What is aces?"Embracing solidarity: We care, dare and share!“Project ideaAims of the project

What is aces?

ACES is a Central and South Eastern European network of schools offering support to cross-border school partnership projects and aiming at the promotion of intercultural dialogue and cooperation of young people and teachers in the participating countries. The network comprises 15 partner countries: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic and Slovenia.

"Embracing solidarity: We care, dare and share!“

All humans are equal, but not all have equal opportunities. aces aims for a society in which people care about each other, not only themselves or their kin, a place where people not only claim their rights but also see the responsibility they have for the wellbeing of all. It is in this spirit that they undertake initiatives for and together with those whose voices often aren't heard. We believe that solidarity is of upmost importance and one of the core values for social cohesion and a more sustainable world.

Project idea

The project aims at raising participants’ volunteering knowledge and gaining new experiences on volunteering in their communities as an innovative way of acquiring solidarity. This project is focused on discovering means of using volunteering as a motivator and way to increase awareness of social and environmental responsibility as well as to enhance solidarity with the less privileged people in our societies.

Aims of the project

Students will: increase solidarity by acquiring awareness of social responsibility necessity; respect for the less privileged; gain experience in volunteering; enhance confidence and creativity of students by actively participating in voluntary projects; improve teamwork, ICT, English and German communicative skills, intercultural understanding and tolerance.

Singing Lessons in Romanian Foster Home

Some of the Romanian volunteers went at a partner foster home in Pitesti to teach four children how to sing two little songs about childhood. They started by explaining the lyrics, showed them the gestures that accompanied the story behind those lyrics. Firstly they sang together and then the children had the chance to perform […]

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Volunteers from Vocational School of Economics “Aleko Konstantinov”- Messengers of Goodness

As real messengers of Baba Marta the work team of the project “CAN and HELP”/ initiated by ACES-Academy of Central European Schools, coordinated by Interkulturelles Zentrum in cooperation with Nadacia Slovenskej/ and students from the class 8th “b” of Vocational School of Economics „Aleko Konstantinov“ visited once again the Day Care Centre „Nadezhda“. On their […]

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Volunteers from “Zinca Golescu”visited elderly people in Gavana Residental Care in Pitesti

January and February brought the opportunity the project team to arrange an entertainment music show for the elderly people in Gavana Residential Care in Pitesti. The 15 volunteers from the high school did their best to cheer up the elder people living there and create a positive atmosphere in these poor people‘s “house” because they […]

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“THEY COULD AND WE CAN,TOO” – NATIONAL HERO-PPTs COMPETITION IN COLEGIUL NATIONAL “ZINCA GOLESCU” , ROMANIA

Five classes from “Colegiul National Zinca Golescu”- Pitesti participated in the power point competition called “They could and we can, too” which was integrated in the regular English lessons in January this year. The participants were divided in groups of 4 and each team was supposed to look for a unique destiny. They din not […]

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Competition “They could and we can, too!”

In January 2016 it was held a competition for a presentation entitled: “They could and we can, too!” initiated by the team of the project “CAN and HELP “. The aim of the presentation was to present the life of inspiring historical heroes who showed that the difficulties were not an obstacle. If you have […]

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