DeutschZusammen - GermanTogether.
About the network
Founded back in 2022, as we emerged from the long shadow of the COVID pandemic, the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Warwick (SMLC) founded the DeutschZusammen (GermanTogether) network. Since then we have run a wide range of events each year, from our Annual German Teacher Days to online and on-campus school visits, and even a German-focussed careers fair run in collaboration with the DAAD and Goethe Institut.
We are interested in modelling new ways of working between secondary school teachers and university teachers and researchers. DeutschZusammen provides, in the first instance, non-hierarchical, mutually enriching meetings and dialogue between German practitioners in higher and secondary education through a rolling programme of annual events. It aims to promote networking, resource and best practice sharing, and strategic planning, though also listening and mutual support, all with the aim of finding together ways of raising the profile of and delivering German language and cultural teaching in our education system and sustaining colleagues working in those environments.
DeutschZusammen aims to be experimental and creative and to promote collaborative projects between the SMLC and secondary schools. It also aims to be practical, by developing and running events and programmes that show non-specialists, pupils, parents and students the practical, professional and strategic importance of teaching and learning German in schools and universities.
We run a programme of in-person and online events each year, mainly, though not exclusively, on Warwick University Campus. We are thus based in the Midlands, though serve all of the UK. If you wish to, please join the network here.
Forthcoming Events (2025-26)
We are aiming to run a programme again in the latter half (March-July) of the academic year 2025-2026. Once you have joined the network, please ALSO take few minutes to fill in the second short survey 'How we can work together' to help us scale, focus and plan our events.