Education & Science

Education and science enable people to participate in society and are prerequisites for fair opportunities for advancement. The Heinrich Böll Foundation wants to initiate and promote debates about the quality of education and science. The focus is on the topics of educational participation and digitalisation.

Recent articles

Education disrupted - Global disparities in online learning mirror PISA findings

When schools shut down, many students around the world were shut out, as their education systems were ill-prepared for online learning. The OECD’s 2018 PISA report revealed wide disparities between countries and socio-economic groups on the availability of adequate technology and schools’ capacity to use digital tools to enhance learning.

By Andreas Schleicher

More devices, insufficient skills: Digital literacy gap adds to educational inequity in Germany

By Julia Gerick

Ein fast leerer Kinderschreibtisch ohne digitale Geräte vor einem Fenster

No access, no class: Challenges for digital inclusion of students

In the United States, the pandemic made obvious what has long been a problem – students without access to the internet or computing devices at home are at a serious disadvantage.

By Bianca C. Reisdorf and Laleah Fernandez

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Publications

Compensating Indebted Countries for Keeping Fossil Fuels in the Ground

Fossil fuel development, in particular oil and gas, promised vast riches in the past. Today it is exposing fossil fuel producers and their creditors to a massive stranded asset risk. Technological disruption with the rapid cost-reduction of renewable energy and storage technologies, in conjunction with the inevitability of increased climate action, are at the root of unprecedented uncertainties over the future of the sector.

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Debt-For-Adaptation Swap – Investment in Adaptation and Resilience

Low-income countries (LICs) are suffering from triple distresses: the mortal impact of Covid-19, increasing debt burdens, and climate change impacts. This paper brings the debt-for-adaptation swap into play as an alternative source to restore countries' ability to act and be resilient to climate change.

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The Architecture for a Debt-for-Climate Initiative

This paper outlines some viable options for creating an architecture for a Debt-for-Climate Initiative (DCI). This is intended to enable countries to recover from the pandemic.

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