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International Language Week incl. Intercultural Communication

December 1 to 5, 2025 | Aschaffenburg, Germany

Under this year's motto “The Role of Global Citizenship for Foreign Language and Intercultural Education”, the ILW 2025 offers a suitable framework for further expanding existing cooperations and enabling new trans- and intercultural cooperations.

10th ILW in the university's 30th anniversary year

The International Language Week (ILW) is organised by the Language Centre and the Institute for Intercultural Communication at Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences. In addition to Aschaffenburg (Germany, 3x), previous ILW locations have included Taipei (Taiwan), Billings (Montana, USA), Seinäjoki (Finland), Athens (Greece), Porto (Portugal) and Turku (Finland).

Contents of the ILW

The week includes joint lectures, workshops and presentations and is aimed at lecturers and young academics whose subject areas and expertise can be integrated interdisciplinarily in the following areas, among others:

  • Global Citizenship and Language Learning: Integrating global citizenship education in foreign language curricula to promote critical thinking, empathy, and global awareness.
  • Sustainability and Language Education: Developing pedagogical approaches that link language learning to sustainability issues and environmental awareness.
  • Intercultural Competence for Sustainable Communities: Fostering intercultural understanding as a foundation for collaborative solutions to global challenges.
  • Curriculum Innovation: Designing language and culture programmes that emphasize ethical and sustainable global engagement, thus stipulating lifelong-learning.
  • Digital Technologies and Global Connectivity: Leveraging digital tools to support global communication, intercultural dialogue, and education for sustainability.
  • Ethical and Social Dimensions of Language Education: Addressing social justice, equity, and ethical considerations in fostering global citizenship.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development: Preparing educators to address global citizenship and sustainability in language teaching but also in English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) as well as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL).
  • Assessment for Global Competence and Sustainability: Evaluating learners’ progress in intercultural communication, sustainability awareness, and global citizenship skills.
  • Case Studies: Innovative practices and success stories in embedding global citizenship and sustainability in language and intercultural education contexts.

You are cordially invited to contribute innovative ideas, new methodological approaches and interdisciplinary concepts with your expertise. You can take part in joint courses and workshops by other participants as well as give lectures, hold workshops and offer courses to students yourself.

Contributions, including a short biography, can be submitted by e-mail to sprachenzentrum(at)th-ab.de by May 31, 2025.

Funding and participation fees

Within the framework of ERASMUS+, participants from European countries can be financed both through staff mobility for teaching (STA) and staff mobility for training (STT). The funding option via STA requires an ERASMUS+ agreement with the TH Aschaffenburg.

Please contact your International Office for advice on funding options via ERASMUS+.

Please refer to the above Call for Papers (coming soon) for details on submission and participation fees.

  • Aschaffenburger Schloss mit schneebedecktem Dach vor blauem Himmel
  • Blick vom Mainufer auf das gelbe Pompejanum-Gebäude im Schnee
  • Person läuft auf schneebedecktem Weg am Main auf einen Baum zu, im Hintergrund das Pompejanum
  • Schräger Blick auf das Aschaffenburger Schloss mit schneebedecktem Dach und Büschen vor leicht bewölktem Himmel