Felix, age 6, has already lived in India, Japan and Bulgaria and speaks English and German fluently – a typical cosmopolitan North Rhine-Westphalian. But as a North Rhine-Westphalian, you don’t just love new impressions from foreign countries, but also an international social environment in your own country and state. That is why many people from countries all over the world feel comfortable in the metropolitan region. More than 10,000 foreign companies employ over 500,000 employees in Germany’s number one investment location. And so that their children also can settle in and make new friends quickly, there is already a large selection of schools in North Rhine-Westphalia that offer international university-entrance diplomas. For instance the ISR in Neuss on the Rhine which Felix has attended since he got back to Germany.