The "Sir Karl Popper School"
Start 1993
After a personal meeting with Sir Karl Popper in London in 1993, Andreas Salcher, together with Bernhard Görg and Walter Strobl, founded the first Austrian school for the gifted, the "Sir Karl Popper School" in Vienna. Since then, he has been the honorary managing vice-president of this project.
One of the best schools for the gifted
The school celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2024 and has developed into one of the best schools for gifted students in Europe. Back in 2012, it was accepted into the circle of 30 schools of the "Global Alliance of Leading-Edge Schools". The "Sir Karl Popper School" is a public school whose admission criteria are based exclusively on comprehensive giftedness tests and selection interviews. Pupils from socially disadvantaged families are supported so that they can take part in all of the school's trips abroad and activities.
25 years of Sir Karl Popper School
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Since its opening in September 1998, the school experiment has developed a variety of innovative educational methods that were previously unimaginable in Austrian mainstream schools. The Sir Karl Popper School is a pioneer within Austria's education system due to its willingness to experiment and its expertise in promoting talent, which is based on a passion for teaching and learning; nevertheless, its future is never entirely certain due to the fact that educational reform is always up in the air.