International Summer School in Weingarten (Baden-Würtenberg, Germany) took place from June 26th to July 1st. The school arrangement was part of the ERASMUS+ project ‘University Cooperation and Experimental ‘University Schools’ supported by the European Commission since 2015.

 During the week’s activities, participants form seven nations (Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, England, Scotland) dealt with the questions of defining the essence of teacher professionalism in the context of national and European culture from the viewpoint of various subjects of teaching-learning process who jointly found solutions to specific teaching tasks (teacher-students, teachers and trainers from schools and universities).

 Each group of the participants had to make presentations listing the suggested criteria for defining the professionalism for the corresponding group of the process of teaching-learning, forms of professionalism realization and competence, methods and instruments of evaluating the fact and the level of development of professionalism for subjects of teaching-learning relations.

Each day the national teams took part in smaller round table discussions and the common general discussion, developed practical advice on implementing various model of university and school cooperation with the view of the national peculiarities of countries-participants of the projects.

 The goal of the meeting was to work out common standards in defining the content of the ‘professionalism’ category, to evaluate its effectiveness and to contribute to the development of the common European model of ideal teacher, taking into consideration both formal criteria, such as value approaches, and the setting up of universal cooperation models of the ‘university-school’ type.

 The participants meeting in the summer school format with members from university management, teachers and trainers from schools and universities, university students, was an effective and significant meeting.

 Penza State University team included the O.P. Surina, Director of the Institute of Teacher Training, N.A. Pavlova, head of the ‘Foreign Languages’ department, E.Yu. Tymchenko, headmaster of Penza Gymnasium № 13, V.Yu. Myagkova and E.V. Makarova, teachers and trainers of the ‘Foreign Languages and Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages’, E. Yuskaeva and P. Teshina, student teachers.