The host school
Hauptschule Grosspetersdorf
The first Students’ Exchange of the Comenius Project Different Bridges from School to Professions will take place in Grosspetersdorf, Austria from 13 to 19 April 2008.
Großpetersdorf is an important economic center, an industrial town, and a traffic junction with about 4500 inhabitants, situated in Burgenland region.
Burgenland is the easternmost and least populous state or Land of Austria. It consists of two Statutarstädte (towns with a charter) and seven districts with in total 171 municipalities. It is 166 km long from north to south but much narrower from west to east (only 5 km wide at Sieggraben).
Burgenland is the 7th largest of Austria's 9 provinces (Bundesländer), at 3,966 km². The highest point in the province is Geschriebenstein, at 884 metres; the lowest point is 114 meters, near Apetlon.
Burgenland has a very long border: to the west it borders the Austrian provinces of Niederösterreich and Steiermark. To the northeast it borders Slovakia, Hungary to the east and Slovenia to the farthest south.
Burgenland and Hungary share the Neusiedler See, known for its reed, shallowness as well as the mild climate throughout the year. The Neusiedler See is Austria's largest lake serving as a large tourist attraction bringing ornithologists, sailors and wind/kite surfers into the region north of the lake.
