We would like to foster cross cultural exchanges aiming at making our students aware of a common European Heritage. Our school has a clear goal of preparing students for an active role as citizens concerned about the challenges our society are to face. These citizens will thus be able to create a healthy and sustainable society based on freedom, solidarity, tolerance, The interaction among European students from diverse origins and backgrounds offered by Erasmus projects is of paramount importance in order to reach these goals and meet the demands of our current society. We must prepare our students to be competent for jobs that have not yet been invented and that are a challenge for us as teachers. We are aware of that fact and we work hard to prepare all students to learn and to enter a global world able to participate in a democracy, make a living wage, and be lifelong learners. In order for them to be able to manage well locally and globally, the school aims to create multilingual students who apart from being proficient in Basque and Spanish, are as well fluent at least in English. Taking part in European projects in which intercultural understanding is key is essential to achieve the required communication competence.
Our school educates around 1000 pupils aged 12-20 with diverse origin and cultural backgrounds. Around 400 of them study Post-Obligatory Secondary Education and the rest Vocational Training in the field of sports in both initial and intermediate level. The school covers an extensive geographical area and it is the only public school offering all the different tracks in Baccalaureate as well as a vocational initiation program (employment training for people with disabilities) for around 30 students with disabilities per year. Due to our Multilingual project Basque, English and Spanish are used as working languages. Our model guarantees a high competence in both Basque and Spanish, however regarding their competence in English, we have noticed that there is a higher interest among the students in studying other subjects in English who need the challenge of putting their competence into practice. In order to do so, the school holds a yearly exchange with the Dutch school Zernike Montessori from Haren. However, this activity receives no financial help from any institution, which makes it unaffordable for some of our students. Erasmus would be the answer to those students.