Introduction of ACES organization
ACES = Academy of Central European Schools
Dialogue and cooperation of young people in Central Europe
ACES offers opportunities for young people from Central and South Eastern Europe to develop friendship across borders and to take part actively in international school projects.The aim is to foster dialogue and cooperation of young people and to create a network of shared knowledge, mutual learning and innovation. The initiative is supported by the Ministries in charge of Education of all 15 participating countries. With a yearly contest for school partnership projects ACES encourages pupils and teachers to engage in intercultural exchange and work jointly on the overall topic of the respective aces cycle.
ACES was founded in 2006 by ERSTE Foundation in cooperation with Interkulturelles Zentrum (Vienna, Austria). In 2009, VČELÍ DOM (Bratislava, Slovak Republic) joined in the partnership. The aces school network seeks to enhance the active participation of young people and teachers in exchange processes and international cooperation. Currently 15 partner countries from Central and South Eastern Europe are involved in the network: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic and Slovenia. Schools from all these countries are invited to take part in the aces activities, to find partner schools and to implement their partnership projects in international cooperation.
More information about ACES are here.
Project You Complete Me - ACES theme 2013/14: DIVERSITY within us and around us
It is a trillateral project with partners from Czech Republic (primary Kosmonautů 15 school, Ostrava), Croatia (economic school, Šibenik) and Bulgaria (primary Christo Botev school, Rakovski). You can find information about the project aims and planned activities with photogallery here. A detailed description of the project and callender of acitivities find here. Interactive map of our project activites is here. Croatian project websites here.
PRINCIPLES
ACES principles for conferences with attendance with more than 100 students and 100 teachers, experts, press and Education ministry representatives, and special guests are also used during our project meetings:
FIVE FIELDS OF SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS
The categories are related either to the aces principles, by reflecting general aces aims and the challenges of cross-border cooperation or to the topic of the respective aces call.