In the face of manifold global economical and cultural cross-links, international communication and intercultural understanding get increasingly more demanding. With this, the school languages as well as foreign language education carry a wider importance and responsibility. With English, French, Italian and Spanish as well as Latin and Greek, the Bonn model of teacher education encompasses the most crucial modern and classical school languages. The university meets the societal challenges with a strong commitment to an interdisciplinary departments of foreign language education and their grounding in the related academic disciplines.