EPTE (European Primary Teacher Education) – an international study program
EPTE (European Primary Teacher Education- https://www.epteteacher.eu/) is a one semester study programme (30 ECTS) for primary teacher education students, offered yearly in one of the following cooperating partner institutions:
- Pädagogische Hochschule OÖ
- Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
- Univerzity Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, Nitra, Slovak Republic
- Univerza v Ljubljani, Pedagoška fakulteta, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Education, Jagodina
The EPTE curriculum strongly supports the idea of democracy and a European identity based on a sense of solidarity and interdependency and promotes the “European dimension in education”:
- EPTE-Students study in an internationally mixed student group (3-4 students from each involved partner institution)
- EPTE students experience intensive academic and cultural contrasts
- Each module is taught by a team of internationally mixed experts, each of them applying different teaching approaches according to their educational and cultural backgrounds
The next EPTE program will take place in summer term 2025 at the Faculty of Education University of Kragujevac, Serbia!
The study programme:
| No. | Course name | Study programme | Semester | No. of ECTS |
| 1. | Arts | EPTE (European Primary Teacher Education) | SS | 5 |
| 2. | Natural and Social Sciences | EPTE (European Primary Teacher Education) | SS | 5 |
| 3. | Mathematics | EPTE (European Primary Teacher Education) | SS | 5 |
| 4. | Plurilingual and Intercultural Education | EPTE (European Primary Teacher Education) | SS | 5 |
| 5. | Society, Culture and Education | EPTE (European Primary Teacher Education) | SS | 5 |
| 6. | Pedagogy and Didactics | EPTE (European Primary Teacher Education) | SS | 5 |