Seminars in the language practice of native speakers; Practical relevance; High digital literacy; Cooperative and project-oriented work with students; Individual advice and counselling; Instruction is typically offered in the foreign language; External collaborations for better practical relevance; The specialist sciences work with an interdisciplinary approach; Integration of the ISW learning workshop as a special learning environment with access to authentic and contemporary teaching and learning materials, including a digital teaching and learning laboratory; Regular academic offers at the state level

Collaborations with 26 universities in Europe and Latin America; Collaboration with the Latin America Research Centre (CELA) at the University of Kassel and the CALAS Merian Centre (Guadalajara, México); Research colloquia with the University of Buenos Aires; Visiting professorships by Latin Americanprofessors; Buddy programme for students

Integrated study workshop for languages: PCs, laptops, iPads, learning and research software, teaching materials as well as facilities for printing, scanning and copying; E-Learning Centre: Facilities include 25 workstations, interactive whiteboard as well as equipment for printing, scanning and copying; KAMOKO: KAsseler MOrgenstern KOrpus: Corpus-based linguistics and language practice for students of French; Kassel text and task database: Español Lengua Extranjera; Language laboratory for linguistic studies and psycholinguistic experiments (6 places); Virtual classrooms and study rooms

Latin American focus (CALAS, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)) – research on social inequality, current issues such as the pandemic or the rightward turn in Latin America; Participation in the CELA Research Centre (Centro de Estudios Latino americanos); Coverage of a very wide array of didactics in research, e.g. didactics of literature, promotion of pronunciation, historical perspectives, didactics of multilingualism, digitalisation, virtual reality, etc.; Creation of corpora; Postgraduate funding in the form of a seminar for doctoral candidates with the University of Potsdam; Intern. research colloquia

The University of Kassel has its own facility for business start-ups, with an extensive programme: Guidance & Support; Ideas competition; Crowd-funding; Mentoring; Scholarships and funding programmes; Rooms for start-up teams; Start-up map; Courses for the promotion of entrepreneurial skills