Κοινοπραξία

The Cluster of Schools named AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS JOSÉ ESTÊVÃO was created in April 2013, however the schools which are in its origins are older and have a long way done. Its Secondary School has more than 150 years old. This cluster of schools works with pupils from 3 years old up to the adult population. We have around 3 000 students between 3 and 20 years old. Regarding teachers and staff, we have around 280 teachers and 100 staff. In this cluster we also have another five schools besides the secondary one, where we develop the national curriculum with special emphasis on Science, Arts, Sports, and disable students.

As it is a big cluster of schools, we deal with different types of pupils who develop their skills in different places of our own city of Aveiro.  In fact, we deal with a huge range of different types of students because our social context is different since the schools have different localizations and their publics have different backgrounds. In this different dynamic we also include several classes of the Professional Courses (VET Courses in the secondary school) in different areas such as ICT Programming, Sports, wooden furniture and construction design, photography, and communication, digital service and creative ceramics.  Our Cluster of schools has a special role concerning the teachers and staff training, education for lifelong living. It is the head of the consortium responsible for the Training Teachers (Professional Development) and staff who belong to the schools near Aveiro.

For more than 20 years, we have been responsible for identifying, planning, organizing and executing all types of needs of teachers for more than 1200 teachers and 300 staff. Since we are aware of the importance of the changes inside the classrooms, as well as the importance to form citizens for international challenges within the soft skills for the 21st century, we go on trying to motivate our community to achieve a new stage, since our aim is to develop a serious and deep work with the students.


During these years we developed several different projects related to Technology, Human Rights, Future Careers, Science and Experiencing, bullying, Steam, transition between kindergarten and primary school, Empowering Teachers, Building Robots, (…) inside classrooms; The Best experiences of teaching and Learning; developing soft skills for VET courses students. Also — Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Maths for the Middle and Secondary pupils; – Learning English in the Primary School as a first Language – Bilingual project; and an Innovative Plan approved by the Portuguese Ministry of Education, Since March 2023 our Agrupamento has been certificate as Certificate Centre for VET Courses for students and teachers of VET Courses, EU. AEJE has also been award with eTwinning-School Label for 2024-2025, for the excellent work developed with different projects.