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Programme Erasmus + Europe on the move : Migration Biographies Schools
AEAH
Porto Website : https :// www . aealexandreherculano . pt /
AEAH is a cluster of nine schools ( six primary with kindergarden , two middle schools and a secondary one ).
It is located in Oporto downtown where a population decrease is verified . We are a reference school for students with special needs ( handicapped , authists and deaf students ).
We offer a variety of courses : Humanities , Sciences , Vocacional ones ( in the area of tourism ).
On account of migration , we are a multicultural cluster of schools and we offer day and evening classes of Portuguese Language to foreign students coming from several countries .
We celebrate many protocols with some entities : Oporto University , Oporto Town Hall , Catholic and Lusófona universities ( private ones ).
Photo 2 Silva Maria da Graca , Lima Manuel , Maria de Fatima Roxo Gama
Along the last twenty years , the cluster has had a lot of experiencies related to International Projects ( Comenius and Erasmus plus ).
In these partenerships , we have dealt with themes such as : Environment , Multiculturalism , Entrepreneurship , Migration and Human Rights .
The participation of students and teachers in these projects contributed to broaden their minds about cultural and social realities , enabling , in this way , their general building particularly in the field of sensibilisation to the economical , ethnical , linguistic and cultural differences , in a logic of a strategy to the empowerment of the European Identity feeling , sharing a common European place .
By working with the thematic of migration we managed to configure ourselves as a country not only of emigrants but also as one of immigrants . Currently we have students from Ucrania , Marocco , India , Venezuela , Bangladesh , Brazil , Angola , Mozambique , Russia , Romania , Bulgaria , China and Turkey .
Our teachers have a growing colaborative work to prepare young people to the future in a dynamic citizenship exercise . So equity , inclusion and social responsibility are principles that direct our mission .
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