LERN tion Research Network – a Leibniz Alliance
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“There is only one thing
in the long run more
expensive than education:
no education.”
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John F. Kenn
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We live, as we are constantly reminded, in a
‘knowledge society’ and we know that education
is decisive for innovation and competitiveness.
Above all, however, it is the key to the individual’s
ability to play a part in life and the world. An
educational deficit would not only be expensive
in financial terms – we neither want, nor are we
able to pay the social and personal price it would
incur. This might be even more important today
than ever before because we have realised that
education is a modern society’s leading resource.
Educational research generates important
insights and develops methods that can help us to
use this resource fairly and efficiently.
Educational research is a focus of the Leibniz
Association and it illustrates the standards
we expect from Leibniz research overall: to
collaborate in research alliances for the benefit
of society. Fifteen Leibniz institutes have pooled
their expertise in the Leibniz Education Research
Network – together they conduct cross-disciplinary projects to address the question as to
how our education system should function. The
partners in this alliance have ambitious goals:
they want to elucidate the connection between
knowledge and participation, draw up and test
strategies for efficient skills training, and also
develop tools for measuring the performance of
the education system and its sub-systems.
The results of this collaboration between experts
from different disciplines are conveyed to the
stakeholders in the education system in a practice-related, pragmatic way. The alliance and the
application-related basic research conducted by
its members are thus an inspiration and illustration for the Leibniz Association and its cooperative format, the Leibniz Research Alliances.
Matthias Kleiner
President of the Leibniz Association
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Theoria cum praxi: science for the
benefit and good of humanity
The Leibniz Association identifies focus areas for knowledge transfer to policy-makers, academia, business and
the public. Leibniz institutions collaborate intensively
with universities – in formats like the “Leibniz ScienceCampi” – as well as with industry and other partners
at home and abroad. They are subject to a transparent,
independent evaluation procedure to ensure their
continued development. Due to their importance for
the country as a whole, they are funded jointly by the
Federal and Länder Governments of Germany.
How should we deal with radical interventions in the
environment in the 21st century? How can we utilise
historical knowledge and thus learn from the past?
How can we equip children and young people as well
as adults so that they can master the challenges facing
society now and in the future? These and other socially,
economically and ecologically relevant issues are the
focus of the Leibniz Association. It comprises 89 independent research institutions in Germany, the Leibniz
Institutes, which carry out research in the natural
sciences, engineering, environmental science, economics, spatial and social sciences as well as the humanities.
Leibniz Institutes generate both fundamental insights
and open up applications in these fields. They also
promote scientific exchange in the context of research
alliances and offer research-based services such as ideas
screening and doctoral workshops.
Leibniz Institutes employ some 18,100 individuals,
including 9,200 researchers. The entire budget of all the
institutes is approximately 1.64 billion euro per annum
(as of 2014).
Leibniz Institutes band together in Leibniz Research
Alliances like LERN in order to address current issues
employing an inter- or transdisciplinary approach. The
research alliances are established for a period of five to
fifteen years.
The LERN alliance portfolio: networks,
collaborations, consultancy
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Joint research is the factor connecting the members
of LERN and their partners. In order to investigate
research themes from diverse perspectives using a
collaborative approach, LERN works together with
research groups at universities and other non-university
research and science institutions in Germany and
abroad. Knowledge transfer and consultancy are two
important fields of activity. The partners in the LERN
Alliance invite questions from educational researchers,
practitioners, policy-makers and administrators and
share their wide knowledge of educational research,
documentation and information infrastructure issues. LERN also serves a broader
public as a point of contact on educational
matters.
LERN takes part in national and international specialist conferences and regularly
runs events itself, such as interdisciplinary
symposia for established investigators and
junior researchers as well as the alliance’s
annual Forum on Education Policy. The
latter specifically targets educational
policy-makers and administrators in
Germany, such as ministries and education
authorities in addition to other educational
stakeholders like teachers’ associations
and foundations.
