Projects and co-operations
On this page you will find information on internal and external co-operations & networks with various fields of Paderborn University and other institutions.
Projects
- AI tool competence for language learners and teachers (KITsl)
- Survey: "DeepL, chatGPT and Co. in foreign language learning" in May 2023
Internal university cooperations & networks
- ZSB (Central Student AdvisoryService ): Advice on language entry requirements, coordination of Aptitude tests, participation in events such as "Fit for Studying" and "Market of Opportunities")
- IO (International Office): Issuing DAAD language certificates, organising crash courses for outgoings, preTandem (eTandem project to prepare students for a semester abroad)
- PLAZ (Centre for Educational Research and Teacher Training): Recognition of the tandem course (formerly tandem programme) in the profile course Dealing with Heterogeneity, arranging internships at Swedish schools
- English/American Studies, Romance Studies, IBS Language Teaching: mutual information about programmes for language learners and teachers
- Educational Innovation and University Didactics Unit: STEMI (Support for teachers using English as a medium of instruction)
- Internal further education and training (organisation of language courses for employees)
- RTSP (Round Table on Language Policy)
- University sports: recognition of the"Strategy workshops" and"Language learning counselling" offers in the "My beneFIT" project health pass
- Recognition of voluntarily attended language courses at the ZfS as an extension of intercultural competence in the Paderborn University's vocational preparation certificate(upb+)
- Centre for Spelling Competence (orthografie@upb): propaedeutic workshops on spelling and grammar in German in preparation for the classical language courses
Co-operations within Germany
- Language Centre of the FAU Erlangen/Nuremberg: AKS-FOBIcert®
- ZFA (Centre for Foreign Language Training at the Ruhr University Bochum): Calibration projects for the comparability of UNIcert® examinations
- Participation in the extended board of the AKS, support of the exchange platform "AKS intern"
- Liborianum: AKS-FOBIcert® summer school; intensive courses to prepare for the "Latinum" and "Graecum" exams
- Project to develop precise descriptors for the evaluation of French with Bielefeld and Bochum
- Institute for Classical Philology, HU Berlin: Development of contemporary academic propaedeutic standards for ancient languages at the university
- Faculty of Theology: Organisation of ancient language courses.
International co-operations
- Svenska Institutet: financial support, e.g. for books and Swedish projects
- Instituto Cervantes for the DELE examinations
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotá, Spanish-German tandem project
- Various universities as part of the preTandem project
- Zurich Language Centre - exchange of workshops, opening of language cafés