Thematic framework of the project are the challanges in matters of education policy in both participating countries, Germany and Austria, respectively their metropolitan areas generated by the current refugee crisis. Until January 2016, the number of people who apply for asylum in Germany has risen by 133 per cent compared to the previous year. Ten per cent of all first applications are filed in the federal region of Berlin alone, and also in Austria figures have increased dramatically since 2013. Here, two thirds of all applications are filed in Vienna.The population growth of both capitals is significantly shaped by this immigration and leads to a continuously increasing diversity of the common general public which can, among others, be detected especially at schools of all types and levels. These days one can already find classes of 25 to 30 pupils where learners come from at least half as many countries of origin having at least twelve different mother tongues. In the wake of current migratory movements towards the two regions participating in the exchange, now children and adolescents without knowledge of the German language but subject/liable to compulsory education have to be considered. They are first taught German in specific classes called “Willkommensklassen” or “Neu-in-Wien-Kurse” in order to be later integrated into the regular school systems of both federal regions. These target groups have to be provided with access to the same learning opportunities as all those children and adolescents subject to compulsory general education who are already part of the systems of both Germany and Austria. Despite the language barrier which is there at least at the beginning there must not be any disadvantage. On neither side.To guarantee, against this background, school education and individual support for all children and adolescents alike, all educational staff have to meet the current challenges our societies face. To supply general education inside and outside classes for refugee children and otherwise immigrated young people plays an important part. A response to their diverse origins and their very different personal and educational biographies requires sensitive pedagogical action, the teaching of the not exactly uncomplicated German language in extremely heterogeneous learning groups asks for new methods and materials. Moreover, long-term solutions for proper integration of these students into regular classes of general education have to be found and been implemented into the system in a sustainable way.This Strategic Partnership between two regions will generate an exchange of Good Practice on both sides in terms of administrative proceedings, methodological approaches and didactic concepts, innovative teacher and in-service training schemes as well as structures of networking and co-operating including financial and legal regulations and their implementation in and outside schools. The participating institutions, two regional educational authorities, two associations providing after- and outside-school advice and support, one pedagogical applied university and two schools per region, bring in profound and comprehensive administrative, legal, pedagogical and teaching expertise and experience regarding the target groups mentioned above. These experiences will be presented and compared to each other, becoming part of further future-oriented and sustainable conceptual consideration and being incorporated into innovative approaches concerning teaching at the schools providing general public education in both regions as well as teacher training and the training and qualification of educational staff. New cocepts how extra-curricular opportunities may be better involved in the process of educational integration of newly arrived children and adolescents, in their language acquisition and promotion and in the intercultural dialog fostered by official educational policy will be contemplated. The results and outputs of the exchange of Good Practice between Berlin and Vienna will be accessible through the project website and can thus be used by other parties responsible for education in other regions or federal states.Europaberatung Berlin, an association with long-term experience in European project work that has already collaborated successfully in many other EU partnerships, will be responsible for the management of the project, the evaluation of the processes, results and outputs as well as the quality management.