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To round off the lecture series at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Claudia Lechner, Anna Huber, and Bernd Holthusen from the German Youth Institute (Deutsches Jugendinstitut, DJI) in Munich presented their study “Unaccompanied and accompanied underage refugees—life situations, needs, experiences, and perspectives from the youths’ point of view”. The lecture shed light on methodological challenges and results of the first survey wave.

Prof. Susanne Schwab (University of Wuppertal, North-West University South Africa), Prof. Markus Gebhardt (TU Dortmund University), Prof. Marco Hessels (University of Geneva, North-West University South Africa), and Lena Nusser (University of Bamberg) investigated this topic on the basis of data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS Starting Cohort 3).

A lively scientific exchange was the primary focus of the 3-day visit by Prof. Jane Waldfogel, Ph.D., Columbia University School of Social Work & London School of Economics, at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi).

Local politicians define political usefulness of educational research as their key expectation.

As guest lecturer in the lecture series “Refugees in Germany–Educational Trajectories and Social Integration”, PD Dr. Katrin Lindner from the Institute for German Philology, Department I–German, Comparative Literature, Scandinavian Studies, German as a Foreign Language at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU) talked about the topic “Diagnostic Language Tests of Children with a Refugee Background Aged between 4 and 17 Years” at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi).

On February 13, 2017, the Annual General Meeting of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) met in Bamberg for the fourth time. The NEPS Annual General Meeting represents scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories and different cooperating institutions. In this way, the NEPS receives expertise from different academic disciplines. The meeting focused on reinventing the process of instrument development for NEPS as well as its future development.

On February 2, a group of nearly 20 students of the Vocational Business School Nuremberg 4 (Berufsschule Nürnberg 4) and their teachers visited the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) to learn about the Institute and its key working areas as well as the vocational training program for the “Specialist in Market and Social Research (Fachkraft für Markt- und Sozialforschung)”.

As part of the lecture series “Refugees in Germany – Educational Trajectories and Social Integration”,  Wala’ Maaitah, doctoral candidate in the field of social psychology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, presented her research on perceived discrimination at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi).

As part of the lecture series “Refugees in Germany–Educational Trajectories and Social Integration” at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Prof. Dr. Clemens Kroneberg from the University of Cologne reported on the projects “The Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries” (CILS4EU) and “Freundschaft und Gewalt im Jugendalter, FuGJ [Friendship and Violence During Adolescence]”.

The lecture series “Refugees in Germany – Educational Trajectories and Social Integration” at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) started the new year with a contribution by Dr. Elisabeth Hahn, Saarland University. Hahn reported on “Paths in Germany (PaGe)”, a study analyz-ing factors that promote or inhibit the integration of people refugee backgrounds.

Dr. Helen Wareham and Virgilio Sastre, Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) at the University of Durham, received information about the challenges and solutions concerning data editing and data provision for the scientific community, illustrated by the example of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS).

Prof. Dr. Corinna Kleinert, Head of LIfBi department “Educational Decisions and Processes, Migration, Returns to Education”, talks with German television station WDR about the discrimination experienced by female employers when it comes to salary.

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The former President of the Hessian Statistical Office spoke about the “New general data protection regulation of the European Union” at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi).

One of the most distinguished representatives of rational choice theory in German sociology discussed with employees of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) some first and highly controversial results generated on the basis of data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) as a work in progress.

Prof. Dr. Corinna Kleinert, Head of Department Educational Decisions and Processes, Migration, Returns to Education at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, has been appointed to the international commission for strategic advancement of longitudinal studies in UK.

A current study based on data from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) confirms: young people with migration background benefit from good proficiency in their first language when reading German texts.

On December 15, 2016, this year’s final event of the series “Refugees in Germany–Educational Trajectories and Social Integration” took place: Dr. Silke Schneider and Verena Ortmanns (GESIS–Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) presented the CAMCES tool developed by them. Their lecture at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) was entitled “Computer-Assisted Measurement and Coding of Educational Qualifications in Multicultural Surveys: A New Set of Survey Tools”.  

As part of the lecture series “Refugees in Germany–Educational Trajectories and Social Integration”, Dr. David Schiefer of the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration (Sachverständigenrat deutscher Stiftungen für Integration und Migration, Berlin) gave a talk on the “Challenges of empirically assessing the life situations of refugees in Germany” at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi).

As part of the lecture series “Refugees in Germany–Educational Trajectories and Social Integration”, Prof. em. Dr. Jürgen Friedrichs, University of Cologne, reported on his current research projects. His lecture was entitled “Problems of the socio-spatial integration of refugees–results of empirical studies”.

Today the first result of the project “Educational Landscape of Upper Franconia, BiLO (Bildungslandschaft Oberfranken), which is funded by the Upper Franconia Foundation, has been released to the press at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories.