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Vinathe Sharma-Brymer; Michalis Kakos; Claudia Koehler; Monique Denkelaar – Intercultural Education, 2025
The educational integration of Newly Arrived Migrant and Refugee (NAMR) children and youth in a host country is complex. It requires educational systems responding to their diverse needs. Some of these needs are exacerbated by NAMR young people and their families' limited understanding of the host country's policies, structures, and procedures.…
Descriptors: Refugees, Cross Cultural Studies, Networks, Educational Policy
Hoinkes, Ulrich; Clausen, Kyra – Research-publishing.net, 2022
The claim to strive for greater internationalisation in the fields of academic education not only corresponds to the pressures of an increasingly globalised world but is also a response to the ever-growing challenges of cultural diversity that exist within one's own country. For students, however, the geographical space relevant to their education…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Collaboration
Gumaelius, Lena; Almqvist, Monica; Árnadóttir, Anna; Axelsson, Anders; Conejero, J. Alberto; García-Sabater, José P.; Klitgaard, Lene; Kozma, Cecilia; Maheut, Julien; Marin-Garcia, Juan; Mickos, Henrik; Nilsson, Per-Olof; Norén, Agneta; Pinho-Lopes, Margarida; Prenzel, Manfred; Ray, Johanna; Roxå, Torgny; Voss, Mirjam – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Since the 1990s, the low number of students choosing to study science and technology in higher education has been on the societal agenda and many initiatives have been launched to promote awareness regarding career options. The initiatives particularly focus on increasing enrolment in the engineering programmes. This article describes and compares…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Universities, Science Interests, College Programs
Phillips, Michelle – Inverness Research, 2015
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) represents a partnership between NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The observatory itself is a Boeing 747 SP that has been modified to serve as the world's largest airborne research observatory. The SOFIA Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors (AAA) program is a component of SOFIA's…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Faculty Development, Partnerships in Education, STEM Education
Bentley, Yongmei; Selassie, Habte; Shegunshi, Anjali – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2012
This paper reports on the design and evaluation of a UK University's global eLearning MBA programme. The aims of the research were to investigate the learning experiences of the students on the course and to evaluate the effectiveness of the support system so as to improve the programme. The primary research method was a longitudinal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Feedback (Response), Satisfaction
Hancock, Mara – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2010
Education in the 21st century is diverse not only in content and discipline but also in format and delivery. Today's students have access to a broad range of information, knowledge, ideas, and opinions well beyond their classroom. Never before have learners been able to interact so closely with instructors, mentors, subject-matter experts, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Open Source Technology, Multimedia Materials
Ehses, Markus; Veith, Michael – Higher Education in Europe, 2009
In 1999, the International Research Training Group "GRK532" was founded as a pilot project for cross-border European postgraduate education along the German/French/Luxembourg borders. The project consists of an interdisciplinary research programme on synthesis, isolation and characterization of new materials accompanied by an ambitious…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Interdisciplinary Approach, Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange
Thinesse-Demel, Jutta – European Journal of Education, 2010
In 2000, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) launched the programme "Learning Regions--Providing Support for Networks'" in cooperation with the Lander. It was co-financed by the European Social Fund (ESF). Some 90 regions were selected and financially supported. After one year, 71 regions continued to build-up…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Regional Cooperation, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Wishart, Jocelyn; Triggs, Pat – Computers & Education, 2010
In this paper we report on the successes and challenges of a creative project involving museums, schools and interactive technologies. The MuseumScouts project is EU Comenius 2.1 funded and involves teachers, teacher educators, museum staff, students and researchers from five European countries: Germany (Berlin and Munich), Lithuania (Vilnius),…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Museums, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology
Ensslin, Astrid; Slocombe, Will – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2012
This study reports on the pedagogic rationale, didactic design and implications of an AHRC-funded doctoral training scheme in collaborative and digital multimedia in the humanities. In the second part of this article we discuss three areas of provision that were identified as particularly significant and/or controversial. These include (1) desktop…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Desktop Publishing, Humanities, Multimedia Materials
Elsner, Daniela – Online Submission, 2011
This paper describes the theoretical framework and the main objectives of the European Comenius project MuViT -- Multiliteracy Virtual. The project engages primary pupils across the world in multilingual and audiovisual reading and writing processes through the use of information technology resources to enhance multi-literacies, plurilingual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Writing Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction
Filho, Walter Leal; Schwarz, Jens – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the experiences of RCE Hamburg, one of the latest Regional Centres of Excellence (RCE) to be created. It outlines the activities performed by the RCE and describes its relationships with the various stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach: A description of the region where the RCE is located is…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Stakeholders, Regional Planning, Regional Programs
Stenstrom, Marja-Leena; Lasonen, Johanna – Journal of Technology Studies, 2004
The Post-16 Strategies project coordinated by Dr. Johanna Lasonen from 1996 to 1998 was chiefly concerned with four post-16 education strategies: (1) "vocational enhancement"; (2) "mutual enrichment"; (3) "linkages;" and (4) "unification." These four strategies to promote parity of esteem between vocational…
Descriptors: General Education, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Strategies
van Dam-Mieras, M. C. E.; Rikers, J. H. A. N. – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2007
In the context of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), United Nations University (UNU) initiated the creation of a network of Regional Centres of Expertise (RCEs) for Education for Sustainable Development. This paper describes the philosophy behind the activities performed by one of those RCEs, RCE Rhine-Meuse, an RCE…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advisory Committees, Sustainable Development, Nonformal Education