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“Aurel Popp” Art High School **Address**: Pta Jean Calvin nr 10, Satu Mare, Romania, telephone 004-0261716123, 004-0361413142 fax: 0040261716123, licartasatumare@yahoo.com website: http://licartasm.wikispaces.com

“Aurel Popp” Art High School has primary, secondary and high school classes with students from 7-18 years old. There are 113 teachers and 546students. It has two teaching sections: Romanian (55.9%) and Hungarian (43.1%). There are German, Gypsy, Italian and Spanish students too. It has music, fine arts and architecture sections. Students have as their major subjects: musical instruments, fine arts, architecture, ballet, but also subjects like in a regular school: Math, Biology, Romanian, Foreign Languages, Physics etc. When they graduate they have to pass art exams but also the national Baccalaureate. Many students continue their studies at art universities but also in different other domains: law, psychology, public relations etc. Many students come from mono parental families and a few children from family houses. Most of the students come from economically challenged families. There are no psychologically or physically challenged students. Our school is the coordinator of this partnership. It is situated in Satu Mare, a town in the North –West of Romania, at the border with Hungary and Ukraine. It is not a disadvantaged area, but it is not a very developed one either. It is characterized by multiculturalism, different nationalities live here: Romanian, Hungarian, German, Ukrainian and Gypsy. Apart from Romanian schools, there are three Hungarian high schools and Hungarian sections at different other schools and there is a German high school. In the last years many people have gone to work in foreign countries, therefore the number of children, who are at home without parents, left to be brought up by grandparents or relatives, is quite high. As a result, the role of school in educating children has become even more important. School has to deal with problems that are supposed to be solved by parents. Children miss their parents and this can be seen in their poor school results. Many students have their parents, relatives or friends working in Spain too–our partner country. But at the same time, there is a significant number of Romanian people coming back home, bringing their children, who were born in different EU countries, to continue their studies here. These pupils started their education in different European schools and now are integrated in Romanian schools. They are Romanian pupils who got a different kind of education and they are facing now a completely different system. Our school has 15 students in this situation.

__**HERE IS A PRESENTATION OF OUR TOWN AND SCHOOL**__:

** Previous Comenius partnerships: ** // I will be my own Master // -2005-2007 // The message of the European Peacemakers for Future // -2005-2007 // [|European Patchwork] // [|-2008-2010]