Transnational Service Learning in Contexts of Higher Education
The Transnational Service Learning in Contexts of Higher Education (THE) project aimed to familiarize students from the Faculty of Education at UHH and the German Jordan University with the work of NGOs and to motivate them in contributing their own ideas and the expertise they have already acquired during their studies. They have been supported by international cooperation with professors and students at the respective universities.
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Next Generation Partnerships
This project aims to investigate institutional structures of dealing with language diversity within and across countries. For this purpose an international network with several partner universities will be established.
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Next Generation Literacies Summer School 2023
This virtual summer school, organized by the network "Next Generation Literacies", aims to familiarise participants with current research on (multi)literacies development in multilingual contexts and across the educational biography. This year's program runs from August 28th to September 1st and is dedicated to language and literacy development at specific stages: preschool, primary, secondary and tertiary education, as well as transition to the labour market.
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Next Generation Literacies Conference
The Executive Committee of the Next Generation Literacies Network invites the submission of abstracts on research related to linguistic diversity and social participation for the network conference to be held at University of Hamburg on January 11-12, 2024.
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Covid, Migrants and Minorities in Teacher Education
The Erasmus Plus project CoMMiTTEd (Covid, Migrants and Minorities in Teacher Education. A Fake News Observatory to promote Critical Thinking and Digital Literacy in Times of Crisis) has come to an end. The project, which involved the University of Aveiro, the University of Navarra and Tilburg University, developed, tested and implemented pedagogical resources to promote digital literacy among students and future teachers, particularly in relation to addressing Fake News.
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Local linguistic landscapes for global language education in the school context
The Erasmus+ project LoCALL: Local linguistic landscapes for global language education in the school context has been financially supported from 01.09.2019 to 31.08.2022. The project was coordinated by Prof. Dr. Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer who, together with colleagues from the University of Groningen, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the University of Aveiro and the University of Strasbourg, is conducting research on the handling of linguistic superdiversity in school language teaching.
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Establishment of a Recognition Database
To facilitate the recognition of academic achievements completed abroad, the International Office developed a recognition database for the Faculty of Education which will be continuously updated and improved.
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Higher Education Dialogue on Disability and Inclusion
The project "University Dialogue with the Islamic World" was funded by the DAAD from 2020-2022. The academic exchange between a project group of the Faculty of Education, Department 2, and a project group at the Isfahan University of Medical Science has already existed since 2011.
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In others' shoes - but how?
This project's aim was to understand how student teachers see each other and their linguistic and cultural repertoires in multicultural and multilingual cities and how they plan to engage with multilingualism and multiculturalism in their teaching practices.
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Virtual Excursion Didactics towards Sustainability
The joint project between the Department of Geography Didactics at Université de Paris and the Faculty of Education aimed to virtually discover and discuss sustainable urban development.
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Hamburg International Summer School 2022
The 4-week Summer School 2022 was a virtual program. The courses were accompanied by a wide supplementary program on German and Hamburg culture and history.
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Hamburg International Summer School 2021
The 4-week Summer School 2021 was a virtual program. The courses were accompanied by a wide supplementary program on German and Hamburg culture and history.
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Creative Workshops: Storytelling in Transnational Higher Education
This joint project with the German Jordanian University in Amman reflected creatively upon the question on how universities can become more international during Covid pandemia and on how transnational higher education can be fostered.
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