Education: Digitisation

In online training courses the “Kultur und Sprache” programme supported approximately 1,300 German teachers worldwide in teaching German as a foreign language with a special focus on Austria.

The countries of the European Higher Education Area support flexible learning and teaching formats and digital skills. The OeAD supports this in the Erasmus+ project 3-IN-AT-PLUS.

The Austrian federal government’s “Digital Learning” device initiative is part of the 8-point plan for digital education. The initiative provides access to digital education.

The development and enhancement of digital skills in the people living in Austria is part of this initiative. Quality assurance and certification of acquired digital skills is also part of it.

In line with the priorities of the Digital Education Action Plan the EU programme promotes high-quality digital learning.

The Erasmus+ app serves as a “single point of entry” for Erasmus+ students. The European Student Card and the European Student eID make it easier to access digital services.

EPALE is a multilingual, virtual meeting place for all those involved in adult education.

ERINNERN:AT is the OeAD programme for teaching and learning about National Socialism and the Holocaust. Teachers can find numerous teaching and learning materials on the programme website.

Europass is a free online tool of the European Union that helps people to document and plan their educational and career paths.

Digital mobile learning applications will receive this quality certificate from the BMBWF after undergoing a standardised evaluation and certification process.

The OeAD’s platform for the Higher Education Mobility and Internationalisation Strategy 2030 (HMIS2030) offers Austrian higher education institutions the possibility to enter examples of good practice…

The extensive cultural education programme with schools all over Austria connects artists from all art disciplines with pupils in creative projects.

Children’s and youth universities all over Austria offer children and teenagers a broad range of opportunities to immerse themselves in the world of science and research. Online offers are also available.

441 researchers visited schools all over Austria on a voluntary basis as science ambassadors in 2023 and talked about their fields of research and their professional careers.

The official European certificate serves to recognise and document non-formal and informal learning experiences in the programmes Erasmus+ Youth and European Solidarity Corps.