The Laos Experience 🇱🇦🇬🇭🇩🇪

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.

ASA Academia global project "Rethinking education: decolonising internationalisation and knowledge construction"
2024-04-19 09:00 - 2024-07-17 17:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Student-tandem research project on “Decolonising (English) teacher education through bi-directional systems interaction“ (ASA-title), called “Rethinking education: decolonising internationalisation and knowledge production” (our title)

“ASA Academia global": German-Cameroonian research project at the University of Education Karlsruhe and the University of Yaoundé 1
2024-04-22 09:00 - 2024-12-02 17:00
The “ASA” programme is an education and capacity-building initiative administered and financed by “Engagement Global” on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and aims to promote a bottom-up understanding of different regional perspectives on overcoming pressing global challenges.
Our 6-month research project “Rethinking Education: Decolonizing Internationalization and Knowledge Production: Decolonizing (English) Teacher Education through Bidirectional System Interaction” brings together three German-Cameroonian student tandems in a North-South partnership in 2024.

3 consecutive Erasmus+ mobilities to Savannakhet University: Prof. Isabel Martin, Mr Philipp Reul, Dr. Nico Hillah
2024-08-21 - 2024-11-29
The fourth project phase of “Bi-directional teaching and learning” focusses “Digital Citizenship and Bi-directional Decoloniality” (2023-2026). We are currently working out the connections and contradictions between these two towards a new project idea. These members of PH Karlsruhe visited/are visiting SKU in the autumn of 2024:
Teaching Mobility Prof. Dr. Isabel Martin (English Department): 21.8.-30.8.2024
Training Mobility Mr Philipp Reul (PhD candidate in English Department): 11.11.-16.11.2024
Training Mobility Dr Nico Hillah (Informatics Institute): 18.11.-26.11.2024

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
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.

"ASA Academia global" 2025 Team XV Phase 2
2025-09-22 08:00 - 2025-12-19 18:00
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.

DAAD "Get Ready for Global Teaching!" at PH Karlsruhe (2025-2029)
2025-10-01 08:00 - 2029-12-31 18:00
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.

ASA Academia project #1104 (2026): 3 Ghanaian-German student-tandems
2026-04-19 09:00 - 2026-07-17 18:00
3 Ghanaian and 3 German students won stipends by Engagement Global to participate in our 3rd ASA Academia research & teaching Project #1104 from 20 April to 18 December 2026. Phase 1 of “Shaping educational change: recognizing and breaking colonial patterns in teacher training curricula” takes place at PH Karlsruhe, Phase 2 at UCC. We welcome Christian Agyei, Veronica Enyonam Ahiaba, Irene Sitsofe Kwawu, Jonas Florian Morbe, Jennice Radant and Cosima Reese to Phase 1 at PH Karlsruhe!

"Black Heroes" Exhibition
2026-05-18 08:00 - 2026-06-11 19:00
This travelling exhibition consisting of 22 portraits is a NikLAS project based on the book Black Heroes: schwarz – deutsch – erfolgreich by Guy Kabengele and Kerstin Finkelstein and offers QR codes and Taskcards for teaching purposes at schools in Baden-Wuerttemberg.
The author will present a short lecture on 9 June 11:30 and contribute to the seminars “Decoloniality Praxis” and “Global Englishes & Global Citizenship Education”, all in the library.
