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* Klaus Lieb-Harkort and Nükhet Cimilli transferred the model to their work with immigrants in the German-Turkish area, in Munich. Courses followed in Bremen, Frankfurt and Zürich.

* In 1979, this inspired Jürgen Wolff to develop the Tandem learning partner mediation, initially for Spanish and German. In 1982 a similar course programme designed by Wolff and his colleagues in Madrid later became the basis for the TANDEM network, later established as the TANDEM schools network.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tandem-schools.com/network/ |title=TANDEM: Network |website=tandem-schools.com |date= |accessdate=2016-01-20}}</ref>

* FromSince 1983, the TANDEM model ishas been adopted as an alternative way of language learning, whose basic elements of language courses abroad, youth exchange, cultural tours, class correspondence and similar cross-border activities are replicated in selective schools throughout Europe.

* The network cooperates with various educational institutions including the E-Tandem Network,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ |title=Tandem Server Bochum - language learning exchange partnerships - eTandem |website=Slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de |date= |accessdate=2016-01-20}}</ref> founded in 1992, and renamed the International E-Mail Tandem Network in 1993.

* 'TANDEM Fundazioa<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tandemcity.info/general/en_history.htm |title=TANDEM Fundazioa: history |website=Tandemcity.info |date= |accessdate=2016-01-20}}</ref> was founded in 1994 for the development of scientific cooperation and educational and advanced training with their head office in Donostia/San Sebastian, Spain.