STARK-MIT-DIBI: Digital Education
Empowering Girls with a Migration Background through Digital Education
Project at a Glance
Project Description
Digital education is becoming increasingly important for individual educational trajectories and social participation in a rapidly advancing technological world (KMK, 2016; OECD, 2019). However, studies such as the International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) show that access to digital resources and the acquisition of relevant digital skills are not equally available to all children and young people. Instead, these opportunities are strongly influenced by social as well as affective and motivational factors (Eickelmann et al., 2019). Girls with a migration background are particularly disadvantaged in this regard.
This project pilots innovative approaches to improving educational opportunities for this target group through digital education. It aims to provide access to digital learning opportunities, encourage participation in digital learning environments, and strengthen participants’ self-efficacy regarding digital competencies, thereby enhancing their future educational prospects.
The project’s practice partner is the extracurricular educational organization Starkmacher e.V., which operates a digital learning centre. The core principles of this centre are self-directed learning supported by adaptive learning software, learning through role models, and empowerment. Across four work packages, the three consortium partners—University of Mannheim, the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, and Starkmacher e.V.—will identify and test enabling conditions for success, while analysing the effectiveness of the measures implemented in the digital learning centre and the mechanisms through which they operate. Starkmacher e.V. serves as a key bridge between research and practice.
The primary responsibility of ZEW lies in analysing empirical relationships and underlying mechanisms, while the University of Mannheim contributes both research activities and the establishment of sustainable cooperation and networking structures through ongoing (digital) exchange formats. In addition, the university is responsible for promoting the long-term transfer of project findings into practice. The project’s participatory approach ensures both practical relevance and sustainability.
Organisations
Subproject: Transfer
University of Mannheim
Subproject: Analysis
ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research GmbH
Subproject: Practice
Sponsors
The project “Meta-project Migration, Integration, and Participation in Education” is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education, Family, Seniors, Women, and Youth and the European Union through the European Social Fund Plus (ESF Plus) as part of the “Integration through Education” program.
