Austria

Verband Österreichischer Volkshochschulen

VÖH is the umbrella association of nine regional adult education associations in Austria. It offers service and expertise to its member organisations, approx. 270 adult education centres all over Austria.
For more information click here www.vhs.or.at

These centres offer a variety of subjects from IT to personal and social competences. Languages are the most popular and most frequently taught subjects. Infact, you can learn more than 60 different languages at Austrian Volkshochschulen! Focus is laid on the compentence of the trainers, transparency and quality of the courses as well as new methods such as the work with the European Language Portfolio or forms of blended learning.

Contact: Elisabeth Bogenreiter-Feigl
Head of languages

Weintraubengasse 13
A - 1020 WIEN
Tel: +43-1-216 42 26 / -17
Tel (Zentrale): +43-1-216 42 260
Fax: +43-1-214 38 91
E-mail: e.bogenreiter-feigl@vhs.or.at

Center für berufsbezogene Sprachen

Center for Vocationally oriented Language Learning is an Austrian national ministry institution with the commitment of coordinating, planning and servicing in-service training for foreign language teachers at Upper Secondary level in the Vocational and Technical Sectors. As an advisor to national curriculum design committees it is the national switchboard for „language education and the business world“ and a catalyst to national and European education policies and initiatives. CEBS facilitates international teacher exchange and teacher education projects. It serves as the Ministry‘s examination centre for international language exams. CEBS also provides an in-service teacher development course portfolio that is based on teacher demand and institutional development needs provides.

For more information, please click here www.cebs.at

Contact: Franz Mittendorfer
Head of the English Department

Pädagogisches Institut Salzburg
Erzabt-Klotz-Str. 11
A – 5020 Salzburg
Tel / Fax: +43 65 82 76 307
E-mail: franz.mittendorfer@cebs.at