State European School Berlin (Staatliche Europa-Schule Berlin)

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The State European School Berlin (Staatliche Europa-Schule Berlin) is a special offer of the Berlin school. It is the educational response to a Europe that is growing together. The concept of the school is unique in the Federal Republic of Germany: It is not an elite institution for particularly gifted children or children of diplomats.

Europe for all without cost

Bilingual education from grade 1 – this is a unique model in Germany. The goal of the Staatliche Europa-Schule Berlin (SESB) is the integrated education of bilingual learning groups in a continuous bilingual instruction.

Social experiences and cultural activities are linked to the acquisition of the partner language. The children gain insight into the cultures of the respective partner language. With their first language, all children retain their cultural and national identity.

Equal access to the Europa-Schule Berlin is characteristic: deliberately, no school fees are charged. If the demand is greater than the supply, the decision is made by lot and not by the parents’ purse or their influence.

Two teaching languages

The SESB is a school of special educational character and is open to all children whose parents wish to focus their education on learning two languages of instruction on an equal footing.

In 1992, the Staatliche Europa-Schule Berlin started with 160 students in six elementary schools with three different language combinations: German-English, German-French and German-Russian. Today, more than 6000 students attend the 18 elementary schools and 15 secondary school locations with a total of nine language combinations.

This range of schools prepares children and young people for the working world of the future. For the youth of a primarily export-oriented country that is increasingly assuming a bridging function between Western and Eastern Europe, multilingualism is a great advantage and thus one of the most important skills that schools can provide for life.

Learning from each other

At the same time, the Staatliche Europa-Schule Berlin makes an important contribution against any form of xenophobia with its concept of bicultural education: In each class, students from different nations with different mother tongues grow up.

They learn not only with each other, but also from each other. There is no room for prejudice. This cross-cultural education, while preserving one’s own cultural identity, is an important guiding principle of the Staatliche Europa-Schule Berlin.

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Children and young people from grades 1 to 12 talk about their experiences at the Europa-Schule Berlin. They talk about their multilingual and intercultural everyday life, about identity and belonging, challenges of bilingual learning and school togetherness.
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Children and young people from grades 1 to 12 talk about their experiences at the Europa-Schule Berlin. They talk about their multilingual and intercultural everyday life, about identity and belonging, challenges of bilingual learning and school togetherness.

Welcome to the State European School Berlin

  • State European School Berlin: Bilingual Education and Intercultural Cooperation

    In this flyer you will find all the information you need about the Staatliche Europa-Schule Berlin, which offers bilingual instruction in nine language combinations, a special service for students in Berlin.

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  • Staatliche Europa-Schule Berlin. zweisprachiger Unterricht und interkulturelles Miteinander

    de

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  • Ecole Publique Européenne de Berlin - Bilinguisme et interculturalité

    fr

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  • Scuola Statale Europea di Berlino Insegnamento bilingue in un contesto interculturale

    it

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  • Escuela Estatal Europea de Berlín Clases bilingües y convivencia intercultural

    es

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  • Escola oficial europeia de Berlim - Ensino bilingue em contexto intercultural

    pt

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  • Κρατικό Ευρωπαϊκό Σχολείο Βερολίνου - Δίγλωσσο Μάθημα Διαπολιτισμική Συνάντηση

    el

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  • Devlet Avrupa-Okulu Berlin İki dilli ve iki kültürlü eğitim / öğretim

    tr

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  • Государственная Европа-школа г. Берлин - Двуязычное обучение и интеркультурное образование

    ru

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  • Państwowa Szkoła Europejska w Berlinie Dwujęzyczne lekcje i wielokulturowe spotkania

    pl

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Nine languages - nine cultures

Intercultural experiences are conveyed in the classroom and in extracurricular all-day activities by focusing on cultural habits, everyday experiences, festivals in the course of the year, as well as using events for Europe Day. The European idea and cross-cultural activities are thus particularly emphasized.

This cross-cultural and language-intensive school model is available in nine language combinations. Taught by native-speaking teachers, it leads to bilingual degrees after the 10th and 12th or 13th grade.

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Specialized documents on the State European School Berlin (SESB)

  • Guidelines for the establishment of a new Europa-Schule Berlin site

    german

    PDF-Document (717.8 kB)

  • Framework of the SESB as a school of special pedagogical character

    german

    PDF-Document (464.8 kB)

  • Bibliography on the subject of SESB

    german

    PDF-Document (328.1 kB)

Become a teacher at a Berlin State European School

  • For an overview of all job offers in the Berliner Karriereportal please select “Senatsverwaltung für Bildung, Jugend und Familie” under the keyword Behörde/Einrichtung.