North-​South Part­ner­ships in Teacher Ed­u­ca­tion

The con­cept of North-​South Part­ner­ships in higher ed­u­ca­tion has been tack­led by de­vel­op­ment agen­cies and sci­en­tists for al­most 20 years.This en­gage­ment re­sulted in pro­grammes, and ini­tia­tives for part­ner­ships in higher ed­u­ca­tion with uni­ver­si­ties from de­vel­op­ing and tran­si­tions coun­tries. IZB car­ries out re­search on how to make North-​South part­ner­ships suc­cess­ful so that uni­ver­si­ties of teacher ed­u­ca­tion in both re­gions can achieve their aims with re­gard to in­ter­na­tion­al­i­sa­tion, global learn­ing and in­ter­cul­tural ed­u­ca­tion.This in­cludes sys­tem­atic re­flec­tion on the spe­cific as­pects, op­por­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges in part­ner­ships with uni­ver­si­ties from the global South com­pared to part­ner­ships with uni­ver­si­ties in the global North.On be­half of PH Zug, IZB is im­ple­ment­ing PH Zug’s part­ner­ship with South East Eu­ro­pean Uni­ver­sity in Tetovo, Mace­do­nia thus guar­an­tee­ing that dif­fer­ent areas of ac­tiv­ity are in­cluded in the part­ner­ship.