The Center for Transdisciplinary Continuing Education Research conducts teaching and research activities in the field of empirical educational research. From an educational science perspective, we focus on

  • the basic prerequisites of learning skills,
  • the participation in educational processes along the entire life span and
  • the conception of a coherent educational management.

The Center for Transdisciplinary Continuing Education Research works in cooperation with technical sciences (educational technologies and architecture), health (evidence-based medicine) and psychology, on the issues of digitalization of education, learning environment and space, cognitive, motivational, and emotional prerequisites of learning, benefits of learning, language development and dementia prevention.

Together with other educational professions, we communicate and transfer our findings of international and national projects to continuing education and the relevant educational sectors, and at the same time, we design and create participatory and innovative solutions (Real World Laboratories) for educational challenges.

Activities of our centre:

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Societal Impact
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Call for Papers- Der pädagogische Blick

Der pädagogische Blick

Special Issue on the Role of Education in Social Inclusion of Refugees and
Migrants
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue on the role of education in social inclusion of refugees. The issue will focus on exploring the current and innovative ways in which education (formal, non-formal and informal) can support refugees in their social integration, and the challenges and opportunities in this field. We welcome papers that examine the impact of adult education on the social integration of refugees, as well as papers that explore innovative approaches to adult education for refugees.

Special issue on the role of Education in Social Inclusion
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26
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2023

NICE Academy will take place this year in Liepaja, Latvia, August 23-26, 2023August

Career planning for individuals can be hampered by a variety of personal, health, social, cultural, economic, environmental, and political factors, as well as the multicultural context of society. The role of a career practitioner is to develop and/or select and employ appropriate approaches and methods to reduce the impact of risk factors and thus support the realization of the potential of individuals. This task becomes increasingly complex, as individuals often face multiple challenges exacerbated by larger systemic upheavals.

27/07/2023

2. Transdisciplinary Dialogue

Education and health are two sides of the same coin for life expectancy (Lutz/Kebede 2018 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/padr.12141). The decisive factor here is a careful and preventive start to formal learning. This topic, at first glance distant from adult education, was addressed by the second Transdisciplinary Dialogue Adult Education of the Center for Transdisciplinary Continuing Education Research in the Department of Continuing Education Research and Educational Management at the University of Continuing Education Krems. Basically, learning in early childhood is done through play, according to Serap Sevimli-Celik. Play, if given space, generates learning and well-being as if by itself. The fact that body-oriented and play-based forms of learning should also be used in a science-based, goal-oriented manner, for example to build mathematical imagination, was vividly illustrated and tried out in the practical workshop the next day.

Visiting Professorship

 

Dr.in Bettina Thöne-Geyer is a researcher at the German Institute for Adult Education - Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning (DIE) in Bonn. The institute, which is funded by the federal government and the federal states, conducts research on questions of adult learning and teaching, continuing education programmes, continuing education institutions and the political and institutional context of lifelong learning. Bettina Thöne-Geyer's academic activities focus on adult learning with its preconditions, forms and consequences. In recent years, Bettina Thöne-Geyer has conducted research primarily on continuing vocational education and training at adult education centers, literacy and basic education in the European context, and the benefits of participation in general adult education.

In addition to research stays in the USA on the topic of vocational and career guidance (Universities of Berkely and Walnut Creek), Bettina Thöne-Geyer was a lecturer at the Universities of Duisburg-Essen, Bremen, Wuppertal and Krems. Bettina Thöne-Geyer is currently researching the topic of "Education in old age and education for ageing" at the "Organisation and Programme Research" department in the DIE.

She has strengthened teaching in the Department of Continuing Education Research and Educational Technologies with her research topics and made valuable contributions to colloquia relevant to the PhD "Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning" (in accreditation) and the "Series of transdisciplinary Dialogues on Continuing Education Research".

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APPEAR - LLC-EduKos Setup a Learning-along-lifespan Community Center in Pristina

Errichtung eines Gemeinwesenzentrums für lebensbegleitendes Lernen in Pristina: Aufbauend auf forschungsgeleitete Frühkindliche Bildung in Reallaboren vertikale und horizontale Grenzen überwinden! Das Projekt befasst sich mit der Einordnung von aktuellen Trends und der Bedeutung von frühkindlicher Bildung im Übergang in die Grundschulen im Kosovo.

New Approaches for Inclusive Informal Learning Spaces

NIILS explores how informal and non-conventional learning spaces are used in higher education, in different countries and regions. Recommendations and guidelines for users are developed to promote inclusive informal learning environments that are conducive to learning and well-being.

