4 Pillars of Collaborations
Goal
- Development of a central digital project platform that connects universities, schools, student teachers and teachers from our partner countries.The platform aims to foster intercultural dialogue, encourage collaborative learning, and serve as a dynamic resource hub for innovative teaching practices, policy insights, and educational research. By promoting exchange and visibility of diverse educational realities, it supports mutual understanding and professional development across borders.
Realisation
- Network platform: Profiles of partner universities (with video presentation), current and former students, teaching staff etc.
- Ideas for research collaborations
- Ideas for meetings and conferences
- +Interactive tools (e.g. forums, chats, video conferences) for the easy exchange of teaching materials, didactic concepts and best practices, meetings and conferences
Benefits for teacher education
- Enables continuous, transparent international co-operation and encourages the transfer of knowledge and experience internationally between universities and maybe schools.
Goal
- Regular (virtual and physical) meetings to consolidate international contacts and gain new ideas for teacher education and training.
Realisation
- Summer/Winter Schools & Workshops: Joint training programmes for student teachers and teachers from different countries to explore teaching concepts in school and university contexts (GoTEd+-Week).
- International Teacher Conferences: annual conferences on innovative teaching methods, future skills and intercultural competence.
Benefits for teacher education
- Encouraging intercultural competences and personal contacts that can be directly transferred to teaching and university didactics.
Goal
- Establish long-term partnerships that support the sustainable development of teacher education internationally, including the SDGs.
Realisation
- Long-term exchange programmesbetween universities and schools worldwide to develop curricula and projects together (e.g. integration of local SDG topics into lessons).
- Ongoing evaluation: Regular feedback cycles to ensure that collaborations are not just one-off projects but become established in the curriculum and school development in the long term.
Benefits for teacher education
- Integrating global and sustainable topics and perspectives into the training and further education of teachers who make pupils aware of future challenges.
Goal
- Collaborative scientific and practice-orientated publications on innovative teaching methods and international, school development education projects.
Realisation
- Research networks: Initiation of international research groups that deal with current issues in teacher education, e.g. multiculturalism, foreign language teaching advancements…
- Open access strategy: Publication of results and best practice examples in freely accessible formats to promote the transfer of knowledge for teachers worldwide
Benefits for teacher education
- Sharing successful concepts, enhancing scientific reputation and providing practical material for teachers at schools and universities.