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DIEGerman Institute for Adult Education –
Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning
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DIPFGerman Institute for International
Educational Research
DIWGerman Institute for Economic Research
GEI
Georg Eckert Institute for
International Textbook Research
GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
LIN
Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
IAMO Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition
Economies
LlfBiLeibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories
RWIRheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
ifo
Ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic
Research at the University of Munich
uni.lu University of Luxembourg
WZBBerlin Social Science Center
IPNLeibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education
ZEWCentre for European Economic Research
IQBInstitute for Educational Quality Improvement
IWMLeibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien
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ZPID Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information
ice – International Cooperation in Education
Services for educational researchers include:
„„ Project Consulting: ice helps establish international
consortia, for example for OECD or UNESCO projects,
and offers assistance in the early stages of a project
to identify topics and develop financial strategies.
International Cooperation in Education is the international liaison office within LERN. ice promotes the
exchange of educational research between Germany and
international partners. It provides advice and support
for individual educational researchers and educational
institutions seeking to establish or consolidate German/
international research initiatives.
„„ Research Funding: ice provides information on
research funding tailored to the needs of educational
research. To tap financial resources for projects, ice
turns to the calls of the EU-research and innovation
programme Horizon 2020, the European Science
Foundation, bi- and multilateral agreements, and
foundations operating on a European and international scale.
In addition, the team organises international conferences and symposia and prepares evaluation studies
and research reports for organisations that operate
internationally.
„„ Young Researchers: ice helps young researchers to
keep track of the latest developments in Brussels by
regularly organising study days on European funding
opportunities.
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Olaf Köller
Tapping potential together
Interdisciplinary research
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ducation is central to society, science and
business. It opens the doors to professional
success for the individual and empowers people
to play an active role in society, determining
their own way of life. In modern societies,
economic developments, cultural wealth and
social cohesion are highly dependent on educational opportunities and the performance of
the entire education system. Every country’s
education system has its different strengths and
weaknesses, as was demonstrated by the major
international student assessment survey PISA,
for example.
ollaborative research intentionally crosses
the boundaries between academic disciplines. It embraces all sectors of education, from
early learning, care and preschool teaching via
the primary and secondary sectors, vocational
and higher education through to continuing
education during and after professional life.
In addition to educational institutions, the
emphasis is also placed on other educational
environments such as the family, firms or
associations. LERN focusses on five specific
areas: competencies and professionalisation,
knowledge and participation, education and
equity, returns to education, and educational
monitoring and information.
T
his is where the Leibniz Education Research
Network – LERN comes in. It bundles and
supports the work of its researchers from the
various specialist disciplines in the Leibniz
Association and associated institutions – the
first to do so on such a large scale, and unique
in Germany.
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Director of the IPN,
the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education
‘What is the ultimate big goal of my research? Better maths and science
teaching. My work is my hobby – I really enjoy it. But I also experience
school as the father of two children. It’s very interesting to see how
many research results find their way into the classroom. For example, the
children come home and say “We’ve got a non-specialist maths teacher.
He’s useless and we don’t understand a thing!” And I can only reply that
this, unfortunately, is exactly what our research has told us.’
Competencies and
professionalisation
The internet offers a wealth of easyaccess learning and information options.
In order to be able to make good use of
them, abilities and skills are required
which go beyond the core competencies
learnt at school: from sophisticated
searches on the internet via critical
appraisal of the most diverse documents
through to multimedia learning strategies or methods of avoiding distraction.
The research alliance LERN aims to
describe and explain how to acquire
these competencies and to analyse
and promote the mental processing of
information. Knowledge and education
will only be generated if we empower
learners to deal with the flood of
information sensibly and purposefully.
Olaf Köller
Flagship Project: National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)
„„ Subject: Educational processes and competence development
in Germany from early childhood to late adulthood (data freely
available for researchers at home and abroad)
„„ Research questions: How do educational processes develop
over the lifespan? How do we acquire competencies and how
are they influenced? How do they contribute to economic
and non-economic returns and to successful lifelong learning
(both within and outside of institutions)?
