Successfully Evaluated: Research and Innovation at the Highest Level

The evaluation examined all areas of the Institute, including research, research infrastructures and transfer. The performance of the Institute’s four departments was adjudged in one case to be ‘very good to excellent’ and in the three other cases to be ‘very good’. In its statement, the Senate praised the outstanding transfer achievements into educational practice. Among these particularly the work of the three bilateral textbook commissions (German-Polish, German-Czech and German-Israeli), which are coordinated by the GEI and which provide long-standing and important platforms for international dialogue on conflictual topics in mutual histories. The Senate supports the GEI’s proposal to set up and further develop multilateral commissions within the framework of a European forum.

The statement continued, ‘it is viewed very positively that the GEI’s activities do not isolate individual teaching methodologies but rather they attempt to specify their commonalities and consider didactic concepts and methods across the board. The implementation of this approach allows the Institute to make important contributions to networking and development activities within research into didactics in social sciences subjects in Germany.’

The GEI will address the recommendations made by the evaluation commission in the coming years, which will enable it to expand and consolidate its research profile.

‘We are delighted by the extremely positive evaluation of our Institute and of the individual departments. It provides us with additional motivation to advance our research and deepens our commitment to society’ said Prof. Eckhardt Fuchs, Director of the GEI, in response to the Senate statement. He continued ‘we are also immensely proud that our application for “small-scale strategic funding”, for the purpose of creating a didactic centre for digital educational media at the Institute, has been approved by the Leibniz Senate and the Joint Science Conference (GWK). This will enable us to systematically research the opportunities and challenges associated with new digital educational media in collaboration with various specialised branches of didactics for social science subjects.

The statement can be viewed (in German) on the Leibniz Association website, as can information on the Leibniz evaluation process, which requires all Leibniz Institutes to be evaluated at least every seven years by an independent commission convened by the Leibniz Senate on behalf of the Federation and the Länder.  

About the GEI
 
The Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute (GEI) conducts applied research in the fields of cultural sciences and history into the production, content and appropriation of educational media for schools in its socio-cultural, political, economic and historical contexts.

The Institute provides unique research infrastructure services that are founded in research and available on site and digitally. At the core of the Institute is its research library containing the world’s most comprehensive collection of international textbooks on the subjects of history, social studies/politics, geography and ethics/religious education. In addition, the Institute develops digital infrastructure services that are made freely available to researchers in the humanities and the cultural and social sciences, who work with educational media for schools. The GEI provides transfer services based on diverse critical research perspectives for application in national and international education practice and theory.

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