Many interventions that prove successful in studies fail to (permanently) find their way into educational practice. This is where transfer and implementation research comes in, asking how (AI) interventions should be – and actually are being – developed, communicated, perceived, (re)designed, translated, used and disseminated by the relevant stakeholders in a real-world setting; in other words, how they should be and are being transferred and implemented.

ImplAI-ed is a project within the Hector AI+Education Future Fund consortium. Within the Hector AI+Education Future Fund consortium, we operate along two main lines of work:

1) A consultancy focus, in which we provide internal project consultancy based on existing empirical knowledge and theoretical models from transfer and implementation research, with the aim of increasing the projects’ likelihood of successfully implementing their innovations in educational institutions.

2) A research focus aimed at identifying additional factors contributing to the success or failure of research projects—from the micro, through the meso, to the macro level—in order to develop recommendations for the successful transfer and sustainable implementation of future science-based initiatives.

Leadership: Prof. Dr Annika Goeze, Prof. Dr Josef Schrader (German Institute for Adult Education – Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning (DIE))

Researchers: Dr Petra Hetfleisch, Dr Christina Wurst