About IP
What do we do?
Every year we bring together more than 3000 students from all over the world in several European destinations to learn English, French, Spanish or German.
With over 20 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.
Ute Nanninga
... trained as a travel agent. After her apprenticeship she worked as a representative for several tour-operators in Greece. Afterwards she studied tourism management at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich and was responsible for the marketing of a German hotel chain. Now she is the executive assistant of Heiner Giese and also responsible for public relations and marketing in Germany.
Anja Werner
…is now the second trainee at IP as management assistant in tourism and leisure. During her school years she took part in several exchange programs to France, England and Italy and thereby discovered her passion for language, travel and regional geography. She started her apprenticeship at IP after her A-levels in 2008.
Kathleen Behne
…is also a trainee at IP as management assistant in tourism and leisure. After her apprenticeship as a management assistant in hotel and hospitality, Kathleen lived and worked in England for a year. Her interests have already taken her to the Netherlands, Egypt, Tunisia, Spain, Denmark and England and she hopes to visit many more places in the years to come. Kathleen is also a volunteer for various organizations, including PETA.
Stephan Ziegler
... Studied English Speaking Cultures and Sports Science at the University of Bremen. During his studies at school and university he spent a total of two years in the USA and has later received a TEFL certificate from an international school in Egypt. After working as a language teacher in one of our junior language centres, he became a part of our Sales Team in March 2010.
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.
