For Schools

For schools, GIMAGINE offers exciting projects to motivate students, provides tangible resources and materials, and can provide teaching services to schools who face an HR shortage.

Educational Events and Activities

The GIMAGINE Award for young German learners

The Gimagine Award is a highly engaging, innovative self-learning platform for young learners (14 – 18 years of age), equipping them with beginner German skills and current global knowledge about a broad range of topics. Learners will collect points that lead to the “GIMAGINE Award Certificate” – an official certificate stating their achievements.

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Career Roadshow UK

Our UK-wide career roadshows offer students a multi-faceted program that provides insight into the relevance of German in professional life.

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Register now and submit your entries until 15th June 2025
Enterprise German Competition

Enterprise German (“Unternehmen Deutsch”) combines aspects of German, economics, and professional orientation with a motivating competition. School classes from secondary schools in the UK and university students who deal with the topic of career orientation in the classroom can participate, if their teacher or professor registers a participating group.

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Our German Clubs with interactive starter-kits for teachers

German Club Starter Kits will include a German Club Handbook (digital or hardcopy) for club leaders, gamified learning challenges, badges, and awards for students, with different learning routes according to students' ages. Previous knowledge of German is neither necessary for students nor teachers. We further offer comprehensive professional training and incentive trips for teachers and heads who start up a club. We can also help set up a club directly at your school!

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German Days

The Goethe-Institut up close: provide your students with a direct and personal look into the German language and culture. We would be delighted to welcome your school groups to the Goethe-Institut London or the Goethe-Institut Glasgow.

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Business Lunch

Meet inspiring German speakers from the world of work and discover different career paths with German

The business lunch series is a series of online live conversations with different people from the world of work whose careers have been shaped by learning German.
Workshops for school groups

Here we present and document motivational in-person workshops with authors and other German celebrities for young learners and school groups.

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Apply now by October 19th
Debating Competition

The successful debating competition for secondary schools in the United Kingdom is finally returning! This is a great opportunity for students to actively use the German language in an authentic setting, debating social and cultural issues, while getting to know other secondary school students from across the United Kingdom.

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CAREER WITH GERMAN

German makes the difference! Knowing German significantly increases your chances of finding a good job: not only internationally, on the large German-speaking labour market, but also here in the United Kingdom. We have put together a wide range of learning programmes for young German learners on the subject of German and work.

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Young Goethe Scheme

Invite university and A-Level/Highers students of German into your primary or secondary classrooms to inspire and motivate younger students to learn or continue with German!

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Support for schools

Vorsprung Deutsch

Is your German Department facing a short-term HR shortage? With Vorsprung Deutsch, the Goethe-Institut can step in until your department has got back on its feet again.

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Language assistants

Language assistants are an additional teaching resource for you in the classroom.

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German Expert Mentors (GEM) network

Our German Expert Mentors (GEMs) Network delivers support to German departments and professional upskilling to German teachers in schools across England. Part of a nationwide network, our GEMs will coach and mentor language-teaching professionals, supply updated teaching resources and materials, and re-energise language learning with free-of-charge, bespoke offers that can be tailored to individual needs upon request.

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Language Hub Schools

The National Consortium for Languages Education (NCLE) has selected and announced the first Language Hubs. Schools across England will act as hubs to promote language learning.

German for your classroom

German cinema for your classroom

We have a number of great German movies available to rent from us in your German classroom. All movies are in German with English subtitles.

© Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion (München)
Advertising Kits

Order standardized advertising kits: infomational brochures, printed material to help grow your German program, fun items to decorate your classroom or small prizes to motivate your students.

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Poster exhibitions

Do you want to bring topics to life in your German classroom? Then borrow a poster exhibition free of charge from your nearest Goethe-Institut!

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Deutschstunde
Your portal to German teaching materials

Deutschstunde is the portal for teaching materials of German as a foreign language, advanced training and the "Magazin Sprache". Contact with other teachers via local communities is just a few clicks away.

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