Starting form the new school year the Bulgarian school in Nicosia will be one of the most modern schools in Cyprus. The children will study in a new multimedia classroom equipped by Sirma Media, publisher of multimedia knowledge and a part of Sirma Group. The classroom is created according to the concept of Sirma Media’s classroom of the future and will allow the Bulgarian pupils to have access to the latest educational technologies for teaching in the school environment.

The newly created classroom of the future in Nicosia’s old town is equipped with nine laptop-tablets classmate PC from Intel, the world’s leading supplier of CPUs and developer of educational technologies, one interactive whiteboard, a projector and smart software that transfers what’s written on the whiteboard to the screens of all the tablets. The solution gives the students a more natural access to the educational content, facilitates the communication between them and the teachers and encourages them to take a more active part in the educational process, having a better interaction with the educational materials. All technological product were donated by the Cyprian company Salamis Shipping.

„The management of the Bulgarian school in Nicosia has always strived to offer its students the latest teaching methods and access to content. The introduction of Sirma Media’s technological solutions for the classroom of the future is a part of our integral policy in this field and we’re happy that through this project we’re becoming the most innovative school in Cyprus. The technologies used in the new classroom will not only make the educational process more fun and interesting, but will also increase the efficiency of teaching and acquiring of knowledge, the computer literacy of the students and their motivation to learn “ – explains Galina Kumbaru of the Bulgarian school in Nicosia.

During the next school year the management of the institution is planning to include classes on computer literacy and mathematics following the curriculum of Bulgaria’s Ministry of education, science and youth. There will also be courses in English and Greek.

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Sirma Media, a part of Sirma Group Holding, is Bulgaria’s first publisher of multimedia electronic knowledge – encyclopedias, dictionaries, educational games, web-based knowledge bases and instruments in Bulgarian. Sirma Media’s activity starts in 2002 with the publishing of the first Bulgarian electronic encyclopedia “A – Z” in partnership with the Bulgarian academy of sciences and “Trud” publishing house. Sirma Media entirely supports the education in natural sciences of pupils and university students in Bulgaria and since 2010 is the official distributor of FOURIER SYSTEMS. Another Sirma Media initiative is the extraordinary Classroom of the future, which is now set up and working at MHS "Dr Petar Beron", Varna, ES "Paisiy Hilendarski", Zlatitsa, the Natural-mathematics high school in Botevgrad and 30^th EHS "BratiaMiladinovi" in Sofia. The basis of the classroom is the tablet Intel Classmate PC, which is still in the early stages of introduction to leading schools in the country.