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'What is the Problem Represented to be?' A workshop to explore the WPR approach in the context of strategies for education in the digital age. The submission deadline for abstracts is 15.08.23.

This publication introduces a study of Islamic religious teaching (IRU). It covers the goals and challenges of diverse stakeholders as well as stimuli related to everyday life and practice.

What does freedom mean today? The BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) is calling for proposals for science communication projects to be submitted by 08.09.23 for funding.

Eight Leibniz Institutes have cooperated to produce an online course called 'Ukraine: A European state through history to the present-day'. The course is designed for students from year 7 upwards.

Anke Hertling and Michael Wagner have written an article for ‘Das offene Bibliotheksjournal’ about the outlook for the lack of licence models for libraries with regards to digital educational media.

The second Belgrade history education symposium was held on 23 and 24 March. The event addressed 60 years of Franco-German cooperation and its role as an inspiration for European unity.

The opening ceremony of the new Georg Eckert Campus will take place on 29 September 2022. The new research library, the Digital Lab and the newly renovated Villa are the cornerstones of the campus.

This year’s Georg Arnhold Summer Conference, titled ‘Decolonizing Peace Education’, will bring together researchers from around the globe. Delegates will explore the specific conditions required for a critical…

At 3pm on 17 March 2022 , the GEI and the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpd) awarded the prize for the Textbook of the Year live online. A number of interviews, behind-the-scenes conversations and examples of…

The GEI condemns the war against Ukraine in the strongest terms. It is an attack upon democracy, international law and a crime against humanity. We have adapted our fellowship programme in order to assist academics…

The German-Polish Textbook Commission and the German-Czech Textbook Commission, coordinated by the GEI, strongly condemn the assault by Russian troops on the Ukraine and call for the end of the Russian Federation’s…

In response to the defamatory reports about named scientists in the Bild newspaper, the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany has issued a statement strongly criticising this type of reporting. The intolerably…

The GEI’s new PhD programme (GEPP) is being launched in November. The new format provides targeted support for doctoral candidates in the interdisciplinary field of educational media research. At the heart of the concept…

The BMBF-funded joint project ‘Turning the object into the subject: Imparting information about everyday Jewish culture in Germany' has been launched. Working closely with the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and…

Under the title ‘Ansichten, Einsichten, Aussichten: Diversität und Geschichte in der Migrationsgesellschaft’ (Opinions, insights, outlooks: diversity and history in societies shaped by migration) the project team of the…

We are sad to announce that our colleague and friend Prof. Włodzimierz Borodziej died on 12.07.2021 after a long illness. He was closely associated with the Joint German Polish Textbook Commission and was co-chair of the…

The GEI examined Palestinian textbooks in an EU sponsored project, to ascertain how they address central themes of civic education such as human rights and tolerance, and the manner and extent to which they incite…

The Leibniz ScienceCampus – Postdigital Participation – Braunschweig (LWC PdP) has a new website. LWC PdP brings together researchers from the region, who work collaboratively and inter-disciplinarily to conduct research…

The Georg Eckert Institute will this year again honour the ‘Textbook of the Year’, in partnership with the bpd (Federal Agency for Civic Education) and the Didacta Association. The prize ceremony will take place by video…

Every two years the GEI honours excellence in educational media research with the presentation of its Research Award. Academic papers and final theses can be submitted for consideration until 30 September 2021.…

A video presentation of the joint ‘DATAFIED’ project has been produced for the BMBF’s Education Research Conference. Felicitas Macgilchrist explains in the video what datafication is and describes ‘critical data…

The GEI annual conference ‘How do we perform in schools? Achievements in education and educational media’ (#Leistung) will take place on 2 and 3 September 2021. The aim of the conference is to bring together different…

On 25.2.2021, an online workshop will be held as part of the DFG project ‘Transnational Discourses on Education: Religion in Focus’. It will focus on the significance of religion in the field of education with respect to…

The GEI annual conference will be held on the 2/3 September 2021. It will address the theme 'How do we perform in schools? Achievement in education and educational media’ (#Leistung). The aim is to bring together…

The GEI has been granted the Total E-Quality award for the first time, in recognition of its commitment to equal opportunities for men and women and to being a family friendly employer. On awarding the Total E-Quality…

