Partner Identification Form

Organisation’s name Primary school Gorgi Sugarev

Bitola
The Republic of North Macedonia
PIC code 931119782
Legal representative's name Mrs.Jasminka Sekulova
Legal representative's gender female
Legal representative's first name Jasminka
Legal representative's last name Sekulova
Legal representative's position Principal of the school
Legal representative's E-mail [email protected]
Legal representative's Phone number +38975 536 355

Contact person’s name Daniela Lavurovska

Contact person’s gender female
Contact person’s first name Daniela
Contact person’s last name Lavurovska
Teacher of English
School project coordinator for Erasmus
Contact person’s position +KA2
Contact person’s E-mail [email protected]
Contact person’s Phone number +38971251593

Please briefly present the partner organisation (500 words max.)

Primary school Gorgi Sugarev from Bitola, Republic of Macedonia is a primary school which
started working in 1973 and since then for 45 years it has successfully educated and raised
children aged from 6 to 15 years. There are 644 students from different ethnic communities
such as Macedonians, Roma (which actually represent 70% of all the students in our school) ,
Turks and Albanians. Within the school there is a special department for students with
disabilities Our school staff has had one general training in the
field od Inclusion, but we all share the opinion that the training was rather informational than
practical.Since we encounter special needs students included in regular classes without the
support of aspecial teacher, our staff is in great need of practical training on how to cope and
deal with specialneeds students in the class. The 11 special teachers offer help as much as
they can, but the staff needs to be trained in different areas.. Today, the school is actively
involved in several projects at a national level such as the Project for Modernization of
Education, USAID project for Youth Ethnic Integration in Education, USAID project for
ethnic strengthening of the cooperation between the municipalities from the Pestalozzi
Children's Foundation, UNICEF projects for mathematical and language literacy in the early
grades, Inclusive Education Project, USAID Project for Professional and Career
Development of Teachers, Integration of the ECO standards in the educational system of the
Republic of Macedonia. The school collaborates with Swedish NGO Hand til Hand. As a
result of all these activities our students have been awarded many recoginitions on local and
national level.Civil initiatives
The other NGO that collaborate with our school are
Geosphere,NGO, Sumnal Center for Early Childhood Development – Bitola, municipality of
Bitola and UNICEF through the project named “Socially Beneficial Work- pedagogical and
educational mediations of Roma children from 5-10.
NGO MakeDox project “ We are Visual- education and audio visualization of human rights”
financed by the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights of EU and the
project “Makedox in a classroom” financed by The National Endowment for Democracy,
Washington.
AMOS-Center for human rights- Bitola is an association of citizens which main activities are
promotion and implementation of women’s and children’s rights from the Convention on the
rights of the Child through education and assistance.
Lifestar- Bitola, The Early Childhood Development Center and UNICEF carried out the
following activities in our school:
Bairska Svetlina is a NGO which contributes to:
 Reducing the number of students who prematurely left school through parents meeting
 Workshops of multi-ethnic character in honor of School Day, religious festivals etc

Activities and experience in areas relevant for this application (500 words max.)

Students, parents, teachers, administrators and school board members in all primary and
secondary schools across Macedonia are the primary focus of the project activities.
Additionally, advisors of the Bureau for Development of Education and education inspectors
at national and regional levels, are also central to achieving sustained change and actively
participate in capacity strengthening activities. Achieving success also demands that the
USAID Project actively engage stakeholders in schools, communities and local governments
in the integrated mix of project activities. Our approach to implementing the project creates
an environment where all stakeholders actively participate in this initiative. They
collaboratively build clear understanding of the importance of Inter-ethnic Integration in
Education and take responsibility, accountability and ownership of the project and resulting
success.
Achieving and sustaining inter-ethnic integration in education is a complex and long-term
process. Our school is a model school of implementation of equal educational rights and
respecting the students needs. Nowadays, our school stuff faces a serious problem with
students’ school dropout and we consider that there is a great necessity of a good training
preparation in bringing the students back to school. The main issue on this phenomenon is the
social family status of the students’ family. They leave the homeland in seeking better life as
immigrants abroad. They eventually return back but they have seriously suffered a great
personal, educational and social change that causes difficulties. Recognizing this, core
stakeholders are the canter of all activities, taking the responsibility for achieving project
objectives and become the agents of sustained change. Our design also carefully sequences
activities so that each phase builds critical capacity for subsequent phases. Central to this is
improving inter-ethnic communication and bridging ethnic, cultural, social and language
gaps.
Also, important for the other part of our application is the use of ICT in our curriculum. The
Government of the Republic of Macedonia over several important projects shows it is
determined to establish an environment that takes advantage of the ICT industry and create an
advanced information society. Now the question arises, how will children, who dropped out
of school, be able to work and learn using them. There are many NGO's that collaborate with
our school but NGO Lifestar- Bitola carried out a project that helped us with reducing the
number ofearly school drop-outs through parents meeting and workshops of multi-ethnic
character etc. There isa project team specially created by the experienced staff prepared to
carry out this project which is of great importance to our school.
Skills and expertise of key staff involved in this project – please describe their previous
experience and competences that they will use during the project. (500 words max.)

1.Daniela Lavurovska, a graduated professor of English language and literacy. Her

experience in education is about twenty years as a teacher. More than ten years working as a
project coordinator and president of the school board at the primary school "George Sugarev"
-Bitola.In the period of 2016/17 a great inter cultural exchanges was organized supported by
the Pestalozzi Foundation with 40 students in Trogen, Switzerland. The students gained an
excellent education and practice on the subject of anti-discrimination and the rights of
children through team work and practice. E-twinning label project coordinator.The Inter
cultural exchange provoked a major change in students terms of mutual respect and
cooperation.
2.Irena Milenkovska is teacher of German language. Her experience in education is about 7
years as a teacher. She works in many extracurricular activities with students related to
multiculturalism and projects in cooperation with the Society for Macedonian German
friendship and cooperation Bitola in order to bring students closer to the German language.
She is interested in all cultural issues and she interested in new ideas to knit languages,
culture and international possibilities in a one combination. She has always been interested in
developing upper levels team spirit and pupils wellbeing.
3.Daniela Ristova works as a Geography teacher for more 15 years. She`s been very
successful with the students achievements in geography as a result they brought the school
enormous success in state competitions. She's a member and teacher trainer in the state
project "Strengthening of the multi-cultural cooperation in the municipality" supported by
the European foundation Pestalozzi. She has also experience in organizing outdoor activities
to improve multiculturalism among Roma,Macedonian and Albanian students. She was a
coordinator of the activities.Also Daniela Riistova and Daniela Lavurovska have attended
the project “We are visual” to prevent discrimination. There were also workshops with
students and their parents in the disseminating part.
4.MA Jasminka Sekulova- Finished her postgraduate studies at "St. Cyril and Methodius"
University - Skopje, subject English methodology. She has taught English in Gorgi Sugarev
Primary school for 18 years. Since then she has taken a part in a big number of projects, such
as: trainer training using Edubuntu, Creating basic digital contents, Microsoft innovative
FORUM Microsoft Partners in Learning, Introducing digital content appropriate curricula,
Online courses about using technology in education etc. Also main coordinator for an
international collaboration with two Swedish schools in Lomma and Lund.
In 2017 we had been a successfully granted KA1 mobility
Erasmus +Learning Mobility of Individuals /School education staff mobility
2017- 2017-1-MK01-KA101-035224
In 2018 we have been granted an Erasmus + KA 229 project L2Boost Europeanesse -with an
Italian coordinator and four countries in partnership.Supported by National Agency: IT02
Agenzia Nazionale Erasmus+ - INDIRE