Current externally funded projects of the Chair holder:
The Data Literacy project conducts a long-term monitoring of the digital and data-related skills of a representative sample of the German population and helps to understand how these skills develop. The project focusses on the central, fundamental knowledge and skills that people need to be able to competently use digital information and data in their everyday lives.
- New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences (ENTAILab | Connect)
Germany has a set of well-established longitudinal survey programs. However, systematic and future-orientated social science research needs to constantly keep up with new developments and therefore to additionally rely on new forms of data, e.g., from administrative processes, digital communication and mobility as well as new forms of data acquisition and quality measures for methods inherent bias. In order to unlock these emerging opportunities of new data spaces and, thus, to be able to expand and enrich our understanding of the major social challenges of the coming decades, the Programme Committee envisioned and, together with the German Research Foundation (DFG), established the unique long-term Infrastructure Priority Programme “New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences” (SPP 2431).
Key projects of the priority programme:
ENTAILabis the programme’s core infrastructural service and research center. The measures combined in ENTAILab represent the central and unifying element for the research, development, and transfer activities of the priority programme. The measures combined in ENTAILab represent the central and unifying element for the research, development, and transfer activities of the priority programme.
CONNECTis the Coordination and Management Project. It organizes the projects within the Infrastructure Priority Programme aligns them with overarching activities within ENTAILab. It is responsible for the overall coordination and management.
- Horizont-Europa-Projekt „LINEup - Longitudinal data for INequalities in Education”
Systematic efforts to create evidence-based approaches to the design and implementation of interventions are not yet common across European education systems. Utilizing available data and investing in methodologically sound research and evaluation are key elements for the design and implementation of effective, equitable, and efficient interventions and strategies.
In this context, LINEup works to identify the key success factors for quality education. The project focuses on the educational success and achievement of basic skills (reading, maths, and science) of students at primary and secondary level (aged six to 18) as key elements for personal development, preparation for the labour market, and active participation in society.
The Startchancen programme of the Federal Ministry for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth addresses primary, secondary and vocational schools in socially challenging situations in all federal states. The programme focuses on strengthening students' basic skills in German and mathematics, supporting their personal development and promoting their readiness for training and employment. In addition, school development activities are to be initiated and scientifically monitored. By the 2024/25 school year, 2,125 schools across Germany have joined the programme, with the aim of supporting over 4,000 schools by the 2026/2027 school year.
Further insights into the Chair holder's research activities are provided by her profile on the website of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi).