Comenius - Schools and Kindergarten

Comenius informs about Europe in schools and kindergartens and supports cooperations and new ways of collaboration in Europe. Time spent abroad helps pupils, prospective teachers and teachers. They thus gain the skills they need for their personal and professional development.

Aims

• More mobility
• Better understanding of the diversity and the value of European cultures and languages
• Support of school partnerships
• Improved teacher education
• Support of modern foreign languages
• Improved school administration
• Improved teaching

 Target groups

• Kindergartens, schools, pupils up to secondary education level II
• Teachers and other staff
• Institutions in the field of education, training and further education of school staff
• Associations, non-profit institutions, non-governmental organisation
• Research centres, institutions and providers of advice and information
• Services that are involved in lifelong learning
• Higher education institutions

 Measures

• Assistance for prospective teachers as well as kindergarten teachers (German)
• Further education for staff in schools and kindergarten (German)
• Individual mobility of pupils (German)
• Preparatory visits (German)
• School partnerships (German)
• Comenius Regional Partnerships (German)
• eTwinning – School partnerships on the web (German) 
• Multilateral projects, networks and accompanying measures (German)