The German-French Youth Office has the function to create closer contacts between young people in Germany and France and to deepen mutual understanding. It promotes German-French cooperation and exchange programmes in the spheres of professional, educational and extramural training.
The German-Polish Youth Office (DPJW) is responsible for the promotion of mutual understanding and cooperation between the youth in Germany and Poland. Therefore it allows financial support, presents information and consultation, organises seminars, language courses, programmes for journalists, professional conventions and administrates lobby and public relations.
German-Polish Youth Academie (DPJA) declares its aim to create closer contacts between the young people of Germany and Poland and to increase mutual understanding, to promote reconciliation and to assist in the construction of a Europe that is free, undivided and democratic. Together with its partners in Poland and Germany it organises youth events with cultural, political, societal and historical themes and supports the town twinning Munster-Lublin.
The Society for Student Exchange in Middle and Eastern Europe (GFPS) arranges tandem summer language courses and offers scholarships for students and doctoral candidates of all disciplines who are interested in Polish culture and society, and who have a basic knowledge of Polish, to spend a study period in the neighbouring country.
The Goethe-Institute organises summer camps for Polish school students wishing to learn German in the cities of Plock and Bialogard.
The coordination centre for German-Czech youth exchange – Tandem – offers advisory service, information and further education for teachers and youth workers. It conveys contacts to partner-organisations and promotes meetings between German and Czech youth as well as internships and work experience.
The German-Russian Exchange supports citizens’ initiatives, human rights organisations and social activism, representation of the interests of disadvantaged social groups, and non-governmental social organisations. It organises seminars and conferences, develops concepts and furthers expert study visits and voluntary work.
The Foundation German-Russian Youth Exchange supports the German-Russian youth and student exchange. An application is possible for schools, youth groups but also for individual young persons, which are interested in encountering Russia and Russian contemporaries.