Coordination Funds

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Sabine Weinert, since 8/2019
• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research
• Term: from 2012 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 218041232

The National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) in Germany provides new nationally representative longitudinal data on individual educational careers and competencies and how they unfold over the life course in relation to the family, educational institutions, workplaces, and private life. The first assessment waves of the NEPS were carried out in 2009/2010 (adult cohort) and 2010/2011 (kindergarten children at age 4, children in secondary school at ages 10 and 15, and freshmen at the institutions of tertiary education). In 2013 a sample of infants (in their first year of life) will be added to the NEPS. These cohorts will be followed up by yearly sweeps. Data from the first wave of the NEPS was recently published as a scientific use file. The DFG Priority Programme (1646) “Education as a Lifelong Process. Analyzing Data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)” invites research proposals on (1) studying competence development over the life course, (2) utilizing the NEPS database for other relevant substantive analyses, (3) combine NEPS data with additional national and/or international datasets, and (4) deal with methodological issues relevant to the NEPS. This proposal asks for a coordinator project to support the Priority Programme 1646 for the first three years of funding, beginning in January 2012.The coordinator project will establish an overarching organizational infrastructure that will carry out all activities and organizational tasks that are required for an efficient coordination of the Priority Programme’s research projects.

• DFG Programme: Infrastructure Priority Programmes
• Subproject of: SPP 1646: Education as a Lifelong Process. Analysing Data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)
• Ehemaliger Antragsteller: Professor Dr. Hans-Peter Blossfeld, until 8/2019