27 Aug 2025 Little Climate Warriors: Pakistani Girls Fight Against Climate Change
Pakistani teacher Nouman witnessed how climate change affects the lives of communities, especially girls. With his project Climate Class Connection, he builds climate resilience in Pakistan from the classroom, with girls at the forefront as Little Climate Warriors.
26 Jun 2025 From Ghent to Kampong Cham: COIL project as a driver for better education
In autumn 2024, students from primary teacher training courses in Belgium and Cambodia met as part of a COIL project. The project gives students the opportunity to develop intercultural skills without having to take a flight abroad. “Internationalisation changes your perspective and gives you a better idea of the kind of teacher you want to become", says teacher trainer Phannha.
24 Mar 2025 A week of exchanges on parental involvement with Cleopatra
In 2024, her visit unfortunately couldn't take place, but this year we had the honour of welcoming Cleopatra Muma Chona from Zambia Open Community Schools (ZOCS) for a week at eNSPIRED. The jam-packed schedule included a conference in Rotterdam, a school visit in Aalst, and a hybrid webinar at the VVOB office in Brussels. Cleopatra's visit gave us the opportunity to reflect on the global challenges in education. But even more importantly, it reignited our energy to dream of a sustainable school environment where parents and teachers work together to take charge.
05 Feb 2025 Chilipo Gunda: "Without Ubuntu, we forget what truly makes us human."
How do you ensure that education is not just focused on knowledge, but also fosters a sense of community and global citizenship? Chilipo Gunda, Senior Teacher at Saint Andrews International High School (SAIntS) in Malawi, advocates for an approach grounded in the African philosophy of Ubuntu.
26 Jun 2024 eduSHARE from Rwanda | School debates to improve language proficiency
Rüth Tack and Grieke Terryn, final-year students at VIVES University of Applied Sciences, completed an internship at a primary school in Masaka, Rwanda. This school teaches learners from the first year in four languages: Kinyarwanda, Swahili, English, and French. However, the teachers noticed that the learners struggled to speak these languages fluently. Therefore, the headteacher introduced the subject of ‘debate’.
26 Jun 2024 eduSHARE from Suriname | Sound gestures
In Suriname, young children are introduced to the letters of the alphabet through sounds and sound gestures. This approach surprised and inspired Merel Homblé and Lotte Tack, two education students from VIVES University of Applied Sciences, during their international internship.
26 Jun 2024 eduSHARE from Suriname | The Flag Parade as a sign of unity
Pauline Van Belegem and Vere Bevernage, two final-year students in the Bachelor's programme for primary education at VIVES University of Applied Sciences, completed an internship at a primary school in Suriname in the spring of 2024. During their internship, they participated several times in the 'Flag Parade' and witnessed its positive impact on the students. They decided to further explore this topic as part of their eduSHARE project.
18 Jun 2024 In-Depth Insights from Professor Angela James of South Africa
In-Depth Insights from Professor Angela James of South Africa: Climate Education and Community Involvement
04 Jul 2023 eduSHARE from South Africa | Home language in the classroom
In 2023, Barbara Vauterin and Lisa-Marie Deman, two final-year students of the Bachelor of Primary Education at VIVES University of Applied Sciences, went to Durban in South Africa. They did a three-month internship at Mthombeni Primary School. During this international internship, we asked them to identify inspiring or interesting educational practices that can be used in teacher training in Flanders. For this purpose, they used the eduSHARE flow.
06 Jun 2023 eduSHARE from Rwanda | Girls in technical education
This eduSHARE was developed by Lise Delbeke and Febe Deschrevel, two final-year students of the educational bachelor of secondary education mathematics and economics at VIVES University of Applied Sciences. During their internship at a secondary school in Rwanda, they interviewed four students about how to get girls more interested in technical education.
20 Feb 2023 Planetary citizenship: a more holistic and inclusive approach
eNSPIRED spoke to Silvia Elisabeth Moraes. She works at the Faculty of Education of the Universidade Federal do Ceará in Brazil and is currently supervising an interdisciplinary project on planetary citizenship in the curriculum of a Brazilian university. While you have probably heard of global citizenship, Silvia prefers to talk about planetary citizenship.
29 Oct 2021 Publication | 8 years of eNSPIRED: an overview
In this publication, we are looking back at the achievements of the eNSPIRED programme over the past few years. Since 2014, we have been organising workshops, seminars and learning weeks for teacher trainers, educations advisers and (future) teachers with education experts from countries in Africa, Asia and South America. We have tried to include all the materials that have been developed. Read, watch, listen and make use of these resources. They are and will remain, at your disposal through our online channels.
26 Oct 2021 A Literature Review on Professional Learning Communities
Besides the inspiring practices, the webinar on PLCs shared key insights from a contemporary review of the empirical research on professional learning communities (PLCs) in twelve countries in Africa, Asia and South America.
25 Oct 2021 Professional learning communities: an online exchange
On 21 October 2021, eNSPIRED organised a webinar on professional learning communities (PLCs). During this webinar the results of an international review study were presented by Dong Nguyen and Ellen Boeren of Glasgow University. Nathalie Aziza from VVOB in Rwanda, Paul Mphisa from VVOB in South Africa and Brenda Akite Otika from STiR Education shared inspiring practical stories, each story focusing on a specific aspect of professional learning communities.
09 Jul 2021 Addressing issues through Professional Learning Communities in Rwanda
From 11 to 15 February 2019, sector educators with support from VVOB in Rwanda facilitated Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) of headteachers in 17 districts. The aim was to identify high priority issues and discuss a way forward.
07 Jul 2021 Professional Learning Communites: a success story from South Africa
The concept of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) as a means of teacher collaboration and professional development has proven its success in the Free State province, South Africa. After many officials and teachers were already familiar with the concept, more and more teachers are coming together in PLCs.
05 Jul 2021 Professional Learning Communities: a video series by VVOB in South Africa
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) are a way for teachers, school leaders and external experts from different schools to gather and have discussions with a facilitator about specific needs, common challenges and solutions that are established in the classroom. This way of school-based professional development is a form of lifelong learning and has proven to be very effective. To explain this concept, VVOB South Africa developed a series of five videos.
17 May 2021 How to deal with newcomers in education?
In spring 2021, Edu by KU Leuven and the Flemish Association for Teacher Educators (VELOV) organised a professionalisation project about acting ethically as a committed teacher trainer in an ethnically and culturally diverse society. Together with our colleague Abbas Kigozi from VVOB in Uganda, two teacher trainers from VIVES college put together a webinar on 'how to deal with newcomers in education?'.