Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Karlsruhe University of Education (PH) were successful in the funding line of “Leuchttürme der Lehrerbildung ausbauen” (extending beacons of teacher education) with their joint project “MINT2KA – Lehr-Lern-Labore in den MINT-Fächern als Innovations- und Vernetzungsfeld in der Lehrerbildung am KIT und an der PH Karlsruhe” (MINT2KA – Teaching-learning Labs in STEM Subjects for Innovation and Networking in Teacher Education at KIT and PH Karlsruhe). Total funding granted amounts to up to EUR 2 million.
Under the MINT2KA cooperation project, connections of education, research, and practice included in the curriculum will be established in the form of cooperating teaching-learning labs as strong locations of teacher education in STEM subjects.
“In the education of teachers, KIT with its focus on natural and engineering sciences and the PH with its pedagogic profile complement each other optimally. This is confirmed by our long successful cooperation. I am very pleased that we will be able to further intensify this cooperation under MINT2KA,” the Vice President of KIT for Higher Education and Academic Affairs, Professor Alexander Wanner, says.
The President of PH Karlsruhe, Dr. Christine Böckelmann, emphasizes: “The basis for the urgently required support of young people in STEM subjects in Germany is an excellent education of teachers in these subjects. The joint project will help further develop the quality of teacher education in STEM subjects. At the same time, the existing cooperation of our universities in Karlsruhe is strengthened. I am very pleased about this funding decision!”
The proposal made under the direction of Professor Alexander Woll (KIT) and Professor Christiane Benz (PH) was selected by an independent expert panel. As announced by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science on January 22, 2016, a total of seven projects will be funded, two of them are cooperation projects.
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More information can be found in the press release of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts:
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