There are five French-German secondary schools known in German as Deutsch-Französisches Gymnasium (DFG) and in French as lycée franco-allemand (LFA). The first DFG/LFA was established in Saarbrücken in 1961 as a cooperation between a French and a German school. In 1972, an agreement signed between France and West Germany formalised the DFG/LFA as a unified school form and introduced the French-German Baccalaureate. The schools are also governed by the French-German Schwerin Agreement of 2002. Teachers are paid by the French and German states, and tuition is free of charge. In Germany: