Study-related stays abroad enrich the educational biography of students on various levels, but for many they represent a major organizational, financial and emotional hurdle. The proportion of those who decide to spend time abroad has been stagnating for several years, and the duration of stays abroad is also tending to shorten. In addition, applied linguistic research shows that the potential of a stay abroad for linguistic development is often not exploited. The reasons for this are little intensive contact in the target language and/or and a lack of openness to other cultures and language practices. Systematic preparation with belgleitender support would be an asset, but rarely occurs. The Covid-19 pandemic demonstrates the benefits of digital teaching/learning experiences; digital exchange formats (e.g., global classrooms and e-tandems) provide opportunities for initiating and facilitating genuine intercultural encounters. In the DigiCLIL project, foreign language and intercultural competencies can be developed in contexts with strong content and themes in which the topics are dealt with in the foreign language as the working language and intercultural learning is specifically reflected and accompanied. The planned international project on blended learning and e-tandem is intended to give Leuphana students, in cooperation with students from partner universities, the opportunity to participate in authentic, mediated discourses from their desks at home.