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

Coming soon:
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.

GIMAGINE Award Illustration produced with getimg.ai

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.

© Goethe-Institut
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.

©Jayne Lloyd/Goethe-Institut London
Climate Neutral City – A Simulation Game

Teamwork, discussing, making decisions, negotiating and dealing with conflicts - Students learn all about these things and improve their communication skills in our simulation game Climate Neutral City. Available to play at your school or at the Goethe-Institut.

© Goethe-Institut
Enterprise German

This competition is designed for schools and universities and combines professional orientation with German language learning and economics.

© Jayne Lloyd
German Language Adventure

Would you like to offer a project day at your school where your students discover Germany and at the same time improve their German language skills?

Jane Beran © Goethe-Institut
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.

©Goethe-Institut

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!

Goethe Logo with students © Goethe-Institut London

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.

©Goethe-Institut London
Language assistants

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

© Jayne Lloyd

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.

A map of England with colorful pins. Image for illustration. © Unsplash / P. Marlow

German Expert Mentors (GEM) network

As part of the educational outreach programme GIMAGINE, the Goethe-Institut trains German teachers in a professional upskilling programme to become professional teaching coaches. GEMs (German Expert Mentors) will become part of a nationwide network of professionals, who share their expertise with colleagues. Schools will be able to request a GEM to visit their institution, increasing teaching resources as needed.

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.

© Goethe-Institut / Bettina Siegwart
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!

© Goethe-Institut
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.

© Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi