The majority of studies on telecollaboration for educational purposes focus on language-related aspects. Therefore, a qualitative explorative research project was set up at the RuhrUniversity Bochum, Germany, dealing with telecollaboration from the perspective of a non-language discipline; it is based on the approach of transferring telecollaboration to content subjects, more precisely to geography education in the context of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). In this paper, the proceedings and main findings of the preliminary study of the research project are presented. The aim of the preliminary study was to learn more about the extent to which telecollaboration existed in geography education in the whole of Germany and in particular in the federal state of North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW). [For the complete volume, see ED571330.]