„„ LERN Alliance partners: Leibniz Institute for Educational
Trajectories (LIfBi), German Institute for Adult Education –
Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning (DIE), German Institute for
International Educational Research (DIPF), Ifo Institute –
Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University
of Munich, Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics
Education (IPN), Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB), Centre for
European Economic Research (ZEW)
„„ Additional information: www.lifbi.de
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Ulrike Cress
Ulrike Cress
Juliane Stahl
Deputy Director of the IWM, investigates knowledge processes in new media
investigates the quality of early education at DIW Berlin
‘I do a lot of research using Wikipedia, which is created jointly by many
different users. It’s fascinating that the discussion processes we observe
in self-organised communities like this lead us back to a much, much more
fundamental concept of education: education as a means to understanding
the world, beyond school or university. In Germany, we still think of
education in terms of institutions. My dream? That one day, school should
be a kind of Wikipedia where students are allowed to discover knowledge
and develop the subject matter together with their teachers.’
‘I think it was my sense of justice that got me into educational research.
Everyone should have the same chances in life, but this is really not the
case in Germany. So I am now studying the quality of early education and
care. When it comes to public awareness, this is rather a neglected topic
in my opinion, particularly in relation to equal educational opportunities.’
Knowledge and participation
Flagship Project: Peer productivity in Web 2.0
Environments
Societal, political, social, cultural and scientific
participation are key terms in the context of lifelong
learning. Participation in the sense of playing an
active role in various processes is essential for
learning and acquiring knowledge. Currently, the
internet offers a wealth of opportunities including
broad access to information and simple networking
options. Ideally, participation is not a one-way street:
learners should not only absorb information but
generate it as well. The Wikipedia phenomenon, for
example, demonstrates how people working together
can create, structure and share knowledge, close
knowledge gaps and correct erroneous information.
This is how participation supports lifelong learning,
and promotes critical thinking and the formation of
considered opinions.
„„ Subject: How Web 2.0 technologies have revolutionised learning
„„ Research questions: How do people collaboratively create knowledge? When do different
opinions converge over time, when do they
polarise?
„„ LERN Alliance partners: Leibniz-Institut für
Wissensmedien (IWM), Centre for European
Economic Research (ZEW) and the University of
Tübingen
„„ Additional information:
www.wissenschaftscampus-tuebingen.de/
IWM_Projekt_ProduktivitaetWeb2_0.html
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Juliane Stahl
Education and equity
Flagship Project: Berliner
Studienberechtigten Panel (BEST-UP)
Educational processes build on one another, which
means that earlier phases of education have a decisive
impact on later educational opportunities and thus also
on long-term employment opportunities and chances in
life. In this way, early inequalities in life can harden into
major inequalities in education and participation and
eventually affect all other areas of life. Therefore, if we
want to understand how social inequality arises in the
process of acquiring education we have to investigate
educational processes across several phases of life and
educational institutions. Moreover, an individual’s education is dependent on many influences which cannot
be considered properly by any one academic discipline.
To this extent, we need interdisciplinary collaboration
amongst researchers – for example, educational scientists, economists, psychologists and sociologists, but also
political scientists and philosophers – in order to plumb
the depths of educational policy issues.
„„ Subject: Post-secondary education decisions
of young people, particularly from non-academic families
„„ Research questions: How do young people
make their educational decisions when they
finish school? What educational path do they
choose – tertiary or vocational education?
What influence do university selection
procedures have in this context?
„„ LERN Alliance partners: German Institute
for Economic Research Berlin (DIW Berlin),
Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB)
„„ Additional information:
www.diw.de/best-up
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Eckhard Klieme
Head of the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education
Director of the DIPF,
the German Institute for International Educational Research
‘I’m an economist, so educational research was not the obvious path for
me to take. I wanted to investigate the foundations of prosperity in society. It soon became clear, however, that education is the most important
component. So I am now in exactly the right place to do my research. I still
find the first few days, when we have fresh, new data, really exciting. And
even after many years, this excitement, the passion for knowledge, does
not wear thin.’
