As part of our ongoing work on the school development programme, the staff of Landesschule Pforta intensively works with both students and parents as well as with experts from the ministry of education of Saxony-Anhalt in order to improve and intensify the concept of catering and promoting gifted students. Landesschule Pforta is a state maintained boarding school offering specialisation in foreign languages, sciences and music for gifted and eager students aged 14 to 19 through additional contents in special courses. Also some courses or sequences are being taught in English or bilingually. Two of the main areas of the school development programme are the intensification of those bilingual offers as well as the development of a special curriculum for our secondary level students to achieve a higher level of study abilities, concentrating on scientific work and study methods as well as additional contents in several subjects as well as interdisciplinary course contents. The in-service-trainings planned are to enable colleagues to develop or improve such concepts. Additionally, the results are hoped to encourage even more members of our staff to immerse themselves in the process of developing and improving the quality of education, especially of gifted students. Naturally, the experiences and abilities developed in those training programs are to directly benefit the quality of the lessons. Two of the participants (teachers of Physics/Maths and of English/German) have been teaching Physic bilingually (English/German) for a couple of years and have developed a special curriculum or this course, which is an additional offer for students of the sciences branch. One of the two participants is the chairperson of the working group of the school-development-programme that works on developing the implementation of bilingual teaching in the different subjects of the languages, social sciences and natural sciences specialisation. The third participant of the ERASMUS+ / COMENIUS programme teaches Physics, Astronomy and Maths and has been working on the development of a course curriculum for bilingual Astronomy/Astrophysics in cooperation with another colleague (English/German) which is supposed to be started in the coming school year. The colleagues will take part in in-service-training-programmes that especially cater for teachers who teach natural sciences bilingually (Content & Language Integrated Learning, CLIL). As a result we expect an immediate improvement of the quality of these special bilingual offers as well as a long term improvement of the quality of teaching and f the concept of promotion of gifted students at Landesschule Pforta. The experiences and skills acquired in those trainings are to give an additional boost to our school-development-programme. Additionally we hope to encourage other members of our staff to engage more intensively in European educational programmes. In internal, regional and supra-regional teacher training courses the participants are supposed to let even more teachers profit from the results of the European training programmes and the conceptual work. Last but not least it is very important fot the participants to be given the chance to exchange ideas and develop links with teachers from secondary schools in different European countries as to widen their perspectives.