The aim of the cultural exchange program is for schools to share and learn from school communities different to their own.
This may include exchanges between:
- schools with differing degrees of cultural diversity among their student populations
- country and city schools with different school populations
- schools with student populations from different cultural backgrounds
- inner and outer metropolitan schools with different school populations
- schools with different religious affiliations
- schools of different types including government and non-government, single sex and co-educational, primary and secondary schools.
Schools involved in a cultural exchange together determine the aim and content of their program and the learning and social outcomes that they hope students will achieve.