News
myPad – mobile, cooperative Learning
25.04.12 / Media competence / School project
imedias, a support service for the integration of ICT into learning, is developing a pilote project on the use of iPads in the class room. With the help of 6 teachers and their classes they try to find out if it is worth while to further explore the use of iPads in the class room.
Swiss Nano-Cube wins „Best of 2012“ Award
20.04.12 / Award
The platform „Swiss Nano-Cube“, the Swiss portal on nanotechnology for vocational and grammar school, was awarded a „Best of 2012“ certificate in the category "e-learning" within the Innovation Prize IT 2012. It aims at awaking interest for technological and natural scientific topics among youth.
Swiss initiative on sexual education
17.04.12 / Educational politics
Following controversy over the degree and content of sexual education in primary schools, a people’s initiative on the issue has been launched. They argue that sexual education is the responsibility of parents and that the topic should not be introduced in school before the age of nine.
Join the Olympic Museum at Google's
10.04.12 / Educational website / Exposition
The Olympic Museum in Lausanne has become first partner of the Google Art Project in Switzerland. On your virtual tour around the museum you may enquire by mouse click on details like owner, artist, production date, etc. of one of the more than hundred works of art.
Agenda
International networking conference 2012
14.09.12 - 14.09.12 / Priora Business Center, Balz-Zimmermann-Strasse 7, 8302 Zürich-Kloten
Under the motto “Guidance in the context of internationalisation” the conference offers to education and careers advisors the opportunity to get impulses from experts, to share ideas and network with colleagues from around Europe in interactive workshops. The participation is free of charge.
Event languages: German, French, English
School Grades: Others vocational schools, 3rd cycle (7th to 9th school year), Post-compulsory schools
Application deadline: 31.07.12
The Swiss Exchange Congress 2012
15.11.12 - 16.11.12 / Gstaad
Continuing education / Conference
The Swiss Exchange Congress by the Foundation ch for federal co-operation is the continuing education and information platform on issues relating to exchanges for current and prospective teaching staff at all levels and for teachers at vocational colleges, for careers advisors as well as instructors at companies.
Event languages: German, French, Italian
School Grades: Compulsory school, Post-compulsory schools
