Froebel College of Education

Coláiste Oideachais Froebel

Student Exchange Programs

We offer Student Exchange Programs such as North / South, Erasmus and the Kolkata (Calcutta) Project

Kolkata Project

Froebel College of Education and HOPE Foundation Teacher Education Partnership

The Partnership will give 30 newly qualified teachers (NQT) an opportunity to work in educational settings assisting HOPE teachers and care workers with street children and orphans in Kolkata, West Bengal, India for the month of June. NQTs will raise all their own costs through fund-raising.

Socrates-Erasmus Programme

Socrates-Erasmus Pogramme for Student Mobility

The Socrates / Erasmus programme facilitates staff and student mobility between European countries within the EU and the EEA. Froebel College currently has exchange agreements with 17 Teacher Education Colleges across Europe.

Froebel College is a member of the Kastalia network of European institutions of primary and secondary teacher education, which enables student exchange with the following institutions:

  • Katkolieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
  • Kardinaal van Roey Instituut, Voreselaar, Belgium
  • Kobenhavns Dag-og-Aftenseminarium, Skovlunde, Denmark
  • University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland
  • IUFM Mid-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France
  • Universitat Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany
  • University of Athens, Athens, Greece
  • University of Crete, Rethymnon
  • Liepajas Pedagogijas Academija, Liepaja
  • University of Malta, Malta
  • HRO, University of Professional Education, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Instituto Politechno de Beja, Beja, Portugal
  • Escuela Universita de Educacion en Soria, Soria, Spain
  • Hogskolan, Gavle, Sweden

More information about the Kastalia network and the partner insitutions can be found at http://www.edu.joensuu.fi/kastalia/default.htm

Froebel College also has current bilateral agreements for staff and student exchange with the University of Tallinn, Estonia and the Freiburg University of Education, Germany.

Please contact the Froebel College International Officer for more information regarding the Erasmus programme:

Fiona Nic Fhionnlaoich
Email: fiona.nicfhionnlaoich@froebel.ie

Telephone: +353 1 2888520