The Erasmus+ project ‘Vienna goes Brussels’ began on 5 October 2023 and prepared the way for a further eight school partnerships. 30 Viennese teachers, head teachers and education quality managers met with colleagues from the "GO! Scholengroep" in Brussels. At the kick-off in Brussels Wien Haus, there was unanimous agreement about the need for European [...]
From 15-18 October 2023, a group of motivated teachers from Vienna attended a fascinating training course in Erfurt as part of the enterEurope Erasmus+ project ‘Green Europe’. Together with teachers from Thuringia, they visited various green LERNORTE such as the Waldhaus ‘Fuchsfarm’, the Egapark and the Horticultural Museum. The inspiring workshops gave the participants new [...]
How can I as a teacher deal better with crises at school? And how can I improve my mental resilience? Resilience is essential, especially in times of great upheaval and new challenges in school life, it is also the best prophylaxis against burnout. In autumn 2023 as part of the Erasmus+ KA3 project NEST, the [...]
We are always able to become part of exciting new educational collaborations. This is of course a great honor for our city and also shows that Viennese schools do great work! Sarajevo would also like to exchange ideas with Vienna in the field of education. In order to explore initial ideas, a meeting took place [...]
In November 2023, the Erasmus+ project ‘Vienna goes Brussels’ became reality for eight Viennese secondary school classes. During the academic year 2023/24, the project will enable around 200 pupils to spend fully funded project days in Brussels. In the EU capital, they will take part in an extensive programme including visits to several EU institutions. [...]
On 21 November 2023, the Austrian Education Agency OeAD awarded the national eTwinning prizes and the OeAD's national quality seal at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz. It was a great honour for the European Office of the Board of Education for Vienna that two Viennese schools were first and second. First place went to [...]
On 4 and 5 December 2023, the European Office organised a conference on inclusion in schools in cooperation with Prof. Michelle Proyer from the University of Vienna. The two-day event offered participants the opportunity to discuss international perspectives and the different stages of development of inclusion in schools and to exchange ideas in exciting, topic-related [...]
At the beginning of December 2023, Viennese teachers had the opportunity to visit 23 Croatian schools for two days and observe colleagues during their lessons. Also, the discussions they had about the similarities and differences in the two educational systems were of extreme importance. The study visit was made possible by the Erasmus+ project ‘Green [...]
As part of our Erasmus+ project “Green Europe” we visited the hydraulic engineering laboratory at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences on January 16, 2024. Helmut Habersack, head of the BOKU hydraulic engineering laboratory, gave the participating teachers from the 20 project schools a comprehensive insight into a wide range of research on [...]
How are students with special needs integrated into regular classes? How does the canton of Zurich manage to offer a high-quality dual education system? How does school social work work at the different school levels? These were some of the questions that our Viennese delegation asked the educational experts from the primary and secondary schools [...]
