Brief histories of our projects and programmes
Our mission -- explained
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Our Mission -- explained
Mission
School Plus is the network of NGOs registered in existing schools in South and Central Eastern Europe. Our goal is to establish conditions for the modernization of schools and the educational system, and to create lifetime education with European and world standards. Our mission is to build a democratic, open, civil, creative, and entrepreneurial society. We do so by helping citizens in general, and parents and teachers in particular, to organize themselves in order to break out of a cycle of helplessness and hopelessness.
The success of our societies depends on the success of the efforts of individual citizens joining hands to address a wide range of issues that affect peoples' lives. Citizens join hands in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that tackle the many different problems faced by different segments of the population but -- basically -- share a common goal: they all seek to improve the quality of life in a changing society.
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Our history in chronological summary
August 15-18: Public Achievement (PA) Groups Unite Interim International Meeting in Popova Shapka (Macedonia), with
PA groups (teachers and children) from Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Kosova, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania and Serbia, and with facilitators / observors from the Netherlands, Turkey, the Ukraine and the United States (Dennis Donovan, among others, from the Centre for Democracy and Citizenship in the Hubert H. Humphrey Centre in the University of Minnesota -- the birth-place of Public Achievement.)
"Academy of Young Social Entrepreneurs" course in Nowy Sacz, Poland, with a group of students from Moldova
2nd "Grassroots democracy" programme in Azerbaijan
Autumn: PTA "Speranta" (Cahul, southern Moldova) implements "Connect Cahul" Project (establishment of ~30 computer/internet centres in the district of Cahul)
1st "Grassroots democracy" programme in Azerbaijan
July /August: Social Entrepreneurship training sessions in Balti, Republic of Moldova
End June/ Early July: regional NGO/PTA conference in Suceava, Romania
PTA "Speranta" in Cahul (southern Moldova) implements "School Radio" project
NGO Skola Plus - Dositej Obradovic Bela Crkva (Serbia) completes "BelaTech" project (distribution of 119 computers donated from Canada to seven primary schools and two high schools in Bela Crkva).
March 26-27: First International School Plus FAIR, Timisoara, Romania, attended by a Unesco film crew: many new cross-regional projects started; School Plus logo elected (featured on this site)
November: Grassroots democracy / PTA-introductory course with group of Bulgarian teachers, Rytro, Poland
May: Grassroots democracy with Romanians and Moldovans in Nowy Sacz, Poland
"Academy of Young Social Entrepreneurs", pilot with students in Poland
PTA in Bela Crkva (southern Serbia) implements "School Radio" project
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1991
The Educational Society for Malopolska (MTO) starts a primary school in Debica, and in the years to follow (1991 onward) organizes many successful teacher-training workshops as well as various student and school staff exchange programs, building the School Plus Network in Central and Eastern European Countries, and itself developing into into an NGO Incubator for the region, providing office space, information, training, materials, individual consultations and more.
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The Educational Society for Malopolska (MTO) starts a high school in Krosno (Poland).
The Educational Society for Malopolska (MTO) starts Poland's first independent high school, "SPLOT", in Nowy Sacz, Poland.
The Educational Society for Malopolska (MTO) is founded by a group of parents and teachers from The Solidarity Movement, and is registered in 1988 as the first Educational Society in post-communist Poland.
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