Founded in 1832 the Friedrich-Albert-Lange school of today is a vocational college with about 2,300 students from over 30 different nations attending full-time or part-time classes. The students can choose between several training courses – from the three-year-training school for apprentices up to an extra-occupational four-year-training for corrosion prevention technicians.

After a nearly ninety years lasting residence at the Schinkelplatz in the inner city of Duisburg the Friedrich-Albert-Lange Berufskolleg will move to a new school building in September 2011. Together with a commercial vocational college and the college for further education (Duisburg’s extra-occupational secondary and grammar school) it will move to a new residence in Duisburg Neudorf. The conctruction work has started in January 2010 and teachers as well as students look forward to this brand-new school. It will be the 7th location for the FAL college in the 178-year-old school history.

The FAL college cultivates two partnerships with schools in Portsmouth, Great-Britain and Györ, Hungary. The partnership with the Highbury College of Technology in Portsmouth had been set up in 1974 and a continuous student exchange is proceeding ever since. Relations between the Lukás Sándor School in Györ (the former school No. 400) and the FAL college exist since 1988. About 200 students and ten teachers from the FAL college have visited Györ since 1989 and about 130 students and 30 teachers from Györ came to Duisburg. The contact to the Hungarian students gets easier every year because nowadays German is a normal school subject in Hungary.