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 [...]
Exciting, innovative and creative - this is how the cross-border input presented itself for our project partners from Hungary and for visitors to the stand of the Vienna Board of Education as part of the INTERREG project eTOM AT-HU on 8 November 2024. At a mini-workshop, you could try out the 3D printer yourself, accompanied [...]
From 6 to 9 November 2024, a Viennese delegation consisting of 14 school principals and representatives of the Vienna Board of Education travelled to Turin to explore the topic “Strengthening Diversity“ as part of the Erasmus+ project “enterEurope“. The participants observed classes at seven compulsory schools in Turin and gained exciting insights into the Italian [...]
15 Viennese schools (MS, FMS/PTS) have already been equipped with a digital school board and additional equipment as part of the Interreg AT-CZ JOBITY project. Subsequently, two basic training courses on the use of the digital board took place in June and November 2024, in which a total of 20 teachers from JOBITY pilot schools [...]
In order to obtain content-related input from research on the topic of “life skills” and “resilience” for the design of a “life skills pedagogy program” as part of the Interreg project AT-HU BOUNCE BACK we undertook a study trip to Zurich from 12 to 14 November 2024 together with our project partners from West-Hungary and [...]
