Mission statement

The DIPF is a non-university institute delivering scientific infrastructure and research services to researchers, practitioners, administrators and policy-makers in the field of education. It ensures the provision of information in education at a national level while also conducting research and evaluation inthe field of education. In accordance with the overall commission of the Leibniz Association, the Institute links fundamental research gained from insights with innovative developmentalwork and services that are beneficial to society.

The DIPF

• prepares and delivers central scholarly information by means of modern information and communication procedures;
• advises and supports educational researchers realising and conducting research projects;
• assesses the design and use of information services and processes of knowledge transfer in education;
• co-ordinates and conducts national and international research projects;
• prepares contributions to theoretical, empirical and methodological fundaments of national and international educational research in its own right;
• assesses educational processes at an individual, institutional and systemic level;
• evaluates educational programmes, educational institutions and education systems;
• advises and accompanies initiatives aimed at quality development and quality assurance in education;
• initiates, promotes and co-ordinates national and international networks;
• supports and trains younger generations in academic and non-academic careers.

The DIPF makes a significant and up-to-date contribution to a comprehensive transfer of knowledge in education by its work in the areas of educational information and educational research: this is grounded in scholarly input on the one hand, and methods based on information science on the other hand.