Right from the start NSO committed itself to international cooperation. One of NSO’s missions is to ensure that school leaders have sufficient opportunities to develop and maintain effective leadership skills. Over the years NSO carried out a large number of projects to develop implement Programmes of Comprehensive Educational Leadership Trainings. These large scale projects are executed in collaboration with ministries of education, universities and educational management training agencies in countries such as: Hungary, Russia, Vietnam, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, South Africa, Belarus and Croatia.
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In these projects NSO experts in fields like Enhancing Learning/Teaching Environment, Quality Care, Strategic School Management, School Organisation, Leadership, Communication, Innovation and Change Management, Culture of Learning Organisations, Human Resource Management and Financial Management share their knowledge and competences with trainers and school principals in order to build complete Masters in Educational Leadership in their home country. In doing so NSO provides a podium and greenhouse to build up a tailor made Educational Leadership Training programme that suits and respects the educational system within the country.

At the moment a challenging 3-year project is running in alliance with associate institutes from Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania for 6 Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia) simultaneously.

The aim of the project is to develop curriculums for Comprehensive Educational Leadership Training and to institutionalize a national infrastructure in each country for executing and sustaining the courses.
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From September 2011 on, NSO will be one of the 23 European institutes to participate in the set up of an European Policy Network on School Leadership. The project is financed by the European Commission and lasts from 2011 - 2014. Peter Karstanje is a member of the 'Expert Group'. Huub Friederichs is the coordinator of a Focus-group discussion: 'Capacity Building on European Policy on School Leadership'.