About
Across Borders Sweden
Education is key
The core concept behind Across Borders Sweden is that everyone has the capacity to learn, develop and contribute.
But most of the times we can't do this on our own, we need to get connected with other people who have a certain speciality or expertise in a specific area. It could be an expert, a teacher, a manager, a supervisor, a motivational speaker, a friend or basically anyone you feel you can connect with and learn from.
At Across Borders Sweden we will support you in the areas in which you need us the most. It could be from getting you connected with experts to being a friend offering well-informed advice.
Across Borders Sweden believes that helping people connect to learn from one another builds better societies.
The Person Behind Across Borders Sweden
I'm Anna-Karin Berg, originally a cert. language teacher in secondary - adult education since 2007.
Since I started working with the Erasmus+ programme in 2014, I realised that there were more ways of creating opportunities for the children and youngsters I met every day.
2018 I was hired to manage an Erasmus+ consortium of then 12 upper secondary schools. The consortium grew and the needs and solutions grew with it.
It became my main motivation to make the schools as independent as possible in working with education, the Erasmus+ programme and the horizontal priorities.
I created tools, methods and strategies for capacity-building and a sign of this accomplishment is that we were able to complete 200 mobilities/ year to nearly 1000 mobilities/ year in 5 years, both as a sending and receiving organisation.
I would describe myself as a pragmatic idealist. In my work as an educator and international projects manager, I constantly strive to find the most efficient ways to reach most impact.
They key concepts that shape my work is facilitiation, communication and accessibility.
"My passion is learning and I want others to find that joy and empowerment that only learning can bring. To experience that moment when a child or an adult realise that they CAN instead of CAN'T, is truly awesome. That very moment means they have taken another step forward in feeling more confident and understanding that they can affect their future. Then the next step to contributing to a better future for EVERYONE, is smaller. "
2018 - ongoing
- Strategic & operational creator and manager for Erasmus+ mobility implementation and Erasmus+ horizontal priorities.
- Erasmus+ & international liaison officer in education
- Coordinator of Erasmus+ accredited consortium since 2020, 30 upper secondary schools
- In-house competence training of staff
- Event manager Erasmus+ training & dissemination activities, online and physical
- Manager incoming mobilities, staff & learners
2013 - 2019
- Deputy Principal, Plusgymnasiet, Malmö, Sweden
- Lead teacher - Educational development and collegial collaboration
- Cert. English & Spanish teacher, Drottning Blankas Gymnasieskola Malmö Söderport, Sweden
2007 - 2013
- English & Spanish Teacher, Munkhätteskolan, Secondary School, Malmö, Sweden
- Project initiator & manager Language Café - collaboration Malmö University, International
programme
- Project initiator & manager - Youth wellness programme - Collaboration with local NGOs to
empower children in underprivileged areas
Other experiences & achievements
2024 Staff training/course developer: Compensatory Education, AcadeMedia
2021 Winner Innovator of the year, Staff support, AcadeMedia
2021 Creator & Host International talkshow for & with teachers: Blanka Talks
2020 Co-creator & Host Global Learning Day, AcadeMedia
Education
2001-2006 Master in Education, Malmö & Lund University, Sweden.
Cert. language teacher secondary - adult education: English & Spanish
Other Courses & Training
2024 In-house training AI in education, AcadeMedia (online)
2023 In-house training Conrab Opto, AcadeMedia (online)
2022 Mentorship programme for leaders, Academedia, Stockholm, Sweden
2020 EU-school ambassadorship programme for school leaders, National Agency of Education, Sweden
2019 Erasmus+ TCA Beyond Mobility: Internationalisation strategies for VET institutions, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
2018 Erasmus+ TCA VET staff connected: Enhancing VET provision through European Staff Mobility, Malahide, Ireland
Erasmus+ TCA S2S Long-term Study Mobility, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
2017 Erasmus+ TCA S2S partnerships- how to plan an excellent partnership, Warsaw, Poland
2016 Erasmus+ VET project initiation and reporting, National Agency of Education, Stockholm, Sweden
2015 Erasmus+ TCA European shared strategies for reducing the occurrence of NEETS, Naples, Italy
2014 Erasmus+ TCA Inclusive Growth, Sliema, Malta
2014 Atlas programme - National Agency of Education, Hässleholm, Sweden
2013 Advanced studies. Humanities, Lund University, Sweden
Digital Competence
Highly proficient in:
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Clipchamp
- Canva
- Europass Platform
- eTwinning Platform/ ESEP
- Zoom, Teams, Meet
Language Competence - CEFR levels
Native language:
Swedish
Other Languages:
English (C2- all skills)
Spanish (C2 reading, C1 listening, B2 speaking & writing)
French (B2 reading, B1 listening, A1 speaking & A2 writing)
Italian (B2, reading, B1 listening, A1 speaking & A2 writing)