The library will be closed from 29 October 2020 until further notice. The loan period for media already out on loan may be extended by e-mail ausleihe@leibniz-gei.de mailto:ausleihe@leibniz-gei.de or by telephone.…

We are pleased to announce the completion of volume 4 - ‘20th century to the present day’ - of the joint history book for Germany and Poland. This series of books approaches European and global history from various…

The Georg Eckert Institute has started to set up its Global Textbook Resource Center (GLOTREC). The Center will create a digital infrastructure enabling centralised and global access to educational media and will…

The deadline for nominations for the Textbook of the Year 2021 has been extended. Publishing houses, institutions or individuals that produce or use educational media now have until 15 October 2020 to nominate teaching…

In February the Georg Eckert Institute launched a new interdisciplinary project called ‘How the digital shift affects living and learning: Ethnographic studies of schools and teaching (LernDiWa). The project is financed…

The opening of the Leibniz ScienceCampus – Postdigital Participation, archaeological finds on the building site for the new library building and the new transfer project ‘Exploring Markets’: the GEI had an eventful year…

At the start of the Corona crisis researchers at the GEI started a new blog in order to respond to school closures and subsequent home schooling. In addition to useful links, the blog publishes reactions, tips and…

Due to the cancellation of this year’s didacta education fair in Stuttgart, the GEI joined with the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) and the Didacta Association in releasing video messages to honour the winners…

Teachers all over Germany are facing the challenge of having to continue lessons despite schools being closed. Our online platform ‘Zwischentöne (Nuances) – Teaching materials for classroom diversity’ provides digital…

Schools are closed due to the coronavirus. Many schools have therefore turned to electronic teaching methods. But what does this mean in practice? What decisions need to be made and how can digital educational media be…

The Council of Europe, the Roma Education Fund and the GEI have released the findings of a joint European-wide review of curricula and textbooks in 21 European countries and from Kosovo for history, geography, politics…

On 1 September 2019 the GEI and the German Youth Institute (GJI) launched their collaborative project: ‘Democracy Education in Germany’. Within the sub-project: ‘Democratic Subjects: Current Challenges and Opportunities…

The deadline for proposals for the 2020 Georg Eckert Research Award and Award for Young Academics has been extended. Academics have until 30 September 2019 to submit their work on cultural, social, political or…

We are celebrating the tenth anniversary of JEMMS by relaunching it with a new design, a larger editorial team and a new editorial committee. In future the Institute will address STEM subjects and new media in addition…

The foundation stone ceremony for the new research library, a new study on the ‘Prevention of Violent Extremism through Education’ and the ‘Palgrave Handbook of Textbook Studies’: the 2018 annual report demonstrates the…

Nominations are now being accepted for the Textbook of the Year award 2020. The GEI, in collaboration with the bpd and the Didacta Association will this year honour outstanding primary school textbooks, for mathematics,…

Applications are now being received for fellowships and research stipends. Potential recipients in Germany and around the world have until 15 September to apply. We are also now accepting applications for the…

The annual committee meeting of the Joint German-Polish Textbook Commission was held from 13 to 15 June in the Leibniz Association’s European office in Brussels. On the agenda was the next phase of the joint history…

Dr Simona Szakács-Behling and Dr Eleni Christodoulou’s publication ‘Preventing Violent Extremism through Education’ is now also available in German. ‘Prävention von gewalttätigem Extremismus durch Bildung’ was released…

The 4th edition of Eckert.Dossiers in 2019 examines the depiction and function of a range of myths in German-Language textbooks. The authors explore how the study of myths can lead to new perspectives on developing…

The GEI will work with Ostfalia, the German Maritime Museum, Haus der Wissenschaft, the Technische Universität Braunschweig and the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) to develop a new ScienceCampus for…

The new Georg Arnhold Professor, Dr Jennifer Rigan, joined the GEI in May. She will stay until August, during which time she will be writing up the findings from her study into the effects of democracy education among…

Proposals are now being accepted for the 2020 Georg Eckert Research Award and Award for Young Academics. Applicants have until 31 August 2019 to submit their work for consideration; this must be an academic work…

The winners of the ‘Textbook of the Year 2019’ were announced on 19 February at the didacta education trade fair in Cologne. First place in the languages category was awarded to ‘Camden Town’ by the Westermann Verlag.…

