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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).

Sabbatical Prof. Martin (winter term 2023/24)
2023-10-01 - 2024-03-31
Research project: “Bi-directional Decoloniality in Applied Linguistics and English Teacher Education”
Research partners are colleagues at The University of Education Karlsruhe, Savannakhet University (Lao P.D.R.), the University of Yaoundé 1 (Cameroon), Cape Coast University (Ghana), Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi Pedagogical University (Ukraine), Vasyl Stus Donetsk National University (Ukraine), Kibbutzim College (Israel), Queen Mary University of London (UK)

Team XII works in Laos
2023-10-01 - 2024-01-12
Volunteers from the English Department of the University of Education Karlsruhe tandem-teach and tandem-learn at the Lao-German Technical College, Vocational Development Institute, and at Sunshine School.

DEADLINE 19.1.2024 for APPLICATIONS for F13 ASA-Programme ENGAGEMENT GLOBAL for 2 German-Cameroonian student-tandems in 2024 towards Decolonising Education Systems and Knowledges Production
2023-11-27 - 2024-01-19
Our “ASA Academia Global Format” student-tandem project “Decolonising (English) teacher education through bi-directional systems interaction” runs from April to December 2024 and is fully funded for 4 students, 2 German and 2 Cameroonian.
TheCameroonianExperience will add to TheLaosExperience, to be followed by TheGhanaExperience, TheUkraineExperience, and TheIsraelExperience (soon also on this blog).
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“ASA” is a programme organised by “Engagement Global”, the central contact agency in Germany for development policy initiatives funded by the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and whose main goal is “to promote fair global coexistence”.
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Application period for Cameroonian students: 27.11.-14.12.2023 (2 nominees, 2 substitutes)
Application period for German students: 1.12.2023 to 19.1.2024
Places: 2 each
Period of tandem-work: 15.4.-29.12.2024
Details for German applicants: https://asa.engagement-global.de/bewerbende.html

Mentoring by Prof. Martin and Dr. Ekembe; Master theses can be written in the context of this project, and project results will be presented at our ALA conference “Language Awareness, Education, Power” (7.-10.7.2024).
#PHKarlsruhe & #UniversityofYaounde1 are currently also preparing a formal university cooperation.
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