The finals of national language contest IlCompetition saw two IES teams take home trophies, and two individual IES students win mother-tongue prizes. In total five IES schools competed in the finals after winning regional contests.

The team from IES Lund won the Spanish competition while IES Sundsvall won the contest in English. Two students from IES Umeå individually won their respective mother-tongue categories, in German and Spanish.

IES aims to continue to increase sustainability throughout the organisation and suppliers are being encouraged to find new ways of working. One example at IES Sundsvall facilitates sustainable meal choices, by CO2 labelling all meals served.

Study and grit led to success - says one of 18 IES students in the national finals of a prestigious language contest.

The finals of language contest IlCompetition will feature nine teams from five IES schools, competing in Spanish, French, German and English.

Students from IES Lund will compete in the national final for each of these four languages, and if they are to win they will need to outperform teams from six others schools. 

In an increasingly global world, we can all agree that command of English is important and that it is also crucial that our students master Swedish. This is why we run bilingual schools.

We are passionate about language learning and know that the benefits of bilingual education provide our students with so much more than the ability to thrive in a global society. Research shows that bilingualism improves cognitive abilities such as working memory and the ability to focus and reason.