The year’s first edition of the Institute's journal JEMMS examines European primers and reading books published around 1945. In addition to articles analysing Greek, Romanian and Polish books one paper examines…

The recently launched DATAFIED project examines the effects of digital technology in the classroom and the associated datafication of the education system. DATAFIED is a joint project with the Helmut Schmidt University,…

The GEI is looking to fill the position of IT system administrator in the Digital Information and Research Infrastructure department at the earliest opportunity. Among the successful applicant's responsibilities will be…

The sixth international Georg Arnhold Summer School will be held in Braunschweig from 25 to 29 June 2019. This year’s event is titled ‘Global Citizenship Education in a Changing World’. Applicants have until 17 March…

Last week archaeologists joined the mechanical diggers on the building site for the GEI’s new library building. While digging the foundations builders discovered human bones, most likely from the cemetery of the cloister…

This year’s annual conference of the Kommission Schulforschung und Didaktik (Subdivision School and Curriculum) which will be held in Göttingen in September, will address research on education in schools and…

The GEI, in partnership with the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the Didacta Association, honours innovative textbooks each year in order to highlight their social significance. The prizes for ‘Textbook of the…

We will be accepting applications for the 2020 Georg Arnhold Senior Fellow until 17 February 2019. We are seeking outstanding academics and experienced practitioners in the field of peace education who have an interest…

How should Islamic religious education (IRU) in Germany be designed and structured? This new project, titled ‘IRU: How a new subject is negotiated, taught and practiced’, was launched in December 2018 and seeks to…

The GEI Research Award and the Award for Young Academics were announced at a ceremony in the Dornse in Braunschweig's old town hall on 30 November 2018. Dr Sabine Johannsen, the parliamentary state secretary for the…

The landscape of educational media in Germany is changing. But who ultimately decides where it is going? The publication ‘Digitale Bildungsmedien’ by Anna Heym (2016 recipient of the Award for Young Academics)…

‘Textbooks and War’ is a new publication, edited by Prof. Eckhardt Fuchs and Prof. Eugenia Roldán Vera. It investigates both current and historical textbooks while reflecting on the role played by textbooks in the…

The Specialised Information Service (FID) for Educational Science and Education Research has launched a new service with over 3,700 available e-books. The GEI, which is an FID partner, is working to make digital…

The new publication ‘Migration as a classroom subject in Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland’, edited by Robert Maier, is a collection of texts from the German-Czech and German-Polish textbook commissions that explore…

The introduction of digital technology to humanities research brings new opportunities but also presents new challenges. A new publication (Digital Humanities in der internationalen Schulbuchforschung) describes the…

How do history teachers approach controversial topics in their classrooms? Dr Barbara Christophe and Dr Maren Tribukait are investigating the challenges faced by teachers and asking what kind of support they feel they…

Promoting dialogue between the worlds of politics and academia – this is one of the maxims of the Leibniz Association. On 23 and 24 October 2018 academics from Leibniz institutions based in Lower Saxony met with members…

Volume 143 of the series ‘Eckert.Die Schriftenreihe’ is now available. Written by Prof. Riem Spielhaus and Dr Zrinka Štimac and titled ‘Schulbuch und religiöse Vielfalt’ (Textbooks and Religious Diversity) the book…

The 3rd International Conference on Global Citizenship Education (GCED) took place in Seoul on the 5 and 6 September 2018. At the conference delegates from around the world discussed current issues, proven practices and…

The Georg Eckert Institute regrets to report the sad passing of Henry H. Arnhold (1921-2018), who died in New York on 23 August, 2018. Henry Arnhold was an exceptional figure, an inspiration and example to us all, who…

The International Society for Historical and Systematic Research on Textbooks and Educational Media e.V (IGSBi) held its annual conference, titled Europe and Educational Media, on 6 and 7 October in Brixen, Italy. The…

On the 9 November 2018 the conference ‘Islam in Eastern German Schools’ (Islam und Schule in Ostdeutschland) will be held at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HTWK Leipzig). Riem Spielhaus, head of the…

Our annual report for 2017 reflects on a year that was full of new and exciting developments and events. The report presents the research departments and their projects and highlights the findings from 2017. It not only…

We are proud to continue our academic support for the implementation of the HPI school cloud as it reaches the rollout phase. The ‘Schools in the Cloud’ project provides best practice examples for the use of the school…

