Director’s Message
My name is Per Frithiofson. I am of Swedish nationality and from 1st September 2021 I am the Director of the European School in Bergen. I am proud of being part of the European School system. I am proud of being the Director of European School Bergen.
The European Schools are special in many aspects. We educate our pupils in different linguistic sections where pupils are taught in their dominant language (often their mother tongue) and the older they get the more subjects will be taught in the second language of the student. Our students are being mixed with students from all over Europe and they are studying in a truly international environment. Out of the bases of mutual respect we make our students curious about others and other cultures at the same time as they are proud of their own origin. With the European Baccalaureate our students have obtained a prestigious diploma which will open for entry into any University within the European Union.
Our location is Bergen, in the province of North-Holland. We attract students from the immediate area, including the city of Alkmaar, but we do also have as many as around 20% of our students who have found their way to us from Amsterdam and Haarlem areas.
In other parts of this web site you will find more information about our Â鶹¹ÙÍø and what we offer. If you don’t find the answers to all your questions, don’t hesitate to contact us. You are of course also welcome to visit us and we will do our best to show you what our European School can offer.
Per Frithiofson – Director
Aims and Values
Mission of the European Schools
Since their beginning in 1953, the European Schools mission can easily be summarised as follows:
“Educated side by side, untroubled from infancy by divisive prejudices, acquainted with all that is great and good in the different cultures, it will be borne in upon them as they mature that they belong together.
Without ceasing to look to their own lands with love and pride, they will become in mind Europeans, Â鶹¹ÙÍøed and ready to complete and consolidate the Â鶹¹ÙÍø of their fathers before them, to bring into being a united and thriving Europe.“Jean Monnet
General Objectives of European Schools
The European School system’s primary objectives are to:
• give pupils confidence in their own cultural identity;
• provide a broad education of high quality;
• develop high standards in the mother tongue and in foreign languages;
• enable pupils’ mathematical and scientific skills;
• encourage a European and global perspective;
• strengthen creativity in the arts and European culture;
• advance students’ physical skills;
• offer pupils professional guidance for higher education, and
• foster tolerance, co-operation, communication and concern for others.
History of the ESB