The 1st EPAL of Drama is the first of the two daily EPALs operating in the city of Drama. Its student population comes from the entire Drama Prefecture and part of the Serres Prefecture, because it is the only daily EPAL in the region in which the following sectors and specializations operate:

1. Mechanical Engineering Sector with specializations:

• Mechanical Installations and Constructions Technician,
• Thermal Installations Technician and Petroleum and Natural Gas Technology Engineer,
• Refrigeration, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Installations Technician
• Vehicle Technician.

2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Electronics & Automation with specializations:

• Technician of Electronic and Computer Systems, Installations and Networks and Telecommunications
• Technician of Electrical Systems, Installations and Networks

3. Department of Structural Engineering, Built Environment and Architectural Design with the specialization of Structural Engineering and Geoinformatics.

4. Department of Applied Arts with the specialization of Graphic Arts.

Our school, which opened in 2000 in Kestel/Bursa, is a Vocational Technical High School for girls aged 15-19.

There are 5 workshops for 4 departments:

• Child Development,
• Graphic Design,
• Aesthetic Services,
• Fashion Design.
• Our Practice

The kindergarten provides observational internship opportunities for students. 40 students receive inclusive education. Our school consists mainly of students from low socio-economic backgrounds. The vision of our institution is to make the school a preferred vocational education institution and to educate well-equipped students. The topics that interest our school and we participate in projects related to them are:

• Increasing 21st century skills in teachers,
• Acquiring professional and green skills,Increasing students' professional competence,
• Integrating digitalization in classrooms,
• Early school dropout,
• Creating a positive classroom and school climate,
• Preventing bullying,
• Student mentoring,
• Integrating disadvantaged students,
• Exchanging good practices between countries.

The Harezmi project, which is a national project, has been implemented in our school for two years. ''Harezmi'' is a domestic STEM model.

In addition to this, many projects in the field or in the school as a whole are carried out in the local-national space and are ongoing.

Our school was selected for the PISA exam that was implemented in the world in 2021.

Various scientific, social, cultural and sports activities continue in our school, while we have many degrees in Turkey and in our city.

eTwinning projects have been running since 2018.

6 out of our 7 projects were distinguished in the "Top 200 Projects of Turkey" list.

Our "Career Clubs" project, which focuses on the professional development of students, became the first in Turkey in the Vocational High School category in 2021.

Our school carried out an Erasmus+ internship mobility program (KA102) in 2017.

We carried out 3 activities within the framework of our project titled "Improving the Qualifications of Our Girls Students in Kestel through Internships":

• Child Development and Education Department (8 students and 2 teachers-2 weeks- Germany)
• Graphic Design Department (8 students and 3 teachers-2 weeks- Lithuania)
• Aesthetic Services Department (8 students and 3 teachers-2 weeks- Czech Republic)

In 2020, our school was accepted again with the Erasmus+ internship mobility program.

As part of our project "You Design the World Will See", 21 students from the Department of Graphic Design carried out a practical mobility in Belgium for 2 weeks and 3 flows.

In 2022, our school joined the consortium with the accreditation of our provincial directorate of national education.

Teachers and students gained a lot of experience from these two Erasmus+ projects.

Now we want to gain experience in the field of small and large collaborations (KA210-KA220).

In this way, our teachers and students will both become more experienced in project development and will develop culturally by interacting with teachers and students abroad.

Being aware that Bursa is an important industrial city, we believe that our students will increase their professional and cultural qualifications, increase their employment opportunities and contribute to the economy and employment of the country.

Our goal is to introduce student work, increase the use of foreign languages, encourage interdisciplinary work and inter-institutional cooperation with international partnership projects.

For this, our school aims to follow the latest technologies in education and develop green activities for our environment.

Thus, we aim to contribute to social development and be an example for other institutions.

IESVA is located in Atarfe, a town in the metropolitan area of Granada. It is structured in ESO and Baccalaureate (ESO and Baccalaureate for Adults); Formative Cycles of FP of Administration: Basic, Medium and High Degree. It has about 980 students and 72 teachers, it is a bilingual school in English since 2006 and has an Educational Compensation Plan for students with socioeconomic and cultural needs since 2003.

In the last years we are working on improving teachers' training in new methodologies and emotional education. We have made a great effort in three areas: digital transformation and competence in teachers, students and families; internationalization with Erasmus+ and eTwinning projects and sustainability. We also include programs for the development of students' abilities and skills for life and work in the 21st century in favour of inclusion, equity and opportunities for all students, in spite of their background and trying to reach higher quality standards and lowering early school dropout rate and school failure.

We work on new methodologies to involve students, especially the most disadvantaged, in school life through innovative programs such as the eco-garden, entrepreneurship, project-based activities and the development of soft skills and STEAM projects.

