Eekhout Academy International

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Getting in touch with international colleagues helps you to expand your horizon. A study visit or international course enables you to approach educational

Geschiedenis

Eekhout Academy is a national and international in-service training (IST) organization for schools, center for adult education, school management, principals, teachers, educators and school governors, based in Flanders, Belgium.
It is a non-public and non-profit body that is recognized and certified by the State through the Flemish Ministry of Education. The organization is independent and non-political.
The Board of Governors is composed out of representatives of the University of Leuven (campus KULAK), the University College VIVES, the advisory body KOV and regional centres for adult education.

On national level, Eekhout Academy is the market leader in in Flanders and Belgium and organizes yearly about 950 courses for 21.500 participants.
On international level, it’s the largest Belgian IST-provider. Eekhout Academy acts as KA1 course provider, partner and coordinator in European (KA2) partnerships and assessor of quality development in international projects. It also coaches schools in the development of their international policy.

Eekhout Academy disseminates and implements educational innovation and has a structured cooperation with the University Leuven and University Colleges offering initial teacher training. We have a close collaboration with the National Agency in Flanders, take part in an international network of IST-providers and have bilateral contacts with other European in-service training organizations. We used to be active in Socrates, Lifelong Learning and now are participating in the Erasmusplus programme.

The quality system of Eekhout Academy is based on the EFQM-system. Our international courses are covered by the Quality Charter that is derived from the GINCO-network (Grundtvig International Network of Course Organizers).