Europa 2000 Secondary School

The Europa 2000 Secondary School is a secondary grammar school and vocational institution maintained by a foundation, and it is continuously adapting to the ever-changing challenges, ensuring the spiritual, moral and physical development of the students in a family-type environment.

The Europa 2000 Economic, Tourism and Information Technology Education Centre Foundation, which maintains the school, was established in 1992. Its main objective is to train competent and experienced professionals, who can flexibly adapt to economic changes.

Our further goal is to educate tolerant citizens of healthy identity, open to the world with a clear vision, while sharing European values. To achieve the above-mentioned objectives – according to the intents of the founders – we ensure the learner-friendly, family-type environment to each student of ours. In the interest of the development of student talents the necessary resources in staff and equipment help with the conveyance of knowledge adjusted to the level of development of the students, necessary for passing the school leaving exam and the acquisition of the professional knowledge required to pass the intermediate language exam. The organisation of extra-curricular cultural, sports and other entertaining programs provide school life with experiences. The establishment of democratic values is ensured within the framework of the Students’ Government and Student Assemblies.

The basic principles of our institution:

• Our school has been an operationally and pedagogically consistent, calculable institution based on stability and traditions for several decades.
• Trustful, mutually tolerant and helpful teacher-student relationship.
• It is our basic principle that our staff be comprised of highly-qualified, motivated and co-operating teachers applying up-to-date methods.
• Tolerance, open thinking and creating opportunities lie at the heart of our education.
• Our school provides a non-violent and safe environment for students and our staff.

Our school has nearly 500 daytime students and as many as 40 full-time teachers. In the 3 buildings of ours there are 40 classrooms, among them several technical classrooms (TV studio, cinema room, scientific rooms, apprentice restaurant, training kitchen, computer stock), a library with 13 000 volumes and a sports ground with artificial turf. The high-quality school facilities ensure the conditions for modern teaching and learning, responding to present needs. Our air-conditioned classrooms are equipped with smartboards, active boards and overhead projectors. Our teachers are provided with laptops, by which we have started the digital education of the 21st century. Individual differences and characteristics

We provide several services at our school, which, in many cases, differ from the traditional educational methods and tools, giving a unique colour to our school.

• An individual examination system is operated at our school, with the purpose of making it easy for our students to understand and clarify our expectations and preparing them for the GCSE exams. We apply quarterly assessment, at the end of the school year our students take exams in GCSE subjects during the one-week exam period, in accordance with the GCSE requirements.
• Student teacher system. With the help of the program students in need of support or extra tuition can relearn difficult study materials and topics from their peers in ’student language’.
• A comprehensive teacher assessment system, to ensure the high-quality training system of the school, the students can evaluate the operation of the school and the work of its teachers.
• Our own study materials are applied in our sections, which guide our students’ professional and career decisions.
• In addition to personality development, we pay special attention to the safety and well-being of our children, in which the “Nemecsek Program” provides assistance.
• Our title of “European Parliament Ambassador School” in 2019 obliges us to introduce our young people to the workings and values ​​of the EU.

In the educational system of Europe 2000 Secondary School the two major areas play a significant role in the successful implementation of the project. We can make good use of the professional experience of both educational training specializations and alternative pedagogical programme in connection with the tender and its implementation.

Our principles on education and training

Our school emphasizes training its students in a unique, different way, compared to the classical education systems. Some of the elements of our educational principle are group work, project work, applying alternative pedagogical methods or organizing activities outside class and out-of-school programs.

Creating the demand for life-long learning is considered to be our main mission. With thorough professionalism and methodological diversity (co-operative learning, project method, small group trainings, use of ICT tools, competence-based training, enrichment and differentiation) our teachers ensure the possibility of the acquisition of high-level culture and knowledge meeting the challenges of our times, which will make it possible both to develop talented students and to provide support for the students lagging behind.

Individual differences and characteristics

We provide several services at our school, which, in many cases, differ from the traditional educational methods and tools, giving a unique colour to our school.

• Our own study materials are applied in our sections, which guide our students’ professional and career decisions.
• Student teacher system. With the help of the program students in need of support or extra tuition can relearn difficult study materials and topics from their peers in ’student language’.
• A comprehensive teacher assessment system, to ensure the high-quality training system of the school, the students can evaluate the operation of the school and the work of its teachers.
The establishment of democratic values is ensured within the framework of the Students’ Government and Student Assemblies (DÖK).

Individual education and strengthening career orientation is a highlighted task for our school. Elaboration and operation of the innovative system of the project programme can be connected to our school life, the programs currently running at many points. Here they are:

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Franklin Covey)

The system of seven habits of highly effective people will be launched at our school from 2018-2019 school year. This system offers our students an opportunity how to explore themselves, impact on others and communicate effectively. This methodology helps our students to move from dependence to independence with the following seven habits:

1. Be Proactive
2. Begin with the End in Mind
3. Put First Things First.
4. Think Win-Win
5. Seek First to Understand, then to Be Understood
6. Synergize
7. Sharpen the Saw.

Active student life – operation and priority support given to the Students’ Government and Student Assemblies (DÖK)

Being active and taking part in school life is popular among our students. Collaborating is done by the student council with the help of a patronizing teacher and with the control of the president of the student council. Besides the advocacy of the students and the protection of student rights the representatives elected from each classes (who are usually outstanding ones) take an active role in organizing the school programmes. Our school is eager to involve its active students into different tasks, supports and rewards their work, which is of paramount importance in organizing social life. Our major school programmes which can be connected to the activities of the student council are Fresher’s Day, Open Days, school fairs, CSE-HO Day, sports day, Europe Day, fancy dress ball, etc.

Nurturing talent

Mathematics, History, foreign languages, competence-building subjects, the majority of media subjects and the special subjects of the section are taught in groups corresponding to the abilities of the students. Our interested students are given the opportunity to participate in projects matching their interests. In 2015 we were granted the title ’Excellent Talent Point’. We implement 3-4 talent nurturing and development tenders a year in various talent areas. To prepare for the school leaving exam, competitions and further studies, our talented students are assisted by talent nurturing and developing teachers, a psychologist and our colleagues.

We have study groups which can be related to the project: Holocaust studies – I Witness programme, Bullying & Media Comenius project, Role models Comenius project, the Ambassador school of the European Parliament programme.

Digital school – alternative school programme

Our school is committed to digital education, we would like to be pioneers in this area in our country. Thanks to this effort the school aims at shaping an alternative pedagogical program, which can be fitted in our application. We plan to put unique and innovative ideas into practice and we wish to make it adaptable at European level.

Our school always has been open to innovations, and enthusiastic about being involved in various projects in order promote the willingness to understanding and communication between different nations. Besides, the interested students are provided with a wide range of diverse and various extra-curricular and class programs. Our institution is committed to modern digital education. Our goal is to radically transform the educational process to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Thanks to our two years of preparatory work, our institution has been one of the Microsoft Showcase School practice schools since September 2020.