EDUCATIONAL MEDIA OF THE YEAR
The Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute (GEI) has presented the ‘Textbook of the Year’ award annually since 2012. The Institute is able, through this award, to recognise and honour publishers and authors who have developed and implemented innovative educational media concepts. The positive feedback we have received over the years from educational publishers, practitioners and the media has underlined the importance of this award. In order to reflect the increasing diversity of educational media used in schools, the award was renamed in 2024 and is now known as the ‘Educational Media of the Year’ award. The term educational media encompasses the entire spectrum of media produced for education in schools; ranging from classic printed media to digital media formats.
GEORG ECKERT RESEARCH AWARD
The Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute has presented the biennial Georg Eckert research award since 2010. The award honours excellence in academic work in the field of international research into educational media. It is presented for academic works which - topically or historically - relate to cultural, social, political or pedagogical aspects of textbooks and other educational media used in schools. In 2014 the Leibniz Institute of Educational Media also introduce an award for young academics, which aims to advance early-career scholars.
