Jul 15, 2021
CONTESSA Train the Trainer online workshops with Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Austria
The Train-the-Trainer workshops, which are an important part of the Erasmus+ project "CONTESSA" (Contemporary Teaching Skills for South Asia), took place from 23 June to 02 July 2021.
The overall objective of the EU-funded project was the development of 21st-century teaching skills in the partner countries Cambodia and Sri Lanka. CONTESSA offers a sustainable educational program for teacher education in the primary sector. The Karl-Franzens-University in Graz (Austria) coordinated all activities within the project. The workshops aimed at familiarizing teacher educators and teacher trainers from the Asian target countries with the CONTESSA educational program. Furthermore, the workshops` purpose was to enable them to act as multipliers who are to apply and modify the five jointly developed modules for their national context.
The University of Cambodia, the Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia, the Open University of Sri Lanka and the University of Colombo recruited a total of 60 workshop participants, including university teachers, lecturers at the Regional Teacher Training Centre(s), primary school teachers and several authorities in the education system.
Due to the current situation, the workshops could only be conducted in a digital format. The CONTESSA team at the Chair of Adult Education – with Prof. Dr. Bohlinger as national project coordinator - is looking forward to conducting the workshops face-to-face in the partner countries in the future.
For more information, please check out: https://contessa-project.eu/ or https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/ew/ibbd/eb/forschung/aktuelle-projekte/projekt-contessa