Nuestra Señora del Rosario is a state school which belongs to the Foundation Francisco Coll, run by the Dominican Order. It is situated in Paterna, a village near Valencia, in a neighbourhood classified as a ‘social action’ by the Ministry of Education. Our levels go from kindergarten to the fourth grade of ESO (16 years), with the number of 700 students and 109 employees. It is a multi-lingual school that has two main languages: Spanish and Valencian, one main foreign language: English and two second foreign languages: French and German.

The management team identified some basic needs four years ago: the implementation of modern methodologies and at the same time, initiating the path of the European projects in order to show our students the possibility of working with European schools and learning from them. Working with students from other countries, with different social realities, with different points of view, in a close partnership on such difficult topics as migration or extremism (concepts that are worked on in the classrooms every day) gives meaning to our mission as a Catholic school.

To develop this project, we count on the help and collaboration of the management team, which is always in favour of European projects. At the same time, we count on the collaboration of the Coordinator of European projects, who has a lot of experience in all kinds of projects: Comenius in the past and Erasmus in the present. He is going to be joined by a colleague who also belongs to the department and who is going to share all the responsibilities with him to be trained for the future. Besides these two teachers, we have a team that has been working in the previous Erasmus projects and consist of: three department chairpersons, Music, Technology and History teachers and all the members of the English Department. In order to help us, we are also going to count on our psychologist.

As previously mentioned, we have been working in a service-learning programme related to this topic - global warming and measures that we can adopt in our school and in our lives.

Our school started with European Projects four years ago to show our students the European Dimension and to offer them tools for the future.

A great number of our students come from the neighborhood of "La Coma", which is considered as a ‘social action’ with students from many different nationalities and ethnic groups and with a huge amount of illiteracy and unemployment. With that kind of reality, we try every day to show them how to respect others and coexist peacefully.