Leibniz Research Network Educational Potential
The Leibniz Research Network Educational Potentials (LERN - Leibniz Education Research Network) is an interdisciplinary research network devoted to questions of formal and informal education in all phases of life.
In the research network, researchers from 25 institutions (18 institutes of the Leibniz Association and 7 other institutes) have joined forces to expand their expertise in the disciplines of education, specialist didactics, linguistics, cultural, media and neurosciences, economics, political science, psychology, sociology and To bundle information science and computer science.
Structure and organization
The Leibniz Research Network Educational Potentials was founded on January 1, 2013 as the "Leibniz Research Association Educational Potential", initially for five years and extended in 2017 for a further period of seven years until December 31, 2024. In July 2020 it was converted into a research network by a research association.
The network is led by a group of five speakers:
- Marcus Hasselhorn ( Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education )
- Ulrike Cress ( Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media )
- Olaf Köller ( Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at Kiel University )
- Heike Solga ( Berlin Science Center for Social Research )
- Christa Katharina Spieß ( German Institute for Economic Research )
The chairman of the speaker group is Marcus Hasselhorn, Heike Solga is deputy. The coordination of the Leibniz research network Educational Potential is at DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Educational Research and Educational Information. In addition to network activities, the tasks also include communication and the organization of events.
aims
The Leibniz Research Network Educational Potentials has four main goals, which concern its research activities and the exchange with other actors in educational research and educational practice: interdisciplinary research cooperation, scientific exchange and the promotion of young talent, national and international networking, as well as knowledge transfer and advice. In order to promote dialogue, the network's educational policy forum has been held annually in Berlin since 2013 on current topics:
- Education Policy Forum 2013: "Measurement of Competencies"
- Education Policy Forum 2014: "Investment in Education and Returns to Education over the Life Course"
- Education Policy Forum 2015: "Acceptance and feasibility of educational reforms: How we can exploit educational potential"
- Education Policy Forum 2016: "Migration and Integration: How Can Potentials Be Developed?"
- Education Policy Forum 2017: "Education Potential in Times of Digital Change"
- Education Policy Forum 2018: "Potentials of early education: 'Early practice ...'"
- Education Policy Forum 2019: "Education needs more than a smart head"
- Education Policy Forum 2020: "Good Language Education"
Network partner
- German Institute for Adult Education - Leibniz Center for Lifelong Learning (DIE)
- Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education (DIPF)
- German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
- German Center for University and Science Research (DZHW)
- Georg Eckert Institute - Leibniz Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI)
- Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences (GESIS)
- Hector Institute for Empirical Educational Research (HIB)
- Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
- Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)
- Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS)
- Ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich eV
- Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN)
- Institute for Quality Development in Education (IQB)
- Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media (IWM)
- Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi)
- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN)
- Mercator Institute for Language Promotion and German as a Second Language
- Roman-Germanic Central Museum - Leibniz Research Institute for Archeology (RGZM)
- RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
- University of Luxembourg
- Science Center Berlin for Social Research (WZB)
- Leibniz Center for General Linguistics (ZAS)
- Center for European Economic Research GmbH (ZEW)
- Leibniz Center for Psychological Information and Documentation (ZPID)
- Center for International Comparative Educational Studies (ZIB)