Association

Scientists from three research institutes are jointly responsible for the implementation and scientific design of the funding directive in the meta-project Language Education in an Immigrant Society.

The association's coordination office is located at the Mercator Institute for Literacy and Language Education.

The task of the advisory board is to support the funding directive. The advisory board consists of people who have expertise in the field of language education in the context of diversity, which allows them to take on the role of 'critical friends'.

Members of the Advisory Board:

• Prof. Dr. Aileen Edele, professor for Learning and Instruction with a Special Focus on Migration-Related Diversity at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM) and at Humboldt-Universität of Berlin
• Dr. Birgit Pikowsky, director of the Pedagogical State Institute of Rhineland-Palatinate
• Prof. Dr. Karen Schramm, professor for German as a Foreign and Second Language, University of Vienna 
• Prof. Dr. Elmar Souvignier, professor for Diagnostics and Evaluation in the School Context at the University of Münster
• Hendrik Stammermann, teacher of German and English at a Hamburg high school and trained learning coach, spokesman of the advisory board 
• Dr. Jens Behning, Consultant for language and political education issues at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) in Nuremberg

There is a cooperation with the research program Multilingualism as a Labor Market Resource (MARE).

The meta-project Language Education in an Immigrant Society accompanies the funding guidelines of the same name from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). This is part of the Framework Programme for Empirical Educational Research.