Colegiul Economic „Dimitrie Cantemir” Suceava Romania

The Economic College Dimitrie Cantemir is a vocational school with a long tradition in teaching economic education (since 1966). It offers specialized training in fields like: economic activities, tourism, administration, gastronomy, commerce, mathematics – computer science, human aesthetics and hygiene to almost 1.500 students, taught by 82 teachers. The school is situated in a socio-economic disadvantaged area. More than 60% of the students commute to school from the county’s villages. The Economic College represents an attraction point for our Suceava’s school population due to the perspectives it offers and it has become the leader for economic and speciality training at European level in our county.

The college welcomes its students with an elaborated infrastructure for teaching speciality subjects: two training firms and two public alimentation laboratories equipped at European standards, a Junior travel agency and a shop used for training purposes. Our school believes it is a priority that our students gain both professional competences, general skills and, at the same time, create values and positive attitudes about living. Consequently, a number of extracurricular activities are undertaken in order to cover this key factor in students’ development.

For a better-quality student instruction, our school collaborates with well-known educational partners from our town, county, country and abroad. International programs like “Learning About Forests LeAF” and Eco-Schools, supported by the European Union, UNESCO and UNEP (United Nations Environment Program), Junior Achievement or eTwinning are implemented regularly. At local and regional level, various extracurricular activities are organised, during counselling classes or throughout the one week from our school year dedicated to projects outside the core syllabus.

Starting from 2003, a variety of activities designed to bring a European dimension to our college have been performed: Comenius, Leonardo da Vinci, Grundtvig and Youth in Action projects, Spring Day, eTwinning, Erasmus plus and so on. These activities involved students, teachers, parents, local community representatives and they opened the path to education for European values, communication in a foreign language, using ICT.

Because of the activities performed at European level, through the approved educational projects, the Economic College "Dimitrie Cantemir" Suceava gained the title “European School” in 2011, 2015 and 2018, the European Language Label in 2019 and the title Entreprenorial school in 2017, with remarkable signs of progress made in the quality of teaching and learning and a constant improvement in school results. Currently, on an international level, the college maintains partnership relations with public and private pre-university and university unities from Denmark, Spain, Cyprus, Austria, Portugal, Greece, Croatia, Turkey, Italy, Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania under the frame of the Erasmus plus program of the European Union, and also through other types of educational activities.