The Ministerial Service Center for Secondary Modern Schools of Upper Bavaria West (“Die Dienststelle des Ministerialbeauftragten”) is a kind of board of further education for secondary modern schools and supervises one of eight districts in Bavaria. Our district is called “Upper…
Project Description
All project partners saw the need to inform teachers on science-based pedagogy (including IT and communication technologies) through learning groups. In this way, the lifelong skill acquisition of instructors should be promoted and the quality of teaching should improve.
The project had the following primary goals:
• To put people from the regions of Sundsvall in Sweden and Upper Bavaria into contact with each other through personal meetings and online communication,
• To enable evidence-based learning,
• To develop a science-oriented approach to learning processes,
• To deepen the knowledge of all participants regarding current standards and goals of evidence-based learning and the European core competences.
Partner Organisations

Sundsvall’s child services and education office
Barn- och utbildningsförvaltningen i Sundsvall Sundsvall is located at the northern east coast of Sweden and has about 96 000 residents. Sundsvall’s municipality has 6 950 tenured employees in its municipality, among these, 2 900 are working under the child…

Staatliche Realschule Geisenfeld
The Staatliche Realschule Geisenfeld is a secondary modern school for students from grade 5 to 10 (age 11 to 16). It addresses to young people, who are interested in theoretical questions and in the same time have practical abilities and…

Hagaskolan
Hagaskolan The school is located beautifully in the middle of a quiet residential area in the north of Sundsvall.Hagaskolan has approx. 650 students from preschool to year 9. The building is renovated, bright and airy. The school has approx. 75…

FöBRN e.V.- a development agency to the Bavarian Realschule Network (BRN)
Förderverein Bayerisches Realschulnetz e. V. The FöBRN e.V. is a development agency to the Bavarian Realschule Network (BRN) and provides the team of the Bavarian Realschule Network with financial resources and hosting services. The BRN won the German eGovernment Award…

Mediothek Sundsvall (AV-Media Västernorrland)
We work with educational development on the use of audio and video in school. Research shows that if a student gets the opportunity to take part of the teaching in the way that suits the student best learning increases significantly. The use…

Academy for In-service Teachers Training and Personnel Development
Akademie für Lehrerfortbildung und Personalführung On behalf of the Bavarian Ministry of Education the Academy for In-service Teachers Training and Personnel Development is coordinating and undertaking most activities in this field for teachers of all types of schools and subjects…