EPTE (European Primary Teacher Education) is a one semester study programme (30 ECTS) for primary teacher education students, offered yearly in of the following cooperating partner institutions: 

• Pädagogische Hochschule OÖ 
• Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen, the Netherlands
• Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
• Univerzity Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, Nitra, Slovak Republic
• Univerza v Ljubljani, Pedagoška fakulteta, Ljubljana, Slovenia

The EPTE curriculum strongly supports the idea of democracy and a European identity based on a sense of solidarity and interdependency and promotes the “European dimension in education”.

The “European dimension” is reflected in the structure and content of the programme:

• EPTE-Students study in an internationally mixed student group (3-4 students from each involved partner institution) 
• EPTE students experience intensive academic and cultural contrasts 
• Each module is taught by a team of internationally mixed experts, each of them applying different teaching approaches according to their educational and cultural backgrounds

EPTE has already taken place at all involved partner universities. In summer term 2019, EPTE will be hosted once again at the Pädagogische Hochschule OÖ.

For PH OÖ primary TE students, who for different reasons cannot go on a study exchange abroad, this is a great opportunity to integrate in an international study group at home. The whole EPTE semester will be complitely validated for the study program at PH OÖ.

PH OÖ Students interested in taking part of the 2019 summer semester EPTE program are invited to contact PH OÖ outgoing students staff. Students from other EPTE partner universities please contact your respective international offices. 

• Society, Culture and Education 
• Plurilingual and Intercultural Education 
• Environment and Sustainable Development 
• Mathematics 
• Arts 
• Pedagogy and Didactics 

School practice, as well as a local language course, complete these five modules, which are composed to one-third of contact hours and to two thirds of students’ self study. 

For more information, feel free to contact:
Roswitha Stütz, roswitha.stuetz@ph-ooe.at
Or see also:
Stütz, Roswitha: EPTE-Programme: Cross-national Teacher Education. - In: Böhm, Jan/Stütz, Roswitha (Ed.): Vielfalt in der Bildung. Lehrerausbildung und pädagogische Praxis im internationalen Vergleich. (2016), S. 201 - 212