About the project
The “Meta-project Migration, Integration, and Participation in Education” accompanies the funding program Integration through Education and is part of the framework program Empirical Educational Research. In this program, practice-oriented joint projects are supported by so-called meta-projects. These carry out independent research projects from a higher-level perspective in order to place the results in a comprehensive scientific and social framework.
Self-conception
Every person has strengths, is particularly good at something, and can develop a talent. Not everyone is fortunate enough to be encouraged and valued early on in the development of a talent. Children and young people with a migration background face specific challenges in the German education system. They must overcome these challenges in order to develop their individual talents—especially if they come from socioeconomically disadvantaged families. Our research project therefore assumes that the development of strengths and abilities requires support through the appropriate design of the educational environment.
Tasks
The meta-project provides dialogue-oriented and participatory support for the joint projects funded by the ESF Plus program Integration through Education and addresses overarching research questions. Since integration through education is a topic of global debate, research syntheses are developed that take different national contexts into account. Innovative formats are used to bundle and aggregate conditions for success. Transfer measures are supported through dialogue between research and practice. The meta-project processes findings from practice-oriented research and transfer processes in innovative, dialogue-oriented formats of science communication together with stakeholders. These tasks are carried out by the four sub-projects at the following locations: University of Bamberg, University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, University of Hamburg, and Bildung & Begabung gGmbH.
Goals
The goal is to identify resource- and potential-oriented conditions for success, which are brought together to form an overall picture of successful approaches to integration through education in the context of diversity and the empowerment of girls and women with a migration background.
Target group
In addition to education policy, administration, practice, and stakeholders in the framework program for empirical educational research, the meta-project addresses and involves interested experts and relevant representatives of civil society (e.g., migrant organizations).
The meta-project “Migration, Integration, and Participation in Education” brings together four partners with the following areas of responsibility:
- Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg: coordination, knowledge transfer, and research to identify success factors
- University of Hamburg: research on key fields of action and on the research landscape, as well as international networking
- Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen–Nuremberg: mapping and research synthesis
- Bildung & Begabung gGmbH: science communicationÂ
The project Meta-project Migration, Integration, and Participation in Education is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the European Union through the European Social Fund Plus (ESF Plus) as part of the Integration through Education program.
Project overview
The meta-project accompanies the 20 joint projects of the “Integration through Education” funding program. Each of the projects focuses on one of the following two areas:
- Research and transfer of educational opportunities and empowerment for girls and women with a migration background
- Research and transfer to strengthen diversity-sensitive practical knowledge in the education systemÂ
This is an overview of all projects. The links lead to German descriptions.
Team and contact
Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Annette Scheunpflug
Dr. Emmer Demorel
Susanne Timm
University of Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Ingrid Gogolin
Mira GrĂĽnwald
Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Prof. Dr. Stephan Kröner
Dr. Lisa Birnbaum
Elvira Dukart
Heike Ziegler
Bildung & Begabung
Prof. Dr. Elke Völmicke
Carolin Siebert
International advisory board
The international advisory board consists of a group of experts who advise the meta-project as “critical friends” and also provide impetus for the activities in the funding line as a whole.
- The advisory board consists of:
Mostapha Boukllouâ, Head of the Integration through Education Unit at the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia. - Prof. Dr. Liesel Ebersöhn, psychologist, Director of the Centre for Resilience Research at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
- Prof. Dr. Ingrid Piller, sociolinguist, Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the University of Hamburg and Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney.
- Prof. Dr. RocĂo GarcĂa CarriĂłn, educational scientist, University of Deusto Bilbao, Spain.
- Veronica Boix Mansilla, Principal Investigator in Project Zero at the Harvard School of Education, USA.
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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.
