At the end of March 2025, cool "boot camps" began for six pilot school locations of our Interreg SK-AT project ICE Robotics, focusing on the three key topics of robotics, AI, and 3D printing. Secondary school students from Bratislava and Vienna are learning together through mutual visits and our "boot camp workshops." The school partnerships [...]
On Monday, March 31, 2025, the Collegium Hungaricum Vienna opened its doors to educators. As part of the EU Interreg project BOUNCE BACK, a lively exchange will take place between teachers at elementary schools in Vienna, Sopron, and Szombathely on issues of resilience promotion and life skills pedagogy. To better understand our partner country Hungary, [...]
As part of our Interreg project eTOM AT-CZ, teachers from the Czech Republic and Vienna explored the exciting field of computer science together on April 8, 2025. Practical workshop activities, such as those on the topic of "algorithms," provided insights into digital skills development paired with collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, communication, cultural awareness, and contextual [...]
On April 22, 2025, as part of our Interreg AT-HU project BOUNCE BACK, we presented the Startbox Mathematics app to around 100 interested educators. Director of the Board of Education for Vienna Elisabeth Fuchs and District Mayor Stefanie Lamp congratulated the development team. The "Startbox Mathematics" was developed and funded by the European Office of [...]
Our Erasmus+ project „enterEurope VET1“ enabled pupils and trainees from nine Viennese vocational schools to visit partner schools in Norway, France, Poland, and Germany in the summer semester 2025. A strong focus was placed on lived inclusion: visually impaired learners from the Federal Institute for the Blind and apprentices from Viennese vocational schools also took [...]
In spring 2025, our Erasmus+ project „Vienna goes Brussels“ ”, became “Vienna & Munich go Brussels” for the first time: students from four middle schools in Vienna and four in Munich travelled together in several stages to Brussels to explore European institutions, experience democracy first hand, and strengthen school partnerships. The programme included visits to [...]
As part of the anniversary year “30 Years of European Educational Projects”, the European Office once again invited school classes to an "EU Brunch" at the Board of Education for Vienna! In April 2025, five EU brunches took place for around 400 students. Young people from 16 Viennese schools came together to discuss the understanding [...]
From 7 to 10 May 2025, 16 compulsory school teachers from our Erasmus+ project „enterEurope – Diversity“ from Vienna took part in an Erasmus+ training course in Ljubljana on the topic of „Gender-Inclusive and Participatory Learning“. The focus was on new approaches to inclusive and participatory teaching, such as the use of de Bono Thinking [...]
In the anniversary year of "30 Years of Austria in the EU," the Europa Büro celebrated its 30th anniversary. Since 1995, it has successfully implemented EU educational projects and strengthened the European dimension in Vienna’s schools – with over 60 projects in cooperation with more than 20 countries. The focus is on topics such as [...]
The school partnerships established in 2024 as part of the Interreg AT-CZ project JOBITY experienced a long-awaited continuation this spring. The soccer class from the Sports Middle School Hetzendorf met their Czech partner class again in Brno in April 2025. The third-graders from Vienna particularly enjoyed trying out new technologies together in a science adventure [...]
