Class exchange
During a class exchange your pupils gain intercultural insights, practice foreign languages or immerse themselves in project work. From daylong meetings across the language border in Switzerland to in-depth joint project work abroad, you have many options to choose from.
What it's all about
Classes or groups of pupils spend at least one day in another language region or at least two days abroad. An exchange with a class abroad also involves joint thematic project work over the course of the school year. We will help you find a partner class and suitable activities and support your project financially.
For classes and groups of pupils at primary, lower and upper secondary level (including vocational schools)
In Switzerland or abroad
Encounters in Switzerland with pupils from another language region for one day or more, or meetings abroad for two days or more with joint topic-orientated project work
Financial support for participants from Switzerland and from abroad (for return visits)
Support in finding a partner via the match&move platform
Application submitted by the teachers (projects in Switzerland) or their institution (projects with partners abroad)
Application for projects in Switzerland possible on an ongoing basis, for projects abroad twice a year
Added value
For pupils:
- They get to know peers whose daily lives and lifeworlds differ from theirs.
- They strengthen their personal skills such as communication strategies, openness and self-confidence.
- Both in class exchanges in Switzerland and in exchanges with partners abroad: They practice foreign languages and thus develop their linguistic skills.
- Class exchanges abroad: They develop their intercultural competences and gain experience with project-based work.
For teachers:
- They will expand their range of didactic and pedagogic methods through the exchange with their peers.
- They enrich their lessons with authentic conversation settings and interdisciplinary projects.
- Their professional and personal networks grow.