Bi-directional Learning and Teaching: Lao-German Projects and Tandems
New Call for Applications for internships in Laos (2026) in Team XVI: Call_for_Applications_2026_TheLaosExperience. Inform yourself at the “International Day” on 19 November, 11:30-14:00, in the Foyer of PHKA building 3, or write to our International Office PHKA (io@ph-karlsruhe.de). The application deadline is 1 December 2025.
Our next PHKA volunteer Ms Meike Becker will work at Sunshine School in the winter of 2025 (Team XIV). 4 new places for 2026/27 are advertised by the PHKA International Office, the application deadline is 1 December (details on StudIP).
New Call for Applications for internships in Laos (2026) in Team XVI: Call_for_Applications_2026_TheLaosExperience. Inform yourself at the "International Day" on 19 November, 11:30-14:00, in the Foyer of PHKA building 3, or write to our International Office PHKA (io@ph-karlsruhe.de). The application deadline is 1 December 2025.
11:30-14:00: Visit the "Laos" table and talk to previous volunteers. 4 places for internships are available at Sunshine School and the Lao-German Technical College in the winter term 2026/27, with funding. Counseling is available as from 9:30.
Part 2: Calling and Teaching
The one-week conference is part of the DAAD "Get Ready for Global Teaching!" programme (2025-2029) at PH Karlsruhe. Visiting lecturers from our partner universitites in Northern Ireland, Israel, Ghana, Cameroon, and newly South Africa will cooperate with local students and colleagues to deepen our understanding of how democracy, language, and participation intersect and how language can be a tool for both exclusion and empowerment in democratic societies. Info und Programm Winter School 2025_en
Erasmus+ Key Action 171 Mobility Project between the University of Education Karlsruhe and Savannakhet University (budget 62.470,00 Euro): After our first two mobility projects, "Bi-directional Teaching and Learning" (2018-2021) and "Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship" (2021-2023), we now embark on "Digital Citizenship and Bi-directional Decoloniality" for 3 years (2023-2026).
After Phase 1 at PH Karlsruhe, our German-Ghanaian tandem-project (#1107) under the ASA Academia global format programme (Engagement Global) continues from September to December 2025 at UCC in Cape Coast. We work towards Sustainable Development Goals #4, #10, #16, and #17 and have planned many school visits. The research activities for Team XV are decolonizing ELT, teaching materials, and English curricula at school level.
With the new Get Ready for Global Teaching! project at PH Karlsruhe, we institutionalize and expand our international collaborations. With our partners in Ghana, Israel, Cameroon, Lao P.D.R., Norway, the UK and the USA, we will focus on global inequality, colonial thought patterns, and post-migrant societies. Through direct exchange, future teachers will further develop their cultural and linguistic awareness, reflect on key issues and challenges of our time from a global perspective, and design educational processes in diversity- and discrimination-sensitive ways.
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