Our school excels in working collaboratively with other countries since 2016. Since then, we have developed a wide variety of actions in the field of internationalization. We have completed 18 eTwinning projects (all of them with National and European Quality Labels), together with other 5 more projects during this school year. We are an eTwinning school since this label was founded and we have had National Prize in 2018, 2021 and 2023. The Erasmus coordinator is an eTwinning Ambassador and moderates the European eTwinning featured group for VET.

We created several transnational networks with the schools met in Erasmus mobilities and the eTwinning projects partners are becoming engaged in Erasmus actions. We have taken part in school exchanges to France and Italy and hosted job-shadowing from Germany and Turkey and visits from schools from France. We have also hosted several students short and long term mobilities.

Our participation in Erasmus+ program started in 2019. We have already had projects in KA101, KA122, KA210, KA22, KA131 for Higher Education as we hold the ECHE Card and take part in a consortium for Adults.

In 2023 we created the International Department and from 2025 we offer a bilingual subject for Grade 11 called European Culture.

The school hosts students from 12 years of age from a wide range of population so that multiculturalism, multiple skills and the difference in profiles is significant and we pay special attention to coexistence and issues of discipline and conflict resolution.

From the compulsory stage, the school offers 3 options:

1. Baccalaureate: Sciences, Social Sciences or Humanities (16-18 y.o)

2. Vocational Training:

• Basic Cycle of Administrative Assistant (15-17 y.o)
• Medium Cycle of Administrative Management (From 16 y.o.)
• Superior Cycle of Administration and Finance (from 18 y.o)

3. As blended learning education we offer

• ESPA, Secondary Education for Adults
• BASP, Baccalaureate for Adults

The Chamber of Drama is one of the 58 Chambers of Greece, and its area of ​​responsibility is the Drama Prefecture.

Together with the other Chambers, they form the Central Union of Chambers of Greece (CUCH), which is a body for collecting national expression of the Greek chambers and by extension the business world of the country.

The Chamber of Drama - according to the current legislation - is a mandatory, autonomous and independent association of natural and legal persons who carry out commercial activity in the region

of the Prefecture of Drama. It is a Legal Person of Public Law (N.P.D.D.) and is under the supervision of the Ministry of Development.

It deals with the protection and development of all sectors of the economy in cooperation with the state, submitting relevant plans, recommendations and proposals for the promotion of the local and national economy in general. It is a permanent advisory and consultative body for the development of the Prefecture.

It participates in European Union programs for entrepreneurship, the construction of infrastructure projects, the management of conventional and online technology, as well as the promotion of Drama products in the Greek and international markets, with the main axes being marble, food, wine, timber and high technology.

It provides immediate and thorough information to all members with relevant announcements, lectures, seminars and other events through the conventional and electronic press.

Basically:

• It protects and develops trade, industry, crafts and professions within the framework of the requirements of the national economy.
• It gives opinions on issues concerning economic interests towards the economic development of the place.
• It responsibly informs its members on issues of the multifaceted development of entrepreneurship in the Prefecture.

Specifically:

It maintains the General Commercial Register (G.E.M.H.) in its region, which began operating for the first time in the country in 2011.

• It participates with its members in dozens of committees, councils and working groups of a local or regional nature, which deal with the economic and cultural life of the Prefecture and the region.
• It provides information on the development of businesses, the export-import process and the conduct of tenders for various projects.
• It maintains special registers for exporters, insurers and goldsmiths.
• It carries out expert assessments, sampling and resolves commercial disputes through arbitration.
• It organizes lectures, workshops and conferences and training seminars for the information and training of its executives.
• It publishes and distributes electronically to its members the monthly magazine "Epichireiin".
• It awards individuals and entrepreneurs for distinguished business activities, as well as their special contribution to the development of the Prefecture.
• It financially supports professional organizations, associations, and unions for distinguished activities that contribute to the economic and cultural development of the Prefecture.
• It registers the business name, certifies its activity and grants the necessary certificates.
• It organizes business missions and participates in local, national and international exhibitions.
• It submits studies and memoranda on issues of concern to trade and processing, which it accompanies with relevant opinions.
• It has studies and programs for those interested in the prospects of various sectors of the Greek market.
• It provides free legal advice to its members.
• It maintains an Electronic Services Hub, for free online business information, through which every business in the Prefecture can be displayed online worldwide, developing its own website within the Chamber's PORTAL.
• It undertakes, by decision of its Board of Directors, initiatives for business, cultural, social and national events that contribute to economic development.
• It has four sections: The Export Section with 74 members, the Processing Section with 1,780 members, the Services Section with 1,773 members and the Commercial Section with 2,242 members.