3rd Erasmus+ Mobility Project PH Karlsruhe & Savannakhet University
2023-08-01 - 2026-07-31
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).

Leona Kemmer (Team XI) volunteers as English teacher at Sunshine School in the winter term 2024/25
2024-09-09 - 2025-12-19
Ms Leona Kemmer (Team XI) tried three times all through the first Covid year 2020/2021 to get a visa to Laos to work at Sunshine School, despite never-ending obstacles. Team XI were sadly thwarted in their endeavours, but the Head of Sunshine School (Sister “Didi 1”) was sure Ms Leona would join them one day. Ms Leona next collaborated with Sunshine teachers to write an e-book for teaching English as material to accompany her Master thesis on “Intercultural differences in ESL to transcultural understanding through encounters and communication: Creating an e-book with Lao teachers in tandem-teaching”.
After finishing her studies at the University of Education Karlsruhe and then her 18-month teacher traineeship, she directly connected with Sunshine School again and is there now, teaching throughout the winter. Hats off for such amazing tenacity, loyalty, and determination!

3rd Erasmus+ Mobility Laos-Germany: 2 SKU Incomings at PHKA in the summer term 2025
2025-03-01 08:00 - 2025-07-31 18:00 (Europe/Berlin)
In our 3rd Erasmus+ project “Digital Citizenship and Bi-directional Decoloniality” (2023-2026), Ms Chindavone Sisoulath and Ms Phennapha Xaiyasen, students in the Faculty of Linguistics and Humanities and the Faculty of Information and Technology at Savannakhet University (SKU), will study at the University of Education Karlsruhe (PHKA) in the summer term 2025.

"ASA Academia global" 2025: 2nd student-tandem research project (Team XV)
2025-04-22 08:00 - 2025-09-30 18:00
Our German-Ghanaian tandem-project (#1107) under the ASA Academia global format programme (Engagement Global) with 6 full stipends for 6 months (April to July in Karlsruhe, September to December 2025 in Cape Coast), led by Dr. Christopher Yaw Kwaah and Prof. Isabel Martin, works towards Sustainable Development Goals #4, #10, #16, and #17. The main research activities for Team XV are decolonizing ELT, teaching materials, and English curricula at school level.

Decoloniality Praxis in Karlsruhe: decolonial English lessons at secondary schools
2025-07-01 07:45 - 2025-07-09 13:00
One outcome of ASA Academia project #1107 is teaching three different English lessons to different 9th grade classes at Sophie-Scholl Realschule and Gemeinschaftsschule Illingen over one intensive week. The three tandems of Team XV and their local student-partners from the “Decoloniality Praxis” seminar (Prof. Martin) prepared lessons on “Representations of and attributions about Africa in English textbooks”, “Language as a power tool and “Critical Language Awareness”. An official Press Release by PHKA will cover this.

"World Dance Calling" in Karlsruhe: "AccepDance" lessons at primary and secondary schools
2025-07-02 07:45 - 2025-07-11 13:00
In Prof. Martins’s new seminar “World Dance Calling”, students first experience world dances and then learn to call dances themselves. They will now apply their Caller skills in several English/sports/music/ethics classrooms of Sebastianschule Neuthard, Albert-Schweitzer-Schule Muggensturm, Sophie-Scholl-Realschule and Gemeinschaftsschule Illingen. Two teachers already booked this as an ongoing project under the title “Akzeptanz” (AccepDance) and “Zusammenhalt” (“holding together”) for their schools’ “Peace & Democracy Education” schemes.