Returns to education
Returns to education are the results of educational
processes, or to put it another way, the answer to the
important question: ‘What are the fruits of education?’
Educational processes take place in different contexts – in
families, child care facilities, schools, universities, firms
and continuing education institutions. Both these environments and the different education systems in various
regions influence returns to education. Furthermore, they
are closely linked to the abilities of learners and teachers.
In addition to cognitive abilities, other characteristics
like motivation and self-regulation are important. Some
returns to education, such as income, can be classified in
material terms. Others, like better employment opportunities or a higher status, can barely be expressed in
terms of money, if at all. Returns to education also include
components that have nothing whatsoever to do with
employment, such as health behaviour and satisfaction
with life. The individual’s returns to education can
increase the prosperity of society as a whole.
Flagship Project: German Socio-Economic Panel
Study (SOEP)
„„ Subject: A representative household panel
study of 15,000 private households in
Germany, covering topics such as the labour
market, education, family life, as well as
personality, opinions and life satisfaction
(data freely available for researchers)
„„ Research questions (examples): How
do parents from different socio-economic
backgrounds take educational decisions for
their children? How do parental decisions and
educational institutions shape educational
opportunities and child development?
„„ LERN Alliance partner: German Institute for
Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
„„ Additional information:
www.diw.de/en/soep
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‘I am fascinated by teaching – perhaps because I experienced school as
a very inspiring place when I was a youth. For the last 35 years, I have
been visiting classrooms armed with cameras, surveys and tests to try and
discover what goes on between teachers and pupils and when education
really is successful. I also find it very exciting that psychology, educational
science and subject-matter education all flow into my research.’
Educational monitoring and
information
Anyone looking to the future development of the
German education system must be very familiar
with its fields of action and realities. The core
task of our researchers is, therefore, to continuously collect information and make it available
and usable not only for researchers, politicians
and administrators but also for practitioners and
the public at large. Apart from general information on educational institutions, personnel
and expenditure, this also includes descriptions
of educational processes and results as well
as descriptions of the demographic, economic
and other social general conditions governing
education. Research data and their analysis play
an increasingly important role in this context. All
in all, these procedures make it possible to report
on the education sector in Germany at national,
regional and local level.
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Eckhard Klie
Flagship Project The PIAAC-Longitudinal Study in
Germany (PIAAC-L)
„„ Subject: Three-wave longitudinal follow-up of the
German respondents to PIAAC (Programme for the
International Assessment of Adult Competencies)
with the objective of extending and enhancing the
analytical potential of the German PIAAC data
„„ Research questions: How are skills gained, lost, and
maintained in the adult population? What impact
do skills have on employment opportunities? What
impact do skills have on participation in society and
personal well-being? How similar or different are
partners’ competencies?
„„ LERN Alliance partners: Leibniz Institute for
the Social Sciences (GESIS), German Institute for
Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and the Leibniz
Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi)
„„ Additional information: www.gesis.org/piaac-l
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German Institute for Adult Education – Leibniz
Centre for Lifelong Learning (DIE)
German Institute for International Educational
Research (DIPF)
President of the Leibniz Association
www.die-bonn.de/default.aspx?lang=en
