The school centre Srečko Kosovel Sežana, in Sezana, Slovenia, which was founded in 1975 has two organisational units: secondary school (grammar shool, economic and art technical school 15-18 year’s students) and higher vocational school (photography and material design 19-21 year’s students).
The School centre participates in many national and international projects and cooperates with the local environment. (The Sežana comunity, the Chamber of craft and smallbusiness, The cultural institution, The reginal development agency, The sports, free time and tourism agency, The Unesco haritage Škocjan caves and many local firms). Our aim is to became an important partner of the developement in our local environment and to become more and more recognized nationaly and also internationaly.
All our projects are designed to bring added value to our organisation but also to our partners. So we participate in interantional projects and we build a strategic partnership localy and internationally since 2004. We started to built the REGIONAL CROSS-BORDER partnership with institutions from Italy (the italian school and the slovene minority school from Triest) and Slovenia (our school and the italian minority school from Izola). The projects Interreg Phare CBC ; Transnational integration school-work Slovenia –Italy, The fair without borders (International projects-Skriti zaklad), Knowledge without borders (International projects-Skriti zaklad), Learning for the profession in EU (International projects-Skriti zaklad) were designed to strenghten the bonds between minorities and to develop the unified environment for study and work from both sides of the border and to prepare Slovenia for the EU market.
The great support of our COMUNITY inspired the developement of projects with schools from places bonded with our comunity. So we started to collaborate with the school from Pardubice (the twin city with Sežana). The collaboration brought in some great Leonardo mobility projects. Both projects with our school as a leading partner (Together we ride–the comparision beetwen two importand stud farms Lipizza and Kladruby ab Labem and The comparision of marketing opportunities of the slovenian and Moravian Karst) were awarded with the highest price of our national agency (Zlato jabolko kakovosti). They had a STRONG LOCAL PARTNERSHIP and a big impact in our local environment. We hosted the SOŠ CR Pardubice school in many Leonardo projects and we encouraged our local partners to become the aplicants of Leonardo da Vinci VET PRO and PLM projects.
As a school with a lot of experience in enterpreneurship and creativity we started to develop PILOT PROJECTS that we transferd and implemented with former Yugoslavia countries. The projects Festival Doss , Creativity has no borders, Creativity as the intercultural dialogue were designed to promote enterpreneurship and creativity and to built the intercultural dialogue between Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbija and Albania.
We also play a small role in two big european interegional projects Extralarge and Meditera-The implementation of enterpreuneship way of life.
The projects Leonardo mobility IVT Creativity over the bordes, Visual merchandising and Visual merchandiser-Skills for the past or skills for the future achieved the desired aim and helped to increase the enrollment of new students in our school. The project School-partner in developement strategies-Leonardo mobility VET PRO and Stone in picture and shape-Erasmus IP are designed to bring ADDED VALUE to our comunity and local environment. We can tell that also Erasmus mobility for students and staff brings added value to our institution and the local environment by building STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP nationaly and internationaly by bringing foreign experts and impementig the gained skills and knowledge in our environment.
This year we coordinate 6 international projects ERASMU+and EEAgrants Norway grants and are partners in 3 strategic partnerships Erasmus+Ka2.
