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connections with other schools and cultures,” says Jacobsen.
Top-class football and handball The international focus is not Risskov Efterskole’s only strength. It can also offer its students easy access to the many possibilities within Aarhus, Denmark’s second-biggest city. “One of the unique things we can offer is an urbanised efterskole environment in the middle of Denmark’s second-largest city – and in the middle of the world. We want to utilise that as much as possible, regardless of
which programme students choose – culture or design or sports,” says Jacobsen. “Next year, we are starting four new programmes, two football programmes and two handball programmes, one for boys and one for girls, and we’re creating those programmes in extensive collaboration with the clubs and organisations of the city. There’s a huge football and handball community in Aarhus – the city is in the national top two and three when it comes to handball and football respectively – and that’s one of the reasons we have chosen to focus on these areas; we
have access to high-quality trainers and can offer top-class training facilities as well as a thriving environment for developing talents.” Facts: Risskov Efterskole is located 15 to 20 minutes from Aarhus city centre by bicycle or bus. Risskov Efterskole will, from next school year, be offering the following programmes: food and gastronomy, surf/ski, basketball, SportXplore, design, dance, football, handball, and international. Students in the Cambridge class can choose to combine their studies with any of the programmes or focus exclusively on the Cambridge curriculum. Risskov Efterskole was founded as a home economics school more than a century ago, but has in recent years gone through extensive restructuring and today functions only as an efterskole. The school is currently expanding and expects to be able to accommodate around 200 students from next school year. Students live in mixed-sex residents halls with shared rooms.
For more information, please visit: www.risskovefterskole.dk
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