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Älvdalen Educational Centre
Älvdalen is 40 kms (2½ miles) north of Mora in the middle of the beautiful province of Dalarna.
Älvdalen Educational Centre is situated on the outskirts of central Älvdalen in a spot of great natural beauty near a sports centre for indoor and outdoor activities such as crosscountry skiing. And it is not far from a swimming-hall in the same building as a skating rink. And it is also close to shops, restaurants and a cinema.
Älvdalen Educational Centre has developed from being merely a forestry school to becoming a dynamic educational centre offering education for both young and old.
On an upper school level many different programmes are offered, such as education for nature guides, wilderness tourism, forestry, hunting, truck driving, hotel and restaurant, industry (welding and industrial techniques) and sociology (also combined with fitness and health). There is also an individual programme for students in need of improving their marks before starting on an upper level.
There are also courses for grown-ups in basic subjects, economy and data as well as SFI (Swedish for Immigrants). There is education for adults with special needs. We also offer higher education in nature tourism and forestry techniques, so called KY education, where KY stands for qualified trade schooling. We also arrange courses on demand such as industrial techniques, forestry environmental consideration, log building and chain-saw courses.
For part of the education for forestry and hunting students simulators are used. There are two simulators for harvesting timber, one Valmet and one Timberjack, and there are two hunting simulators, one for shotguns and one for bullet rifles.
At Älvdalen Educational Centre internationalisation is emphasised. Accordingly students are encouraged to do practice work abroad. Getting foreign practice is extremely developing for the students and improves their self-confidence. It provides them with useful contacts in their trade and also gives them greater understanding for the way people in other countries think and live. Their language knowledge comes to a test and develops at the same time as they acquire a more global mode of thinking. Countries where students have practised abroad are New Zealand, Russia (the Kola peninsula), Norway (e.g. Svalbard), Ireland, Portugal, Austria, Japan, Slovenia and Switzerland. We also cooperate with schools abroad, e.g. Tanzania, France, Norway and New Zealand.
We offer boarding for more than 100 students. Other students rent private rooms or share apartments. Our students are offered to buy their meals, i.e. breakfast, lunch and dinner, in the school canteen. The school atmosphere is cosy and the students and the school staff get along very well together, the school being not too big with its nearly 400 students.
There are three people employed to see to it that the students have active and meaningful leasure hours. Study circles are arranged in the evenings according to what students want, e.g. hunting exam. Sports tournaments are held, e.g. floor ball, volley-ball and badminton. Many students join clubs such as the local fishing club. The school has its own climbing wall and there are TV rooms, internet computers and an evening café where you can play table- tennis, darts and billiards.
For more information about our education centre and our courses you are welcome to contact our officer in charge of international matters,
Ms Ing-Marie Bergman
E-mail
ing-marie.bergman@edu.alvdalen.seTelephone +46 (0)251-597010
Mobile +46 (0)70-2311332