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

Memberships

• AKS (Working Group of Language Centres at Universities)
• CercleS (The European Association of University Language Centres)
• FaDaF (German as a Foreign and Second Language Association)
• ^UNIcert®