Horizon Europe MapIE project

Centre for Educational Assessment (CEA) will participate as a partner in a 4-year Horizon Europe project MapIE - Mapping of Longitudinal data of Inequalities in Education. The project is coordinated by Tampere University’s research centre REAL.

The research consortium consists of internationally acknowledged experts in large-scale educational assessment research from Finnish Educational Evaluation Centre, University of Oslo, University of Gothenburg, Goethe University of Frankfurt and University of Szeged. 

The MapIE project aims at identifying and analysing longitudinal data both to understand how inequalities develop in different educational contexts and particularly to identify effective mechanisms and interventions to close achievement gaps. We aim at understanding how educational inequalities develop as an interplay of pupil-level predictors and the features of the local, regional and national policies and practices. MapIE focuses on the contextual differences between the Nordic and Central European countries that have structurally different education systems and thereby varying approaches to tracking and school selection, which are considered central system-level factors contributing to school segregation. 

The project website will open by May 2024. 
Work packages

The project has seven interrelated work packages: 

  • Work package 1. Project management
  • Work package 2. Literature review
  • Work package 3. Framework for data mapping
  • Work package 4. Data mapping and data management
  • Work package 5. Effective interventions and policies
  • Work package 6. Framework for future longitudinal studies
  • Work package 7. Dissemination, exploitation, communication
Outputs

The main research outputs of our project are a systematic literature review published both for scientific audiences and the wider public, an open metadata database containing descriptions of a wide range of European longitudinal datasets identified in data mapping with links to original data where applicable, and empirical analyses of the accessed data that are published in a large number of publications and dissemination events for both scientific audiences and educational policy makers as well as authorities, schools and the public media. Finally, we create a public framework for studying educational inequalities longitudinally in future studies, acknowledging the role of local contexts but aiming for comparability at the European level.
Funding

The project is funded through HORIZON-CL2-2023-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-06 (1.3.2024 – 29.2.2028). The total amount of EU funding is 2 699 644,75€. 
Contact persons

Postdoctoral researcher Meri Lintuvuori
Centre for Educational Assessment CEA
University of Helsinki
meri.lintuvuori@helsinki.fi
+358 29 412 0404

Professor Mari-Pauliina Vainikainen 
Research Centre for Education, Assessment, and Learning 
Tampere University 
mari-pauliina.vainikainen@tuni.fi
+358 50 437 7303