In the school year 23/24, many international delegations totalling over 200 people from various European countries - including 100 school headmasters from Brussels alone - came to Vienna to get to know our education system and visit Viennese schools. They were also given various specialist presentations, which were also organised by the European Office. Topics [...]
For three days, 40 educators from Vienna, including school principals and representatives of the school supervision, had the opportunity to observe classes at eleven different schools in Gran Canaria. During this time, they gained insights into the Spanish school system and could assess the ongoing education and training of educators on-site. At the CEP "Centro [...]
The 12th International Stakeholder Conference of the Danube Region Strategy took place in Vienna on May 23, 2024. The Austrian Labor Minister, Martin Kocher, opened the Conference under the working title “Green and Digital Transition in Education and Labor Market Policies”. Around 100 stakeholders from the field of labor and education discussed current challenges and [...]
The Europe Office of the Board of Education for Vienna looks back with great joy on the successful conclusion of the Erasmus+ mobility project “Green Europe,” which was celebrated on 28 May 2024 at the Hans-Radl-Schule. Together with our 20 project schools, we reviewed seven mobility activities involving 267 teachers, school principals, and school quality [...]
As part of our Erasmus+ project “Vienna goes Brussels,” Viennese teachers repeatedly receive important pedagogical insights on the topic of civic competencies through exciting input lectures from experts in the field of democracy education, financial education and children's rights. On 29 May 2024, together with the head of the Vienna Network for Democracy Culture and [...]
As part of our large-scale initiative, UNBOXING THE EU, for the EU elections on June 9, 2024, we have organized various activities such as EU brunches and a high-profile creative competition where participating schools could win two trips to Brussels and experience days in a national park. We have also created a comprehensive brochure that [...]
Once again, Vienna was the destination for an educational delegation. On 2 September, 2024, 30 staff members from the educational authority of Daegu, South Korea, visited the city to gain a better understanding of the Austrian and European educational landscape. During the reception in the European Office of the Board of Education, they were introduced [...]
On 26 September 2024 the time had come and we celebrated the start of our Interreg project ATHU BOUNCE BACK together with 60 interested guests from Hungary and Austria. In a cozy get-together with various culinary delicacies, the guests were able to find out about the content and goals of the project and exchange ideas [...]
In mid-October 2024, 24 teachers, principals, and representatives from the Board of Education for Vienna traveled to Bordeaux, in France’s Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, for an Erasmus+ job shadowing experience. The aim of this mobility was to strengthen collaboration between nine vocational project schools from Vienna and local vocational institutions in Bordeaux. During their exchange with French [...]
A two-part BO method workshop took place here in our European office on October 8th and November 7th, 2024. 22 teachers from MS and FMS/PTS took part in the Interreg AT-CZ JOBITY project and were able to learn about future careers in the working world as well as new tools for BO teaching from an [...]
