The goal of the project was to strengthen the skills of school management and teachers with a beneficial impact on their students. The project focused mainly on: a) improving the school management competencies within the framework of bilingual studies (namely the school principal, his deputy and the head of the bilingual section); getting some experience and comparing bilingual studies leading to making bilingual studies more efficient and attractive; b) establishing cooperation with bilingual schools, which were also established on the basis of an international agreement with Spain (bilingual gymnasium in Žilina and Bratislava); c) deepening the language competences of teachers who have returned after a longer maternity leave and want to use the English language in their subjects as well as in their extracurricular activities; d) strengthening of environmental education in teaching and through extracurricular activities; e) further professional growth of teachers through their teaching activities in European countries such as Spain and Slovakia), internationalization of teaching and teaching methods; f) preparing teachers for independent project management in a foreign language; g) strengthening subject-related competences and didactic and pedagogical competences; h) improvement of personality-cultivating competence. The aim of this project was also to increase the school's competitiveness in the Moravian-Silesian region.
Hladnov Gymnasium and Language School in Ostrava are involved in many international projects that take place mainly in English or Spanish language (Erasmus+ KA1, Erasmus+ KA2, e-Twinning, MATH4U). On the basis of an international agreement between the Czech Republic and Spain, there is a Czech-Spanish bilingual study at our school. In addition to Spanish language and literature, subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, history and geography are also taught in Spanish. It is obvious that such a school requires not only qualified teachers with excellent knowledge of languages, but also capable management who can manage the school at an international level, and last but not least, also teachers for whom a foreign language is a tool to modernize their subjects. The project follows on from previous projects of the European school development plan and focuses on improving school management, establishing cooperation with bilingual schools in Slovakia, deepening language competences and strengthening environmental education and professional growth of teachers through teaching activities abroad (Spain, Slovakia). Moreover, increasing the school's competitiveness in the Moravian-Silesian region is also a significant contribution of the project.