• The BERA website enables free, anytime access to a huge array of research resources.
• Users need only to visit the website and choose Resources on the front page.
• There is no requirement to be registered.
• The ?search? facility is currently very basic but a new more sophisticated system is under development.
• The ?search? facility requires a keyword. For example, typing the word ?ethnography? will find 31 resources at present.
• Details of the providers of the resources are provided on the first page of the Resources link.
  John Gardner (October 2009)

BERA website

Project coordinator: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Gogolin, University of Hamburg, EERA President; Technical coordinator: Prof. Dr. Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt University of Berlin; Project Manager: Virginia Moukouli, University of Hamburg, Institute for Multicultural and International Comparative Education

Upon instigation of the European Educational Research Association  (EERA, www.eera.eu) and its members, a project entitled European Educational Research Quality Indicators (EERQI) was successfully proposed in the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union.

We are glad to announce that EERQI will be funded as a small collaborative project with Euro 1,494,564. The project will officially begin on 1st April 2008 for a three year period.

Aims of the project:EERQI will build an advanced prototype framework for relevance assessment of research documents in educational research. This will be based on formal mechanisms including citation analysis and linking, semantically-based full text analysis and co-occurrence of information items in open access and non-open access repositories. Moreover, journal articles, books and other freely-available scholarly publications are included.

Educational research has been chosen as a prototype of socially and politically embedded fields within the humanities and social sciences. The resulting prototype framework of quality indicators and methods will provide the base toolset for a European information service for evaluation of educational research publications and can be applied to other social sciences and humanities fields.

Complementary to traditional measurements of scientific quality (citation analysis, journal impact factor), new methods and indicators of quality assessment will be tested (usage assessments, versions available, other statistical methods, as well as by means of advanced, semantics-based detection of linking, correlations and referral contexts).

The project will also address the complex role of the diversity of scientific languages in Europe. Different languages can be a barrier to the international flow of communication. They are at the same time fundamental to expressing complex scientific ideas which are embedded in a certain historical and cultural back-ground. Thus the project will also address the challenge of effectively dealing with multilingualism and specific "cultural heritage" of research traditions in the European countries.

EERQI results will raise visibility and competitiveness of European researchers and contribute to new policy bases for funding, hiring, and evaluation decisions in European academic and research institutions.

The Project will be carried out by a Consortium of 19 Institutions including- European international and national learned societies in educational research,- departments of education at European universities,- computer and documentation centers in different European countries,- European publishers of educational research.

Read more: www.eerqi.eu

How do young users or non-users of urban places of religious worship regard the importance of religion or secularism? How do they regard the relationship of their place of worship towards the community? These are the questions the project The Architecture of Contemporary Religious Transmission is concerned with. Therefore it focuses on three main topics: urban religious places and local forms of religious representation, young people´s "standpoints" and changes in social relations. The project is based on the assumption that young people are key indicators of whether or not religion is re-emerging as a social force in Europe.

The project will use qualitative research methods such as audiovisual documentation, interviews with young people or clerics and focus groups.

Three research teams will work in the European cities of Hamburg, London and Oslo, making it a truly international comparative research project.

Duration: April 2007 to November 2008
Project website: NORFACE
Funding: NORFACE

Ingrid Gogolin was appointed as member of the Quality Control Board of the project MERIDIUM (Multilingualism in Europe as a Resource for Immigration - Dialogue Initiative among the Universities of Mediterranean),  lead institution: University for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy.

The QCB is composed by three international experts in the field of multilingualism. MERIDIUM involves 7 European universities with the aim to encourage the acquisition of second-language knowledge among citizens of Mediterranean Europe and immigrants coming from or directed to Mediterranean countries. MERIDIUM aims to promote the goals of EU multilingualism policies by means of a permanent Study and Documentation Centre on Multilingualism in Mediterranean Europe to be established at the University for Foreigners of Perugia.

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Member of the UNESCO-Institute for Lifelong Learning Hamburg

Visiting Professor 

• University of Cape Town, South Africa (Prof. Dr. Neville Alexander/ Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa, PRAESA)

• Columbia University New York, USA (Prof. Dr. Gita Steiner-Khamsi)
  
  
• Universität Wien, Österreich (Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Krumm)
  
  
• University of Southampton, GB (Prof. Dr. Jill Bourne)

International Student Exchanges

Supervisor of the SOKRATES-Programme with the following universities:

• University of London (GB),
  
  
• Oslo University College (NO),
  
  
• Universidad de Granada (E),
  
  
• Universität Wien (A).