Erasmus+ Finnish Team

Virtain lukio (Finland) is an upper secondary school in the region Pirkanmaa with about one hundred students and 14 teachers. It offers the students the curriculum and matriculation examination required for further higher education in Finland. Virrat is a rural community of around 7000 inhabitants, with farms, forestry and small businesses.The students come from villages grouped around the center within a radius of about 30 km. The students form a heterogenous group socially and academically, and we offer extra tuition to make it possible for all the students to graduate and move on to further education. The school has basic IT-equipment with open internet connection in the classrooms. The municipality invests in equal opportunity by offering every student a free laptop when they start at the school. In addition to compulsory subjects, the school offers courses in music, drama and ice-hockey to provide the students with opportunities that are otherwise lacking in a small locality. We also strive to offer an as versatile a language programme as possible with English and Swedish as compulsory subjects, elective German, French and Russian, and the possibility for Spanish lessons through distance learning.