The aim of the Teaching Internationally project is to promote the international mobility of Greifswald's student teachers. In addition to periods of study at partner universities, the project aims to establish a network of schools abroad, where student teachers can complete periods of teaching practice. Studies are further internationalised by joint digital classes held by Greifswald lecturers together with partner universities in several foreign languages, study-related short-term stays at the partner institutions, and guest lectureships for foreign academics at the University of Greifswald.
The following partner universities and their nearby (campus) schools belong to Greifswald’s internationalisation network:
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)
- University of Zadar (Croatia)
- University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia)
- Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania)
- Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland)
- Södertörn University (Sweden)
- University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (Czech Republic)
- University of Michigan-Flint (USA)
- Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln (United Kingdom)
Further foreign universities are interested in getting involved in this project.
Dorthe G.A. Hartmann, Pro-Rector for Teaching, Teacher Training and Internationalisation, congratulates those involved in securing this project grant: “We are delighted that the follow-up funding will allow the University of Greifswald to continue the project Teaching Internationally. Internationalisation is one of the aspects that distinguishes the profile of teacher-training degree courses at our university – alongside digitisation and the design of periods of teaching practice. In an increasingly multicultural society, it is essential that student teachers gain their own international experience, not only if they plan to teach a foreign language. Students will be able to use the planned section for creating a profile, as defined in the draft of the new Lehrkräftebildungsgesetz (Teacher Education Act), to strengthen their international profile through recognition of their study achievements from their period of stay abroad. This enables teacher training to attain the goal defined in the University of Greifswald’s Internationalisation Strategy 2022-2030 of significantly increasing the physical, blended and virtual mobility of students, including student teachers. The project will also foster internationalisation@home efforts that see international students and lecturers come to our university. We are particularly pleased that two of the universities involved in the project are part of the European university alliance ‘KreativEU. The Knowledge and Creativity European University’, which the University of Greifswald also belongs to and will be funded by the European Commission from 1 January 2025 onwards.”
Further information
https://www.uni-greifswald.de/teachinginternationally [de]
Contact at the University of Greifswald
Andrea Ponikwia
Ernst-Lohmeyer-Platz 3 (R. E.58), 17489 Greifswald
Tel.: +49 3834 429 1331
andrea.ponikwiauni-greifswaldde