telc International
telc - Your International Education Partner for the Promotion and Assessment of Language Competences
telc stands for ‘The European Language Certificates’. Founded in Germany, telc is now an international provider of language certificates in more than 30 countries. telc addresses both licensing partners who are interested in internationalization activities and, increasingly, international educational institutions outside Europe.
For educational institutions in partner countries, telc offers a wide range of services for general language and vocational language teaching, as well as for exam preparation and conduction:
Further information on the tiles can be found on this page.
Currently, applications for new venues with special authorization ie. external telc venues (Außenstellen) are still suspended. There are no inspections outside the EU due to Covid 19. We will inform you about news at this point and ask you to refrain from enquiries in the meantime.
What are external telc venues?
External examinations outside the EU are carried out in external telc venues under the responsibility of an experienced telc examination centre, ideally from Germany, Austria or Switzerland. The application to become an external telc venue is therefore made exclusively through this telc licence partner.
Examinations in external telc venues are only conducted digitally.
For information on the selection and approval of telc licence partners to conduct examinations in external telc venues and on the application process, please see the information sheet on external telc venues.
More detailed information on technical and spatial requirements can be found in the checklist for telc licence partners.
Digital exam
telc has recently started offering the following digital examinations in non-European countries:
- telc German B1 digital,
- telc German B2 digital and
- telc Deutsch Pflege B1/B2 digital.
The written and oral examinations are taken on computer under supervision at an external telc venue. The oral examination takes place via video conferencing software. The examiners are connected from the countries of origin of the licence partners.
Guidelines telc digital examinations
Please note that digital examinations may currently only be offered outside the EU incl. EFTA in inspected external telc venues.
Country overview
telc currently offers examinations at external telc venues in the following countries:
- Egypt
- Indonesia
- Morocco
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- Vietnam
Would you like to take an examination at one of our external telc venues, or are you interested in becoming an external telc venue? In the country overview you will find license partners that are authorized conducting examinations at external telc venues.
Cooperation initiation
Are you a telc licence partner, ideally from Germany, Austria or Switzerland, do you meet the selection criteria and are you interested in conducting examinations in external telc venues?
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You are an educational institution outside Europe, meet the spatial and technical requirements and would like to make your premises available for telc examinations?
telc would be happy to inform you about the next steps and, if necessary, arrange cooperation partnerships. Please contact telc Licensing for further information.
Whether you are a course provider, teacher, course participant or self-learner – telc provides the right training material incl. textbooks, further education, and language certificates for German lessons - from levels A1 to C2.
telc offer for levels B1 and B2
The professional integration of skilled workers in Germany is one of the central concerns of the non-profit organisation telc GmbH. The German programme includes both general language and vocational language support. telc offers teaching material specifically for levels B1 and B2.
telc Webshop
German for the job
telc's overall programme German for the Professions includes various competence assessments, job-related language examinations, a publishing programme as well as a comprehensive qualification programme for course instructors.
German for Nursing and medical professions
Medical professions require linguistic accuracy and communication competence that exceeds the requirements of most other professions. For this reason, telc offers examinations that verify general and specialist language competence of nurses and physicians.
Textbooks, additional materials, learning materials for exam preparation and practice tests are available for all telc exams.
telc Deutsch C1
telc Deutsch C1 Hochschule tests university-related German language skills at a highly advanced level.
The examination is aimed at adults who would like to study at a German speaking university, who are already studying or who work in an academic profession and would like to prove their German language skills. For professional purposes, telc Deutsch C1 Beruf is also suitable.
Further information incl. practice material
Sales partner in Southeast Asia - Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia
Piefke Trading | Manila
Interview with Angelo Siegel, Managing Director of Piefke Trading in the telc newsletter.
International Sales Partners
If you are interested in telc textbooks, please contact our sales representatives.
telc offers online further education and training for language teachers, lecturers and staff in educational institutions under the label telc Training.
For lecturers and teachers telc provides courses, workshops, and seminars online.
telc Programme for Language Instructors
The following certificate courses are recommended for teaching professionals in their countries of origin.
- Teaching German Abroad (DE)
- Zertifizierter LIVE-Online-Dozent (m/w/d)
- Advancing Digital Skills for Language Teaching (EN)
telc symposia Teaching German as a Foreign Language
Would you like to get a taste of telc free of charge?
