Twitter.
21/05/2013: Info Workshops
(September in France) and the new deadline is the 15th of June.
13/05/2013: Pestalozzi dissemination activities
The information about dissemination and networking activities was collected from all over Europe by the Cascading team of the Pestalozzi online community of practice: Ildikó Lázár, Corinne Dussau, José Luis Martinez Garcia and Vivian Paraskevi Chiona.
Link to the document (pdf format).
02/05/2013: Third Forum on intercultural learning and exchangeThe contribution of exchange to intercultural learning for educational institutions, October 2012, Vienna, Austria. The Head of the Pestalozzi Programme was invited to speak about the work of the Education Department of the Council of Europe in the field of intercultural education and in particular on guidelines for the development of intercultural competence in education focusing on teacher education.
The paper was published in the current issue of “Intercultura” (pp. 10 - 12).
07/02/2013: Pestalozzi Summer school
Teachers of all subjects from all types of schools (6-19) and other education professionals (school heads, parent representatives, community representatives, school psychologists, educators from the non-formal education sector, etc.) are invited to participate in the first Summer School of the Pestalozzi Programme in cooperation with the Academy of Bad Wildbad
29/04/2013: European Modules 2012/2014.
The team of facilitators and the Secretariat from Pestalozzi Programme and the European Youth Foundation are meeting for two days (29th -30th April) in order to prepare this new module series that will be a first-time cooperation within the Directorate of Democratic Citizenship and Participation of the Council of Europe. More info…
The NLOs of the Pestalozzi Programme will nominate participants from teacher training and from adult education before June 2013 (how to participate).
The participants from the youth sector are identified by the European Youth Foundation following a call for participants
12/04/2013:
Teaching and education challenges of the 21st century
Following the European Council OING conference,
Commission of Education and Culture has prepared a survey
dedicated to European teachers, dealing with teaching and
education challenges of the 21st century.
It is in
this context that a questionnaire was developed to obtain
the opinion of up European teachers. More than a hundred
interviews have been conducted and we thank you warmly. A
big congratulations to countries rallied strongly ! But it
is not enough. We still need answers from all European
countries.
More information and link to the questionnaire to fill out online 
13/01/2013: Training activities 2013
The training activities of the Pestalozzi Programme for 2013 are online as from today. In cooperation with our partners in our member states we can offer a wide range of training opportunities for education professionals across Europe on and around the major aspects of education for democracy: citizenship, human rights, diversity, languages, the prevention of violence and discrimination, responsible behaviour in the social space, to name but a few.
Intercultural competence for all - Preparation for living in a heterogeneous world (Pestalozzi series n°2) (2012)Education which helps citizens live together in our diverse societies is a matter of urgency. We all need to develop the ability to understand each other across all types of cultural barriers; this is a fundamental prerequisite for making our diverse democratic societies work. This publication looks at the development of intercultural competence as a key element of mainstream education.
More information Download this publication (pdf format)
Download the 1st publication -
(Teacher education for change - The theory behind the Council of Europe Pestalozzi Programme (Pestalozzi series n°1) (2011) 
Review of “Teacher education for change” by Daniel H. Jarvis in the International Review of Education.
Edited by Josef Huber and Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard, Teacher education for change: The theory behind the Council of Europe Pestalozzi Programme features a compilation of 11 papers written by a group of international scholars.
"Recognising intercultural competence: What shows that I am interculturally competent?"
We invite you to test a new, draft tool to support you on the way to a fuller understanding of yourself in the context of diversity. It was developed in a long process coordinated by the Pestalozzi Programme and the Intercultural Cities project of the Council of Europe and the European Wergeland Centre.
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The PESTALOZZI Programme is the Council of Europe programme for the professional development of teachers and education actors.
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