OISE Heidelberg has an accommodation officer dedicated to find high quality accommodation for all course participants

Each host family is selected and monitored according to strict criteria laid down by OISE: Houses must be comfortable, the hosts welcoming and genuinely interested in receiving students and helping them to develop fluency in German.

Potential host families are interviewed by a trained accommodation officer and their homes inspected. All information about the host family such as special diets, domestic animals, interests etc. will be managed in a special list. As guidance they receive an OISE host family brochure.

Regular visits to families together with a careful analysis of students’ comments ensure that the high standards demanded by OISE are being maintained.

OISE has a policy of never allowing two students of the same mother tongue to stay in any one family.