The Forum of European Universities Alliances commended EUPeace for integrating intercultural competences, peace education, and global citizenship into teacher-education (Brief).
The founders of EUPeace recognised that, internationalising teachers’ professional development provides a pragmatic strategy for raising teachers’ “intercultural competencies” which, in turn, instils classroom behaviours that “promote inclusion” and thus “prepare students to act in diversity-friendly and democracy-conscious ways” (p.14: Grant Agreement).
As the Flagship Action Internationalisation of Teacher Education, WP3 was tasked to “define activities for developing a comprehensive skill set in future teachers regarding intercultural learning, diversity, inclusive teaching and global citizenship”, alongside the explicit mandate to establish “internships for training student-teachers at associated schools within the network” (p.12; T3.5 (InNet)).
By inviting Alliance Partners to identify Associated Schools to host, organise, and provide enriching experiences for EUPeace Teacher-Interns, EUPeace recognises that an Alliance-wide school-network is crucial for achieving our Flagship Action.
Since the EUPeace Project Grant cannot fund associated partners, WP3 is requesting resources to secure the participation of School Directors and Teachers at a 3-day Training School which aims to formalise and operationalise the EUPeace Network of Associated Schools.
This is not only essential for our Flagship Action, these schools will carry “EUPeace”, as logo and concept, well beyond the lifetime of the EUPeace Alliance.
