The OeAD has a network of international cooperation offices in priority regions of the Austrian educational and scientific cooperation. The offices are located in the EU’s neighbouring countries in the east (two in Ukraine, one in the Republic of Moldova), the Western Balkan countries and in China.
International exchange, thinking outside the box and developing new perspectives on one’s own work in exchange with others provide important impulses for the implementation of educational reform processes in one’s own country. Within the framework of 19 projects to support sustainable education reforms in our nine partner countries the innovation competence of more than 2,000 educational institutions, such as schools, agencies for (vocational) education and training, local education administration authorities, institutions for continuous professional development of teachers, etc., was strengthened in various areas of education reform in around 460 events in 2023. The OeAD promotes innovative forms of learning from one another within and between education systems for systematic change management. National education systems differ from one another. In an increasingly globalised world, however, they face similar challenges.
These projects are implemented by the OeAD cooperation offices in Chisinau, Odesa/Uzhhorod, Sarajevo (responsible for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia) and Tirana (responsible for Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia), which are headed by Austrian educational coordinators that are directly seconded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research.
The two OeAD cooperation offices in Lviv and Shanghai focus on supporting mobility, networking and cooperation in higher education. In cooperation with the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs the Lviv office also implements foreign culture projects. The aim is to promote strategic networking in the respective partner countries to support strategic partnerships with Austria and Austrian institutions. To this end Austrian stakeholders in higher education are made aware of possibilities for cooperation with different higher education institutions in China and Lviv.
