These seminars prepare development-organisation staff and their families for travel abroad, and for life and work in developing countries. The usual preparation, the so-called three-months seminar, is divided into a number of separate programmes which may be booked individually or in any other combination. These are organised by the Vorbereitungsstätte für Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (V-EZ) of the InWEnt gGmbH (website in German).

The German-Japanese Study Programme for Youth Work Specialists is aimed at specialists that are employed in the field of youth work. Every year two delegations of experts in various youth work fields are invited to visit Japan or Germany. These multipliers are then introduced to the frameworks of youth work in the other country. Participants visit youth work institutions and centres; they meet the youth of the other country and learn more about their problems, and thus have an opportunity to acquire knowledge for their own work and to develop further their own country’s national youth work agenda.

In addition to the European Union's programmes of advanced vocational training some organizations and foundations active in the field of transnational cultural work offer programmes of vocational training especially adressed to teachers of foreign languages:

EU-Programmes of advanced training for teachers of foreign languages are geared to the maintenance and extension of existing standards in language teaching in the field of vocational education.

For further information on particular programmes for school-teachers in service please consult the following websites of the German Pedagogic Exchange Service (PAD) (all websites in German):

Internship-Programme for foreign language teachers in France and Great Britain

Advanced Training for foreign language teachers abroad

Advanced Training Programme for foreign language teachers of the European Council

COMENIUS-Advanced Training Programme for teaching staff in school education.

In cooperation with the Federation of the German-French Houses of Culture in France and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) the Robert Bosch Foundation annually sends ten graduates as guest lecturers of the German language to France. Basic aim of the 'DeutschMobil' initiative is to contrast French students' usually one-sided impression of Germany with a modern image that is friendlier and more attractive. Additionally the initiative wants to arouse the French students' interest in the German language as a point of orientation for the selection of their foreign language classes.

The programme International Understanding at School initiated by the Robert Bosch Foundation is administered in cooperation with the Pedagogical Exchange Service of the Conference of German State Ministers of Culture (Pädagogischer Austauschdienst der Kultusministerkonferenz) and the Central Agency for German Schools abroad (Zentralstelle für das Auslandsschulwesen). Students and university graduates are sent to selected schools in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, where they spend three or six months teaching German language and culture and promoting an up-to-date image of Germany. Participants support German language tuition with their lessons and are immersed in everyday school life in a different culture. In the process, they gain intensive teaching experience and familiarity with their host country and its students, and initiate student projects to promote intercultural learning.

The German-American Institute Tübingen (d.a.i.) has been running a training programme for English teachers in cooperation with American universities since 1982.

By the Lectureship Programme at Universities in Eastern Europe and China the Robert Bosch Foundation offers grants to young German graduates interested in teaching and undertaking projects at universities in Eastern Europe and in China.

In line with its programme focus on the enhancement of "International Understanding" the Robert-Bosch Foundation organises a wide range of bilateral visitors' and scholarship-programmes for journalists in European and non-European countries:

In cooperation with the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C, the Robert Bosch Foundation offers a Journalism Program for German and American Journalists. Editors of quality regional newspapers receive opportunity to meet colleagues and experts from the political, economic, and administrative sectors in the host country and gain an inside view of current issues in the news.

Intensifying German-Turkish Relations: Programme for Journalists addresses itself to German and Turkish journalists. The groups selected in the application process participate in a three-part program consisting of two weekend forums in their home countries and a one-week journey through Germany and Turkey respectively. At all three events, the participating journalists meet important representatives from politics, business, society and the media. The aim of the program is to promote unprejudiced reporting on the partner country. All three projects are organized by CultureForum Turkey-Germany in Cologne.

The Visiting Program for German Journalists to Japan aims to promote a more complete and balanced coverage of Japan in the German media. The programme is organised in cooperation with the Japanese-German Center Berlin and the Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs (Keizai Koho Center). Applications will be accepted from journalists representing all German media outlets (print, TV, radio, Internet). There is no age limit. The pilot event discussing a current topic will be held in Tokyo and in other Japanese cities.

The Informational Trip to India for German Journalists enables up to ten journalists to gain a firsthand insight into the political, civic, and economic realities of India. During the trip to New Delhi, Bangalore, and Hyderabad meetings and discussions with representatives from politics, business, science, civil society, and the media are planned. The programme's aim is to contribute to a better understanding of India and promote a more complete and balanced coverage of the subcontinent.

The Programme Journalists on Location: Media Projects Central Europe, Eastern Europe and China wants to give young journalists opportunity to conduct research abroad and thereby gain firsthand experience of central and eastern European countries, so they can pass it on to their readers and viewers. Applications for funding for projects like information tours, conferences and seminars may be submitted at any time. At least one other funding organization should be involved. Funding is not available for personal research projects.

By its programme area "Science and Dialogue" the Robert-Bosch Foundation wants to advance the presentation of science and its institutional settings in the media and to promote dialogue between science and society:

The programme Journalism Meets Research awards grants to Science Journalists for journalistic research in any domain of science or science policy respectively. Eligible for funding are research projects from several weeks up to three months' duration. The program is open to print, radio and television journalists with at least three years' professional experience of writing about science. They must be either members of an editorial team or important regular freelance contributors. Successful applicants can receive support for a research or study trip or residency they have organized themselves.

By awarding Study Trips and Travel Grants for Science Journalists the Robert-Bosch Foundation is pursuing two objectives: firstly it wants to raise awareness about science among young journalists working for regional daily newspapers and to interest them in making a career as a science journalist. Secondly it wants to broaden the knowledge of experienced science writers about scientific and research activities in other European countries, especially the new European Union member states.

The Initiative Science Journalism is a project run jointly by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the Association of Foundations for German Science and BASF SE.
The Initiative will offer continuing training courses in science journalism as well as networking opportunities for science writers in Germany from the start of 2008 to the end of 2011. The aim of the initiative is to improve the independence and quality of science reporting in Germany.
It will offer introductory programs, continuing training seminars, research support, journalist trips and other events for science journalists. The first programs have already been announced.

For more detailed information on particular grant programmes please consult the Website of the Initiative Science Journalism (website in German) issued by the Technical University Dortmund (TU Dortmund).

The programme Cultural Managers in Central- and Eastern Europe is conducted by the Robert Bosch Foundation in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, the German Federal Foreign Office and other partners and is coordinated by the Eastern Europe Center of the University of Hohenheim. Each year the foundation sends fellows for up to two years as Robert Bosch Cultural Managers at cultural institutions in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, where they provide conceptual and organizational support. Their tasks include initiating and implementing projects in different branches of the arts and culture, canvassing funds, public relations activities, and helping their host institution develop international relationships. Besides the advanced vocational training of young executives in the field of international cultural exchange in a long-term perspective the programme aims at the development of sustainable cultural relations between Germany and its neighboring countries in Centrtal, Eastern and Southeast Europe.

The internationally renowned Harkness Fellowship Program launched by the Commonwealth Fund in 1925 awards future leaders in the health professions in Australia, Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand and (since 2006) Germany funding for a one-year research residency in the United States. Over the next three years, the Commonwealth Fund, the B. Braun-Stiftung and the Robert Bosch Stiftung will award three scholarships per year to German Harkness Fellows.

The exchange programme for young booksellers and publishers offers 20 scholarship holders from Germany and France.

Together with the Franco-German youth charity Deutsch-Französisches Jugendwerk (DFJW), the Bureau International de l'Édition Française, the Collège International des Traducteurs in Arles (France) and the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, the Frankfurt Book Fair organises an exchange programme for young French and German literary translators.