Indirizzi “AMMINISTRAZIONE, FINANZA E MARKETING” e “TURISMO
Located in Piazza Trieste, attended by 562 pupils divided into 29 classes, has a term of five years and includes the following branches:
- Construction of the means which, as the name implies , involves the construction and maintenance of air, sea and land means of transport, and the acquisition of certificates of suitability for use of the same means;
- Driving the vehicle, this concerns the study of issues relating to transport by air, sea and land;
- Logistics, which deals instead of deepening the problems related to the management, control of the organizational aspects of aviation, maritime and land, in order to enhance the acquisition of appropriate skills in the interrelation between the different components.
The Professional Services for Business is divided into 5 classes (one for each year); it has duration of 5 years and is divided into 2 sectors: Services - Industry and Crafts
Gymnázium Na Vítězné pláni is situated in Prague 4, on the borders between the neighborhoods of Nusle and Pankrác. It has a magnificent view of the Prague castle. It is easily accessible by the underground metro (line C).
The school provides general education, there are currently 650 students enrolled in 4-year-long and 6-year-long study programs. The curriculum puts big emphasis on foreign languages. Apart from English also German, French, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Russian are taught.
The school has many foreign students from different parts of the world.
The school graduates are very successful also in their tertiary education. Majority of them continues with their studies at universities. Most of them choose to study law, medicine, economics, science and foreign languages.
The school has a number of children from mixed families or foreigners. Our effort is to include them not only in teaching but also in social, cultural and sports activities of our school. By including them in every possible way and activities we have been fighting for years against xenophobia, racism and cultural misunderstandings.
The school will actively participate in the organization of the whole project and will provide its partners with all the necessary information and make sure that the appropriate space is available, so that the work on all the set tasks could be carried out and intended goals could be achieved.
The Kryoneri Lyceum of General Studies is, the State school for the three last grades of secondary education, mainly for the pupils of Kryoneri, but appealing to the residents of other nearby areas, too. The Kryoneri Lyceum is housed in spacious and recently built facilities, near the forest, but only about 40 minutes from the centre of Athens by train, ten minutes from the nearest train station by car or bus, and with a regular bus connection.
As the title suggests, the school provides its 140 pupils with general knowledge, preparing them for access to University studies, but also for a professional career wherever a secondary education degree is sufficient. The vast majority of pupils is successful in university entrance exams, always feeling the satisfaction of a diverse curriculum enriching their school life with cultural and alternatively educational experiences.
The 15 professors of the school have not had the opportunity to participate in a European program so far, but there is a growing interest in the particular ‘mobilities’ as well as great potential, which can ensure the program’s successful completion; all necessary action will be taken to that direction, following our last year’s agreement over the program’s content, targets and pupil needs or requirements.