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Education Group

Some things about us…

Facts & figures

• Based in Linz
• Founded in 2011
• Wholly owned subsidiary
• f the government of

Upper Austria

• 58 employees
• 4 departments & 5 staff units

Who we are…

• Centre for innovation in education with longtime expertise

in pedagogics, technology and media

Edugroup & projects

• Involvement in projects for the MoE, educational board of Upper

Austria, European Commission,…

• Projects focus on…
• … media in schools
• … science and technology
• … career orientation
• … tools for evaluation
• … and much more 

Edugroup and young refugees

• Subject portal on German as a second language

and intercultural learning

• More than 120 learning packages for gaining and improving basic

vocabulary including print materials, online exercises,…

• „Philou & Du“
• Materials for improving media and language competence (mostly

intended for younger children)

• Multilingual: German, English, Bosnian-Croatian-

Serbian, Romanian, Albanian, Turkish, Arabic

• Presentations & lectures
• n migration, refugees, interculturality,…

Wertekompass OÖ

• Guidelines for values education in kindergartens and schools
• Contents:
• Humanistic view of mankind
• Legal equality, tolerance, respect
• Personal freedom, responsibility, solidarity
• Maturity & democracy
• Stability of the law and rule-of-law state
• Willingness to learn and cultural encounters
• Man and nature

YouRNI – our hopes for the next 3 years 

• Close cooperation with representatives of countries who are

affected by the refugee situation

• Exchange of best practices in working with refugees and in using

tablets in education  new methodology

• Partners from Germany and Switzerland  DaZ-materials!
• Higher visibility of Edugroup‘s work
• Experiences and information/materials collected in the project can

be used to enhance the repositories we are providing to schools