TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL OF RAILWAY TRANSPORTS Iasi - Romania ADDRESS: 82, SOCOLA bvd., cod WEBSITE: PHONE: FAX:

 Our school is one of the 12 technical high schools of railway transports in Romania. Our students come from all over the Moldavia region.  There are 1000 students, 70 teachers, 38 auxiliary personnel.  Besides the school building, there are also 2 student hostels, a refectory, a gym hall and the school workshops.  In the main building, there are 36 classrooms including 2 Computer Science labs, 5 transports labs, 2 Physics labs, a Chemistry lab, a Biology lab and Mediatech room.

 The Technical High School of Railway Transports was founded in April  1973 was the first year when the school organized the admission for High School, because until this date was Trades and School Arts  At the beginning, in 1973, the school offered a limited number of specializations for the railway: engine driver for the maintenance of wagons and railways engines, engine driver for the maintenance of the railway equipment.  In the present, our school offers courses in the electrotechnics, transports, telecommunications, constructions and informatics fields.

 Our school offers 3 levels of training in the technical field : A. Vocational High School ( telecommunication technician, informatics technician, construction design technician, electrical installations technician) B. Trades and Arts School (electro mechanic and mechanic worker) C. Postgraduate School (auto mechanic foreman)

 Vocational high school- directly route - 4 years of training: 9 th – 10 th forms (general training) and 11 th – 12 th forms (professional training)  Vocational high school – progressive route - 5 years of training: 9 th – 10 th forms (1 st level of training) School trade arts, 11 th form (2 nd level of training) Completion year, 12 th – 13 th forms (3 rd level of training) High school. After each level they pass an exam and receive a professional certificate. The students who complete the 3 rd level can pass a national graduation exam, just like the students in the vocational high school.

 Over 105 prizes won by our students in technical and general contests and competitions  20 prizes in sports competitions (football, handball, basketball, volleyball, chess)  3 prizes for the final products of Comenius 2.1 and Comenius 1.3 European projects in the contest “Made for Europe”  Over 40 papers presented in the local, national and international symposiums  5 Comenius and a Arion training bourses for teachers  4 Leonardo da Vinci projects, 18 Comenius projects (Comenius 1.1, Comenius 1.2, Comenius 1.3, Comenius 2.1)

1. EUCLIDES - Comenius Multilateral Project – Lifelong Learning Programme – “Enhancing the Use of Cooperative Learning to Increase Development of Science Studies” 2. PATCH WORLD - Comenius Multilateral Project – Lifelong Learning Programme – PArents and CHildren Working, ORganizing and Learning together 3. BRIDGING INSULA - Comenius Multilateral Project – Lifelong Learning Programme 4. EUROPEAN STANDARDS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE INSERTION ON THE LABOUR MARKET – Comenius Multilateral Project

 11 transport companies and agencies where our students do their practical training  Iasi City Hall  Iasi Police Department  Iasi County Educational Department  Iasi Teachers’ Training House  City Halls from Lesneven, Marin-Pontevedra, Capo d’Orlando, Stargard  “Le Porteau” High School in Poitiers, France (over 15 years of partnership)  “Gh. Asachi” Technical University, Iasi  “Al. I. Cuza” University, Iasi  Ministry of Transports

 Lifelong learning – continuous learning  Developing students’ skills and competences in the context of their European social and professional insertion  Promoting activities that protect the environment  Promoting the education according to the European values, thus helping the students to become “European citizens”  Involving the parents in education  Promoting the education for a healthy life through sports

 The railway technical education system in Romania ensures the students a professional training adjusted to the needs of a democratic society and of a market economy according to the evolution of the labor market.  The Technical High School of Railway Transports promotes a formative vocational education focusing on building up the students’ skills by using modern, active, formative and participative pedagogical methods.  We help our students to become responsible and active European citizens, capable of deciding their own careers, of adjusting and of finding their way in the society which continuously changes.