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Partnerships
A good school cannot be built alone. We believe we support our students especially by leaving the classroom and exploring the world together. This requires strong partners from all areas of society. We are pleased and proud to be able to rely on a large number of trusted partners. We would like to express our sincere thanks for the wonderful support.
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
The so-called “Future Lab”, the interface between Gesamtschule Bremen Ost and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, has developed several innovative concert formats together with the GSO teaching staff. These formats not only promote musical education, but also strongly support the personal development of our students.
In our neighbourhood, which is characterised by multicultural diversity, people from up to 88 different countries of origin live together. In the context of educational equity and success, violin lessons,
ballet and piano are considered essential components of children’s private education. It is important that children from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds are not denied these skills.
Since 2007, we have observed that participation in the joint concert formats has a positive impact on students’ social interaction. Students in the participating classes are able to concentrate for longer and show a greater interest in community. These cultural experiences promote openness and reduce aggression, contributing to a more harmonious school climate.
For us, social participation in high culture is not an exclusive issue. Inclusion means that all children, regardless of their background and religion, must have access to cultural opportunities such as instrumental lessons and orchestra work. The collaboration with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen has not only had a positive impact on the school climate, but has also strengthened awareness of achievement and creativity.
This partnership has also significantly changed teachers’ perspectives on innovation, school development and organisational development. Making music together, acting and organising strengthen the resilience and self-efficacy of young people.
This globally unique collaboration is not limited to the joint concert formats, but is also open to the public. In addition to projects such as the “Neighbourhood Opera”, the “Melody of Life” and the “Club 443 Hz”, numerous smaller encounters in the corridors and cafeteria, as well as regular rehearsal visits and collaboration with the string and wind classes, are part of everyday school and orchestra life.
Osterholz District Library
Our students benefit from the city library as a versatile extracurricular place of learning right in our school building. At the start of their time at GSO, all Year 5 classes visit the library and get to know its wide range of services.
Whether for presentations, projects or personal interests, research on a wide range of topics can be carried out both individually and as a class during opening hours. In addition, students regularly have the opportunity to attend exciting readings.
A special highlight is the digital school BIBCARD: it can be conveniently used on the school iPad and enables the borrowing of books and other media.
Community work in Bremen-Osterholz
Our school is not only a place of learning, but also an active part of the educational landscape in the Bremen-Osterholz district. We are aware that education and upbringing do not take place in isolation, but within a network of support services and partnerships that enrich the lives of our young people and their families. Our district, which is particularly characterised by excellent networking, offers us a wide range of opportunities for projects and collaborations.
Among other things, through cooperation with the neighbourhood management and the local office, we create a strong network that responds to the needs of the district and the school. Our networking work includes a wide range of projects and events. These include, for example, work with parents together with the Mütterzentrum Osterholz-Tenever e.V. and addiction prevention with KulturAmbulanz.
Beyond the district as well, active networking—such as with Mädchenhaus Bremen, the Bremer JungenBüro or Schattenriss—makes a decisive contribution to a good school for GSO.
Treffpunkt Natur & Umwelt (TNU)
To promote and restore a species-rich environment, Treffpunkt Natur & Umwelt e.V. (TNU) implements environmental education projects in the immediate residential area. As part of year-group project work, Year 6 in particular cooperates with TNU in carrying out the project “Water”. As part of the project, the children examine micro-organisms in bodies of water near the school, learn how to use a net, practise identifying the species they find, and gain insight into habitats in different waters. Some classes also work more intensively with TNU in regular modules.
NordWest Natur Foundation
The NordWest Natur Foundation supports the work of our learners in the open countryside around the school—in the protected areas of the Bremen Wümme lowlands, which it manages for the State of Bremen. The foundation enables GSO learners to access this area and carry out practical lessons there.
In Years 9 and 10, students are equipped with nets, magnifying glasses, measuring probes and identification aids and, as part of the joint project “Insects connect city and countryside”, collect data on aquatic insects in and on the edge of the Borgfelder Wümmewiesen nature reserve as well as
on their habitat. This creates a picture of how insect fauna develops depending on human intervention and climate change. Through first-hand experience, students can recognise their responsibility for the environment.
In upper secondary school, students collect ecological data in the field. This method has been relevant for the Abitur since 2022. In terms of content, the focus here is on recording and identifying dragonflies. The waters of the Wümme lowlands are explored by bicycle as well as on foot or by canoe.
GemüseAckerdemie
For a generation that knows what it eats!
Gesamtschule Bremen-Ost is a partner of GemüseAckerdemie. This makes us part of a multi-award-winning educational programme for schools. Together with their teachers, students grow their own vegetables on the school’s own plot and learn where the food on our plates comes from.
