European Enlightenment Research Center

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The European Enlightenment Research Center was a non-university research institute in the state of Brandenburg .

History of the institute

The European Enlightenment Research Center (FEA) emerged from a research focus of the same name. This "European Enlightenment Research Focus" (FSP) was set up in January 1992 on the recommendation of the Science Council. In 1996 the FEA was set up in Potsdam as a non-university research institute. The institution was sponsored by the German Research Foundation and the State of Brandenburg. The FEA was supported by a board of trustees and a scientific advisory board.

At the FEA, processes and structures of the education in Europe should be researched. The research was interdisciplinary and should include the history of ideas, the history of mentality, the history of science, institutions and communication structures of the Enlightenment in the early modern period (from around the 18th century ). The FEA supervised a number of editing, development and research projects, awarded scholarships to doctoral students and visiting scholars and usually organized several conferences a year.

In 2006 the FEA was evaluated by the Science Council . Since, in the opinion of the Science Council, the FEA had not succeeded in developing a convincing research program and, as expected and predicted, it had not become a sufficiently recognized "reference center" for educational research, the Science Council saw only "poor prospects for a continuation of the center ". As a result of this negative evaluation, the eligibility of the FEA was called into question and the research institute was closed in 2007. The library of the former FEA is managed by the Potsdam University Library .

Head of the institute

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ clio-online , accessed October 6, 2010
  2. ↑ Evaluation report on the “European Enlightenment Research Center” ( Memento from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.3 MB). Recommendation of the Science Council, p. 254f. Retrieved September 28, 2010.

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