Out-of-school learning in the border regions
The project “Living and learning in the border regions” aims to encourage teachers and people working in education at out-of-school locations to develop tasks that promote independent thinking in pupils, while helping them to look beyond borders and see their own border region as a single entity. Altogether, four border regions are represented in the project: Germany-Netherlands, Austria-Hungary, Poland-Czech Republic and Sweden-Norway. From 26th February - 2nd March 2008 an international teachers’ course will take place in Kerkrade (Netherlands), at which the teachers will be introduced to new learning methods. The project outcomes will be published in autumn 2008.  http://www.borderactivities.eu/

Projects of the Lower Austrian Language Initiative
Czech and Slovak at nursery
With the project “Czech and Slovak at nursery”, the state of Lower Austria is embracing a highly topical issue – at no other time in a person’s life does he learn foreign languages as easily as between the ages of two and six. Moreover, it is especially important that children learn a regionally significant language, in other words a language spoken in the immediately adjacent neighbour countries. In Lower Austria children now have the opportunity to have fun learning Czech and Slovak at 80 nurseries in the border regions.Native speakers are teaching more than 3,500 children their first steps in these languages. For further information about the nurseries offering these language lessons: Marianne Erasimus, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Learning languages at school
The Lower Austrian language initiative has developed into an important focus and provided a major added value at schools in Lower Austria. In addition to conventional language teaching, Czech, Slovak and Hungarian are also offered for beginners and advanced learners at compulsory schools, grammar schools and vocational colleges. The teaching of these foreign languages has been made possible at 170 school locations across Lower Austria. Further information: Johannes Trümmel, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

The creation of a cross-border municipality
A research study focusing on measures taken by the local authorities of a Dutch town and a German town to create a single cross-border municipality known as Eurode.
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