The European Erasmus programme is the most successful mobility programme for students worldwide. Since 1987, more than 3 million young Europeans joined this programme and studied abroad. Key for this success is the general acceptance among European students. The students' feedback about a semester abroad is almost exclusively positive. The impact to their life is sustainable:
“Young people who study or train abroad not only gain knowledge in specific disciplines, but also strengthen key transversal skills which are highly valued by employers.” (Erasmus Impact Study 2014)
Studying abroad also has an amazing positve impact for future teachers and their careers. Therefore the Centre for International Relations in Education of the University College of Teacher Education Styria (PHSt) published the first Erasmus+ Journal. This book contains the best Erasmus student reports from the study period 2013/14. It is available as a book (5 EUR excl. Shipping on Lulu.com) and as a free e-book on http://www.erasmus-journal.eu/e-books/. The first edition of the Erasmus + journal contains 12 articles from 14 Erasmus students. These articles should encourage the next generation of Erasmus students.
This second issue here is the next step in the evolution of the Erasmus+ Journal.
More than 90 authors were involved. Reports and articles are published in seven languages (English, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Czech, Turkish, Spanish). This was made possible through a cooperation of the Katholieke Pabo Zwolle (PABO) in the Netherlands and the Univerity College of Education Styria (PHSt) between Harrie Poulssen of PABO and Heiko Vogl of PHSt.
This edition of the Erasmus+ Journal contains 21 reports of Erasmus outgoings (PHSt), 18 reports from Erasmus incoming students at the PHSt, one report by ten students who attended the Thai Studies programme, one report of an Erasmus buddy of the PHSt, a staff training report by two employees of the PHSt and short articles of two lecturers of the PHSt. The PABO contributed 22 articles on school placements abroad and 16 reports about the Dutch international Minor as well as the preface of the international coordinator Harrie Poulssen.
This book was created in a collaborative manner. All authors were able to write online at the same time, anywhere in this book.
Since there was no funding available, this publication is not proofread. Most of the reports were not written in the authors' mother tongues. Therefore, please apologise for any errors in sentence structure, spelling errors, typos, etc.
Heiko Vogl
November 2014
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