AbiBac

Not to be confused with the French-German Baccalaureate.
The AbiBac logo was developed by students of the Lycée Georges-Clémenceau de Montpellier and the Wentzinger-Gymnasium Freiburg in 2013.[1]

The AbiBac is a French-German high school diploma offered in schools in France and Germany. It is the oldest of three bi-national high school programmes (sections binationales) introduced by the French state, the others being EsaBac (French-Italian) and BachiBac (French-Spanish).[2] The AbiBac was created by a French-German agreement on 31 May 1994.[3][4]

To obtain the AbiBac, German-speaking students take

  • the Abitur exams in German, and exams in
  • history or another social science subject in French and
  • French literature in French.

French speakers sit

  • the Baccalauréat exams in French, and exams in
  • the subject histoire-géographie in German and
  • German literature in German.[1]

Schools

As of 2021, the French state offers the AbiBac at 88 schools in France and five schools (lycée français) in Germany. As of 2016, 68 public schools in Germany offer the AbiBac, as well as the two private schools Deutsche Schule Paris and Moser Schule Berlin.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "L'Abibac". Ministère de l'Education Nationale de la Jeunesse et des Sports (in French). Retrieved 2021-06-10.
  2. ^ "Les sections binationales : AbiBac, Bachibac, Esabac". www.onisep.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-06-10.
  3. ^ "Staatliche Europa-Schule Berlin – bewährten Schulversuch abschließen und Europaschulzentren schaffen! Drs 16/3006 und 16/3128" (PDF). Abgeordnetenhaus Berlin (in German). Drucksache 16/3575. 22 October 2010.
  4. ^ "Bekanntmachung des deutsch-französischen Abkommens über den gleichzeitigen Erwerb der deutschen Allgemeinen Hochschulreife und des französischen Baccalauréat" (PDF). Bundesgesetzblatt (in German). Retrieved 2021-06-10.
  5. ^ "Übersicht der Abibac-Partnerschaften" (PDF). Institut Français (in German). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-09-21.