The research at the Centre of Competence for Informal Education (CCIE) at the Faculty for Educational Sciences at the University of Bielefeld focuses on various questions in the context of the development of quality criteria for online-offers for young people from an educational and social scientist perspective.

The CCIE evaluates online-offers for young people in the field of youth work and youth welfare services. The special emphasis lies here on the question of “digital inequality”, i.e. the social diverse internet use of various milieus in the informal education sector.

In this context studies on internet-use of young people were conducted as
well as evaluations of theoretical and practical models of informal and
non-formal education in the context of the virtual space.

The research of the CCIE is aiming at developing evaluation criteria for user orientated informal education as well as surveying of educational demands of various user groups who are restricted in terms of access to and use of education on the internet (“Digital Divide” and “Digital Inequality”).