Can we (still) trust education in schools and educational media? Or have we blindly trusted them for too long already? And what does it actually mean to place our trust in these state-authorised media and agents? These…

What constitutes a good textbook in an era of rapid knowledge development, digital networking and increasing social diversity? Publishers, individuals or institutions that use or produce educational media have until the…

Inaccurate or fragmented depictions of topics in textbooks can contribute to ethnic tension, discrimination against specific social groups and can even stoke violent extremism. UNESCO and the GEI have produced a guide…

We are pleased to announce the launch of the project ‘Histories in Motion. Memory Practices, History Cultures and Historic Learning within the German Migrant Community. This project investigates the changes in historical…

The project team met for the fourth time on 17 and 18 April 2018 with the aim of developing their cross-border Erasmus+ project, which has the working title ‘Reflections’. The Georg Eckert Institute is contributing…

Researchers working on a multi-disciplinary project examining German schools abroad are currently collecting data in six schools in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. Their initial observations of…

The Leibniz competition group ‘Migration and Education in Germany since 1945’ will hold its concluding conference on 2 & 3 May 2018 in Berlin, in partnership with the DHI Washington and the TU Dresden's Institute of…

People with disabilities are hardly ever represented in educational media, or when they are, it is often in a stereotyped and passive manner. A new teaching module from the project Zwischentöne (Nuances) sensitises…

This study draws on curricula and the experiences of educational practitioners to examine the design of and value placed on history education in Africa today. The central question is to what extent successfully…

Georg Eckert was a figure who contributed significantly to initiating new democratic foundations in teacher education and a unifying cultural policy in the Federal Republic of Germany after the Second World War. The…

Are you interested in literature and specialist information about textbooks and educational media? Then we would appreciate your participation in our online survey. Your feedback will help us to further develop the…

At the end of September the second volume in the joint history book series ‘Europa – Unsere Geschichte’ (Europe – Our History) was published. This new volume places emphasis on similarities and contrasts in historical…

The city of Braunschweig administration agreed on 19 September that the building works to expand the Georg Eckert Institute may go ahead. A modern library will be constructed next to the main institute building, the…

In 2018 the presentation of the Georg Eckert Research Award, which is sponsored by the Westermann publishing group in Braunschweig, will again honour academic work in the field of international educational media…

The Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI) is inviting applications for several research fellowships for 2018. Research fellows receive a monthly grant of 1,000 EUR. Established academics or…

During its meeting in Berlin on 11 July 2017, the Senate of the Leibniz Association recommended funding the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research for a further seven-year period. Founded in 1975, the…

What constitutes a good textbook in an era of rapid knowledge development, digital networking and increasing social diversity? Publishers, individuals or institutions that use or produce educational media have until the…

Full of significant events and new developments, 2016 was a special year for the GEI in every way - a year that we have summed up in our annual report. Our work could never have been so successful without our numerous…

With the 2017 ‘Textbook of the Year’ award, the Georg Eckert Institute and the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) honoured extraordinary textbooks at the primary level. The ceremony took place on 24 March 2017 at…

The discipline-specific working groups in the German consortium of the European research infrastructure project CLARIN have been reorganised during the third programme period. The new working group in the CLARIN-D branch…

From 30 November to 2 December 2016, the Cinvestav (Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados des Instituto Politécnico Nacional) in Mexico City hosted a conference on "Catálogo Internacional de Libros de Texto"…

Diversity in the classroom has become the norm, giving teachers new opportunities to take up the challenges of an increasingly pluralistic society. The web platform zwischentöne.info provides ideas for how to integrate…

The Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research is pleased to announce the Call for Applications for the Georg Arnhold Visiting Research Professorship in Education for Sustainable Peace 2017/2018. The…

A textbook exhibition titled ‘Different Wars: National School Textbooks on World War II’ is currently traveling through Russia and countries of the EU. The GEI acted as co-editor of the exhibition, which presents…

The Annual Report (Jahresbericht) 2015 is now online! In it we reflect on the events of the last year and look ahead to projects underway right now. In addition to the digital Annual Report, a printed version is also…

How does it feel to be discriminated against? What would I do if I encountered discrimination against others in ordinary situations? The Zwischentöne (nuances) project has developed four new teaching modules (in German),…

New teaching materials – now under Creative Commons License! Societal processes throughout history imprint themselves upon our language keeping it in a constant state of flux. It not only represents our reality it also…

The Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI) is enabling free online access to over 4,000 historical textbooks at gei-digital.de. The process of digitising the historic textbook collections…

On March 18, winners of the ‘Textbook of the Year 2016’ were announced at the Leipzig Book Fair. The expert jury of representatives from academia, teaching and publishing presented awards to textbooks for the upper…

On March 18, 2016, the Georg Eckert Institute will present the fifth annual ‘Textbook of the Year’ award at the Leipzig Book Fair in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb). This prize recognises…

The Competence Centre for Teacher Training (KLBS) at the Technische Universität Braunschweig will host a series of training sessions in co-operation with the Zwischentöne (Nuances) project at the Georg Eckert Institute.…

The terror attacks on the editorial offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo a year ago not only raised questions of whether Islam is fundamentally disposed towards violence and opposed to freedom of speech…

A new teaching module examines the difficulties involved in ending wars and brokering lasting peace. The module: “How wars end – The Second World War in Europe and the Korean War” has been desgned for history and…

There have been significant management changes at the GEI in 2015. Three departments (“Library”, “Digital Information and Research Infrastructure” and “Textbooks as Media”) have new heads although the biggest personnel…

The GEI and the Federal Foreign Office present cooperation projects as part of the “Weltempfang” initiative. What are the linguistic and cultural obstacles to be negotiated in the course of creating a binational…

In a speech he gave to the South Korean National Assembly on 12 October 2015 Federal President Gauck emphasised the important role of the Georg Eckert Institute. Textbooks can make a significant contribution to…

This landmark number was reached with the release of a review by Jonas Bernges and Jenifer Seitz of Kolleg Philosophie on 9 September 2015. Edu.reviews is currently documenting several fascinating projects involving…

At the beginning of October, the fourth Georg Arnhold Visiting Research Professor Dr. Sergey Rumyansev from Azerbaijan will come to the GEI for a six-month research stay. He will conduct research on “Myths of Historical…

All publishing houses that have released new textbooks for upper secondary school levels, had until 15 September to apply for the “Textbook of the Year 2016”. Pupils, teachers, parents and other interested parties were…

How can teachers encourage constructive interaction between pupils when dealing with issues of differences in culturally diverse societies? In the new school year, particularly in the light of the current socio-political…

Applications are currently being invited for the 2016 Otto Bennemann Grant. This award aims to promote innovative projects in the field of textbook and educational media research. The successful research project must be…

The Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI) in Braunschweig, Germany will award several short-term fellowships for visiting researchers in 2016. Application deadline: 15 September 2015. The…

The Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research is pleased to announce the Call for Applications for the Georg Arnhold Visiting Research Professorship in Education for Sustainable Peace 2016/2017. The…

Who were the migrants attending school in Germany post 1945 and when did they arrive? What experiences, knowledge and views of the world did they bring with them? And to what degree did educational practice change as a…

On March 18 2016 The Georg Eckert Institute will present the fifth annual ‘Textbook of the Year’ prize at the Leipzig book fair. This year’s award will focus on outstanding textbooks for upper secondary school level. The…

Eighteen early-career scholars and practitioners from Africa, Asia, Europe and North America joined us at the Georg Eckert Institute from June 22 to 27 for the second Georg Arnhold International Summer School. The…

The Federal Foreign Office and the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook research presented the findings and recommendations of the German-Israeli Textbook Commission (DISBK) in Berlin on 23 June, jointly…

A conference marking the conclusion of a project to create a textbook on “The History of the Germans in Hungary", in which the GEI took an advisory role, was held from 31 May to 2 June at the Akademie Mitteleuropa in Bad…

In the current climate of conflict between different social groups in Germany, questions of identity and the pedagogical approach to diversity are apposite. Conventional constructions such as ‘we’ and the ‘others’…

How do I gain respect? Is it ok to criticise religion? And who are “the Muslims” really? The online platform http://www.zwischentoene.info/english.html presents five new teaching modules for ethics and religious studies…

On Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 March the Georg Eckert Institute was pleased to welcome the members of the CLARIN-D consortium to their quarterly meeting, which was attended by the leaders of ten subject-specific working…

The Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI) has conducted a study on the topic of migration and integration in textbooks in collaboration with the Centre for Educational Integration (ZBI), at the…

