Youthbridge – Support for German in Your School

• The annual Youthbridge Awards scheme, which provides cash prizes and certificates for in-school projects which schools are encouraged to run at option times to build enthusiasm and interest. Details and examples of these can be found on our website.
• Advising and supporting schools to make the case for the teaching of German;
• Bi-monthly newsletter on German studies;
• Free access to British-German Association on-line events;
• Exclusive access to Dresden Trust scholarships, providing 100% funding to study for three or four weeks at a school in Dresden. The Dresden Trust also offers Youthbridge school groups financial support to visit Dresden;
• Financial help for language study visits and exchanges with Germany;
• Subsidising German days or masterclasses in schools – such as travel for participants and speakers, and related costs;
• Helping to organise, and subsidising, visits to German companies in the UK, such as the Mini plant in Oxford;
• Subsidising “German in London” days, for instance to the Siemens’ “Crystal” exhibition on sustainable cities, the Goethe Institut, or the German Embassy;
• Funding teachers or 6th form pupils to visit feeder schools to encourage them to take up or continue with German; and
• Helping to provide contacts in business, industry and the media who can bring home to pupils the vital importance of a knowledge of German.

Just send an email to youthbridge@britishgermanassociation.org and ask for your school to be added to our mailing list.

Please include your name, role, the name of your school and your school e-mail address. There is no membership fee.