Then register for the telc symposia on Teaching German as a Foreign Language (telc DaF/DaZ Fachtag). This event offers new impulses in the areas of linguistics, media, second language acquisition and interculturality.
telc Symposia
Free online seminars and events for German instructors
Our online seminars give you tips for your lessons and inform you about current telc offers. It's easy to take part: all you need is a laptop or tablet with speakers or headphones and a stable internet connection.
Our DaF/DaZ Fachtage for German instructors offer new impulses in the areas of linguistics, media, second language acquisition and interculturality.
During the training course on examination compliance, telc staff will explain to you first-hand what needs to be taken into account when organising and conducting examinations.
Driving innovation in the field of language teaching
The non-profit telc GmbH cooperates with a broad network of institutions:
National authorities (examples)
- Federal Office for Migration and Refugees
- German Foreign Office or the German missions abroad
- Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual)
- Ministry of Education of Turkey
- Austrian Integration Fund (ÖIF)
2500 examination centres worldwide
Licence partners in almost 30 countries
The non-profit telc GmbH is happy to contribute its expertise in the field of test development and the implementation of international educational projects. Get in touch with us. We look forward to hearing from you!
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Pilot projects
Being a non-profit, international education provider with a large team in test development, telc is interested in driving innovation in the field of language competence teaching. telc therefore increasingly considers the views of international customers and the latest scientific findings in the further development of products and services.
In the digital field in particular, user orientation plays a decisive role in acceptance, which is why feedback rounds have been organized over the past 18 months and digital products have been tested with and by customers.
Test development - how it works
Pilot project Philippines – Teaching German to Filipino nurses
The special circumstances in the Philippines enabled telc to pilot new products and services with local partners.
Thanks to the openness and expertise of our pilot partners, telc further improved
- the new examination telc German Nursing B1/B2 digital,
- the online course Teaching German Abroad
- the eBook series on Deutsch Pflege
- When and where do language examinations take place?
- For which languages are telc examinations offered?
- How can I prepare for a telc examination?
- Does telc also offer courses for exam preparation?
- Does telc offer digital examinations?
telc examinations
- Are telc German certificates recognised by German authorities and offices?
- Are telc certificates also recognised in other countries?
- Is telc is an ALTE partner?
Recognition of telc examinations
- Can I obtain a telc licence as an educational institution outside the EU?
- Are overseas inspections taking place again?
telc Licence
- Does the examination take place from home (so-called remote proctoring)?
- How secure is the testing software?
- Can content be freely selected and thus manipulated?
- Isn't the analogue examination easier than the digital one?
- What about data security?
- Do examiners need a licence to conduct oral examinations in digital format?
- Who at telc is the contact person for the digital examination?
Digital exam
- Who is responsible for the digital examination?
- Why can only examiners from the country of origin of the licence partner be used?
Responsibility for examinations (external telc venue)
- May only exams in external telc venues be carried out digitally?
- May participants bring their own devices?
- Is it possible to bring one's own devices from Germany?
- Are technical requirements of the premises also inspected?
- Is there a requirement for the number of computer workstations?
- How do I manage administration offline?
- Is a German keyboard necessary?
Hardware, software and internet connection (external telc venue)
- Is the examination registration the same for the paper-based and digital examinations?
- How do the examination administrators receive the examination papers A30 and A50, and how are they sent to telc?
- Is the time zone entered in Surpass?
Exam preparation and registration in the telc Community and Surpass (external telc venue)
- The processing of the individual skills is time-limited in the paper-based format. Is this also the case with the digital exam?
- Are paired examinations still possible?
- When can the results be expected after the digital examinations?
Examination administration and transmission (external telc venue)
- Are partial examinations also possible with digital examinations, and are passed partial examinations from the face-to-face examinations recognised?
- Until when is a passed partial examination valid?
- Can participants of a classic paper examination have passed parts recognised and repeat the written or oral part digitally?
Partial examinations (external telc venue)
- Can you repeat the audios in the exam?
- How can I adjust the display of the PDFs in a way that the tasks stay visible?
- Is it possible to bring one's own devices from Germany?
Mock test (external telc venue)
- Are telc venues allowed to advertise examination dates?
- Is the telc venue allowed to use the telc logo in the application?
