PILOTS (Partnerschaften International im Lehramt durch Online-Tandem-Seminare) is a programme promoting and optimising international collaborations between universities. As one of the projects of the Centre for Teacher Training and Education Research (ZLB), PILOTS aims at fostering intercultural sensibilities of future teachers. Our project is in line with the guidelines of the partner project IDEASExternal link (Experiencing Interculturality and Diversity by Studying Abroad), funded by the DAAD and BMBF and developing increased collaboration with partner universities abroad.
Starting in October 2022, PILOTS organises, accompanies, and examines international co-teaching seminars. PILOTS aims at realizing joint seminars with students and instructors of Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and partners at international universities to integrate intercultural experiences as a part of teacher education. In international collaborative seminars dealing with topics of global importance – such as climate change, multicultural societies, migration and language diversity – students work in bi- and multinational groups discussing matters of future relevance.
PILOTS matches international instructors with a view to the classes’ topics, integrates different curricula, and supports course organisation, planning the sessions as well as implementing them. In addition, the seminars will be analysed based on pedagogic, methodological, and intercultural aspects. Advantages for participants include the opportunity to network on an international level, experiencing innovative teaching and learning formats, intercultural exchanges, and changes of perspective. The courses offer benefits for each participant’s personal and professional development.
Furthermore, PILOTS will issue a certificate of participation for both students and instructors. The project will publish a digital handbook illustrating prerequisites for the success of international digital collaborations. The handbook will be accessible online.
Please do not hesitate to contact our project coordinator Alexandra Funk if you have any queries or are interested in participating or planning an online tandem seminar: alexandra.funk@uni-jena.de
Collaborations:
Summer term 2022: Ficciones economicas: el desafió de narrar la economía argentina zum VorlesungsverzeichnisExternal link
Winter term 2022/2023: Violencias y literaturas. Narrar las violencias con y desde la ficción en América Latina
Lecturers:
Prof. Claudia Hammerschmidt (Literaturary Studies of Romance Languages, Jena)
Dr. Luciana Anapios (Interdisciplinaria de altos estudios sociales, UNSAM)
Dr. Evangelina Caravaca (Interdisciplinaria de altos estudios sociales, UNSAM)
Violeta Dikenstein (Interdisciplinaria de altos estudios sociales, UNSAM)
Dr. José Garriga Zucal (Interdisciplinaria de altos estudios sociales, UNSAM)
Dr. Ariel Wilkis (Interdisciplinaria de altos estudios sociales, UNSAM)
Lecturers:
Dr. Jorge Peña (Department of Romance Languages, Jena)
Pablo Heraldo González Martínez (Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, UChile)
Collaborations:
Winter term 2022/2023: “Reportando desde Los Mayamis” - Literaturas del Caribe
Lecturers:
Jena
Juan Felipe Castro Maldonado (Literaturary Studies of Romance Languages, Jena)
Dr. Catarina von Wedemeyer (Literaturary Studies of Romance Languages, Jena)
Kuba
Felix Zühlsdorf (DAAD-Lecturer in Department of German as a Foreign Language in Cuba)
Collaboration:
Winter term 2022/2023: Campus Europa - Interkulturelle Kommunikation (EC2U)
Lecturers:
Dr. Jens Grimstein (Sprachenzentrum, German as a Foreign Language, Jena)
Dr. Iwa Mindadze (Department of Psychology and Educational Research, Tbilisi)
Collaboration:
Winter term 2022/2023: Einführung in die Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (Introduction to Literature for young people)
Lecturers:
Dr. Sandra Kerschbaumer (Department for Germanic Literary Studies, Jena)
Dr. Kristina Kocyba (Department for Germanic Literary Studies and Culture, Budapest)
Collaboration:
Summer term 2022: Diversity and multiculturalism as part of the civic education process zum VorlesungsverzeichnisExternal link
Lecturers:
Prof. Laurenz Volkmann (Department of English Didactics, Jena)
Dr. Aviv Cohen (The Seymour Fox School of Education, HUJI)
Seminarkollaboration:
Wintersemester 2022/2023: La adquisición del léxico en la clase de ELE
Dozierende:
Felix Röhricht (Didactics of Romance Languages, Jena)
Dr. Eva María Villar Secanella (Departamento de Didácticas Específicas, Zaragoza)
Collaboration:
Sommersemester 2022: Einführung in die kontrastive Linguistik zum VorlesungsverzeichnisExternal link (Introduction to contrastive linguistics)
Wintersemester 2022/2023: Einführung in die kontrastive Linguistik (Introduction to contrastive linguistics)
Dozierende:
Dr. Nimet Tan (Department of German as a Foreign Language, Jena)
Prof. Anastasia Senyildiz (Didactics of Foreign Languages, Uludag)
Collaboration:
Sommersemester 2022: Climate Crisis: Teaching Fiction and Philosophy at the End of the World: The Sequel zum VorlesungsverzeichnisExternal link
Lecturers:
Prof. Laurenz Volkmann (English Didactics, Jena)
Prof. Hedwig Fraunhofer (Department of World Languages & Cultures, GCSU)
Alexandra Funk
Research member
Chair for English Didactics
E-Mail: alexandra.funk@uni-jena.de
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Centre for Teacher Training and Education Research
Semmelweisstr. 12
07743 Jena
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Lukas Eibensteiner
Chair for Didactics of Romance Languages
Tel.: +49 3641 9-44690
E-Mail: lukas.eibensteiner@uni-jena.de
Room 405
Ernst-Abbe-Platz 8
07743 Jena
Prof. Dr. Laurenz Volkmann
Chair for English Didactics
Tel.: +49 3641 9-44590
E-Mail: l.volk@uni-jena.de
Room 614
Ernst-Abbe-Platz 8
07743 Jena
