1. SEVEN STEPS TOWARDS A EUROPEAN EDUCATION
© Dr. Franz Schimek,
Stadtschulrat für Wien, Europa Büro

2. DIVERSE SYSTEMS – SHARED GOALS
European Dimension ín Education as a Driving Force for Municipal Development
DIVERSE SYSTEMS –
SHARED GOALS

3. she is a community of values
„Europe can be identified by a specific view of man, society and the world -
she is a community of values
despite the catastrophes in her history and her present."
Cardinal Vlk, Archbishop of Prague

4. DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN COMPETENCE
AWARENESS OF EUROPE
KNOWLEDGE OF EUROPE
PARTICIPATION IN EUROPE
RESPONSIBILITY FOR EUROPE

5. 1 Embedding the European Dimension into national curricula
PERSPECTIVE
Development of European curricula

6. DESCRIBED IN A EUROPEAN CURRICULUM
EUROPEAN COMPETENCES
DESCRIBED IN A EUROPEAN CURRICULUM
COMMUNICATIVE
SOCIAL
INTERCULTURAL
INFORMATION-
TECHNOLOGICAL
STRATEGIC-
PLANNING

7. 2 European Studies www.cernet.at Development of European/cross border
teaching materials
European Studies

8. 3 Promoting Communication Language Skills Early start Foreign language
as a working language
Diversification of
language tuition
(“both – and“ policy)
ICT –COMPETENCE

9. 4 Organizing European Cooperation Projects
(e.g. within the framework of the
Lifelong Learning Programme)

10. 5 Supporting students‘ mobility Experiencing Europe across the borders
of one‘s own country
Acceptance of school qualifications across the borders

11. 6 Supporting Teachers‘ Mobility How ? Implementation
within the framework of EU Programmes
(e.g. Comenius Language Assistant)
or organized on national level
SHADOWING
ADDITIVE CONCEPTS
TANDEM MODELS
TEAM TEACHING
Implementation

12. 7 Development of cross-border European
pre-/in-service teacher education programmes
FOCUS ON JOINT CONTENT AREAS (e.g. Languages, History, Geography) .
School development issues
The European Dimension

13. Education Quality

14. Training Course for European Primary Teachers THE VIENNESE MODEL
MODULE 1
The European Union
Aims, structures, functions, competencies .
MODULE 2

15. Training Course for European Primary Teachers
THE VIENNESE MODEL
MODULE 3
MODULE 4

16. Training Course for European Primary Teachers
THE VIENNESE MODEL
MODULE 5
MODULE 6

17. European School Initiatives European Regional College)
STEPS 1-7
Development of
European School Initiatives
(e.g. Model of a
European Regional College)

18. " We have got a vision, and this vision is Europe.
But visions uncomfortable, different from utopias! For realizing a utopia nobody is responsible
as utopias cannot come true, for realizing visions
we are responsible ourselves."
Roman Herzog , former President of the
Federal Republic of Germany

19. Thank you for your attention.