With funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Jacobs Foundation and in cooperation with various Leibniz institutes the newly-founded “College for interdisciplinary Education Research” offers the opportunity of interdisciplinary career advancement to 30 excellent junior scientists in educational science, psychology, economics
and sociology during the early post-doctoral stage. Over a period of 2 years (in exceptional cases: 3 years), the College offers a range of activities for the advancement of interdisciplinary cooperation and methodological training in quantitative educational research.
The main shared research areas of the College are:
- educational inequality and success against the odds
- competence development as an educational and social process
- returns to education
Application documents have to be submitted in English electronically no later than October 25, 2012.