EUPeace Common Course Catalogue for Teacher Education

General Introduction

One of EUPeace’s most important projects is to transform teacher training curricula to shape society by harnessing the underestimated impact potential for future teachers. Our aim is to enable prospective teachers to recognise and reflect on limits of inclusion in their classrooms, to create a more inclusive environment, and to facilitate international exchanges during their studies. By embedding conflict awareness, prevention, and mediation in our curricula, EUPeace will have a powerful impact and promote pedagogical innovation through the teachers we train, influencing primary and secondary school students throughout Europe.

The EUPeace Common Course Catalogue for Teacher Education is one important building block towards this goal. First courses have been offered during the first semester of the 2024-2025 academic year and now, for the second semester of this academic year, the course catalogue has been expanded to include even more courses pertinent to teacher education and with particular emphasis on topics which foreground inclusion as well as competences needed for the peaceful and just resolution of conflicts.

The courses listed below are aimed at teacher training students (pre-service), school teachers (in-service) and academic educators and even more general university staff members and can be studied, online or in person and in a variety of EUPeace languages.

Below you will find an overview of the various lecture periods and the registration timeframes as well as a complete list of all course offered during the second semester of the 2024-2025 academic year, sorted by university.

Each course entry contains the course title and a few essential information, while the course title acts as a link to a more comprehensive course information sheet.

Furthermore, each university’s section is headed by some information about how to register for the courses offered at that institution.

Course Offers

Marburg University

Application to the courses offered in Marburg follows a two-step process: Starting from February 1st interested students need to register for the MO:VE programme following this link. Once students have registered successfully, they can, starting from 1 March, access the detailed course information and register for individual courses. The deadline for the registration for these courses ends on 19 March. For more information, please consult the MO:VE website or contact the MO:VE team directly via mo-ve@uni-marburg.de.

Justus Liebig University Giessen

The courses offered by Justus Liebig University Giessen are part of the VIP-programme. Check out theprogramme websiteto apply for these courses. Applications are possible until 5 March.

University of Limoges

Students interested in taking any of the courses offered by the University of Limoges need to contact Prof. Leslie Amiot (leslie.amiot@unilim.fr) before the start of the semester in mid-January to gain access to the courses.

University of Calabria

The University of Calabria offers in-person courses. For more information on studying abroad in Calabria, deadlines and the application process, please check out their mobility factsheet.

Comillas Pontifical University

more will be added soon. 

University of Mostar

Students interested in taking any Course Catalogue courses offered by the University of Mostar can find more information about the application process here. The application deadline ends of February 28th.

University of Sarajevo

The University of Sarajevo offers in-person courses. For more information on studying abroad in Sarajevo, deadlines and the application process, please check out their mobility factsheet.

Course Catalogue Documentation

Please note: Underneath you can find the published version of the EUPeace Common Course Catalogue for Teacher Education in its first iteration, dating back to July 2024. This documentation contains information about the course distribution and topics covered within this course catalogue. Since July of 2024 more courses have been added to the course catalogue, expanding the course offers for the second semester of the academic year 2024-2025. This documentation is therefore outdated but can still provide valuable insights into the rationale and make-up of this first edition of the course catalogue.

1. General Introduction

Welcome to the first issue of the EUPeace Common Course Catalogue for Teacher Education!

Below are a few pieces of information which will help you browse and find teacher education course(s) which interest you.

• This is a collection of EUPeace Teacher Education Courses currently offered throughout the nine EUPeace universities.
• This first issue of the catalogue represents only a small sample of courses available from each university.
• There are 48 courses in the 2024-2025 catalogue.

1.1. Which Teacher Education Topics are offered?

• EUPeace strongly believes that teachers play a central role in shaping and educating citizens who strive for peaceful, just and inclusive societies where conflict management is key and based on solid foundations of knowledge and literacy. Therefore, all courses in this catalogue address at least one of the Teacher Education Topics listed in Table 1.

Table 1. Teacher Training Topics addressed by courses within this 2024-2025 Common Course Catalogue for Teacher Education.

1.2. Is there an EUPeace Teacher Education Course for me?

• Courses cater to two types of participants:
  • Pre-Service Teacher Training (PSTT): participants seeking coursework which fulfils the requirements of their study programme and thus contain coursework credited with ECTS which their study programme recognise.
  • In-Service Professional Development (ISPD): participants seeking coursework for the purpose of lifelong learning or professional enrichment; rather than ECTS per se, a Certificate of Recognition might suffice.
• Courses address different populations of learners you would teach to, from pre-school children to doctoral students.
• Courses, especially those for ISPD, may even be suitable for administrative staff.

Table 2 illustrates the 12 types of course participants the 48 courses in this EUPeace catalogue cater to and the number of courses that participants may find relevant. We hope you can find something that interests you!

