Since 2005, ORT has partnered with the Lauder School of Prague, the ethos of which is to establish a warm and communal atmosphere.
The school – which is oversubscribed – treats each of its 350-plus students, who are of preschool to high school age, as individuals. It is a partner school to a Cambridge English testing center in Prague and pursues the goal of high academic performance while also catering to children who have additional needs.
Students take part in World ORT programs focused on STEM subjects and students and teachers also attend World ORT teacher training seminars and student summer schools, where they learn additional skills and meet peers from across ORT’s global network.
ORT began activities in what was then Czechoslovakia in 1947. In the two years before being closed down by the authorities, ORT had trained 650 students in 32 courses.
The organization returned to the Czech Republic in 1996, establishing a computer laboratory in partnership with the Education and Culture Center of the Jewish Museum in Prague. The Lauder School of Prague was founded the following year.
Uruguay
Universidad ORT Uruguay became the country's first officially recognized private university in 1996 and is now the largest of its kind in the country.
Argentina
ORT Argentina has more than 10,000 students from primary school through high school to adult education and teacher training facilities across four campuses around Buenos Aires.
Italy
ORT works in Italy with two Jewish schools: ORT Liceo Renzo Levi, in Rome, and Scuola della Comunita Ebraica, in Milan, both of which provide excellence in general and Jewish education.