What are Blended Intensive Programs?

"Blended Intensive Programs (BIPs) offer teachers and learners new and creative opportunities for international education collaboration and participation in jointly designed courses."

The international exchange is supported by the Erasmus+ program. For more information, please visit the International Office website.

Why should I do that?

Looking beyond your own nose! Insights into the education systems of other countries provide diverse impulses that the world does not have to be the way we perceive it so far! BIPs offer a unique opportunity to reflect on European education systems from early education to higher education in other countries in contrast to the familiar. Funding is available through the ERASMUS + program.

Who else is involved besides the University of Vechta?

Finland: https://karelia.fi/en/front-page/

Ireland: https://www.atu.ie/

Estonia: https://www.tlu.ee/en

What do I have to invest in terms of time?

The BIP can be studied integrated within the educational sciences or within the profiling area- Digital sessions are combined with a one-week exchange in a country of the Erasmus partnerships.

When does it start and where is it going?

The BIP | Early Childhood Education is offered each summer semester. The international exchange rotates between the partner universities. In the summer of 2024, an incoming exchange will take place at the University of Vechta. 

Impressions from the summer semester 2023 in Finland
Erasmus+ - Einblick in andere soziale Welten | Erziehung und Bildung in Finnland

Where can I get detailed information?

Dr.in Linda Wellmeyer / Prof.in Dr.in Anke König
linda.wellmeyer@uni-vechta.de

Further internationalization offers at the University of Vechta

In view of globalization, migration and multicultural educational institutions, dealing with heterogeneity in a pedagogically effective and sensitive way is an ever-increasing challenge and task for educators in their everyday professional life. The University of Vechta offers various internationalization programs to prepare future educators as early and as comprehensively as possible for a professional life increasingly characterized by diversity.

The MAPS project (International Mobility in the Master of Primary School Education - MAPS) primarily aims to establish structured mobility windows for prospective primary school teacher education students and to fully recognize study achievements abroad. This creates opportunities to acquire international, global and intercultural competencies in an otherwise predominantly nationally oriented degree program at the University of Vechta.

For more information on Project MAPS offerings, such as the international summer schools and study abroad mobilities, click here: https://www.uni-vechta.de/lehramtinternational-maps/ueber-das-projekt