Cosmopolitanism means for us, above all, that the pupils of our school have the opportunity of establishing personal contact with young people of the same age in other countries and can meet them and enter into an exchange with them. We consider this important because we are convinced that in future the ability to engage in peaceful cooperation in our global village will be rendered easier when the decision-makers of tomorrow have learned through practical experience to cooperate with each other beyond borders. Shared experience leads to the kind of mutual respect and regard for specific features that are indispensable in any process of peaceful cooperation.

In order to fulfil this principle, our school has been maintaining school partnerships with schools abroad for many years. Pupils from both sides are given the opportunity to visit the other country for two to three weeks. The focus is on familiarising each other with the customs and traditions of the host school and the host country. All exchanges are also part of our endeavours to promote political and intercultural education.

Until the interruption caused by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, we regularly organised student exchange programmes with the USA, France, Russia and China. We are making every effort to revive these programmes or supplement them with others. New exchange programmes are currently being set up with Turkey and Argentina. Our local exchange programme with the Japanese School in Munich takes place regularly in grades 5 and 6.

In addition to the traditional exchange of students we have also been involved in various cooperation projects together with suitable partners. Such activities are, as a rule, organized in the form of Three-Countries-Meetings. In the past we have taken part in such joint undertakings together with Polish, Ukrainian and Russian partners. The previous trilateral meetings took place in Wildbad Kreuth, where we were supported by the Hanns-Seidl-Foundation, with the help of the Karl-Arnold-Foundation in Bad-Godesberg and the DPJW and the Happy Childhood Foundation in Lublin and Krasnystaw.