Romania:
Liceul Tehnologic Francisc Neuman, Arad.
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Portugal- city of Braga
With over 2000 years of history, Braga is the oldest city in Portugal and one of the world’s oldest catholic cities.
Founded by the Romans in the year 16 b.C. and named “Bracara Augusta” in honor to the emperor Cesar Augusto. It was the capital of Galécia, from where derived five Roman Roads, with a vast territory that went from the North Douro until the Cantabrian. After conquests and re-conquests from several people, the king of Leon, D. Afonso IV donated it as a dowry to his daughter D. Teresa at a time of her wedding with the Count D. Henrique of Burgundy.
The long history of Braga is visible in its monuments and churches, being the Cathedral the most imposing and displaying several different styles, from roman to baroque, also being proud of the splendid houses, particularly the XVIII century ones.
A young, cosmopolitan and multicolor city, Braga shows with confidence a wide range of success and prosperity scenarios, extending its tutelary and entrepreneur arms to areas as vital as the culture, the commerce, industry and services.
The ones who visit us have the possibility to attend a diversified touristic and cultural program, taking a civilizational route documented since the Prehistory to the current days and live the real Minho culture, engraved in the vast heritage, in the ethnographical groups, village festivals, fairs and pilgrimages, as well as in the rich and diverse handicraft.
Braga is a city of huge beauty and heritage richness, which combines tradition with innovation, the memory to the youth, creativity to conservatism.
With over 2000 years of a very rich history, possesses one of the oldest Sacro-Montes in Europe and is the representative of the Minho region, the Bom Jesus. In Braga, we can find the oldest Portuguese Cathedral and the Motherhouse of the Benedictines, the Monastery of Tibães (Mosteiro de Tibães).
Braga presents places that by their intrinsic devotion and beauty, impose themselves as mandatory benchmarks to visit. The Sanctuary of Sameiro (Santuário do Sameiro), the Bom Jesus and the Falperra, settling on an appealing religious basis, are surrounded by ravishing green spaces and paradise landscapes.
The Roman legacy is another of the attractive factors of Braga, often called ‘Portuguese Rome’, due to its origin in the Roman city of Bracara Augusta. Known by its distinct churches, splendid XVIII century houses, gardens, nature parks and recreational areas. Braga’s long history is visible in the splendor of its monuments, museums and churches.
Visiting Braga is like taking a time travel inside modernity. Old city and of traditional religiousness – always imposing on its richness and majesty – lives hand in hand with the entrepreneurship and young spirit in vital areas such as culture, commerce, gastronomy, industry and services.
In Braga, feel good, in this so welcoming place, near, different and complete!
We hope to see you around and talking about us!
Agrupamento de Escolas Sá de Miranda, Braga
The cluster of schools Sá de Miranda is in Braga, a city with a long history in the north of Portugal. It has recently been joined by a group of schools located in a peripheral area. The cluster includes all levels of learning from Kindergarten to higher secondary. The school itself dates from the 19th century and has played an important role in the region ever since. It started out as a boarding school for boys but it was a state school for 175 years. The school is currently attended by students from the outskirts and rural areas surrounding Braga. Around 824 students attend the general curricula courses. There are five different vocational education courses and also adult training. AESM has a number of characteristics peculiar to it and which, in part, underpin its distinctive brand: the ESM, based on its 182 years of existence, has a vast didactic and cultural heritage consisting of a multiplicity of didactic materials from different disciplinary areas. It also has a set of equipment and important spaces such as a theater, a museum, an old library and a farm; the AESM has a great stability of faculty, about 82% of its staff belongs to the cluster itself. The cluster benefits from a nonteaching faculty and a highly motivated board for the development of pedagogical intervention projects of local, national and international scope; The various educational units, from kindergartens to primary schools, Escola de Palmeira and Escola Sá de Miranda, have, generally, good quality infrastructures, all of them having important spaces to support the development of European projects. There is a large investment in professional/vocational education. This type of education has made it possible to provide a tailored response to the profile of specific groups of students, to raise the employability levels of these young people by providing them with skills that promote greater insertion in the labor market in the wake of the Europe 2020 objectives, and to maintain current dropout rates, which currently stand at 0%; AESM has been targeting many of its transdisciplinary activities towards the development of competences in students that lead them to seriously contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Objectives contained in Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development of the United Nations Organization and there is a firm commitment in developing projects involving partnerships with schools in different European countries. This practice has been implemented in AESM for 10 years now, with the development of projects in the Comenius Program, the Erasmus + Program and eTwinning projects. Thus, the cluster has an experienced multitask team with different elements from school staff (Board, Projects, Improvement, Special Needs, Languages ,ICT, Autonomy and Pedagogical Supervision, among others). Many of its elements have already experience not only as partners but also in coordination of Comenius and Erasmus+ projects Ka2 and Ka1.