‘SMILTENE TEHNIKUMS ‘-the CENTRE of the PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION COMPETENCE(CPEC) is located at Kalnamuiza,Smiltene district,north-east of Latvia- a picturesquare and historical place which was origin of the town Smiltene many centuries ago.In summer 2017 Smiltene tehnikums celebrated its 95 anniversary.
Smiltene tehnikums offers the young people necessary professions for the European job market:veterinary assistant,cook,confectioner,barman,specialist of the hotel service,auto mechanic,construction and road building machinery mechanic,stock-breading technician,hydro construction mechanic,woodworking machine operator and accountant.The school has got a subsidiary atAlsviki where are trained following specialists:dressmaker,joiner,building worker,shoemaker,cook,assistamt of a cook,care-taker and text edditor. Students of special needs get an idividual social rehabilitation with medical assistance.
Veterinary assistants of the future get their first skills at the vet-clinic. It is equipped with a modern diagnostic equippment ,surgery room and offers animal service to local people.
School is the owner of the three-star hotel ‘Kalna Ligzda ‘ which is a place for practical training of the hotel service specialists.
Future catering service specialists learn in modern equipped school kitchens. The school runs arestourant where are welcomed and served the guests.
Smiltene tehnikums is the only school in Latvia where is set up a simulator room for ‘road builders ‘. The studens learn skills to work with new road building machines. Practical training takes place on a training ground of tehnikums. There is set up a three-dimensional-machine-control system with a support of European Regional Fundation of Development at school.
Smiltene tehnikums has always been open to a dialogue between the past and the future. The school is involved in the Interregional programme of cooperarion of the EU Interreged Europe project CHRISTA- Culture and Heritage for Responsible,Innovative and Sustainable Tourism Actions.Tourists can learn bread baking according to traditional method,do needlework,get acquainted with history of the manor and its buildings at the Handicrafts Centre of the school.
The school is an active participant of different ‘ERASMUS +‘ projects.Tehnikums has got reliable cooperetion partners in France,Italy,Malta,Spain,Portugal, Austria, Czech Republic,Cyprus Belgium,the Nethrlands,Finland,Sweden,Norway,Denmark and Estonia.Many students undergo their professional qualification practice abroad.In 2016 Smiltene tehnikums got the Mobility Charter of ‘ERASMUS + ‘ professional education.
In 2017 there was elaborated strategic project of partnership ‘ECVET Units as Initial or AdditionalTraining to the European Veterinary Assistant Diploma ‘ in cooperation with the partners in France, Estonia and Czech Republic.There are teaching modules in veterinary that are going to teach skills of vet-medicine and offer a certificate for young people from all over the world.There is an intensive work with the stategic project of partnership ‘The Cooperating Tourism Spider‘ and ‘Feeding the World‘ at the moment.Young people have veriable possibilities to develop their talants in hobby groups.Smiltene tehnikums has got its own choir,vocal group,dancing group ‘Amatnieki ‘,vocal-instrumental group, karting team and different sport sections.
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