Boards

The ‘Statute concerning the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute’ (Gesetz über das Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien | Georg-Eckert-Institut) prescribes three boards:

  • The Board of Trustees, which decides matters of fundamental importance and supervises the work of the Director.
  • the Academic Advisory Board, which advises the Institute's bodies on the definition of guidelines for academic planning and on academic and programmatic issues.
  • The User Advisory Board, which advises the Institute on the development of academic infrastructure and transfer services.

  • Board of Trustees

    CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES,
    REPRESENTATIVE OF THE STATE OF LOWER SAXONY: 

    Dr. David Schnieders
    Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony
    Department 12 – Natural Sciences and Research Ethics

    DEPUTY CHAIR,
    REPRESENTATIVE OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY:

    RD'in Katrin Wery
    Federal Minsitry of Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
    Department 412 – Educational Research

    REPRESENTATIVE OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY: 

    Oliver Bientzle
    German Federal Foreign Office
    Department 605 – Promotion of German as a Foreign Language and German Schools Abroad

    REPRESENTATIVE OF THE STATE OF LOWER SAXONY:

    Dr. Jochen Walter
    Ministry for Education and Culture Affairs of Lower Saxony
    Department 23 – Political Education, Memorial Sites, Global Learning, Education for Sustainable Development, and Mobility

    REPRESENTATIVE FROM RELEVANT ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS:

    Prof. Dr. Angela Ittel
    President of the Technical University of Braunschweig
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    REPRESENTATIVE FROM ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS:

    Prof. Peter Burschel
    Director of the Herzog August Bibiothek Wolfenbüttel
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    REPRESENTATIVE FROM ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS:

    Prof. Dr. Christiane Thompson 
    Faculty of Educational Sciences
    Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main
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    REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE AREA OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP:

    Linda Thomas
    Executive Library Director
    Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
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    REPRESENTATIVE FROM BUSINESS/CORPORATE ORGANISATIONS:

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    ADVISORY MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES:

    Prof. Dr. Dr. Péter Bagoly-Simó
    Chair of the Academic Advisory Board
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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    Christoph Pienkoß
    Chair of the User Advisory Board
    Managing Director - Verband Bildungsmedien e.V.
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    Prof. Dr. Eckhardt Fuchs
    Director of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute

    Alexandra Bänecke
    Administrative Director of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute

    Dr. Dirk Sadowski
    Staff Representative of the des Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute


  • Academic Advisory Board

    CHAIR OF THE ACADEMIC ADVISORY BOARD:

    Prof. Dr. Dr. Péter Bagoly-Simó
    Chair of the Academic Advisory Board 
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geographic Institute
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    Prof. Dr. Fahimah Ulfat
    Deputy Chair of the Academic Advisory Board 
    University of Münster, Center for Islamic Theology
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    MEMBERS OF THE ACADEMIC ADVISORY BOARD:

    Prof. Dr. Sören Auer
    Director of TIB - Leibniz Information Centre For Science And Technology and University Library
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    Prof. Dr. Wolf-Tilo Balke
    Technische Universität Braunschweig, Head of Institute for Information Systems
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    Prof. Dr. Christina Brüning
    Philipps-Universität Marburg, Department of History and Cultural Studies
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    Prof. Dr. Tilman Grammes
    Hamburg University, Department of Social Sciences, Mathematics and Natural Sciences Education
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    Prof. Dr. Elke Greifeneder
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Library and Information Science
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    Prof. Dr. Torsten Hiltmann
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of History
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    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sandra Hofhues
    FernUniversität Hagen, Institute for Educational Science and Media Research (IfBM)
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    Univ.-Prof. Dr. habil. Christoph Kühberger
    Universität Salzburg, Department of History
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    Prof. Dr. Henning Lobin
    Leibniz Institute for German Language (IDS), Scientific Direktor and Chairman of the Board of the IDS
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    Prof. Dr. Paul Mecheril
    Bielefeld University, Faculty of Educational Science / Pedagogy of Migration and Critique of Rascism
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    Associate Prof. Dr. Petra Missomelius
    University of Innsbruck, Department of Media, Society and Communication
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  • User Advisory Board

    CHAIR OF THE USER ADVISORY BOARD:

    Christoph Pienkoß
    Chair of the User Advisory Board
    Managing Director - Verband Bildungsmedien e.V.
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    NN
    Deputy Chair of the User Advisory Board 

    MEMBERS OF THE USER ADVISORY BOARD:

    Ute Ackermann-Boeros
    American International School in Cyprus
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    Arne Busse
    Head of Branch Offers for Specific Target Groups/bpb
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    Jacob Chammon
    Managing Director - Deutschen Telekom Stiftung, Bonn
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    Torsten Glaser
    Director - Regionales Landesamt für Schule und Bildung Braunschweig
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    Prof. Dr. Isabella Peters
    Professor of Web Science at the ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and CAU Kiel University
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    Prof. Dr. Christof Schöch
    Professor for Digital Humanities, Universität Trier and Co-Director of the Trier Center for Digital Humanities
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    Dr. Frank Schweppenstette
    Federal Deputy Chairman - Verbands der Geschichtslehrerinnen und -lehrer Deutschlands (VGD)
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