Zurich University of Teacher Education - International

03/09/2026

🌍 Looking back on SINAN.

From 2017 to 2021, our Swiss-North African Academic Network (SINAN) project connected 24 lecturers from teacher training institutions across Switzerland, Tunisia and Egypt, thus creating a space to exchange ideas on higher education teaching and learning.

Highlights from four years of collaboration:
🤝 Network meetings in Switzerland, Tunisia and Egypt as well as online exchanges
📖 An Arabic translation of PH Zurich's handbook "Competency-based teaching and learning in higher education – essentials”
📚 A collective volume capturing the reflections, practices and lessons learned by SINAN participants
🗣️ A slam poetry event organised by Swiss and Tunisian students on the topic of “The Sea Between Us”
🌱 New partnerships that grew out of the project, including LILSKILLS with the University of Assiut and University of Zurich

SINAN showed what is possible when educators across borders learn from each other's classrooms and cultures. A big thank you to everyone who made this exchange happen!

📖 Curious what came out of it? Dive into SINAN and discover the free handbook in Arabic on teaching and learning in higher education and the edited volume with contributions developed in international groups over the course of SINAN: https://tiny.phzh.ch/sinan

✍️ The slam poetry publication „The Sea Between Us – Das Meer zwischen uns – La mer qui nou sépare – البحر الذي يفصلنا“ can be found here: https://issuu.com/schreibzentrum/docs/zwischen-uns-das-meer

🌐 Explore our international education projects: https://ipe.phzh.ch

HEP-BEJUNE
HEP Vaud / Haute école pédagogique du canton de Vaud
Université de Genève
PH Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
الصفحة الرسميه لجامعة اسيوط
The American University in Cairo
Ministère de l'éducation Tunisie
Université de Carthage
Université Virtuelle de Tunis
Université de Tunis

27/08/2026

Last week, Corinna Borer and Wiltrud Weidinger welcomed Tatiana Verdes from the Universitatea Pedagogică de Stat „Ion Creangă” din Chișinău and Turchină Tatiana from the Universitatea de Stat din Moldova to PH Zurich for two intensive days of collaborative work on the FutureS Moldova project.

The workshop was all about co-creating new Future Skills Modules, connecting the GreenComp framework and the Future Skills Navigator with Moldova's own curriculum.

It's this kind of close, practical exchange that turns a project vision into something real for future teachers and their students. We are excited to see where FutureS Moldova goes next! 🚀

👉 Want to learn more about FutureS Moldova: https://tiny.phzh.ch/futures-moldova

🌍 Our international projects: https://ipe.phzh.ch

FutureS Moldova is financially supported by the Community Fund of the Kanton Zürich, Switzerland.

25/08/2026

Mali is home to more than 80 languages, yet schools long taught only in French.

Since 2024, PH Zurich is supporting Malian education experts in changing that, so pupils learn to read in their own mother tongue. ✨

PH Zurich offers a vibrant environment for teaching and learning – one that’s scientific, practice-based and has a great network.

20/08/2026

🌳 Learning Outdoors, Learning for Life 🌳

Join us for a free public keynote on nature-based learning with two leading international experts!

🎤 Prof. Cathy Jordan (University of Minnesota; Director of Research, Children & Nature Network) and Assoc. Prof. Patty Born (Hamline University) will share insights on the Teacher Field School, nature-based learning, human-animal interactions outdoors, and the work of the Children & Nature Network.

This keynote is part of a week-long international conference on outdoor learning, bringing together researchers from Norway, Sweden, the USA, Italy, Luxembourg, Germany and Switzerland. 🌍

📅 Wed, 2 September 2026, 16:00–17:30
📍 PH Zurich, Lagerstrasse 2, Room LAA-J002C
🔗 Register by 26 August: https://phzh.ch/en/about-phzh/news-events-and-current-topics/events/event/?anlassId=144736779

👉 Discover more of our research events: https://phzh.ch/en/research-and-development/research-events/

17/08/2026

Education in times of conflict, AI, gamification and drama: 44 students from Switzerland and abroad shared two inspiring weeks of learning, discovery and intercultural exchange at the PH Zurich Summer School.

