Romania

Colegiul Agricol si de Industrie Alimentara "Vasile Adamachi”

Aleea Mihail Sadoveanu no.41

700490 Iasi

“Vasile Adamachi” Agricultural High-school is situated in the north-east region of the city of Iasi (the capital of the Iasi county), on one of the most beautiful hills, Copou.

In its first years of existence, the school has functioned as an Apprentice School, later on changing into the Technical Agricultural School and later into the Vocational Agricultural School for Apprentices.
Since 1964, it has been called the Agricultural High school, but in 1990, it was given a new function and a new name - “Vasile Adamachi” Agricultural High school

The existing teaching forms in our school are:

High-school - with the following specializations: Ecological agriculture, Food industry, Economics– financial and commercial activities, Commerce, Environmental protection, Banqueting and event planner
Vocational school - with the following specializations: bakery and pastry, mechanics, agriculture

In terms of general objectives, our school set the following guidelines:

Basic formation as a qualified worker in agriculture and in other related fields
Enrichment of basic notions of general culture
Assurance of continual formation
Encouragement of personal development

The “Vasile Adamachi” Agricultural High-school conducts its activity with material resources such as:

22 classrooms
Laboratories: Viticulture, Floriculture, Soil study, Mechanics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Food Industry, Pastry, ICT, Foreign Languages – using PROLANG Software
School cafeteria, School dorm, didactical farm and orchard, vegetable garden, dendrological park, vineyard

Our school was involved in a few European projects the past few years. We are proud to tell you about:

DALPSE (Development of Alternative Learning Paths for Secundary Education) 2006-2009
- partners: Portugal, Sweden
- decreasing the school abandonment
- exchange of educational strategies in order to improve the students knowledge
- professional development of the teachers involved in the project
- encouraging European partnerships
FOOD AND HEALTH (Comenius project) 2008-2010
- partners: Italy, Turkey, Portugal
- searching and adopting the most healthy diet
- knowledge of the most important substances for our health
- preventing illnesses
- encouraging students to use foreign languages and to communicate with European students
GREEN BUILDING ( Comenius Project) 2012-2014
- partners: Turkey, Italy, Austria, Sweden
- studying different ways of building in Europe
- analyzing building status from all partner countries
- study of passive houses
- buildings and natural hazards (fludings, earthquakes)
EUROSCOLA 2011
- our school was the first Romanian school ever winning the Euroscola Trophee
- informing students about the European integration process
- promoting the youth’s participation in the construction of the European Union
- simulating the European deputes’ activity
- highs-school students from 27 countries get together in the famous Hemicycle of the European Parliament from Strasbourg, France
- they have the opportunity to learn about the European way of life
- they share experiences, thoughts, opinions about Europe in order to debate and make decisions regarding high-priority topics for the future of Europe;