Lycee franco-finlandais d Helsinki May 30 2009

Lycée franco-finladais d'Helsinki ( fi, Helsingin ranskalais-suomalainen koulu HRSK) is a Franco- Finnish school in

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...

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founded by French Catherine Servé in 1947. It is run by the Finnish state since 1977 with a Finnish school system, the

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paying wages of 7-10 teachers. Students graduating there receive the Finnish matriculation examination and French government give to students the diplomas of equal value of French

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. The school's architecture was worked on by Finnish architect Aino Kallio-Ericsson in 1956.

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