The GEI, and the Leipzig Book Fair, awarded the 4th annual “Textbook of the Year” awards on the 13 March. This year's jury, who represented academia, educational practice and publishing, focused on textbooks for…

The Georg Eckert Institute research library and three well-respected partner institutions have been granted funding by the DFG (German Research Foundation) with which to establish a specialist information service (FID)…

The GEI, in collaboration with the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), will host the second Georg Arnhold International Summer School in Braunschweig, from June 22-27. The theme this year is…

Thomas Strobel, a researcher at the Georg Eckert Institute, achieved second place in the graduate thesis category of the competition for the academic research prize awarded by the Consul General of the Republic of Poland…

One of the most consequential Polish historians, Professor Jerzy Holzer, died on 14 January 2015 in Warsaw. He was the long-standing president of the joint German-Polish Textbook commission and was made an honorary…

The Bulletin has been published completely in English for the first time, with the aim of keeping our international partners and non-German speaking friends and associates informed about projects, principle research…

The relationship between textbooks, lessons and (pupil) consciousness was the focal point of the presentations and panel discussions at a conference attended by educationalists and academics from Germany and Israel at…

The XIII German-Czech textbook conference was held from 20-22 November 2014 and centred on the theme: People, environment, borders – with particular focus on Uranium mining in the German-Czech border region.

On 28 October 2014 the sociologist Simona Szakács was awarded the Georg Eckert Research Prize at a ceremony in the old town hall in Braunschweig. The inaugural young researcher prize was conferred upon Kathrin Zehr, a…

On the evening of 28 October 2014, the Georg Eckert Institute will present its Georg Eckert Award for an outstanding piece of work in international educational media research. Dr Gabriele Heinen-Kljajic, Lower Saxony's…

The team behind CLARIN-D, a web- and centre-based research infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences, is to gain the support of a group of historians.

The above article by Dr Götz Nordbruch was published online on the GEI web portal Edumeres.net as part of the series Eckert.Beiträge 2014/3. It contains background information from textbook research as well as the…

From August to September 2014, the Georg Eckert Institute welcomes Kenneth Omeje as second Georg Arnhold Visiting Research Professor at the Georg Eckert Institute.

International Symposium at the Georg Eckert Institute – 30th and 31st July.On the 30 and 31 July 2014 the inaugural Arnhold Symposium took place at the Georg Eckert Institute (GEI). Experts from around the world gathered…

Stefanie Land-Hilbert, a researcher in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Potsdam has been awarded the 2014 State Teaching Prize by Brandenburg for her course “School Texts as Artefacts:…

International Symposium at the Georg Eckert Institute –30th and 31st July.On the 30th and 31st July 2014 the inaugural Arnhold Symposium will take place at the Georg Eckert Institute (GEI). Experts from around the world…

The aim of the Nuances (Zwischentöne) project is to provide teaching and learning materials to help students engage constructively with the diversity of lives, faiths and cultures they encounter in their society. There…

On 1 July 2014 the Georg Eckert Institute unveiled “EurViews. Europe in textbooks” an international and collaborative online editorial project. The project team has worked with academics from more than 20 countries to…

On 13 March 2015 the Georg Eckert Institute will award the prize for the "Textbook of the year" for the fourth time, at the Leipzig Book Fair. This year the jury of experts will be recognising exemplary books for lower…

A new search tool designed by the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research aims to enable more user-friendly and intuitive searches of the library collection. From 1 May 2014 academics, teachers and…

Children have a distinctive view of the world, yet their perspective is always shaped and influenced by the society in which they grow up. This is just as true now as it was 100 years ago, but which ideas about the world…

A history book devoid of historic sources – that is the reality with which teachers in South Eastern Europe are frequently faced. Yet original sources are a prerequisite for a critical and multifaceted examination of…

Apposite to the First World War commemorations taking place in 2014, the new directory of teaching resources on the First World War is complete and available online. It encompasses printed and online material as well as…

The Polish city of Gdańsk was the venue for a conference, held on 10 April, on "History Education in Germany and Poland: Selecting, Interpreting and Presenting Teaching Content", organised by the GEI, the Institute of…

The KIWI Research Days, an event run by the popular science and research centre Haus der Wissenschaft in Braunschweig to enable children aged 10 to 14 to take a fun and age-appropriate look behind the scenes of the…

