The National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) was invited to appear at the second network convention of the funding area “Extending the Initiative on Further Training for Specialists in Early Childhood Education (AWIFF)”, which was hosted by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) on March 5 and 6, 2013, in the Gustav Stresemann Institute in Bonn.
Altogether, the funding area includes 17 research projects with several group projects from different universities among them. As part of her presentation, Michaela Sixt introduced the concept and the design of NEPS and gave a short overview of the Kindergarten cohort, followed by a poster presentation by Tobias Linberg who gave a detailed overview of NEPS Stages 2 and 3. The NEPS data in general, and especially those concerning the Kindergarten cohort, attracted wide interest among the attending participants because, in many cases, NEPS data can be used by researchers as reference data in addition to their own data sets.