University College of Teacher Education Vienna

The Vienna University of Teacher Education is a center for the professional education, further education and training of teachers as well as other pedagogical professions. Teacher training programs for the "Bachelor of Education" or "Master of Education" are offered in the areas of general and vocational education as well as in other pedagogical professions.

The University College of Teacher Education Vienna puts great effort into making the teaching profession its focal point. Education, Training and Continuing Professional Development, in conjunction with Research ensure that the demands of the teaching profession and other related educational professional fields are met in a sustained manner. These efforts require education to be based on educational science, teaching methodology, subject didactics and teaching practice. The exceptionally high strength of the University College of Teacher Education Vienna lies in the confluence of research-based educational competencies in all educational fields and across all age groups, which are strongly embedded in professional practice.

The University College of Teacher Education Vienna prides on successful cooperation and well-developed networks with all types of schools within the education region.
Considering that Teaching and Learning are fundamentally based on research, practice, personality-oriented professional development and sustained internationalization, current theories in education are being revisited in the light of diversity-focused development of potentials.

The outcomes reveal a dynamic relationship among Teaching, Research and Development in that they respond to the current demands and thereby directly shape the study program. The main goal in this process is to maximize the implementation potential of the outcomes in the field of educational practice. Occupation-related research focuses on increasing the quality of educational processes and their optimization for the benefit of schools.

Vienna is the capital and largest urban area in Austria, and is also one of the nine federal provinces in the country. It is Austria's main city; with a population of about 1.7 million (2.3 million within the metropolitan area), it is by far the largest city in Austria as well as its cultural, economic and political center. It is the 10th largest city by population in the European Union and was listed by Mercer Human Resource Consulting as having the 2nd highest quality of living (as of 2008). Vienna is host to many major international organizations such as the United Nations and OPEC. Vienna lies in the very east of Austria and is close to the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. In 2001, the city centre was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.