The Institute provides research-based service and transfer opportunities for academics and students, political educational institutions, international educational organisations and publishing houses.

Projects, which had already been concluded when the research department was restructured into research groups, document this activity.

 

These are 'classic' projects, formally based on the traditional textbook work. Their content, however, is orientated towards current affairs.

• German-French Textbook Commission
• German-French Textbook Project
• German-Japanese Textbook Project
• German-Dutch Co-operation on Textbooks

Currently most of the bilateral textbook projects and commissions are part of the Research Area Europe.

 

Since the late 1980s, the Georg Eckert Institute began to explore new topic-orientated research areas alongside its 'classic' bilateral work. The projects presented here pertain to this new orient

• Reconstruction of Identities and Revision of History in East Asia
• Migration in Textbooks: A Comparative Research Project
• World History
• Europe in Textbooks
• Other Cultures in Geography Teaching
• Holocaust Education
• Southeastern Europe - a historical region and its significance as portrayed in West European and Southeast European textbooks

 

 

With the end of the East-West conflict, it at first appeared as though a large part of the Institute's work had become superfluous. It soon became clear, however, that precisely the opposite was the case. In Eastern European and South-East European societies in particular, new lines of conflict had appeared, in turn bringing new challenges for educational issues. The Georg Eckert Institute has played a significant advisory and mediatory role in this regard, as well as in permanent conflicts such as in the Middle East.

• Project with the non-Russian states of the CIS
• German-Belarusian Textbook Project

 

 

The GEI has always been interested in further teaching materials beyond textbooks, including new media. Material archives on the internet for geography and history teaching are continually updated and extended. At the same time, new areas are explored.

• Development of Multi-media Software "The History of National Socialism" for Schools
• Virtual Geography Texts: A German-Canadian Project