2008
Project by order of the Ministry for School and Further Education North Rhine-Westphalia: evaluation of the 2008 results obtained in the centralized 10th grade examinations (The final report from 18/12/2008 is available at the Ministry’s.)
2005
Further education of head teachers, teacher trainers, and ministry officials of the country of Malawi on account of a project concerning foreign language teaching in Africa under the lead of the seminar for music and its teaching methodology at Cologne University
Since 1999
Author of course books and teacher manuals
1999
Contributor to various events introducing the syllabus for English at the upper secondary level during conferences of further education for teachers of English; topic of the talk: “Introduction to the syllabus for English with a special focus on lesson planning – learning organization at the upper secondary level”
1999
Co-founder of the supplementary course of studies “Bilingual teaching and learning – English” at Cologne University
1999
University of Bath, contribution to “COMENIUS Project preparatory visit: Dialogic Intercultural Learning” in the context of COMENIUS ACTION 2 INTERNATIONAL PROJECT of the European Commission
Member of the section “Early foreign language learning at the primary level and in the entry classes of the lower secondary level” in the Professional Association for Modern Foreign Languages
1999 – 2005
Participant and Organizer of colloquia on bilingual teaching and learning initiated after the introduction of supplementary courses of study for bilingual teaching and learning at the universities of Wuppertal, Bochum, Dortmund, and Cologne and coordinated with the teacher training seminar for the upper secondary level in Bonn
1997-1999
Member of the commission designing the syllabus for English at the upper secondary level in North Rhine-Westphalia
Projects outside school and university
Language holidays for pupils in grades 5 to 13 to London and the Isle of Wight (1992 and 1994), Cologne Children’s University (2006), Info-days of Cologne University for pupils of the upper secondary level (2009)
Social commitment
Plan International e.V.
World Vision e.V.