Commissioner Figel’ visits Ion Creangă High School in Bucharest, Romania
Jan Figel’, European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Multilingualism, and the education and research minister Mircea Miclea visited the “Ion Creangă” General High School of Bucharest to find out about the European projects developed by pupils and their implication in “Spring Day in Europe” programme.
After visiting the information centre on European Union settled inside the school and the debate room where pupils talk about European integration, the two officials assisted to a presentation of European culture and values as viewed by the pupils of "Ion Creangă".
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The pupils outlined the outcomes of their projects on "Spring Day in Europe" and their participation in Comenius (Socrates) leading to partnerships with schools from Greece, Belgium, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Spain. The best moment was a play in French performed by the pupils at "Ion Creangă" in Turkey last year, in a francophone school theatre festival.
Commissioner Jan Figel' said he appreciated the pupils' enthusiasm to find out about the values of the European Union and the culture of its member states. Commissioner also said that it is very important for the future of the Union to know and respect the common values and that the civil society, represented also by very young people, to get involved together with politicians in sustaining the integration effort, because integration is not possible without the initiative and engagement of every member of public community.
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In his turn, Minister Mircea Miclea thanked the pupils and the teachers of the high school for the seriousness with which they got involved in discovering and understanding the values of Europe and encourage them to go on.
Later on, at the press conference held at the Information Centre of the European Commission, Commissioner Jan Figel' said that the high school visited that day was really European and must be an example to other schools in Romania. He considered those pupils to be ready for integration, for competition, and that they are the future of Romania and of Europe. We want to mention that the pupils and the teachers at "Ion Creangă" high school were involved in some 15 European partnership projects over the last 4 years.
Photo 1 - From left to right: Jonathan Scheele, Head of the European Commission Delegation in Romania, Commissioner Ján Figel’, Mircea Miclea, Romanian Minister of education and research
