At the 3rd Anáhuac International Congress on Educational Quality (CIACE 2026) in Mexico City, Prof. Katrin Hahn-Laudenberg presented key findings from the ICCS 2022 study. The three-day international conference was held under the theme: “Educating for Peaceful Coexistence: Emotions, Adaptability, and Metacognition”.
How do socially challenging times affect adolescents? This was the question addressed by the workshop “Political Socialisation in Turbulent Times” at Goethe University Frankfurt, in which Sophia Jendrzejewski presented a working paper.
Prof. Katrin Hahn-Laudenberg opened the symposium with an online presentation on the ICCS study and the question of how young people are prepared for their role as citizens. The focus was on democracy projects at schools along the Danube with teachers from Baden-Württemberg and 14 Danube countries.
Since the end of January 2026, surveys have been conducted at schools in three federal states as part of the ICCS field trial. The surveys are being carried out by trained test administrators from IEA Hamburg and are partly supervised by staff from the ICCS national study centre.
Fit4EU was the title of a conference on professionalisation for political education about Europe held on 1–2 December at the University of Frankfurt. Prof. Hermann Josef Abs presented results from the ICCS 2022 teacher survey on the anchoring of European civic and citizenship education in teacher training. He also discussed how students’ identification with Europe and attitudes towards international cooperation in Europe develop, based on the students survey.