About IP
What do we do?
Every year we bring together more than 4000 students from all over the world in several European destinations to learn English, French, Spanish, or German.
With 25 years’ experience, we have gained an unrivalled insight into what students want from their language courses. Our international language centres provide proficient language learning at different levels based on an innovative learning curriculum. This enables you to build up both your knowledge and your confidence in an international environment.
We run our own summer schools in Great Britain, France, Germany, and Spain where we offer summer courses for juniors and language programmes for families. We also run a year-round English language school in Bournemouth and cooperate with other selected language schools all over Europe to offer a wide choice of language courses for kids, teens and adults.
We strongly believe that we can offer you the right combination of destination, language course and accommodation to suit your needs and your budget.
We are accredited by DIN, the German Institute for Standardization, to meet the European Standards for Language Study Tour Providers, EN14804.
We set up this website to provide you with detailed information on each of our course centres. You can book courses directly or contact us. We will be happy to advise you on the best option to suit your requirements.
We look forward to welcoming you to our international language institute!
Who are we?
Heiner Giese
... is a qualified social education worker. He is one of the founders and owners of IP and also its General Manager. Besides his management duties he is responsible for IP Marketing. Furthermore he is the chairman of the FDSV (German umbrella organisation for tour operators specialized in language travel).
Jana Gottermeyer
... studied English Linguistics, Swedish Philology and Psychology at the University of Marburg. During and after her studies she spent several months in England and Spain. She is the head of the Customer Care department and is also responsible for international marketing.
Jasmin Moys
After her apprenticeship as a certified management assistant in hotel and hospitality, she received a B.A. degree in tourism management. She worked for a big hotel chain in Spain, studied in Argentina and has spent time in Australia while on a Work and Travel visa. In the beginning of 2010 Jasmin started to work for IP as a customer service representative.
Bianca Langner
... trained as Tourism Assistant and worked as a customer service representative in Spain, Mexico and the Maldives. After her studies (Cruise Industry Management) she gained practical experiences in human resource management. Since January 2009 she has been responsible for the recruitment and training of the IP members of staff.
Meisje Wolf
...is studying International Tourism Management at the University of Applied Sciences in Bremen and is working as a student assistant for IP. Before her studies she did an internship at IP in 2009, where she accompanied language programmes in England, trained seasonal staff and supported the departments accounting, controlling, marketing & sales. Today she is working for the marketing department and is among other things caring for the Facebook profiles.
Anna Pelz
…has joined IP as a trainee for management assistant in tourism and leisure in August 2010. After her A-level she worked in a schoolchildren’s project in Kenia to establish the communication within the partnership between local children and foster parents in Germany. After finishing the projcet she travelled to Sansibar/Tanzania to work in the Hakuna Matata Beach Lodge for another 2 month. Anna worked as a supervisor for IP in Exeter and Bournemouth last summer.
Nina Riede
….before going to Spain to do an apprenticeship as a front desk manager in hotel and hospitality, she received a B.A. degree in Spanish studies done in France. She worked for big hotel chains in Spain and France at the reception desk before returning to Germany. Now she works as a customer service representative since November 2010.
Maik Staschke
... studied „Applied Leisure Science“ in Bremen and Poland. During his studies he used to work for IP in England and Germany. After his graduation he became chief animator and tour guide for cruise shipping companies and travelled the world e.g. South- and Latin America, the Mediterranean Sea, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and the Arctic.
As he always stayed in touch with IP he started to work for IP again after his return in January 2011.He is now assisting the product management and the human resources and is responsible for the bus logistics.
Marie-Theres Gerosch
… studied Cruise Industry Management after completing her apprenticeship as a travel agent. After working on board various cruise ships and as a tour guide around the world she finally found her home port when starting to work for IP. She is working as the Product Manager in the head office in Bremen.
Helge Maul
... is the other founder and owner of IP and is also a qualified social education worker. He worked with young people in Great Britain for many years and then decided to establish IP. He is now the IP Product Manager and is responsible for the development and supervision of all IP centres.
Peter Rohlfs
…started to work full time for IP in 2001 after having finished his German, French and Italian literature studies and after having worked both as a group leader and centre manager for IP during his study period. He is now responsible for online and direct marketing as well as for marketing in France.
Ana Fernández Castro
... was born in Germany as a daughter of Spanish immigrants. Over and over she traveled during her holidays to Spain in order to keep a close relation to culture and way of life. She studied Business Management at the University of Bremen. After graduating she spent some time in Spain to discover the country. In February she started working as a Marketing Assistant.Â