www.dipf.de/en
Heinemannstr. 12-14
D-53175 Bonn
DIPF Frankfurt
Schloßstraße 29
D-60486 Frankfurt/Main
Contact
Contact
Prof. Dr Josef Schrader
Scientific Director
** schrader@die-bonn.de
)) +49 (0) 228 – 3 29 41 03
Prof. Dr Marcus Hasselhorn
Executive Director of DIPF
and chair of of the LERN group of speakers
** hasselhorn@dipf.de
)) +49 (0) 69 - 24 70 82 14
Sarah Behr
Public and Press Information Officer
** behr@die-bonn.de
)) +49 (0) 228 – 3 29 43 28
Dr Steffen Schmuck-Soldan
Head of the Communications Office
** schmuck-soldan@dipf.de
)) +49 (0) 69 – 24 70 81 33
Research Foci in the Network:
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DIPF Berlin
Warschauer Straße 34-38
D-10243 Berlin
Acquisition of competencies and professionalisation,
Knowledge and participation, Education and equity,
Returns to education, Educational monitoring and
information
Research Foci in the Network:
Acquisition of competencies and professionalisation,
Knowledge and participation, Education and equity,
Returns to education, Educational monitoring and
information
Research Disciplines:
Economics, Educational research, Educational
science, Sociology, Subject-matter education
Research Disciplines:
Educational science, Computer science, Information
science, Law, Psychology, Sociology
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German Institute for Economic Research
(DIW Berlin)
Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook
Research. Member of the Leibniz Association (GEI)
Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS)
Ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic
Research at the University of Munich
www.diw.de/en
www.gei.de/nc/en/georg-eckert-institute.html
www.gesis.org/en/home/
www.cesifo-group.de/ifoHome.html
Contact
Contact
Mohrenstraße 58
D-10117 Berlin
Celler Straße 3
D-38114 Braunschweig
Prof. Dr C. Katharina Spieß
Head of the Department “Education and Family”
and member of the LERN group of speakers
** kspiess@diw.de
)) +49 (0) 30 – 89 78 92 54
Prof. Dr Eckhardt Fuchs
Deputy Director
** fuchs@gei.de
)) + 49 (0) 531 – 5 90 99 50
Catrin Schoneville
Press and Public Relations
** schoneville@gei.de
)) +49 (0) 531 – 5 90 99 504
Research Foci in the Network:
Acquisition of competencies and professionalisation,
Knowledge and participation, Education and equity,
Returns to education, Educational monitoring and
information
Research Foci in the Network:
Acquisition of competencies and professionalisation,
Knowledge and participation, Education and equity,
Returns to education, Educational monitoring and
information
Research Disciplines:
Economics, Psychology, Sociology, Survey research
Research Disciplines:
Cultural studies, Educational science, Ethnology,
Geography, Islamic studies, Political sciences,
Religious studies, Science of history
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GESIS Mannheim
Quadrat B2, 1
D-68159 Mannheim
Contact
GESIS Köln
Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8
D-50667 Köln
Poschingerstr. 5
D-81679 München
Contact
Prof. Dr Ludger Wößmann
Director of the Ifo Center for the Economics of
Education
** woessmann@ifo.de
)) +49 (0) 89 – 92 24 16 99
Prof. Dr Beatrice Rammstedt
Head of the Department “Survey Design and
Methodology”
** beatrice.rammstedt@gesis.org
)) +49 (0) 621 – 1 24 61 55
Research Foci in the Network:
Research Foci in the Network:
Acquisition of competencies and professionalisation,
Knowledge and participation, Education and equity,
Returns to education, Educational monitoring and
information
Acquisition of competencies and professionalisation,
Education and equity, Returns to education,
Educational monitoring and information
Research Disciplines:
Research Disciplines:
Economics
Sociology, Computer science, Economics, Educational
research, Information science, Political sciences,
Psychology, Statistics
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Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories
(LIfBi)
Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics
Education (IPN)
Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN)
Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM)
www.lifbi.de/en-us/home.aspx
www.ipn.uni-kiel.de/en?set_language=en
www.lin-magdeburg.de/en/index.jsp
Contact
Contact
Brenneckestr. 6
D-39118 Magdeburg
www.iwm-tuebingen.de/www/en/index.html
