School Cooperation Network in Tübingen

School and Science – Together at the Educational Hub Tübingen

What is the School Cooperation Network?

Educational research and educational practice – hand in hand. In Tübingen, numerous university and non-university partners in the field of education work together with educational practitioners in school cooperation projects. The School Cooperation Network brings together these cooperation projects and transfer projects between academic and school partners.

The aim: a cooperation between academic and school partners,

which is reliable and quality-compliant;
and further develops in the long term.

Our guidelines

For the school cooperation network in Tübingen

Download: Guidelines for the School Cooperation Network

Members of the School Cooperation Network

Our partners from the scientific community

Hector-Institut für Empirische Bildungsforschung (HIB)

Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft (IfE)

LEAD Graduate School & Research Network

Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien Tübingen (IWM)

Tübingen Center for Digital Education (TüCeDE)

Tübingen School of Education (TüSE)

Quality criteria

(minimum standards) in the design of the respective cooperative relationships and activities with the school partners within the framework of the school cooperation network

Close consultation with the contact persons at the schools is a prerequisite in order to enable bidirectional, reliable and trusting cooperations and transfer relationships on an equal footing.
When developing and implementing research, transfer and cooperation projects, the framework conditions, goals and tasks of school practice are always taken into account. In the case of basic research, the relevance and benefits for school practitioners are made explicit.
The preparation and implementation of research projects by doctoral students is closely monitored by their supervisors (e.g. the preparation of documents for the approvals to be obtained, cover letters for participating persons, etc.). The supervisors ensure the quality of these documents.
The guidelines of good scientific practice of the University of Tübingen and the safeguarding of good research with regard to ethical and data protection aspects will be adhered to.

For research and development projects in schools, this means in particular:

Before carrying out any research projects (includes quantitative and qualitative studies, as well as teaching and school development projects and implementation mentation projects)

all participating persons (school management, teachers, school social workers, pupils, legal guardians and other groups of persons) are comprehensively informed about the purpose, content and scope of the research project and their consent to participate in the study is obtained (taking into account the GDPR, e.g. informed consent, voluntary participation, right to discontinue participation and deletion of data, etc.);
is closely coordinated with the contact persons at schools;
a positive ethics vote is obtained from an ethics committee for empirical studies and evaluations (e.g. the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Tübingen);
approval is obtained from the school authorities in accordance with the school authority guidelines (in the case of participation by one school by the respective school management, in the case of several schools in the same regional council by the respective regional council, in the case of several schools in different regional councils by the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs).

After carrying out the research projects

all participants receive feedback on the findings and implications.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the school cooperation network, please contact info@tuecede.uni-tuebingen.de