Join our International German Summer School at TU Braunschweig to improve your German, experience German history and culture and make new friends from all over the world!
Our Summer School of German Language and Culture has a long tradition: Every year we offer 4 to 6-week intensive courses in German language and culture during the semester break. In these courses you will learn German in small groups at 4 different language levels. You will have 6 lessons on each of the five weekdays, during which you will improve your grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary at the language levels A1 to C1 (GER). You will also learn a lot about German culture and regional studies.
The lessons take place in presence at TU Braunschweig and are complemented by a varied social and excursion programme: We visit regional companies and local museums as well as historical cities. We visit institutes of TU Braunschweig and learn about innovative research projects. Through day trips on the weekends we also get to know some exciting German cities and learn more about the German culture. Joint afternoons and evenings as well as enough free time for exploring the region on your own complete our program.
The course is aimed at students and young professionals from all over the world who want to use the semester break to improve their German. It is particularly suitable for students from our partner universities who are planning to study at TU Braunschweig in the following semester.
To give you a good idea of our programme, see our booklet from last year's Summer School and the flyer for the 2024 programme:
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Time period | 17 June – 26 July 2024 | 02 September – 27 September 2024 |
Registration deadline | 15 April 2024 or as soon as the maximum of 40 participants is reached | 15 July 2024 or as soon as the maximum of 40 participants is reached |
Registration deadline for MWK-scholarships | Attention: Application deadline for MWK scholarships is 31 January 2024 | |
Event form | In presence | In presence |
Language of instruction | German | German |
Participation fee | 1.335 € (for tuition, teaching material and social programme) | 890 € (for tuition, teaching material and social programme) |
Target group | Students and prospective students of all fields of study young researchers and professionals students from partner universities | Students and prospective students of all fields of study young researchers and professionals students from partner universities |
Level | A1, A2, B1 (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) | A1, A2, B1/B2 (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) |
Requirements | no previous knowledge of the German language required, at least 18 years old | no previous knowledge of the German language required, at least 18 years old |
Workload | 180 teaching hours (45 minutes each) 3 teaching units (90 minutes each) per day (8:30–14:30) | 125 teaching hours (45 minutes each) 3 teaching units (90 minutes each) per day (8:30–14:30) |
Certificate and credit points | Graded certificate, 9 ECTS. If required, up to 12 ECTS credits can be achieved through additional assignments. (+ 1 to 3 optional ECTS for additional assignments such as project works) | Graded certificate, 6 ECTS credits |
Thank you for your interest in the International Summer Course in German Language and Culture. Please fill out the following registration form:
By registering, you confirm that you are taking out health and liability insurance for the duration of the course.
Please send your application by e-mail:
summerschool(at)tu-braunschweig.de
Upon receipt of your registration we will send you a confirmation with all further information.
The course fee is 890,00€ or 1.335,00€ (depending on the course). This fee includes the cost of tuition and course materials as well as the social and excursion programme.
A few days after you submit your registration, you will receive a confirmation letter. To complete your registration, we kindly ask you to transfer the full course fee within two weeks after receipt of the letter and to send us a mail with a proof of payment to summerschool(at)tu-braunschweig.de. We will provide you with all necessary transfer details as well as your personal payment deadline in the confirmation letter.
If you cancel your registration up to six weeks before the start of the course, you will receive a full refund (deducting bank transfer costs). In case you cancel your registration up to two weeks before the start of the course, we will retain an additional administration fee of 200 €. If you cancel less than two weeks before the start of the course, a refund of the course fees is unfortunately no longer possible.
Students from our partner universities are eligible to apply for a scholarship for our International Summer School for German Language and Culture in June/July 2024. The scholarship covers the tuition and the teaching material as well as the costs for the social and excursion program.
To apply for a tuition waiver please send the following documents to summerschool(at)tu-braunschweig.de until 15 April 2024:
If you are currently enrolled at one of our partner universities, you have the option to apply for one of our tuition waivers for our International Summer School for German Language and Culture in September 2024. Students who receive the tuition waiver only pay the cost for the social and excursion program as well as for the teaching materials. The cost of the tuition is waived.
To apply for a tuition waiver please send the following documents to summerschool(at)tu-braunschweig.de until 15 July 2024:
To foster intercultural exchange and the internalisation of the region, the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) grants scholarships to student participants from the State's international partner regions for our Summer School in June/July. If you are a student from South Africa (preferably Eastern Cape) or Tanzania, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Wielkopolska Voivodeship or Lower Silesia Voivodeship (Poland), the Normandy region (France), the Provinces of Anhui or Shandong (People's Republic of China), the Perm Krai or the Tyumen Oblast (Russian Federation) or the Tokushima Prefecture (Japan), please feel free to apply for one of our MWK-scholarships.
The scholarship covers the course tuition and learning material, the social programme as well as flight expenses and an accommodation for the duration of the Summer School. More detailed information can be found in our flyer: Download flyer
To apply for a MWK-scholarship please send the following documents to summerschool(at)tu-braunchweig.de until 31 January 2024:
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For our participants, we are looking for host families who are willing to host an international student for the duration of the Summer School. Our students come from all over the world to learn German and to get to know Braunschweig, our region and German culture. This works best when they stay with host families or in friendly shared apartments during their stay in Germany. Often, friendships for life are formed in this way.
Currently we are looking for the following periods:
Period 1: 15 June – 27 July 2024
Period 2: 01 September – 30 September 2024
All information on how to become a host or host family can be found here.
The International House is looking for students of TU Braunschweig who are interested in international exchange and would like to become a buddy for the international participants of our Summer Schools for the following periods:
All information and the registration form for the Buddy Programme can be found here
Thanks to the financial support of a large number of companies, institutions, foundations and individuals who feel a connection to the TU and would like to promote the intercultural exchange of young people across national borders, we have been able since 1992 to award a number of partial or full scholarships each year for participation in our summer courses. This enabled us to invite students who were unable to participate from their own resources - especially from Eastern European countries, but also from Southeast Asia and Africa. These highly motivated young people gave the courses a whole new quality.
Your donation is a valuable contribution to intercultural exchange.
Since then, students from all over the world have come together annually in Braunschweig. They all share a common interest in Germany, our language and our culture. These intensively experienced weeks and the lively cultural exchange have lasting positive effects on the young people.
We would like to continue this scholarship programme - with your help - this year, as many students are unable to pay the costs associated with taking part in a summer course in Germany. However, they are very interested in establishing contacts with German companies and institutions and take their role as multipliers in their home country very seriously, which is why we would be very happy to make it possible for students to participate in the course.
If you are interested, please contact Joana Zimmer (summerschool(at)tu-braunschweig.de).
We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone whose support enables students from all over the world to participate in the International Summer Courses:
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