Students experience first-hand how a crunchy carrot grows from a seed. Together, they take responsibility for their plot and understand the impact of their actions.
In the field, they understand natural connections, broaden their horizons and actively explore their natural surroundings.
The goal: to inspire a young generation for nature and sustainability!
Gerhard Marcks House
A close partnership has developed between our sculpture museum in Bremen and GSO, especially through the project “Is being naked bad?” GSO students were even allowed to exhibit their work in the rooms of the Gerhard Marcks House. We have grown particularly fond of two sculptures. They stand life-size in our entrance area at GSO. The Gerhard Marcks House entrusts us with its sculptures and provides them to us as a permanent loan. Arie Hartog, Director of the Gerhard Marcks House, has remained closely connected to us and often opens art exhibitions in the GSO premises.
Kunsthalle Bremen
We were the first! GSO was the first partner school of Kunsthalle Bremen! Since then, there has been a lively exchange at the Kunsthalle on site. Time and again, the close cooperation provides exciting opportunities: special exhibitions, art education offers on specific topics in art lessons, or special requests from the Kunsthalle. For example, we created TikTok videos for the Kunsthalle Bremen website. In doing so, we naturally drew on content from the Kunsthalle and, almost incidentally, got to know the Kunsthalle and all its artworks very intensively.
This gave us a personal approach to the Kunsthalle. In addition to these valuable experiences, there are free guided tours and aesthetic practice. In particular, students in the art profile classes do not have the opportunity to visit the Kunsthalle only once.
KeK – Children’s Museum
“Children experience art and culture”—that is the motto of the KeK Children’s Museum. The younger year groups enjoy visiting the children’s museum. We also actively contribute there with our own work, most recently with the project “Kapier-Papier”. The children’s museum website states: “For school classes of all ages, KeK offers a versatile education programme at the interface of cultural and political education. In guided tours, discussions and through their own creative work, students can get to know the world of art in all its diversity with curiosity!” We can only confirm these statements!
Sportgarten
Sportgarten Bremen also cooperates with GSO. Together we carry out various projects and take part in Sportgarten sporting events. These include the “Duel of the Giants”, the “One Nations Cup” and the “Global Championship”.
In addition, an ice hockey/hockey project takes place for Year 7. Under the guidance of a coach from Sportgarten, students get to know the team sport of ice hockey in winter and hockey in summer. There is also an internal uni-hockey tournament in Year 7.
Werder Bremen
SV Werder Bremen is a cooperation partner of Gesamtschule Ost. With its initiative, the club aims to promote sport in the region and demonstrates its social responsibility for fair play, anti-discrimination and violence prevention. The aim of this cooperation is to convince children and young people of the importance of a balanced lifestyle through exercise and proper nutrition. In addition, a focus is placed on jointly recognising social responsibility and supporting social projects.
Our school takes part in various activities. These include, among other things, the Werder Cup, in which a selection of Year 6 students participates. In addition, since the 2020/2021 school year, the Werder Sports Badge has been held annually, focusing in particular on body control, coordination and cognitive responsiveness. Furthermore, students have the opportunity to complete training as a youth coach or obtain a coaching licence.
TSV Osterholz-Tenever
We want to inspire as many students as possible to take up sport while also strengthening club structures within the district through new members! Our cooperation with TSV Osterholz-Tenever Bremen, a sports club from the Osterholz district, makes this possible. The school and the club share the sports facilities and are in close contact with each other. This gives students the opportunity to try out various sports free of charge, such as badminton or gymnastics.
Erasmus+
GSO has been accredited for the European education programme Erasmus+ since February 1, 2026. This offers our school fantastic opportunities for international cooperation. We gain long-term access to funding and can regularly implement international projects. Erasmus+ strengthens language skills, intercultural understanding and personal competences, and opens up new opportunities for our school community to experience Europe actively and learn together.
Erasmus+ is a programme of the European Union that promotes international cooperation and learning across
national borders. It enables students and teachers to take part in exchanges, projects and training courses elsewhere in Europe. In autumn 2025, during the neighbourhood opera, we were able to welcome our first visitors from Finland, who were very impressed by this event.
University of Bremen
Since the 2023/2024 school year, GSO has taken part every year in the Bremen Big Data Challenge at the University of Bremen. This upper secondary competition is organised by the Cognitive Institute and takes place with the involvement of the MEVIS Fraunhofer Institute and ZARM (Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity).
Participating students are given tasks in the fields of artificial intelligence, technology or natural sciences, which they are to solve in groups.
We are proud that our students have been able to achieve at least one first place every year so far (mostly in the field of artificial intelligence).
What is special about the competition is that students also have the opportunity to incorporate their achievements into their project work for the Abitur.