Contact
Schleichstraße 6
D-72076 Tübingen
Contact
Prof. Dr Olaf Köller
Managing Director and member of the LERN group of
speakers
** koeller@ipn.uni-kiel.de
)) +49 (0) 431 – 8 80 31 20
Prof. Dr Frank Ohl
Head of the Department “Systems Physiology of
Learning”
** Frank.Ohl@lin-magdeburg.de
)) +49 (0) 391 – 6 26 39 54 81
Prof. Dr Dr Friedrich W. Hesse
Executive Director and member of the LERN group of
speakers
** f.hesse@iwm-tuebingen.de
)) +49 (0) 7071 – 97 92 15
Research Foci in the Network:
Research Foci in the Network:
Wilhelmsplatz 3
D-96047 Bamberg
Olshausenstr. 62
D-24118 Kiel
Prof. Dr Hans-Günther Roßbach
Director
** hans-guenther.rossbach@lifbi.de
)) +49 (0) 951 – 8 63 18 20
Dr Jutta von Maurice
Executive Director of Research
** jutta.von-maurice@lifbi.de
)) +49 (0) 951 – 8 63 27 86
Dr Ute Ringelband
Head of Public Relations
** ringelband@ipn.uni-kiel.de
)) +49 (0) 431 – 8 80 31 22
Dr Götz Lechner
Public Relations and Respondent Communications
** goetz.lechner@lifbi.de
)) +49 (0) 951 – 8 63 35 26
Acquisition of competencies and professionalisation,
Knowledge and participation, Education and equity,
Returns to education, Educational monitoring and
information
Research Foci in the Network:
Acquisition of competencies and professionalisation,
Knowledge and participation, Education and equity,
Returns to education, Educational monitoring and
information
Research Disciplines:
Educational research, Educational science,
Psychology, Subject-matter education
Research Disciplines:
Economics, Educational science, Psychology,
Sociology, Computer science, Linguistics,
Mathematics, Physics
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Dr Constanze Seidenbecher
Head of Science Management and Public Relations
** seidenc@lin-magdeburg.de
)) +49 (0) 391 – 6 26 39 24 01
Research Foci in the Network:
Acquisition of competencies and professionalisation,
Knowledge and participation, Education and equity,
Returns to education, Educational monitoring and
information
Research Disciplines:
Returns to education
Educational science, Computer science, Psychology
Research Disciplines:
Behavioural neuroscience, Neurobiology of learning
and memory, Cognitive neuroscience
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Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information
(ZPID)
Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für
Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)
www.zpid.de/index.php?lang=EN
http://en.rwi-essen.de/
www.wzb.eu/en
www.zew.de/en//index.php3
Contact
Contact
Universitätsring 15
D-54296 Trier
Essen Office
Hohenzollernstr. 1-3
D-45128 Essen
Contact
Contact
Prof. Dr Günter Krampen
Director
** krampen@zpid.de
)) +49 (0) 651 – 2 01 29 67
Berlin Office
Invalidenstr. 112
D-10115 Berlin
Dr Marcus Tamm
Head of the Research Group “Education and
Research”
** tamm@rwi-essen.de
)) +49 (0) 30 – 2 02 15 98 18
Dr Anne-Kathrin Mayer
Head of Research
** mayer@zpid.de
)) +49 (0) 651 – 2 01 29 30
Nils aus dem Moore
Head of Communications
** nils.ausdemmoore@rwi-essen.de
)) +49 (0) 30 – 2 02 15 98 15
Research Foci in the Network:
Educational monitoring and information
Research Foci in the Network:
Research Disciplines:
Knowledge and participation
Educational research
Research Disciplines:
Economics
Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin
L 7, 1
D-68161 Mannheim
Prof. Dr Heike Solga
Director of the Research Unit “Skill Formation and
Labor Markets” and member of the LERN group of
speakers
** heike.solga@wzb.eu
)) +49 (0) 30 – 25 49 11 71
PD Dr Friedhelm Pfeiffer
Labour Markets, Human Resources and Social Policy
** pfeiffer@zew.de
)) +49 (0) 62 – 1 23 51 50
Research Foci in the Network:
Acquisition of competencies and professionalisation,
Knowledge and participation, Education and equity,
Returns to education, Educational monitoring and
information
Dr Paul Stoop
Head of the Information and Communication
Department
** paul.stoop@wzb.eu
)) +49 (0) 30 – 25 49 15 11
Research Disciplines:
Economics of education, Labour economics
Research Foci in the Network:
Acquisition of competencies and professionalisation,
Knowledge and participation, Education and equity,
Returns to education, Educational monitoring and
information
Research Disciplines:
Sociology
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Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in
