Founded in 1669, the Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck is the largest university in the western part of Austria with 16 Faculties of which the Faculty of teacher education is one. Located at a traditional north-south crossroads connecting Europe, we are oriented internationally while positioned locally and host 27.000 students. The Department of Subject-Specific Education was founded in 2012 and unites the subject-specific education of future teachers. It is divided into three sections: Science, Geography, Computer Science, and Mathematics Education; Language Education including English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish; History, Social Studies and Civic Education. All of them are characterised by a research- and theory-based approach to teaching which emphasises the importance of providing a scientifically and empirically substantiated education for specialised teachers at upper and lower secondary levels.
