Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM)

The IWM at a glance

We...

• explore how digital technologies help knowledge to be created, acquired, shared and passed on.
• are one of over 90 research institutions in the Leibniz Association.
• conduct excellent research at the highest international level.
• publish in the best scientific journals.
• initiated and coordinated the first Leibniz Science Campus in Germany.
• focus our basic and application-oriented research on the fields of practice of schools, universities, museums and everyday life.
• offer early-career researchers a sound and attractive doctoral programme.
• enable our employees to balance work and family life and are committed to our values.

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The Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM), located in Tübingen, is an independent research institute. Its responsible body is the foundation "Medien in der Bildung" [Media in Education], a nonprofit organization under private law. The institute was founded in 2001. As a member of the Leibniz-Association, the IWM is supported equally by the Federal Republic of Germany and the Federal States under their joint program "Promotion of Non-University Scientific Research" (Art. 91 b GG).