Transition Economies (IAMO)
Institute for Educational Quality Improvement
(IQB)
University of Luxembourg
www.iamo.de/en/
www.iqb.hu-berlin.de/idxSetLanguage?lang=en
wwwen.uni.lu/research
Contact
Contact
Theodor-Lieser Str. 2
D-06114 Halle (Saale)
Unter den Linden 6
D-10099 Berlin
Prof. Dr Thomas Glauben
Director and Head of the Department “Agricultural
Markets”
** glauben@iamo.de
)) +49 (0) 345 – 29 28 92 10
Prof. Dr Petra Stanat
Director
** iqboffice@iqb.hu-berlin.de
)) +49 (0) 30 – 2 09 34 65 00
Research Foci in the Network:
Dr Stephan Brosig
Research Associate
Contact for LERN
** brosig@iamo.de
)) +49 (0) 345 – 2 92 82 22
Acquisition of competencies and professionalisation,
Education and equity, Returns to education,
Educational monitoring and information
Research Disciplines:
Educational science, Psychology, Subject-matter
education
Research Foci in the Network:
Educational monitoring and information
Research Disciplines:
Research Group “Educational Processes in
Contemporary Societies“, Faculty of Language and
Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education
University of Luxembourg
11, porte des Sciences
L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Contact
Prof. Dr Sabine Krolak-Schwerdt
Institute for Teacher Professionalisation and
Psychology of Education
** sabine.krolak@uni.lu
)) (+352) 46 66 44 95 74
Prof. Dr Justin J.W. Powell
Institute of Education and Society
** justin.powell@uni.lu
)) (+352) 46 66 44 97 86
Research Foci in the Network:
Agricultural and development economics, Geography,
Political sciences
Acquisition of competencies and professionalisation,
Knowledge and participation, Education and equity,
Returns to education
Research Disciplines:
Educational research, History of education,
Psychology, Sociology
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Contacts and further information
LERN is managed by a group of five spokespeople.
Chairman of the group:
Coordination:
Prof. Dr Marcus Hasselhorn
German Institute for International Educational
Research (DIPF)
** hasselhorn@dipf.de
Dr Karin Zimmer
German Institute for International Educational
Research (DIPF)
** zimmer@dipf.de
Deputy Chairman:
Visit www.leibniz-education.de
for more information on the
alliance and its members,
current events, new publications
and job offers in educational
research!
Prof. Dr Dr Friedrich W. Hesse
Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM)
** f.hesse@iwm-tuebingen.de
Further members:
Prof. Dr Olaf Köller
Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics
Education (IPN)
** koeller@ipn.uni-kiel.de
Prof. Dr Heike Solga
Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
** heike.solga@wzb.eu
Prof. Dr C. Katharina Spieß
German Institute for Economic Research
(DIW Berlin)
** kspiess@diw.de
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Leibniz Education Research
Network Alliance – LERN
E
ducational opportunities are often distributed unevenly; children and adults have
difficulty coping with the flood of information
they are confronted with; the aims of secondary education and academia are not always
clear – the education sector faces a host of challenges. In order to meet them and to develop
solutions, 15 institutes in the German Leibniz
Association got together to form the Leibniz
Education Research Network Alliance – LERN.
The network also includes the University of
Luxembourg and the Institute for Educational
Quality Improvement (IQB), which promotes
quality assurance and the development of
educational standards nationwide. The network’s mission is to combine and develop the
individual institutes’ specialist knowledge in
educational matters and to make it available to
the public.
L
ERN bundles and supports the work of
researchers in educational science, subject-matter education, neurosciences, economics, political sciences, psychology and sociology
as well as information science and computer
science. As an alliance combining diverse areas
of expertise, LERN seeks to identify and tap the
potential of education for the benefit of society
and of the individual and help it to be used more
effectively.
Leibniz Education Research
Network Alliance (LERN)
c/o German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF)
Schloßstraße 29
60486 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
www.leibniz-education.de