Projects of the Leibniz School of Education

The project, which will run from September 2025 to August 2028, is a collaboration between the Leibniz School of Education and the Green Office at LUH, funded by study quality funds from the Climate Pot for Teaching. After the Teaching Change 1.0 project (2022-2025) piloted offers for the subject-specific and interdisciplinary implementation of ESD in teacher education, these approaches are to be broadened and consolidated in the follow-up project. To this end, the project supports processes of integration in the subjects and promotes the interdisciplinary anchoring of ESD in the course of degree programme developments.
The project supports the efforts of the Leibniz School of Education to develop and establish a holistic concept for professionalisation (attitudes and skills) on various socially relevant cross-cutting issues in the context of contemporary and forward-looking teacher education.

The project, which will run from September 2025 to August 2028, is being carried out in cooperation with the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs and is funded as a state initiative by Engagement Global with funds from the BMZ.

Its aim is to improve exchange and cooperation between the various phases and actors involved in teacher education (studies, preparatory service and in-service training) in the field of ESD, and in particular to contribute to better integration of science and practice – for coherent, complementary, science-based and practice-oriented professionalisation of ESD as a cross-cutting theme in teacher education.

To this end, the project will establish a network in the spirit of a community of practice that will serve as a joint learning and collaboration platform for all actors in the teacher education landscape of the Hanover region: members of universities and teacher training seminars, school practitioners, education administrators, education policymakers, education networks, learning centres and civil society. In autumn 2026, a state conference on ESD in teacher education will also be held, bringing together representatives from all locations in Lower Saxony.

Interculturally oriented education in schools requires appropriately oriented university teacher education that embraces the concept of diversity in the sense of ‘teacher education for a school of diversity’ (KMK & HRK, 2015, p. 2) and makes it accessible to students by promoting intercultural competence.

Science and practice in dialogue on cross-cutting issues

On 1 September 2025, the Leibniz Education Talks project, funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK), will start at the LSE.

In a time of rapid social and technological change, an intensive, scientifically based exchange on socially relevant cross-cutting issues such as artificial intelligence, education for sustainable development or dealing with flight and migration is becoming increasingly important.

Our aim is to strengthen the exchange of knowledge and ideas from educational science, practice, administration and policy, and to lift scientific discourse out of its often narrow circle and make it accessible to a broader public and educational practice.

With the Leibniz Education Talks, we are creating an interface between science and society to promote sustainable and scientifically sound educational processes.