The main objective of these workshops was to offer promising future prospects for German teacher training at universities in India and Sri Lanka. The first workshop was a three-day training course on Dhoch3 (online module 9) for German teachers followed by a two-day exploratory workshop on qualification frameworks for German teacher training in India.

Dhoch3 Workshop: From 8 – 10 August, more than 30 professors and teachers of German Studies from 20 institutions all over India and Sri Lanka came together at IIT Bombay for a ‘Dhoch3 workshop’ on Module 9 “Regional and Cultural Studies in German as Foreign Studies”. The Deputy Consul General in Mumbai, Christoph Rendtorff welcomed the participants with encouraging words.

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The workshop offered an opportunity to educators teaching ‘German as Foreign Language (GFL)’ to gain valuable resources in innovative teaching and practical know-how. Besides hands-on training imparted by experts from Germany the workshop enabled networking and exchange of ideas with the fellow participants. The workshop was a part of the Dhoch3 programme of DAAD which supports the education of future teachers of German at higher education institutions abroad with online study modules and an online learning platform.

DAAD-GI Exploratory Workshop: A joint initiative by the DAAD India and the Goethe-Institut India brought together Indian and German partner universities for a pilot project aimed at establishing qualification standards of German teacher training at Indian universities.