Mag. Dr. Stephan M. Schweighofer
Research Associate (PostDoc)
Erzabt-Klotz-Str. 1, 5020 Salzburg
Tel.: +43 662 8044 7370
E-Mail:
Web: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephan-schweighofer/
Consultation: with appointment, on- & offline.
Stephan M. Schweighofer is an Austrian educational scientist and pedagogue. His research interests are primarily in the fields of democracy education (including European citizenship education), global citizenship education and sociological values research. Methodologically, he belongs to the field of qualitative educational research, in which he specializes in participatory research and design thinking.
He has been a research assistant at the Department of Education at Paris Lodron University Salzburg since October 2021.Previously, Schweighofer worked as a lecturer at the Università Roma III in Rome, where he taught on the “Intercultural Communication” course. He studied German and Italian as a teacher at the University of Graz as well as in Florence and Coimbra and completed a postgraduate certificate course in International Relations and Diplomacy in Geneva.
In addition to his research activities, Stephan Schweighofer attaches great importance to third mission projects that link science and society. He is particularly interested in cooperation between schools and universities. In this context, he manages and supports various interdisciplinary education and democracy projects.
In addition to his teaching activities in pedagogical education (school and society, democracy education, lesson planning, etc.), he also teaches at the HTL Trenkwalderstraße in Innsbruck.
In 2023, he received the “Europastaatspreis” from the Austrian Federal Chancellery in the category “Europe in Education”. In 2024, he was honored with the “45 under 45” fellowship of the Lucerne Dialogue.
Fellowships:
- GLOCFUL – Global Competences and Furures Literacy 2022-2025
- Salzburg Global Seminar: Education Fellow 2023 – Focus: Democracy Education in the 21st Century
- ’45 under 45′ – Lucerne Dialogue 2024
- European Forum Alpbach 2022
Activities and projects (selection):
- Project Lead “Europakoffer”
- Science Ambassador for the OeAD
- Member of the Curriculum Commission for Secondary School Teacher Training
- Lectures and workshops on democracy education and European Citizenship education
- Lecturer “Legal Literacy Project”
- Reviewer for the “We are Europe” award (for outstanding theses at AHS and BHS, awarded by the Representation of the EU Commission, the Liaison Office of the EP and the BMBWF)
- Project Lead”Citizen Advice Project”
- Member of the interdisciplinary working group “European Integration” at the School of Education – University of Salzburg
