In mid-December 2024, 22 school leaders and representatives from the Vienna Board of Education traveled to Bergen to explore Norwegian vocational education as part of an Erasmus+ Job Shadowing program. The focus was on innovative approaches such as the integration of artificial intelligence in teaching, collaborative learning methods, and visionary school architecture. Norway’s education system [...]
At this year's mini-fair organized by the AK Vienna and the SFZ of the Education Directorate, our MINT box aroused particularly great interest among around 230 visitors on January 14, 2025, which can be seen at the stand of the European Office of the Education Directorate for Vienna. The sprachENsensible MINT-Box offers an innovative approach [...]
an information event with the pilot schools of the project BOUNCE BACK took place on January 21, 2025 in the ballroom of the Vienna Board of Education. On this day, we provided information about the planned content and goals of the project as well as the role of the pilot schools. Finally, an extremely interesting [...]
On 13 November, 2024 and 15 January, 2025, our workshop series on the topic of water took place as part of the Interreg project CLIM_SED. Here, secondary school teachers were able to experience various aspects of this valuable element in the form of verbal and non-verbal exercises, gestures and facial expressions. The artistic-pedagogical methods are [...]
As part of the Interreg project DigiUp NEXT, which focuses on IT apprenticeships, the European Office was represented at the speed dating event for future apprentices in Alterlaa. The initiative, organized by the FMS23, took place for the fourth time on 21 and 22 January 2025 to connect young people directly with potential employers. More [...]
On February 25, 2025, as part of our Erasmus+ project „enterEurope - Diversity“, an inspiring input event entitled “Diversity - Strengthening Diversity!” took place in the magnificent Wappensaal of Vienna City Hall. The event was organized in cooperation with the Vienna Anti-Discrimination Office and was ceremoniously opened by our Director of Education Elisabeth Fuchs. The [...]
On 26 and 27 February 2025, the next round of our 3D printing workshops took place. As part of the Austria-Hungary Interreg project eTOM AT-HU, another 20 teachers came to the first practical part of the workshop "3D printing in the classroom", in which we familiarized them with 3D printers in order to use them [...]
Machines and systems are increasingly able to perform tasks that traditionally require human intelligence, such as learning, problem solving, understanding and creative work. AI is also increasingly part of everyday school life. As part of the second module of the Teach-the-Trainer workshop series on 27 February of the Interreg SK-AT project ICE Robotics, educators from [...]
This was the topic of a visit to Berlin by a group of 23 teachers, 5 school principals and representatives of the Vienna Department of Education from 16 to 19 March 2025 as part of our Erasmus+ project „enterEurope – Diversity“. During their stay, the participants observed lessons at eight Berlin schools of different types [...]
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 [...]
