Kristau Eskola is an association composed of 128 schools scattered across the Basque Country and is located in San Sebastián. With their great organizational network Kristau Eskola will mostly be focused on the implementation work and outreach to potential partner school. In this partnership they will also be responsible for feedback and modification of specific initiatives in line with the more broad work of Digi-Lingo.

Kristau Eskola will furthermore be responsible for the formulation of key competencies and overall teaching and/or learning goals of the project, as they have great experience with innovative competence-based education in regards to external projects.

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Partner schools

San Antonio Ikastetxea

Our school is a cooperative school, Christian and multilingual situated in the heart of the Basque country very involved in our town. Our students are from 0 to 16 years old and we have a lot of diversity in the classrooms. We offer a well-rounded education with a special focus on their plurilingual competence.For this reason, there are five languages that are taught and used at school: Basque, Spanish, English, French, German. The school has undergone a significant digitalization since 2019 and has attained the highest certification awarded by the Basque Department of Education. All of our students work with their own device.

Promoting the European dimension has also been one of our priorities, which has been key to the promotion of plurilingualism, but also the development of an European and global citizenship.

In order to achieve the mentioned values, we carry out international pupils exchanges, and have also participated in Erasmus+ KA1 projects. Additionally, we have been active on Etwinning since 2017 and one of our project was awarded the Quality Label in 2021.

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Nuestra Señora de Begoña – Salesianas

Nuestra Señora de Begoña-Salesianas Barakaldo is a school located in Barakaldo, a town close to Bilbao in the Basque country. We belong to a vast network of Salesian Schools spanning the globe and originally founded by St. John Bosco for the education of young people.

We are a school of over three hundred students and a staff of over thirty members. We teach Early Childhood, Primary Education and Secondary Education with specific attention to students with specific needs of Educational Support. Since the 2003/04 school year, we have also introduced a Complementary Schooling Programme that welcomes school dropouts from the area.

Our school provides an ambitious learning atmosphere in a caring, secure, supportive environment. We offer a wide curriculum of academic, practical and pastoral subjects. In the last years we have taken significant steps towards the digitalisation of the school and from the 2022-23 academic year on, each student will have their own computer. Foreign languages, English and French, are worked through a digital platform.

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Herrikide

We are a Basque faith school located in Tolosa. Herrikide works for our students to be socially engaged, creative and autonomous citizens as the goal is the students’ well-being and happiness. The school provides general secondary education and bachillerato (tertiary education) in Science or Social Science. Our teaching approach includes these pillars:

• Our community is part of a bilingual society and brings special attention to languages and language attitudes. Education in Herrikide is mainly in Basque, the local minority language.
• The school has a strong sense of community and actively participates in Service-Learning initiatives.
• In the last years there have been important pedagogical innovations. We are proud of developing and implementing our own interdisciplinary project-based program in the first two years of Secondary Education.

Currently, Herrikide also aims at opening more to Europe and is looking forward to collaborating with other international schools.

In 2022 we obtained the Erasmus + Accreditation.

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Claret Askartza Ikastetxea

Claret Askartza Ikastetxea is a school part of the association Kristau Eskola, located in Leioa, Bizkaia, in the Basque Country.

Our youngest students are 1 year old and the oldest are 18. The latter, for the most part, enter university at the end of their studies at school.

We are a bilingual educational community in Basque and Spanish. English is introduced into the school curriculum from pre-school on, in the 1-year-old class, especially aiming at the practice of the sounds of the foreign language, phonics. Progressively, throughout the Primary Education stage, subjects whose vehicular language is English are introduced. Finally, in Secondary Education, students can study a second foreign language, French or German.

The priorities of the school are:

• Providing quality education for all students. Encouraging the development of all its competencies, including digital competence.
• Development of a values of accountability and active citizenship. Commitment to the objectives of the 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development.
• Respect and care for their own language and culture, as well as knowledge and admiration for other languages ​​and cultures.
• Fostering healthy interpersonal relationships and the prevention of bullying.

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GO! headquarters is located in Brussels in Belgium but the educational network organizes official education in the whole Dutch speaking part of Belgium (Flanders) and offers teacher training to all its GO!-schools. GO! is therefore also very connected with the specific implementation work of Digi-Lingo, as they have a lot of experience in working within a mixed field of different cultures and foreign languages. GO! is responsible for ca. 210.000 pupils and 27.000 staff members. With their large experience in innovative digital didactic fields, GO! will to a considerable extent be responsible for the partnership and the network consisting of all teachers and schools connected to the Digi-Lingo project.

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Partner schools

Da Vinci scholen Sint-Niklaas

We are a secondary GO! school in the beautiful town of Sint-Niklaas with 3 different departments, each with their own unique approach and content:

• Forum Da Vinci, also called "the Forum", is our largest campus. Here we offer traditional education in many different fields of study. Hair care, sales, publicity, art, Latin, commerce, IT? Take your pick!
• At Villa Da Vinci, or "the Villa", various subjects in general secondary education are offered within the Freinet pedagogy. In traditional education, the emphasis is usually on the subject matter and the teacher whereas in Freinet education, the emphasis is more on the pupils and their responsibility.
• Our youngest department is “Casa Da Vinci”, which is a vocational secondary Freinet school for the 1st and 2nd years, a one of a kind.

Although these 3 schools are not physically connected, in reality they are. We can speak of a very nice, natural Da Vinci cross-fertilisation. Teachers teach on the different campuses, pupils get to know each other at joint activities and some modules are even offered jointly. And when in Sint-Niklaas you will be amazed by our market place which is the biggest in Belgium.

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Athena Oostende Campus Pegasus en Centrum

We are a secondary GO! school in Ostend, the queen of the seaside resorts, with 3 different departments, each with their own unique approach and content:

• Campus Pegasus, our “Junior High School”, concentrates on the first four years of secondary education (general education). The first year pays a lot of attention to the transition from primary school and pupils can already get a taste of several fields of education.
• Campus Centrum, our “Senior High School”, cooperates with colleges and universities and so allows third grade pupils to make a carefully considered choice of study in higher education.
• Campus Olympus caters to pupils with sporting talents. The cooperation with various sports clubs and sports federations offers them the chance to combine study with top-level sport from the 1st till the 6th year.

The entire education team works enthusiastically every day to further expand Athena. This intensive cooperation between the three campuses, combined with external partners, allows the resources to be used as efficiently as possible, thus raising the quality of education even higher. And when in Ostend you will be impressed by our cultural highlights.

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Atheneum Zelzate

Our school is located in the municipality of Zelzate, known for its industry and hard workers. We are located on a campus with a primary school, a middle school and an athenaeum. In addition to providing our pupils excellent knowledge and learning content in accordance with the curriculum objectives, we also teach them cross-curricular learning outcomes such as knowing how to interact and cooperate with others. We further invest heavily in GO!’s core values such as social engagement, responsible use of space, world solidarity, independence, tolerance and broad interest in cultural events. Last but not least, we also think hard about children’s well-being. Because you can only get more out of people when they feel good about themselves.

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