CIDER IV – College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research

Project Description

The College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (CIDER) is an interdisciplinary network supporting postdocs in the area of empirical educational research. CIDER involves the following academic disciplines: economics, education science, psychology, and sociology. The college was founded by six Leibniz-Institutes in 2012 financially supported by the BMBF and the Jacobs Foundation; currently ten institutes are involved. Since 2019, the coordination of CIDER is located at the DIPF (Y2lkZXItY29vcmRpbmF0aW9uQGRpcGYuZGU=). In the current cohort CIDER IV 30 postdocs are offered the chance for interdisciplinary exchange and cooperation. Within regular CIDER workshops and conferences, CIDER fellows and seniors come together to present and discuss their research projects and exchange ideas. The core of CIDER are so called micro groups, i.e. small research groups of CIDER fellows from different disciplines working together on research topics of their choice.

Project Objectives

• to promote interdisciplinary research in education
• to build an international cross-disciplinary research network in education
• to advance the academic careers of its Fellows and
• to transfer scientific results into the general public

Funding

(Funding of the CIDER Public Science Awards 2025 and 2026)

Cooperations

• Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB)
• German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)
• Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology (HIB)
• ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
• Institute for Educational Quality Improvement (IQB)
• IPN - Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education
• Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi)
• WZB Berlin Social Science Center
• ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

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