European Partnership for Teacher Training in Universities

Teacher education has a significant impact on teachers’ behaviors and teaching skills, and on the student outcomes. According to OECD Rapport (2010), the most effective way to raise educational quality is to modify initial teacher education and recruitment, and to develop new means to train teachers who are already in-service. Currently, teacher training around the world is part of higher education and, consequently, it is imperative to develop the synergies between pre-university, university and research levels according to the evolution concerning the teaching, learning and evaluation strategies. Universities should be involved into the process of developing the entire educational system and of emphasizing the benefits of education for the society in general. Being an important provider of initial and continuous training, Romanian universities - through international projects funded by the European Social Fund - have rebuilt strong connections with pre-university institutions providing training for teachers and other categories of specialists in order to improve teaching methods and to exchange good practice. In this paper, we are interested in highlighting the impact of the Romanian - Danish partnership, at university level, in providing training programs in the context of European projects. Our conclusions prove that the institutions responsible with initial and continuing training for teachers should be more preoccupied in developing cooperation at international level for increasing the competencies in the field of educational sciences.