Liceul Tehnologic Economic "Virgil Madgearu" Iasi

Liceul Tehnologic Economic „Virgil Madgearu” (LTEVM), Iaşi has a technological profile, preparing students for fields such as accounting, commerce, tourism, public alimentation. Our main purpose is to ensure intellectual and professional skills for labour market integration. There are 1106 students attending classes 9 through 12, and 79 teachers. Our students come from different social and ethnic backgrounds, a great number of them having a high risk of social exclusion: social precarity (244), students from mono-parental families or with parents working abroad (214), Roma students (51), students from the Republic of Moldova (42). These figures justify the school’s effort of finding the most suitable solutions by developing an inclusive type of educational system, in order to naturally integrate and avoid discrimination and isolation. All these risks may gradually lead towards a low level of motivation for learning and it is our goal to try to stimulate this process and increase it to improve quality in education. LTEVM is carrying out a sustained effort in using innovative methods in approaching the teaching-learning process and in developing not only the basic skills, but also job-related skills and transversal competences for our students, to ease their transition from school to labour market. By means of participating in European funded projects our students have the opportunity to improve their English language competence, they have the chance to use English as a tool for real communication and to play an active role in the proposed activities. Nonetheless, they will strengthen their transversal competences and they will broaden their cultural horizon through genuine interaction. LTEVM has a rich experience in LLP and Erasmus+ programme (4 Comenius-Socrates, 4 LLP Comenius Multilateral partnerships, 1 Leonardo da Vinci project), and Erasmus+ programme (3 KA1 projects and 1 KA2 Strategic Partnership), and in a Phare 2003 project. Most of the projects were coordinated by our school.