Pioneering policies and practices tackling educational inequalities in Europe (PIONEERED)
PIONEERED is a Research and Innovation Action Project of the Horizon 2020 Call Enhancing Access and Uptake of Education to Reverse Inequalities (Transformations-22-2020). PIONEERED aims to identify research-based policy frameworks and pioneering strategies and practices to reduce inequalities in access to formal and informal education.
On the one hand, it will examine the known causes of educational inequalities along the educational pathway from early childhood to tertiary education, and on the other hand, it will present strategies and practices for responding to inequalities from a cross-country comparative perspective. Based on these findings, the aim is to highlight the most promising tools in terms of path-breaking strategies and practices, which will be achieved through an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach that considers multiple levels, different intersectionalities and a course-of-life perspective.
Given its experience in educational research at the interface with education policy and its background of broad expertise in social inequalities and methodologies, ICER is involved in all work packages of the project. The main tasks are in the area of methodological-conceptual work and comparative data analysis of educational inequalities:
- Lead of Work Package 2 (conceptual and methodological framework) and Lead of Task 2.1 (state of research report) and Task 2.2 (methodological guidelines)
- Lead of Task 4.2 (consequences of school segregation on achievement and attainment)
The key results from PIONEERED can be found on the project website: https://pioneered.uni.lu.
Key facts about PIONEERED
Website
Funding
European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme
Duration
01.03.2021 - 29.02.2024
Project team at the University of Bern
Dr Andrea Erzinger
Dr Simon Seiler
M.A. Robin Benz
Dr Jessica Herzing
M.Sc. Angela Aegerter
B.Sc. Dilan Cümen
Dr David Glauser
Cooperation partners
University of Helsinki, Finland
University of Mannheim, Germany
Trier University, Germany
TÁRKI Social Research Institute, Hungary
The Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland
PPMI – Public Policy and Management Institute, Lithuania
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
LISER – Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Luxembourg
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
University of Bergen, Norway
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Eurice – European Research and Project Office GmbH, Germany
Selected publications
Benz, Robin; Darmody, Merike; Smyth, Emer (2024). Participation in shadow education and academic performance: A comparison of upper secondary school students in Ireland and Germany. International journal of comparative sociology Sage Publications. Doi: 10.1177/00207152241266791
Benz, Robin (2024). Regional variation in participation in private tutoring and the role of education system features. Research in social stratification and mobility, 92 Elsevier. Doi: 10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100958
Benz, Robin; Ackermann, Tobias (22 August 2023). Disadvantaged by Chance? Cut-off Dates for School Enrolment and Their Consequences for Educational Outcomes (Unveröffentlicht). In: ECER 2023. Glasgow.
Benz, Robin; Ackermann, Tobias (29 Juni 2023). Disadvantaged by Chance: Date of Birth, Relative Age in School and Educational Achievement (Unveröffentlicht). In: SGBF-SGL Kongress 2023.
Seiler, Simon; Benz, Robin; Hryvko, Antonina; Erzinger, Andrea B. (25 Mai 2023). Effects of School Segregation on Educational Achievement along the Educational Trajectory in Germany (Unveröffentlicht). In: RC28 Spring Meeting 2023. Paris.
Winkler, Anja; Aegerter, Angela, Erzinger, Andrea B. (2023): Ansatzpunkte zur Reduktion von Bildungsungleichheiten in der Schweiz. Eine Analyse der Stakeholderperspektive Universität Bern. Doi: 10.48350/180550
Benz, Robin (10 November 2022). Shadow Education in Switzerland: Regional Variation in the Use of Private Tutoring and the Role of Cantonal Education Systems (Unveröffentlicht). In: LuxERA Conference 2022. Esch-sur-Alzette.
Benz, Robin; Seiler, Simon; Erzinger, Andrea B. (6 September 2022). Effects of School Segregation on Educational Achievement Along the Educational Trajectory in Germany (Unveröffentlicht). In: EARLI SIG 18. Freiburg im Breisgau.
Seiler, Simon; Herzing, Jessica; Erzinger, Andrea; Jensen, Joakim; Skrobanek, Jan (2021). PIONEERED Deliverable No. 2.2. Methodological guidelines: MILC framework for measuring inequalities and their intersectionalities: Conceptual and methodological approach to answer the research questions (information to be integrated into the triangulation matrix in WP6) Universität Bern
Benz, Robin; Seiler, Simon; Erzinger, Andrea (2021). PIONEERED Deliverable No. 2.1. State of research report – definitions, conceptual approaches, empirical findings Universität Bern