European Union Projects
we have been successfully running Leonardo Da Vinci
and Young Leonardo Placements this year.

Avalon C.E.O. Aart Smith with Italian Leonardo students
on their certificate presentation night

At the moment we are running two of the European Life long learning programmes.

The Leonardo da Vinci adult programme and the Young Leonardo project.

It is our first year as Brighton & Hove’s provider for incoming Leonardo students.
So far we have successfully completed two Young Leonardo groups from Italy
and a couple of very small placement groups from Saarland in Germany.
We are currently hosting an adult Leonardo project group.

Leonardo Project Director Alan Moroney with Leonardo students
in the idyllic village of Rottingdean after a cream tea

Our programme provides the following:

Host families

An activity, excursion and cultural programme

Language classes

Work placements

Full care of students during their schooling and afterwards in their work places

Osimo Group Leader Professor Silvia Speciale and co-leader Katiuscia
with their students from Osimo, Italy on Tower bridge

For Young Leonardo, the programmes run so far have been for 3 weeks,
consisting of one week of English lessons and activities,
followed by two weeks of work placement.

Leonardo Project visit to Lewes Castle in Sussex

For the older full Leonardo group,
our programme consists of 4 weeks of English lessons with activities,
followed by 8 weeks of placement.

Our feedback so far has been excellent for all areas that we deal with:

Host families: we run a large and thriving summer school, and therefore we
have the very best of our host families available to house Leonardo students.

School: we can either run the classes ourselves with our very qualified staff
or, more usually, we place students at a wonderful school in Hove, where they
have the chance to mix with many nationalities and make new friends and contacts.

Work placements: we have a varied range of excellent work placements,
which allows students to learn new skills and enables them to improve
their English further. We place according to school subject, desired
area of employment and of course the students level of English.
Most importantly, we think, for students who are very new to the adult
work world, all our employers are very pleasant friendly people.

Leisure time: the programmes we offer are tailor made for each group, but
always include a trip to London, a town walk, a visit to the Royal Pavilion,
a visit to a historical castle, a cream tea (which we use as an opportunity
to get feedback in a very informal and relaxed atmosphere), a couple of evening
activities, and, of course, anything else that the group organiser desires.

Looking after of students and the group: we are in constant contact with both
students and (in the case of Young Leonardo) leaders. We monitor lessons and all
work placements. We always meet groups on arrival for transfer to host families
and on departure. We also have a certificate presentation and feedback evening.

Feedback and administration: as with all projects run by the European Union,
there is a sizable amount of very important paper work to be completed!
We always produce detailed reports as required, and we produce them on time.

We are more than happy to provide testimonials, and of course you are
most welcome to contact the groups and leaders that have come so far!
(We will provide contact e-mails for serious enquiries – i.e. from Group
leaders, teachers and from National and Regional offices).

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We are very happy to tailor the Leonardo courses that we offer so that
they suit a particular group’s needs or so that they meet the requirements
of applicants coming from that particular country.

And of course, Brighton has a beautiful beach!

Watersports – if you come in May, June, or September!

London trip 

Beachy Head                        The red telephone boxes