Osnovna škola Lovre Matačića - Croatia
Since 2015, our school was one of the 150 schools in Croatia that was chosen to be the experimental schools in the pilot project E-schools. It was a project that lasted four years and through which our school reached the highest level of digital maturity that the project envisaged. In addition to being equipped with a strong network, teachers have undergone numerous training on the use of technology in teaching and participated in research provided by the pilot project. How successful the pilot project was is also shown by the fact that in 2020 it received the Regiostars award Projekt e-Škole dobitnik nagrade Europske komisije – RegioStars – e-Škole (e-skole.hr) as the best project in the field of education in this part of Europe. So we are really lucky to have well trained staff, teachers who are willing to learn and accept new approaches in learning.
In 2022, we implemented the Local Action "Gastrodiplomacy at the School of Happy Children". The local action is an integral part of the INCluDE Project - interdepartmental cooperation in the empowerment of citizens of third countries and is financed from the funds of the Government of the Republic of Croatia and co-financed from the Fund for Asylum, Migration and Integration of the European Union. The reason for applying to the Project, which was published by the Office for Human Rights and the Rights of National Minorities of the Government of the Republic of Croatia, was the number of our refugee students and their parents who come from Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Ukraine and their good involvement in our education system and our school through many years of experience in working with children and their parents. The goal of our action is to strengthen intercultural relations between parents and students, reduce prejudices against refugees, and shape a more tolerant attitude towards people from other cultures. Through a local action, we encouraged parents of asylum seekers to be better involved in the life and work of the school and their empowerment, and better acceptance of asylum seekers by the local community. In children, we wanted to encourage the development of self-confidence and involvement in activities with children outside the school premises.
In 2023 our school was a partner in the Erasmus + project STEAM in Times . All our teachers are experts in their subject with academic degrees. Cooperation between teachers is excellent, our school is the organiser of competitions in biology at the county level. Representatives of students and teachers from more than 100 schools in Zagreb come to our school. The success of such events depends on the teamwork of all school employees, and so far we have always been successful.