It was with the aim of creating a central point of access to curricula from around the world that the Georg Eckert Institute developed the Curricula Workstation, which went into its public beta phase in June 2013. This…

The title of "Textbook of the Year" has been awarded once again. At a ceremony held at the Leipzig Book Fair on 14 March, the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research conferred the accolade on…

Since the start of the digitisation project GEI-Digital in 2009, we have digitised approximately 560,000 pages from over 3000 volumes of historic textbooks. The project is currently in its second phase, at the end of…

A teachers' conference on images of Israel in textbooks and classroom practice took place in the north German town of Neustrelitz on 5 March. The event, aimed at providing information and training to teachers of subjects…

Teachers' workshop at the 2014 Leipzig Book Fair on Friday 14 March 2014 from 11am to 1pm (including lunchtime snack). Location: CCL seminar room 14/15. Organisers: The Georg Eckert Institute for International…

On Wednesday 5 March Professor Astrid Erll (Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main) will talk on the subject of “Generationality and Genealogy in Memory Cultures of the Twentieth Century: Three constellations.”

The GEI will hold its next colloquium on Wednesday 19th February at 5pm. Our guest will be Professor Peter Antes, religious scholar at the University of Hanover. His talk will address the relationship between “Religion…

The Georg Eckert Institute will be hosting a workshop from the 23 to 24 May 2014, exploring the topic of “History policy in the Weimar triangle” in partnership with the Fridtjof Nansen Academy, the German-Polish…

The panel of academic specialists, educationalists and teachers who are to judge this year‘s Textbook of the Year contest has nominated 8 titles for the award from the over 40 primary school textbooks submitted. The…

What is the influence of religion on social change? Does religion open doors to cultural shifts and transformations or does it stand in their way? These questions of great present-day relevance are at the centre of a new…

The Georg Eckert Institute’s library, with its rows of shelves full of books and specialist journals, may appear to have remained relatively unchanged over the years; academic libraries in particular, however, are…

How do schools around the world handle the Holocaust as a subject? In what areas of the world does the Holocaust form part of classroom teaching? Answers to these questions are being sought by a project set up by the…

Our colleague Dr Andreas Heinemann-Grüder was the speaker at the first GEI colloquium of the year, held on 15 January at 5pm. He spoke on the subject of “Ethical and normative rationalisation of peace education”.

Memories of World War 1 still shape Europe today. What paths are forged by these memories and who guides them? How is the first great tragedy of the twentieth century written into the cultural memories of individual…

The historic textbooks digitalised in the GEI-Digital project are now part of the German cultural heritage gateway Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB), making the GEI's digitalised collection of textbooks from four…

Georg Eckert, who founded our institute and after whom it is named, died on 7 January 1974. His commitment to education for peace and democratic values continues to live on in our work, which draws inspiration from his…

The website for the project “Visual History. Institutions and media of visual memory” is online. The website is called Visual History – Online-Nachschlagewerk für die historische Bildforschung (Visual History – online…

Textbooks dating from the eighteenth century up to the present day are now available for interested members of the public to view on the Lower Saxony cultural heritage portal. The selected examples are part of GEI…

Fifteen guests from south-eastern Europe – ministry representatives, history teachers and textbook authors – will be visiting the GEI at the beginning of December for a week-long workshop in which they will be exploring…

Wednesday 20 November saw the opening of a conference organised by the Georg Eckert Institute on the opportunities presented by, and the limits to, international involvement in the rebuilding of education systems in…

[Translate to English:] Der Sammelband, ein Kooperationsprojekt zwischen dem GEI und dem Institut Français de l’Education in Lyon, untersucht, wie historische Erzählweisen aktuell vermittelt und gelernt werden.

The Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research is pleased to announce the Call for Applications for the 2014/2015 Georg Arnhold Visiting Research Professorship in Education for Sustainable Peace.

How do schools worldwide handle the Holocaust as a subject? In what areas of the world does the Holocaust form part of classroom teaching? Answers to these questions are to be provided by a project set up by the Georg…

Our brochure Eckert. The Bulletin appears twice a year and aims to present the events taking place in our institute to an (not just) academic public and especially the media. We wish to inform you of the work done in our…

The new series, "Eckert. Expertise" aims to be a forum for the presentation, documentation and discussion of important research results

The winners of the textbook prize have been selected. On 16 March the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research awarded the ‘textbook of the year’ prize to three works in the context of the Leipzig Book…

The 'German-Polish History Textbook' project is entering a new phase. Publishers in both Poland and Germany have agreed to work as partners, and funding for the project has been secured. Specialists are about to start…

After its transition to the content management TYPO3, the internet portal DEUFRAMAT (German-French materials for history and geography lessons) is online again, with a new design and various complementary tools.

