High-ranking visit at our AES campuses
On 1 March 2023, two Secretaries General met at "our" accredited European School Tyrol: Andreas Beckmann, Secretary General of the Board of Governors of the European Schools from Brussels, and Martin Netzer, Secretary General at the Ministry of Education from Vienna, visited the three sites of the AES Tyrol. They were accompanied by the two Austrian inspectors, Karin Steppan and Franz Schimek, and the Director of the European School Munich, Anton Hrovath.
The members of the delegation were able to see for themselves that the accredited European School Tyrol can build on a long-standing and proven basis: Bilingual and foreign language teaching has been taking place at all three locations for many years.
The current enrolment figures were presented at a joint press conference:
"We are pleased that with around 110 registrations, the internationally recognised education model has been accepted with great interest in Tyrol and that nothing more stands in the way of the start of the first primary classes next autumn." – Anton Mattle, Provincial Governor, and Cornelia Hagele, Provincial Education Minister.
Applications are still possible even after the official registration deadline has expired. An application for admission from families coming to Tyrol at a later date, for example, can still be submitted during the entire school year. For more information about admissions, click here.
As a further major step in the multi-stage accreditation process, our school will undergo a European audit at the beginning of the 2023/24 school year. In the course of the first regular semester, the school will undergo a one-week inspection by school inspectors from the European Schools in Brussels.
"The audit consists of a self-evaluation report sent by the school, analysis of the report and the school's documents by subject experts and an audit carried out by a team of inspectors on site in autumn 2023. When the assessment is positive, the official accreditation of the Accredited European School in Tyrol will follow in spring 2024" – Andreas Beckmann, Secretary General of the Board of Governors of the European Schools.
As our school is Austria's first Accredited European School, Secretary General Netzer stated at the press event:
"The AES Tyrol is considered a lighthouse model in the Austrian educational landscape, which is why we on the part of the BMBWF have supported the project from the very beginning. Excellent work has been done from the preparatory phase to the start of primary school. I congratulate all those involved on the excellent implementation and wish them a good start for the coming school year." – Martin Netzer, Secretary General at the Ministry of Education
