Over 35 participants from 5 European countries - Poland, Greece, Lithuania and Bulgaria - partners in the Erasmus + program - school partnership, project "Clubs after school - in order to increase student motivation and prevent school dropout" were extremely warm today and warmly received by Mrs. Maria Semerdzhieva - Head of the Regional Department of Education in Smolyan. The students visited various departments and experts and conducted interviews, told about their experiences here in Bulgaria, respectively in Smolyan, what they like and what they saw and learned within 1 week of joint training in the Bulgarian school - "Geo Milev" - The village of Grohotno, which is a partner in the project on the Bulgarian side. Principals of European countries and teachers held a conversation-discussion regarding the various policies in the field of education in Bulgaria and the educational policy of their European countries with the Head of the Regional Department of Education Mrs. M. Semerdzhieva. The guests were amazed by the care of the government in the field of education, the care of the Ministry of Education and Science to improve the material base of schools, the social benefits of teachers, their qualifications and their ever-increasing salaries. strategies for joint activities between parents-teachers-students, from the constantly updating material base of the schools. They were amazed by the number of National programs on which Bulgarian schools work which improves the quality and level of the educational process through additional training of students, ICT - projects and other national projects and programs. The all-day training of the school day, especially in the Smolyan region, where the coverage of children is the largest, was of great interest to them, as in their countries there is no all-day organization of the school day. The guests were amazed by the professionalism of the Head of RWU - Smolyan. Finally, the guests expressed their sincere opinion and opinion that with such authoritative, social and high professionalism and human attitude personalities in Smolyan district as the Head of the Regional Department of Education Ms. Semerdzhieva can not be other results than excellent and high level of schools in the region, as shown by the results of the last decade. Ms. Semerdzhieva was specially invited by the principals of the partner schools to participate in project mobility in the partner countries and to share her experience with their schools and to meet with the Heads of their regional offices as a good example in the field of education and support of schools in regions.