The EUROCLIO programme has been selected by the "North-South Centre of the Council of Europe" as one of three winners

International Summer School of the Georg Eckert Institute, 10-14 September 2012

Im Rahmen einer Pressekonferenz im Auswärtigen Amt in Berlin wurde am 15. September die erste systematische Analyse der Öffentlichkeit vorgestellt

The conference scheduled to take place in Tokyo from 19-21 March has been postponed until further notice in view of recent events in Japan.

On Thursday, 24 March 2011, the library will be closed from noon owing to the ceremony marking the affiliation of the Georg Eckert Institute with the Leibniz Scientific Community. Thank you for your understanding

European Receptions of the Crusades in the Nineteenth Century - Franco-German Perspectives

This grant is to be awarded to scholars and textbook authors from Germany and abroad committed to international textbook research or to the design of new teaching material in the fields of history, geography or the…

The stocks of the Georg Eckert Institute library will be the first to be digitalised in the course of the project ‘GEI-Digital’, which has been running since 2009 and is funded by the German Research Foundation. The aim…

We were horrified to learn of the terrible aeroplane accident near Smolensk on 10th April.

This failure concerns primarily both branch offices in that Freisestr.13 (K7) and Inselwall 7 (I7). Thursday the problem is presumably repaired again.

On 27 March 2010, a cooperation agreement between the Georg Eckert Institute and the OPKM (Hungarian National Pedagogical Library and Museum) was signed.

On 2nd February 2010, the Georg Eckert Institute welcomed high-ranking representatives of Aga Khan University

The Georg Eckert Institute wishes all colleagues, friends and supporters from all over the world a peaceful festive season and a successful start to the year 2010!

International Summer School of the Georg Eckert Institute / 2010 - "Textbooks and Beyond: Educational Media in Global Contexts"

The Academic Advisory Board ("Wissenschaftsrat") has recommended the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research for joint sponsorship by the Federal Government and the Länder.

How satisfied are you with our services? Could you find everything easily? A survey of the Georg Eckert Institute's library in cooperation with the Institute for Library and Information Science at the Berlin Humboldt…

This volume, produced in cooperation with the Georg Eckert Institute, was presented during a ceremony held at the residence of the German ambassador to Moscow.

Geographical Education: Skills in Research and Practice

The German Research Foundation funds the development and text phase of new forms of academic communication and publication.

The dossier, produced in cooperation with the German Historical Institute, Paris, investigates the Franco-German History Textbook, Histoire/Geschichte 2, via each of its seven chapters. Each essay provides an in-depth…

The newly redesigned Series "Eckert. The Series. Studies on International Educational Media Research" will present research findings within their socio-cultural context from systematic, historical and comparative…

The Georg Eckert Institute mourns the passing of Professor Dan Bar-On, the Israeli Co-Director of the Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (PRIME), Beit Jala. He died aged 69 on 4th September in Tel Aviv, …

Applications should be submitted by 15th October for the following year.

Prof. Dr. Mas'oud Daher will give a lecture on "Lebanon: Modern History and Historiography"

The study was presented to the public at a press conference on 24 June, 2008 Press release by the GEI (only in German) Study as PDF-file

International conference held by the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in cooperation with the Institute for Intercultural Education at the Freie Universität Berlin, the Network Migration in…

Öffentlicher Vortrag von Dr. Erik Meyer, Gießen (SFB Erinnerungskulturen), in der Vortragsreihe "Geschichtspolitk/Geschichtsvermittlung" WS 2007/2008

From 27 to 29 November 2007, the Georg Eckert Institute's library will be open, but expert librarian service will be restricted, as the librarians will take part in training courses aimed at introducing new library…

Das Georg-Eckert-Institut stellt Materialien für den Unterricht über Muslimische Kulturen und Geschichte(n) zur Verfügung, die einen differenzierten Blick auf ein kontrovers diskutiertes und von der Tagespolitik…