Its almost October and this blog has been sitting idle for a long time. Its a busy season now for the hotel and I am very happy that we have a group that reminds me of the two highlights of the current year: The Grundtvig Workshop I did myself in January and the wonderful meeting arranged by Renate Schnee in April

So the dream of a hotel that hosts living communities rather than simply isolated tourists becomes alive again and again, and it was just today that I visited Viennas Tourist Boards annual conference to hear that this is the next big trend after the wellness and design boom.

So to introduce the group that we are currently hosting, its called the Comenius Association, a network of 24 teacher training institutions from different European countries. They are hosted by the "kirchliche Pädagogische Hochschule" in Strebersdorf. They meet twice a year. In each autumn meeting they visit one of the member organisation, while the spring meeting is always in the Strassbuoug region (Klingenthal).




They use these meetings to organize a lot of projects, there are some lectures, but the meeting has manifold purposes. Besides the project organisation its also a good opportunity for getting acquainted with the partner organisation, their cultural backgrounds, the opportunities for student exchange in Erasmus programs. The focus of Comenius Association is to facilitate a host of different ways to share experience and internationalize teacher training.