The activities mentioned above are only possible if the employees at all levels of the HLA have adequate language and intercultural skills and if the relationships with our international partner schools and cooperation partners are maintained. The training should enable both language and other teachers to improve their English skills. In addition, skills in dealing with digital media in language lessons (B1 of the application) should be improved. In addition, technical language support (B2, B4) should have been improved The close cooperation with partner schools, not only at the student level but especially at the collegial level, continues to be an essential part of the HLA's development plan (B3). In addition, intercultural skills should be promoted and new instruments and methods to promote these skills should be developed at all school levels (B6). The original target B5 lost its importance during the project period, as the desired type of school was ultimately not opened.
The Handelslehranstalt Hameln (HLA) is a vocational school that offers courses in the professional field "Economy and administration" as well as some professions in the professional field "Health Education". In all school branches students with different nationalities, migration experiences and religions are represented. The HLA pays attention to peaceful and tolerant coexistence. As a "European School" we cooperate with various international partners. The vocational grammar school is an accredited EBBD center. Economics is taught bilingually, and projects in English such as DECA are also carried out. Before the pandemic, more than 20 full-time students were doing internships abroad. In the vocational school, the HLA various international qualifications and skills are offered. Since 2012, it is possible to acquire the additional qualification "European clerk/European clerk (IHK)". Here, around 90 trainees have carried out internships abroad lasting several weeks. Between 2009 and 2019 more than twenty bilateral student exchanges were carried out with partners from IT, ES, PL and SK. The HLA is certified TELC testing center.