Artificial intelligence, classroom conflict, gamification and performative learning: over the course of two weeks, 44 students from Switzerland and abroad explored current issues in education and

12/08/2026

🎓 Last week, PH Zurich was home to the Zurich Workshops on Learning in a Digitalised World!

Educators and researchers came together at our campus and the beautiful Schloss Au on Lake Zurich to explore three exciting sides of EdTech:
🤖 Building Intelligent Tutoring Systems with CTAT (Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tool)
📊 Digging into process data to understand how students learn, not just what they learn
🎯 Designing adaptive teaching that truly responds to every learner's needs

By the end of the week, participants had developed functioning prototypes, new analytical skills, and a deeper understanding of adaptivity to bring back into their own research and teaching practice 💡

A huge thank-you to our mentors from PH Zurich, ETH Zürich, Carnegie Mellon University, the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and the Universität Potsdam for such a rich week of learning and exchange! 🙌

04/08/2026

Learning school leadership – in Barcelona! ️☀️

21 principals from PH Zurich's module School Leadership International spent three days at the Swiss School Barcelona, diving into strategic management, intercultural cooperation and pedagogical practice.

"That's how you discover your own blind spots," one participant shared. 💡

Continuing education profits from international perspectives.

28/07/2026

Looking back at Learning Cultures in Universities (LECU)📚✨

From 2017 to 2021, the Department for International Projects in Education and the Centre for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education connected 30 teacher educators and educational experts from ministries in Switzerland, Albania and Kosovo to exchange ideas on university teaching. Meetings rotated between the three countries, both in person and online.

LECU wrapped up in November 2021 with a joint symposium, and its legacy lives on through various follow-up projects bringing Swiss and international universities together to co-develop teaching. 🤝

📖 Curious what came out of it? Dive into LECU and discover the free handbook in Albanian on teaching and learning in higher education and the edited volume with contributions developed in international groups over the course of LECU: https://tiny.phzh.ch/lecu

🌐 Explore our international education projects: https://ipe.phzh.ch

23/07/2026

🌟 Looking back: CORE life in Greece

From 2022 to 2023, our project CORE life helped unaccompanied refugee children and youth in Greece build vital life skills using the CORE digital learning tool.

Overall, the project realised:
✅ 44 workshops with refugee children and youth, in Athens and Thessaloniki
✅ 65 staff from 8 NGOs trained across 13 sessions
✅ New material on gender-based violence, "Empowerment for Girls," piloted and shared with 10 NGOs
✅ Reaching NGOs active from Athens to Le**os, Chios and Kos supporting around 1,000 young people

A huge thank you to our local team, Magdalen Bardaka, Dimitra Skempi, Marta Moretti and Kostas Nosa Achile and to all our NGO partners for making this possible!

And the story continues: Currently we are active in Italy with the follow-up project CORE vita, focused even more closely on unaccompanied minors' life skills.

👉 Learn more about CORE life: https://tiny.phzh.ch/core-life

🌐 Explore our international education projects: https://ipe.phzh.ch

16/07/2026

🎨 Every child brings skills to the classroom. FACE helps you find them.

FACE (Families and Children in Education) is a hands-on, three-volume teaching series that helps children aged 4 to 12 discover their own talents, interests and self-confidence through play, creativity and teamwork at school and at home 🏡

The FACE material has empowered teachers to support Roma children and their families in Romania, Kosovo and North Macedonia. In Romania, teachers reported improved communication and creativity of the children, along with greater independence, and stronger self-awareness which also led to a more positive classroom atmosphere.

The best part: FACE is completely free, available in Arabic, English, Romanian, Serbian, Macedonian, Albanian and Hungarian. Perfect for any teacher who wants to bring more confidence-building into the classroom!

👉 Discover FACE: https://ipe-textbooks.phzh.ch/de/life-skills/

🌐 Explore our international education projects: https://ipe.phzh.ch