Escola Profissional do Alto Ave ( PORTUGAL / Póvoa de Lanhoso )
The Vocational school, EPAVE, is situated in the small city of Póvoa de Lanhoso in the north of Portugal. The area in which the school is located presents a variety of social and economical characteristics and has also developmental problems.
Due this reality, the school EPAVE, that revels a seventeenth year experience, is an expanding project on the local area and its aim is to offer an education with quality, based on human, cultural and social values. To achieve this aim we work with young and creative teachers and instructors, who are motivated and interested to develop their strategies/skills of teaching.
The school community of the EPAVE School, is build by 200 young students. Many of them grow up in a feeble social environment. Some parents are unemployed or emigrants, other students live without their parents, staying with other family members like their grandparents or uncles. A number of students live in rural environments and have less financial possibilities.
To prevent the risk of social exclusion, educational and professional failure, the EPAVE School creates projects and activities for the school community, so the teenagers are able to develop their self-confidence, to respect themselves and to grow as healthy persons, characteristics they wouldN't be able to develop in their normal environment.
Due this reality, the school EPAVE, that revels a seventeenth year experience, is an expanding project on the local area and its aim is to offer an education with quality, based on human, cultural and social values. To achieve this aim we work with young and creative teachers and instructors, who are motivated and interested to develop their strategies/skills of teaching.
The school community of the EPAVE School, is build by 200 young students. Many of them grow up in a feeble social environment. Some parents are unemployed or emigrants, other students live without their parents, staying with other family members like their grandparents or uncles. A number of students live in rural environments and have less financial possibilities.
To prevent the risk of social exclusion, educational and professional failure, the EPAVE School creates projects and activities for the school community, so the teenagers are able to develop their self-confidence, to respect themselves and to grow as healthy persons, characteristics they wouldN't be able to develop in their normal environment.