FAQ

Enrolment of the new students for school year 2022-2023: from March 7th until April 1st 2022.

• It is not possible to submit applications before the above dates or a year in advance by adding the child to a waiting list.
• An enrolment application only has to be set up if it is a new student.
• Only the application files published on the website of the European School from Luxembourg can be used and must not be reformatted under any circumstances.

Due to the sanitary situation, the school will not physically welcome the families for the submission of the enrolment files. We thank you for your understanding.

The enrolment file, previously filled in and completed with its annexes, must be sent first by e-mail (if possible in PDF format, named as follows "NAME_FIRST NAME_LANGUAGE SECTION_CLASS") to the pedagogical secretariat of the cycle concerned between March 7^th and April 1^st 2022, and at the same time by post to the School concerned. The registration file will only be taken into consideration once all the required documents have been enclosed.

Please find below the e-mail addresses of the pedagogical secretariats:

• Nursery-Primary cycle: MAM-INSCRIPTION-MAT-PRI@eursc.eu
• Secondary cycle: MAM-INSCRIPTION-SEC@eursc.eu

All incomplete applications will be returned to the parents by e-mail.

For more information, please feel free to contact the educational offices for each school cycle via the above-mentioned e-mail addresses from March 7^th 2022 onwards.

Yes, they are. Although priority is given to children of parents working for the European institutions, there are places available for other children. But their number is reduced (currently to 24 pupils per class) and subject to specific rules. 

The pupils of the European Schools are divided into three categories:

• Category I: Pupils whose parents are members of the staff of or seconded to a European Institution or an assimilated organization, in accordance with Chapter XII of the Digest of Decisions of the Board of Governors. The employer must certify that the duration of the contract lasts for a minimum period of one year. These pupils are exempted from school fees.
• Category II: Pupils whose parents are members of the staff of a company or an organization which has concluded a special agreement with the European schools and certifies that it will pay the school fees for the enrolled pupil. 
• Category III: Pupils whose parents do not belong to categories I or II and pay the requested school fee themselves. These pupils can be admitted if places are available and if they fulfill other conditions as defined by the school. 

For more details check the documents under Enrolment on our website.

Two European schools exist in Luxembourg: Luxembourg I – Kirchberg and Luxembourg II – Bertrange/Mamer. Both follow the same curriculum and have the same administrative structure. 

The ES Luxembourg I is located at Kirchberg and has the 3 cycles: nursery, primary, secondary. All the pupils of the following mother tongues and sections are automatically enrolled in the ES Luxembourg I: Bulgarian, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. 

The ES Luxembourg II is located in Bertrange/Mamer and has the three cycles: nursery, primary, secondary. All pupils of the following mother tongues and sections are automatically enrolled in the ES Luxembourg II: Czech, Danish, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, Slovenian, Slovakian and Croatian. 

The following language sections, called vehicular language sections, are present in both of the Luxembourg European Schools: DE, EN, FR. The teaching of Irish (GA) is also available in both schools to pupils of Irish nationality in the EN section. The teaching of Maltese (MT) is provided in the European School Luxembourg II for pupils of Maltese nationality in the EN section.

The pupils are directed to one or the other school, when they join the European schools of Luxembourg as stated under point IV of the Rules on Admission to and Operation of the Luxembourg European Schools for the school year 2022-2023.

In 2004, the parents and the School Directions set up rules for the allocation. Please check the document “the Rules on Admission to and Operation of the Luxembourg European Schools for the school year 2022-2023” and the map on this website, under Enrolment. The rules have been agreed by the Administration Boards. 

The allocation is intended to be final. The parents may, however, submit a written request to the Director of the school their children attend asking for a change to the other school. This must be done in writing by May 6^th 2022 for the nursery, primary and secondary cycles. Parents must provide their school reports and/or timetable to facilitate the transfer. If places are available and provided that this does not create an imbalance in terms of numbers of pupils per class, the directors might agree to a transfer for the following school year. 

All such transfer requests relating to pupils in the nursery, primary or secondary cycles are dealt with by the Head of the school where the pupil is enrolled. Answers will be given at the latest by June 3^rd 2022.

Only one transfer application is possible during a child’s schooling in the Luxembourg European Schools. Any request submitted after the deadline will not be taken into consideration. Once an application is accepted, there is no return to the school of origin. The decision is final.

Pupils of category III will only be admitted if places are available.

The final answers, including the class allocation, will be sent at the latest by June 3^rd 2022.

Please do not call the school; the correct and complete processing of the data is very time-consuming.

The school staff is not allowed to give individual feedback before all applications have been considered.

Luxembourg I: Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish.

Luxembourg II: Czech, Danish, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian.

To be admitted to the Nursery school, children must have reached the age of 4 at December 31^st of the school year. No exceptions are possible.

To be admitted to the first year Primary school, children must have reached the age of 6 at December 31^st of the school year.

Children may be admitted to the School, provided they are potty-trained.

In the first year of Primary School from October, students begin learning their first foreign language, what will be called their second language (L2). Students choose one of the three vehicular languages, French, English, or German, as their L2. Except for the SWALS* students, it must be different from the language of their section. Students continue learning their L2 throughout their school years, and by Secondary School it will be used as the language of instruction for a number of their courses.

