IZB Institute for International Cooperation in Education
About IZB
The IZB gains its particular profile by linking four areas: research and development, development cooperation, teaching and mobility. The IZB devotes itself to the international exchange of educational matters; it applies its experience of many years in development cooperation and its knowledge of intercultural issues to educational projects in Switzerland and abroad.
The IZB considers development cooperation and interculturality in education to be the focus of its academic debate and service provision.
The IZB - your partner for
- Development Cooperation: identification, consultation, implementation and evaluation of development projects in education in transition and developing countries
- Research and Development: research projects in the area of professional development of teachers and in the area of interculturality; evaluation of education projects and programmes; development of research-based concepts and projects
- Teacher Education: basic and continuous training for teacher education in the subjects of educational development cooperation and interculturality
- International Exchange: mobility programmes for students, teaching staff and academic personnel with Swiss as well as foreign partner institutions