The European project ITTS International Teachers for Tomorrow’s School – System Change as an Occasion for Intercultural School Development and Mutual Learning aims to support the professional re-integration of international teachers and teachers with a refugee background.

Cultural diversity is an essential feature of school landscapes all across Europe, but the professional re-integration of international teachers, including refugee teachers, is fraught with many challenges. ITTS wants to support international teachers in a strength-oriented way and to enable schools to integrate new colleagues in the sense of an intercultural opening of schools.

• International teachers are strengthened through resource-oriented approaches.
• International teachers, mentors and school administrators are able to critically reflect on their ideas of school normality and to derive changes in everyday practices.
• The thematic concerns of the project are anchored in formats of teacher training and further education.
• A country analysis and materials for various target groups will be developed.

Institutions of seven countries are working together in ITTS:

• KU Leuven, Belgium
• Bielefeld University, Germany
• University of the Aegean, Greece
• Intercultural Iceland, Iceland
• Pomeranian University Slupsk, Poland
• University of Maribor, Slovenia
• İzmir University of Economics, Turkey