Asociation Loyola Gymnasium - Prizren

The project
The founding of a grammar school
with boarding facilities for girls and for boys
Early in 2003, Renovabis sent Father Happel SJ to Kosovo with the task of carrying out a feasibility
study into the possibility of establishing a grammar school in Kosovo. The results were available by the
end of June 2003. The establishment of such a school in Kosovo was not only possible and to be
desired, it should be regarded as a duty. In particular, the teaching of girls should be a priority; they
should have the chance of a good education. The future grammar school should definitely have
boarding facilities and be open to all children in Kosovo and the Balkan states.
From the idea to the project
In autumn 2003, Renovabis tasked the Jesuits of the German Province with carrying out the project,
and simultaneously agreed to give generous start-up funds and to subsidise a large part of the
building costs. Once again Father Happel SJ was entrusted with the responsibility for the project and
sent to Kosovo.
Prizren as the location
Prizren is Kosovo's historical capital. The possibility of transferring the functions of the capital city
from Priština to Prizren is something which is often discussed. In addition, Prizren is a city which has
grown and developed naturally with time, in which a grammar school is of great symbolic and political
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