International Partners | PH Ludwigsburg

Mission: UNC Charlotte is North Carolina's urban research university. It leverages its location in the state's largest city to offer internationally competitive programs of research and creative activity, exemplary undergraduate, graduate and professional programs, and a focused set of community engagement initiatives. UNC Charlotte maintains a particular commitment to addressing the cultural, economic, educational, environmental, health, and social needs of the greater Charlotte region.

Background: Immediately following World War II, the United States experienced an urgent need for a workforce with the education necessary to meet the demands generated by the war and its technology. UNC Charlotte is one of the universities founded at that time in metropolitan areas throughout the United States to meet that need. While it began offering just evening classes taught in the facilities of Charlotte Central High School, the storied institution has grown into the region's preeminent research university on a beautiful, vibrant 1,000-acre campus designed to meet the needs of a new era.

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During the Teaching Week staff from the UNCC attended various of the online events to network with the international partners in the INVITE project.

Prof Ian Binns, Prof Florence Martin, Prof Adriana Medina, and Prof Erik Jon Byker lead a round table on Teacher Education at UNCC as part of the hybrid Teaching Week that staff from all partner univiserities as well as attending students of the Winter School were able to join.

One UNCC student also joined the virtual Winter School.

University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), USA

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HAN's mission is to qualify, socialize and prepare students for their future professional practice and citizenship. To provide innovation in a dynamic, increasingly globalized and complex society. HAN wants to create opportunities for people to grow as professionals and as individuals. And to offer a springboard to a meaningful future.

HAN trains students to become self-confident, empowered individuals who look beyond borders and are equipped to innovate their profession. This requires an interdisciplinary perspective that stimulates learning and innovation. HAN aims for maximum personal impact and social innovation.
HAN offers intensive and high-quality education. Face-to-face instruction lies at the heart of our learning environment. HAN challenges students to optimize their time at HAN. So they can continue developing their talents and passions in every phase of their career.

HAN's learning environment provides the peace and security students need for academic and social integration. This means small-scale learning formats and spaces within a professional learning community. HAN regards their students as professionals right from day one. HAN invests a great deal in fostering the relationship between students and teaching staff in their individual learning situations.

(Source: https://hanuniversity.com/international/en/about-us/han-organization/mission-vision/index.xml)

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Staff from the HAN University was able to attend the hybrid Teaching Week at Ludwisgburg University of Education to network and find common grounds for further cooperations within the INVITE project.

Keesjan van Oorsouw gave a presentation on the Student Profile as an exchange on best practice as part of the Teaching Week. Students participating in the Winter School were also able to attend.

Keesjan van Oorsouw traveled to Ludwigsburg to attend the hybrid Teaching Week in person.

HAN University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

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The University of Limerick (UL), is located on the west coast of Ireland along the picturesque River Shannon and enjoys an unspoiled natural environment blended with state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities.

With close to 16,500 students, including more than 2,000 international students each year, UL is a young and enterprising university with a proud record of innovation in education and scholarships. UL offers more than 70 undergraduate programmes across Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Education and Health Sciences, Science and Engineering and the Kemmy Business School. UL also delivers a strong postgraduate offering with more than 100 taught postgraduate programmes to Doctoral and Post-doctoral level.

UL pioneered the concept of Cooperative Education in Ireland, placing more than 2,000 students in paid and semi-paid work placements annually - 30% of these as international placements. These valuable work experiences make UL graduates more employable, which is why the UL graduate employment rate is 15% higher than the national average.

With strong links to business and industry, UL excels at translational research which aims to accelerate the practical application of academic research to benefit society. UL houses some of the most innovative and successful research centres in Ireland. The Nexus Innovation Centre is a growing community of international researchers and entrepreneurs which supports new businesses and the creation of jobs.

(Source: https://www.ul.ie/about-ul)

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University of Limerick, Ireland

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KP offers high quality study programmes and applied research activities that help improve our welfare - and we believe that international collaboration is a key driver for opening our minds, strengthening our knowledge and improving our daily work.

University College Copenhagen (KP) is one of Denmark’s main providers of teacher education, social education, nursing and social work. We also provide physiotherapy, psychomotor therapy, sign language and interpreting, textile design, handicraft and communication, midwifery, occupational therapy, nutrition and health, biomedical laboratory science, radiography and emergency and risk management – as well as postgraduate and supplementary diploma degrees within related fields.

International, professional and academic networking is at the heart of KP’s endeavors to enhance the quality of our study programmes, professional development activities and our research areas.

(Source: https://www.kp.dk/en/about-kp/)

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University College Copenhagen (UCC), Denmark

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At Malmö University, research and education should be innovative, multidisciplinary, international, and safeguard the strengths and values that characterise the University. All education should meet the knowledge demands of both individuals and wider society.

Malmö University’s activities are to be guided by academic values, the principle of collegiality and student influence that promotes quality.

The University’s collective approach to quality is expressed through the quality system for education and research, which takes into account the various disciplines’ characteristics, differing views on knowledge and individual quality criteria.

All education at the University is to be of high quality and meet the demands for knowledge from both individuals and wider society.

(Source: https://mau.se/en/about-us/vision-quality-and-internationalisation/)

Contribution

Digital teaching is opening doors for transnational cooperation within university teaching. In the summer semester 2021 the Sports Department, led by Professor Dr Annette R. Hofmann, in cooperation with the Department for Sport Sciences at Malmö University in Sweden (Dr Daniel Svensson and Dr Karin Book) and the Institute for Sports Sciences at the University of Vienna (Prof. Dr Rosa Diketmüller) offered the advanced seminar "Sports, Physical Activity and Sustainable Development: from an Inter- and Transnational Perspective" for Bachelor students of the respective universities. Over 50 students took part in this international seminar. The working language is English.

"Sustainability" is a central topic in many aspects of sports. Some of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) set by UNESCO are directly transferable to this field. To illustrate this, an international panel for a seminar unit consisting of one representative each from WHO (lecturer Dr Peter Gelius), the International Council of Sports Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE, Detlef Dumon) as well as Dr Marianne Maier (Terre des Hommes International Federation, TDHIF/ International Association for Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women, IAPESGW) was formed. It was important for the teaching staff, not only while developing the idea for this seminar, that, on the one hand, the country-specific connections within the field of sports and education should be taken into consideration and, on the other, that students should be able to discuss, meet, and exchange ideas in internationally mixed groups.

Due to the different semester schedules of the participating countries, the Swedish partner university was only able to participate in the first half of this seminar. The remaining weeks of the semester were structured together with the Sports Institute in Vienna.

This cooperation was the first of its kind. In the Winter Semester 2021/22, another seminar will be offered by these three institutions.

Malmö University (MAU), Sweden

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"OsloMet aspires to play a leading role as a provider of research-based knowledge related to the welfare state, in Norway and abroad."

With the motto of the university being "New Knowledge—New Practice" Oslo MET strives to react to the demands of society and the labour market to prepare students accordingly, the study programms are constantly being modernised to keep up with a diverse and shifting society.

Oslo MET promotes and focuses on equality and benefits greatly from the diversity within the students as well as the staff.

(Source: https://www.oslomet.no/en/about/strategy-vision)

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Oslo Metropalitan University, Norway

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