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Creating new ideas for cooperation, projects, simplifying organisational processes, …
Bringing new forms of international cooperation into teacher education
Buiding on long time partnerships …
The map shows all Symposion Network member institutions across Europe.
Verónica Asensio, University of Barcelona, Catalunia, (coming soon)
Simon Brennan MIC, Limerick, Ireland
Christine Plaimauer, PHOÖ, Austria
Karin Hindrix, University College Leuven/Limburg, Belgium
Be part of the "heart of Symposion"!
Liz Curtis and Jo Vergunst, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Alexander Aumann, PH Weingarten, Germany
Ivana Ćirković-Miladinović and Irena Golubović-Ilić, University of Kragujevic, Faculty of Education, Jagodina
Independent learning in a "material based learning space". Recorded in Gabi's "teaching room" at PHOOE.
Sindre Slettedal Sandbak and Synnøve Hedemann Amdam from Volda University College, Norway
Miquel Robert Ferrer - a long time symposion "institution" - enjoy the free time of retirement! 😀
Explore diverse perspectives on contemporary teacher training challenges and innovations. Featuring candid interviews with leading educators, policymakers, and researchers from across Europe.
Kristina Hellberg, Linneus University, Sweden
Jose Middendorp, Stenden University, Netherlands
Tobias Buchner, Pädagogische Hochschule Oberösterreich, Austria
Veronique Roisin, University of Orleans, France
Emer Ring, MIC Limerick, Ireland
Nadja Vandenbroek, University College Leuven/Limburg, Belgium
Founded on the principles of sharing knowledge and best practice experiences, Symposion Network has always been a source for new ideas of fostering international cooperation in Teacher Education.
This European teacher education network was formally established at two meetings in 1992 (in June in Aarhus and in September in Växjö). The participating institutions - Växjö Universitet, Aarhus Dag - og Aftenseminarium, Universität Potsdam, University College Northampton, Hogeschool Drenthe and Hogskolen i Agder - agreed on sending an application for a new network (ICP) to the ERASMUS Bureau in Brussels. The application was accepted and in April 1993 ‘ICP S 3004/05 Teacher Training’ was a formal financial reality, since it was supported within the ERASMUS programme. During the following years new members were accepted and as long as the old ERASMUS programme was going the ICP was co-financed by the European Union. Formal meetings were during this time held two times per year.
Since networks cannot be financed in the SOCRATES programme we decided to go on working as an informal network where all participating institutions have to pay for themselves -the network has no money at all (we don’t charge any membership fee or other fees). Meetings are now held once a year at one of the member institutions.Â
The network was named ‘Symposion’ at a meeting in Weingarten 1998. The name was proposed in order to emphasize the main characteristics of the network: The interchange of educational concepts meeting future challenges in our diverse society made possible by strong personal relationships among the members.
Nils Larsson, Växjö universitet
Bjorn Monstad, Hogskolen i Agder
1991: Meppel, Växjö, 1992: Århus, 1993: Meppel, 1994: Kristiansand, 1995: Potsdam, Vordingborg, 1996: Caen, Alta, 1997: Cardiff, Weingarten, 1998: Arnhem, Växjö, 1999: Belfast, 2000: Caceres, 2001: Lublin, 2002: Aarhus, 2003: Weingarten, 2004: Meppel, 2005: Växjö, 2006: Aarhus, 2007: Potsdam, 2008: Lublin, 2009: Nijmegen, 2010: Weingarten, 2011: Vordingborg, 2012: Kreuzlingen, 2013: Orléans, 2014: Kristiansand, 2015: Hasselt, 2016: Northampton, 2017: Barcelona, 2018: Linz, 2019: Dublin, 2021: Meppel, 2022: Ostrava, 2023: Orléans, 2024: Volda, 2025: Jagodina, 2026: Kalmar
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We will publish here interesting events, calls for papers, conferences at member universities - more coming soon!
Symposion brings together administrative international office staff and teaching staff involved strongly in international cooperation. This creates a "think tank" which can build on experiences and visions, making international cooperation in teacher education better.
Examples are:
- Fostering student mobility (short and long term for placement and study - recently included into Erasmus+ funding)
- Staff mobility (guest lecturing and international weeks, etc.)
- Bilateral and multilateral projects
- Fostering research cooperation
- Curriculum cooperation through telecollaboration
- Better collaboration among „International Offices" through personal relations and better knowledge of partner's structures
- Easier project organisation, coordination and administration
- Coordination of funding initiatives
And so on …
A European Teacher Education Thinktank