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The DFG Collaborative Research Center SHARP (TRR419) has been approved

July 1st, 2025

The Chair of Empirical Education and Educational Psychology is delighted that the German Research Foundation (DFG) will be funding the new Collaborative Research Center SHARP (TRR 419) from October 1, 2025. Several members of the chair are involved as project leaders.

Personalized, simulation-based learning can better prepare students for the complex demands of practical work. "We are researching the conditions and mechanisms of acquiring complex skills with AI-supported simulations," explains Prof. Dr. Frank Fischer (LMU), spokesperson for the SFB. "The knowledge we are developing in SHARP has the potential to drive innovation in higher education teaching and evidence-based practice," emphasizes deputy spokesperson Prof. Dr. Tina Seidel (TUM).
SHARP is the first collaborative research center in educational research and aims to develop important foundations for innovation in higher education. The SFB brings together the disciplines of medicine, biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, physics, education, and psychology. In addition to LMU and TUM, the University of Augsburg and the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre are also involved. More information can be found here.

Learning4Kids: Enhancing Educational Opportunities through Learning Apps

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Lecture Series on Methodological Innovations in Learning Sciences

November 26, 2024

As part of the ChAN cooperation project 2024 with Peking University, we presented an online Distinguished China-Germany Lecture Series on learning sciences entitled "Methodological Advancements" on October 23, 2024 . Four renowned scientists from China and Germany in the field of learning sciences—Dr. Lu Zhang, Prof. Dr. Matthias Stadler, Dr. Yu Liu, and Dr. Olga Chernikova— gave lectures on topics such as educational games, generative AI in medical and teacher training, and AI-supported systematic literature analyses.

The lecture series was commented on and summarized by the ChAN project leaders: Prof. Frank Fischer, Director of the Munich Center of the Learning Sciences, and Prof. Junjie Shang, Executive Director of the Lab of Learning Sciences at Peking University. Nearly 100 participants attended this lecture series.

Further information and recording of the lecture series

The lecture series was featured on the official media channels of Peking University's Graduate School of Education and received approximately 600 views.