Table 2. Number of courses in the 2024-2025 EUPeace catalogue which cater to different beneficiaries

1.3. How do I find an EUPeace Teacher Education Course for me?

There are three ways you can search for an EUPeace Teacher Education Course that suits you. All three search methods browse through the same library of courses, but some of you might prefer to simply “flip through a PDF”, while others may prefer to use “filter and data-sorting functions” to manipulate and search spreadsheets of information. We are indeed, all different.

Below you will find the three search methods and, where necessary, brief instructions plus “coding keys” where relevant.

2. Three Ways to Find Your EUPeace Teacher Education Course

Search-Method 1. The Catalogue as Browsable PDF

The course instructor of each course was asked to complete a brief course template (Figure 1) to help you understand if the course is for you, not only from the point of view of the course content and learning objectives, but also course duration, language, if it has assigned ECTS credits or not, etc.

Figure 1. The template of the course information file associated with each course in this catalogue.

Note 1. If you find the course potentially interesting and would like to know more (e.g. exam format, textbook, etc.) there is a direct link to “Course Details” (last field of each course information file) which takes you to the host university’s online repository of information of all its courses. In the case of courses which are “non-curricular” and may therefore not be in the host university’s online course repository, the course information file provides you contact emails and phone numbers for the course coordinator and course instructor.

Here is the “EUPeace Common Course Catalogue for Teacher Education: Issue 1 (2024-2025)” in PDF, as either a Booklet or as a Flyer. If the links within the documents do not work, you may need to download these PDF onto your device.

Link: https://eupeace.eu/wp-content/uploads/eupeace_catalogue_teacher-ed_24-25_booklet.pdf

Link: https://eupeace.eu/wp-content/uploads/eupeace_catalogue_teacher-ed_24-25_flyer.pdf

Search-Method 2. The Catalogue as a Malleable Spreadsheet

For those who prefer to sort and organise information on a spreadsheet according to criteria that you feel are important to you, here is a spreadsheet you can “play with”. Just in case, here is a video to remind you how to order and sort data on spreadsheets. The URL associated with each course will take you to the course information file. So, refer to the information in Figure 1 and Note 1 above.

Here is the “EUPeace Common Course Catalogue for Teacher Education: Issue 1 (2024-2025)” as an online spreadsheet you can sort through.

Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W7ZQHH0AiQq0u0WJ6yvsARclv0qL8FT7uWqPiTUS4M0/

You may also click on this image:

Search-Method 3. The Catalogue as an EUPeace Course Code Index

This is the most intricate search method and may be especially important for those who are searching for coursework which must be recognised by their own university so must be able to link the EUPeace Course Code given to a course within this catalogue to the course code that the host university has already assigned to that course, as part of their own course repository. All courses in the EUPeace catalogue have been organised within an Index Table such as the one shown in Figure 2A. At a glance you can identify if a course is offered in the L1 of the host university or in English. In addition, you can also immediately identify the age-group of learners the course participants would be learning to teach to.

• For example, courses JLU-5, JLU-6 and JLU-7 are offered by Justus Liebig University Giessen and are suitable for teachers who teach pre-primary-age children (age 0-5) while CBR-1, CBR-7, CBR-8, CBR-9 are courses which may be of interest to not only upper secondary teachers who teach students age 14-18, but also university lecturers teaching students age 19+ and even administrative personnel.

To reach the course details published in the host university’s online course repository, follow this 4-Step process:

Step 1. Click on the EUPeace Course Code in the Index Table that might interest you based on the language of instruction and/or age-group of learners.

• This will take you to the Course Title as that shown in Figure 2B.
• Each Course Title is followed by a code in square brackets.
• The coding system provides you two pieces of information which will help you evaluate whether that course fits your interest and academic and/or professional needs:
  • If the course is part of the host university’s repository of courses and thus part of one or more curriculum/a of study programme/s (coded U) or if it is a course which, although not in the university repository, is nonetheless offered by the host university: thanks to EUPeace, such courses, usually very important for professional development, gain value (coded E).
  • If the course is suitable for pre-service teacher training or in-service professional development, or both; coded, respectively, PRE, IN or B.

Step 2. If the conditions to this point still suit your interest and needs, you can then access the course information file through the link found after the Course Title (Figure 2B).

Step 3. Once you reach the course information file, you will find information which confirms that which you have obtained so far, as well as other information such as the duration of the course, when it is offered in the academic year, etc. as well as a brief description of the course content and learning objectives: see Figure 1 and search-method 1.

Step 4. As with the other search methods, from the course information file you can access very specific course details, as described above under search-method 1.

Figure 2. A: EUPeace Course Code Index Table. B: List of Course Titles organised by university and coded using the Description Code in C.

Here is the “EUPeace Common Course Catalogue for Teacher Education: Issue 1 (2024-2025)” organised through a Course Code Index Table. If the links within the documents do not work, you may need to download these PDF onto your device.

Link: https://eupeace.eu/wp-content/uploads/eupeace_catalogue_teacher-ed_24-25_index.pdf