LEAD Graduate School & Research Network

30.06.2025

LEAD partner school in the running for the German School Award

The 15 finalist schools for the German School Award have been announced. Among them is the LEAD partner school "Ernst-Reuter-Gemeinschaftsschule" from Karlsruhe.

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By Rebecca Beiter

The nomination is already a success: the LEAD Graduate School & Research Network partner school “Ernst-Reuter-Gemeinschaftsschule” from Karlsruhe is one of the 15 schools in the final race for the German School Award 2025. The winners will be announced at the end of September. Out of more than 100 applications, a jury selected the 15 best schools that can now hope to win the German School Award. Three of these schools are from Baden-Württemberg.

 

LEAD cooperation program “School & Science”

The nominated LEAD partner school “Ernst-Reuter-Gemeinschaftsschule” is a secondary school with 380 students and 41 teachers in Karlsruhe. Since 2023, it has been part of the LEAD partner school network, which now comprises 36 schools and continues to grow. Many schools in Baden-Württemberg express great interest in practical findings and suggestions from educational research; educational scientists benefit from the ideas and research questions from the field.

To achieve this exchange between schools and science, the LEAD Graduate School & Research Network has established a successful form of cooperation from which both sides benefit: the “School & Science” cooperation program. Schools participate in representative scientific studies and gain insights into educational research through lectures and project days. They provide education scientists with important feedback and impulses from school practice. In this way, evidence-based education quickly finds its way into schools in Baden-Württemberg. Schools that would like to join the School and Science Network can find all the information they need here:

To the overview of all 36 LEAD partner schools
 

Visibility for extraordinary schools

The German School Award is a prestigious and demanding award for very good schools in Germany. It has been awarded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH and the Heidehof Foundation since 2006. In addition to the pure quality of teaching, the competition also focuses on the question of how schools organize teaching and learning for students in the best way possible. The jury's criteria for selecting the winners also include “performance”, “dealing with diversity”, “responsibility”, “school climate, school life and extracurricular partners” and “learning school”. The main prize is endowed with 100,000 euros, and five further prizes with 30,000 euros each.

Competitions such as the German School Award ensure that outstanding teaching and learning environments become visible and that evidence-based criteria from educational research for successful teaching and learning are given greater visibility.

We wish our partner school every success!

 

Media Contact

Rebecca Beiter
Rebecca.Beiter@uni-tuebingen.de 

 

 

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