Organiser: Pare Manyanet School.
Collaborating organisation: Ramon Molinas Foundation.
Dates of implementation: 15/09/2014 – 19/06/2015.
Manyanet Educa, a programme to improve language skills in students
The objective of Manyanet Educa, a project which emerged thanks to an initiative at the Pare Manyanet institutes, is to improve the language and communicative skills of the students at Pare Manyanet schools. The institution considers language as a necessary skill in the modern world, and works hard to strengthen students’ abilities in foreign languages in order to improve their professional prospects.
With this in mind, the centres believe that encouraging students’ geographical mobility is an essential factor in consolidating the learning of foreign languages. Manyanet Educa has launched six exchange projects which, as well as helping to perfect language skills, offer participants a personal, cultural and enriching life experience.
The objective of the collaboration between the two institutions is to provide the necessary resources to help students from families with financial difficulties, so that students are not forced to miss out on the opportunity to train or study abroad.
Six exchange programmes to perfect English and French language skills
Students from Pare Manyanet institutes in Catalonia have the opportunity, for example, to link with students from the schools Our Lady of Good Counsel in Maryland (USA). Firstly, the students are able to visit their exchanges in the USA and after a few months, they host their exchanges in their own country. This experience allows them to meet people, exchange knowledge and discover what life is like for a teenager their age in North America.
Chiddington and Oxted in Great Britain, and Göttingen in Germany are three more locations where students from the Pare Manyanet schools also have the opportunity to participate in exchanges. In addition, the schools can also take part in the Comenius programme which aims to reinforce European identity in nursery, primary and secondary education, promoting movement and cooperation between educational centres in different countries. As part of this programme, the Pare Manyanet school participates in a programme on climate change together with a school in Lisbon (Portugal), another in Babenhausen (Germany) and another in Esmirna (Turkey).
In addition, students in second and third ESO at Pare Manyanet in Molins de Rei have an exchange with the Saint Bruno school, located in La Tour de Pin in France.
Pare Manyanet institutes, more than 150 years of service to education
Josep Manyanet (1833-1901) expressed a huge interest in the needs of children and teenagers and their families. Throughout his life he promoted the training and instruction of the labour force through the creation of institutions, schools, workshops and other educational centres over the world. In the year 2004 he was canonized by Pope John Paul II and his work officially recognised.
There are now a total of eight Pare Manyanet institutes in Spain, seven of which are found in Catalonia. Educational institutions founded with the same missionary vocation of the organisation exist in the United States, in Argentina, Columbia, Venezuela, Brazil and Mexico. The institution’s congregations work towards the personal development of children and adults, collaborating with parents in order to consolidate the values which Father Manyanet dedicated himself to teaching.
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