LLCC-EduKos Preparatory Funding Project has started with a virtual Kick-off Meeting

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LLCC-EduKos stands for “Setup a Learning-along-lifespan Community Center in Pristina: Researched based early childhood education with living labs across vertical and horizontal borders”.  

The Kick-off Meeting was a great interactive start, and we are looking forward to our joint cooperation.

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The project partners University for Continuing Education Krems and AAB College, Pristina met on 18th February 2022 in the virtual Kick-off Meeting to discuss the administrative and financial details as well as the next steps to reach the project goals. The starting point was already the joined submission of a Symposium “Building up Lifelong Learning Competence in a Standardised, Culturally Sensitive and Socially Inclusive Way within the Framework of Educational Management”  in Organizational Education for the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) together with researchers of the University of Marburg in Yerevan in August 2022 to present the methodology and needs assessment to a wide international audience.

Societal Impact

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2023

Transdisciplinary dialogue on continuing education

Education and health are two sides of the same coin for the life expectancy. Completed years of schooling are globally proven to be a kind of sustainable key to be able to unlock the gates of knowledge along the lifespan again and again and to achieve changes that affect health actions (Lutz & Kebede 2018). Adult education then helps to maintain, even realign and positively change educational attainment (Benefits of Lifelong Learning, BeLL, see link to 1st dialogue). International medical-based research (especially the FINGER study) proves that continuing education can also succeed in older adulthood with a mix of nutritional counselling, exercise, and cognitive training to prevent or postpone the development of dementia.

09/05/2022

First Transdisciplinary Dialogue Adult Education

Adult education has an effect! - Under this motto, the newly founded Center for Transdisciplinary Continuing Education Research at the University of Continuing Education Krems (Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Monika Kil and Ass.-Prof. Dr. Filiz Keser Aschenberger) and the Association of Austrian Adult Education Centers (Dr. Stefan Vater, Dr. Gerhard Bisovsky) presented the Austrian BeLL study on May 9, 2022.

14/04/2022

Sustainable structures for continuing education research in Kosovo

Within the framework of an application grant (OEAD/APPEAR), Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil.habil. Monika Kil and Mag. Sonja Brachtl, from the Department of Continuing Education Research and Educational Technologies, travelled to Pristina/Kosovo for four days.

Network

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NICE Academy will take place this year in Liepaja, Latvia, August 23-26, 2023August

Career planning for individuals can be hampered by a variety of personal, health, social, cultural, economic, environmental, and political factors, as well as the multicultural context of society. The role of a career practitioner is to develop and/or select and employ appropriate approaches and methods to reduce the impact of risk factors and thus support the realization of the potential of individuals. This task becomes increasingly complex, as individuals often face multiple challenges exacerbated by larger systemic upheavals.

Cooperation partnership "Digital Educational Diagnostics" - Ensuring learning requirements along the lifespan!

Kooperations partnerDean and Department Head, Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Stefan Oppl, MBA; Univ.- Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Monika Kil and Managing Director LOGmedia, Volker Sassenberg

The Center for Transdisciplinary Continuing Education Research also works with the business community in cooperation with the disciplines of technical science (digitization and space), evidence-based medicine and psychology (cognitive, motivational and emotional learning requirements, language acquisition and dementia prevention). The focus of LOGmedia - Institute for Digital Education is on the production of professional therapy and diagnostic software for the support of children and adolescents. For example, by means of different LOGmedia software components, language levels, basic school skills and developmental progress can be transferred into an educational monitoring system.  A workshop on the practice of "kindergarten pedagogy" and "social work" was organized to present the educational innovations, piccoLOG and eduLOG, and the participants had the opportunity to gain insight into their usage. LOGmedia grants the UWK free use of its software components (incl. updates) for equipping the Center for Transdisciplinary Continuing Education Research. Thus, a cooperation partnership exists, which can also bring innovative educational technologies into the professional development through teaching and at the same time enables research.

 

07/11/2022

Establishing a sustainable cooperation on university continuing education research in Finland

In Novembe, a large delegation of the University Continuing Education Network Finland (UCEF) visited the UWK for three days. The Center for Transdisciplinary Continuing Education Research, together with the Finnish university continuing education experts, established an intensive exchange of ideas and experiences with the UWK, especially on study areas of interest - such as migration and globalization and psychotherapy - and the development of cooperation ideas for continuing education research.