* SWALS = Students Without A Language Section

The SWALS pupils (Students Without A Language Section - mother tongues concerned: Bulgarian, Croatian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Romanian, Slovakian) will normally be admitted to the DE, EN or FR section. The School will provide intensive learning structure of the language section, as much and as long as needed, to make the integration as easy as possible.

Category 2: The employer, who has a contract with the European School, will be invoiced by the school, and will pay the fees directly to the school (NB: different procedure for international civilian staff of the NSPA/NATO). 

Category 3: The school will address invoices for the fees to the parents. The amount of 500 € has to be paid at the time of registration. A proof of payment must be attached to the enrolment file. 

If the pupil is admitted and attends the school, this amount will be deducted from the final bill of school fees to be issued in November.

If the school refuses the admission, the family will be reimbursed of the 500 € paid.

If the pupil is accepted and the parents desist, this sum will be retained in school. 

If the 25 % of the school fees are not paid by June 17^th 2022 the registration could be cancelled.

The remaining 75 % shall be paid upon receipt of the invoice in November.
 

We invite you to read the point 5 of the Memorandum for parents on the website of the school: http://www.eel2.eu/en/page/memorandum .

No, the European School does not have childcare facilities and cannot offer early morning or afterschool care. The C.P.E. (Centre Polyvalent de l’Enfance interinstitutionnel) does have a childcare program and offers afterschool to the children of parents employed by the European Institutions.

The crèche (daycare program) is managed by the European Parliament; the Garderie (older childcare) and the Centre d’Etudes et Loisirs (study and recreation center) are managed by the European Commission (unit OIL.05 of “Office Infrastructures et Logistique Luxembourg”). These programs are independent from the European School. Enrollment in the European School does not automatically signify enrollment in the C.P.E. and vice versa.

For any question regarding the 3 structures of the CPE, please visit the corresponding website :

• Crèche (daycare program) : https://creche.europarl.europa.eu/home.html
• The Garderie (older childcare) and the Centre d’Etudes et Loisirs (study and recreation center): https://myintracomm.ec.europa.eu/staff/fr/family/children/Pages/index.aspx?ln=fr

There are three types of bus transport at the European School Luxembourg II

1. Public transport buses:

• Line 16 goes directly to our site from Findel Airport via Kirchberg and the Hamilius Centre;
• Line 11 also runs directly from Steinsel via the Hamilius Centre to our site;
• Lines 8, 10, 218, 222, 226, 240, 248, 250, 255, 260,340 serve the nearby stops (Mamer-Tossebierg, Bertrange-Wassertuerm and Bertrange-Belle Etoile)

Schedules and passenger information can be found online on "Ville de Luxembourg" website and on https://www.mobiliteit.lu/de/horaires-et-lignes/plans-detailles/.

 2) The school buses run by the Parents' Association, APEEEL2, which serve our school directly:

• Free lines financed by the Ministry n° 114, 217, 219, 220, 221, 224, 227, 228;
• Free lines financed by the municipalities Bertrange 1, Mamer 1, Mamer 2, Mamer 3 and Mamer 4 (attention access limited to nursery, primary and S1 pupils).

The timetables and conditions of use of these lines are available online at: https://www.apeeel2.lu/transport-to-lux-2/  

 3) The school buses run by the School Transport Association, ATSEEE, which serve our school directly:

•     Lines n° 72 to 87;
•     Supervised shuttles (lines 40 to 44) between several places near the European Institutions in Luxembourg and our school.

The timetables and conditions of use of these lines are available on the ATSEEE website https://atseee.eu/ .

The extra-curricular activities at school are organized by the Parents' Association of the European School Luxembourg 2 (APEEEL2).

Sporting, creative, musical, linguistic and IT activities are provided on the school site by qualified monitors recruited by the APEEEL2.

There is a charge for these activities and parents must be members of the association in order to benefit from them.

For more information, please consult the association's website https://www.apeeel2.lu.  

The extra-curricular activities at school are organized by the Parents' Association of the European School Luxembourg 2 (APEEEL2).

Sporting, creative, musical, linguistic and IT activities are provided on the school site by qualified monitors recruited by the APEEEL2.

There is a charge for these activities and parents must be members of the association in order to benefit from them.

For more information, please consult the association's website https://www.apeeel2.lu.  

There is no required school uniform.

For the Sport and Swimming lessons, appropriate clothing is compulsory. Teachers of the primary and nursery cycles may ask for home shoes during class time, especially in winter.

For security reasons pupils are not allowed to move around the building without shoes or slippers.

Parents shall buy the school books. Please find below the lists for each cycle:

Primary school books

Secondary school books

This convention is intended to facilitate the enrollment of the French-speaking and English-speaking children of the category 3 in the European Schools of Luxembourg.

It provides that the Government of Luxembourg contributes to the opening of an additional class each year in the French and English sections at the pace of one level per school year.

For the school year 2022-2023, the Convention applies to the S4 level.

The government contribution does not exempt the pupils of category 3 concerned by this agreement of the payment of the normal school fees.

Please report to the Common European Framework of Reference

SMS MySchool allows personalized and secure access to information about your student’s school life. Important notices and information from the school will also be communicated through SMS MySchool. Login credentials are provided at the start of the school year.

You will find a lot of information as course schedules for secondary students, names and e-mail addresses of your child(ren)’s teachers, the absence reports, school reports, etc...