Education & Culture

On this page you will find out more about cultural topics, about studying and further training in Germany. 
Discover the diversity of German culture !

Pakistan - Impressions

German-funded cultural projects in Pakistan (Embassy)

Find out more about German art or about Pakistani art funded and promoted through German funds:

Luisito Quintero beim Jazz Baltica

Cultural life in Germany

The cultural life in Germany is very rich and exciting. Discover more about it !

German language

Languages play an essential part in shaping relationships between different cultures in a globalised world, and German has a special role in this.  Moreover, German is the native language of over 100 million Europeans, so knowing German provides the opportunity to experience first-hand an exciting part of Europe's culture.

German lecture hall

Studying in Germany

Germany as a study location becomes more and more attractive: Internationally oriented university degrees like Bachelor or Master, study courses in English and an incentive scheme, which allows the accumulation and transfer of course and exam achievements.

Freunde

Exchange programs

Exchange programs and school partnerships enhance the mobility of young people across borders and the mutaual understanding as well as tolerance and open-mindedness. During the exchanges students acquire intercultural experience, which become more and more important for their personal and professional development. Besides, the Federal Foreign Ministry in Berlin supports many different activities in the area of school exchange.

Vocational Education and Further Training

Germany is the "Land of Ideas". Education, science and research play a vital role. But not only at home, but also worldwide, Germany is engaged in vocational education and further training programs.

Grundschule

Schooling in Germany

Good initial opportunities for everyone are a key prerequisite for education and achievement. German schooling is based on nine years of compulsory education for all children.

EM 2008 Vorbereitungsspiel Schweiz-Österreich

Sports

Germany is on the move. Germany is mad about sport. Germany is one of the most successful sporting nations. However, sport represents more than the race for medals and records. Sport is also endowed with profound integrative potential.

Kamerateams

Media in Germany

Germany is one of the countries with the highest media density and the greatest press diversity in the world. Hundreds of daily newspapers, thousands of magazines and millions of active Internet users guarantee an exceptional diversity of opinion. The relationships between the individual “voices” of the different media are changing in the age of Web 2.0: whether print, television, radio, Internet, social media, books or film, the media future will be played in an orchestra.

Tübkes´s monumental work of art "Frühbürgerliche Revolution in Deutschland" (Early Bourgeois Revolution Germany) in the Panoramamuseum, Bad Frankenhausen

Cultural Panorama of Germany

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Education & Culture

Schweinfurt: Kunsthalle (Gallery of Art) - German Art after 1945 Copyright: Museen und Galerien der Stadt Schweinfurt

Federal Foreign Office - Dialogue with the Islamic World

The aim of the dialogue is to promote understanding between the West and the Islamic World. Germany was the first Western country to make dialogue with the Islamic world a political focus with an own commissioner and task force within the Foreign Ministry

Qantara.de - Dialogue with the Islamic World

Qantara.de

The Internet portal Qantara.de represents the concerted effort of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Center for Political Education), Deutsche Welle, the Goethe Institut and the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations) to promote dialogue with the Islamic world. The project is funded by the German Foreign Office.

Brochure - Dialogue among Civilizations

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