Situation in Cambodia -- Situation in Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka: Striving for educational innovation -- Digital Capacity Building in Teacher Education: A Case Study from Cambodia -- Child Friendly School Policy and the Requirements for Teaching -- Introduction to Train-the-Trainer -- The Role of Teacher Trainers from a Cross-national Perspective -- Impact of the CONTESSA Project on the Development of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) of Teacher Educators: The Case of Sri Lanka -- ICT Enabled Teacher Professional Development: Enriching primary teacher education towards preparing for 21st century education.

The anthology offers a distinctive perspective on a European Union-funded capacity-building initiative aimed at enhancing contemporary teaching competencies, with a specific emphasis on Sri Lanka and Cambodia. It discusses the augmentation of pedagogical skills and its consequential effects on both individual and societal levels. Furthermore, the anthology scrutinizes the collaborative efforts in international education, elucidating the strategies adopted to confront the challenges and leverage the opportunities encountered by higher education institutions. The Editor Dr. Sandra Hummel is an educational scientist at the University of Graz and a research group leader at the Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI) at Dresden University of Technology.