With the project, we wanted the students and teachers from both countries to gain a thorough insight into how we work with culture and tourism as well as knowledge of the school systems in the respective schools. Prior to the visits to Austria and Denmark, the teachers involved worked on topics related to tourism in both countries. In Denmark, the students worked in German lessons on researching and explaining cultural, social and business conditions - partly to familiarize themselves with Austrian conditions, but also to practice speaking German. Some role-plays were prepared where students had to work on dialogs about how to behave in a restaurant visit situation. In International Economics, they focused on how tourism affects the general economic development from a social economic aspect. Prior to the visit to Denmark, the Austrian students had familiarized themselves with tourism in Copenhagen and had prepared a thorough presentation of the culture and tourism in Austria and especially in their area around Hartberg.
After a visit from the Austrian high school in Hartberg, a relationship was created between the two schools that we wanted to build on. The project was therefore applied for, as the management of the Handelsgymnasiet at CELF also wanted to have a friendship school in a German-speaking country to strengthen the Danish students' German language skills. As both schools are located in areas with a lot of tourism, we chose to focus on culture and tourism, in addition to gaining mutual knowledge of the two countries' school systems.