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DIE, the German Institute for Adult Education – Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning, conducts application-oriented basic research on teaching and learning processes, continuing education organisations and the framework conditions of the continuing education system. It also runs digital services, including the wb-web teaching platform, the ProfilPASS skills-recording tool, the GRETA competence check for teachers, the Kansas reading-text search, financial literacy material, a reference library and the DiPA archive of adult education centre programme booklets.

Its customers include teachers, researchers, students and practitioners in adult and continuing education. The institute also provides statistics on continuing education providers and aims to support evidence-based education policy. Its research is organised in areas such as literacy and basic education, education reporting, digitalisation and professionalisation, and includes projects such as DiPA-AI, McAdEd and LUPE.

The institute follows the principles of the Leibniz Association and is based in Germany. Current job openings include a knowledge transfer assistant, a specialist for market and social research, a specialist for media and information services in libraries, and an office management assistant. It also runs training occupations and an early-career research group programme for PhD graduates.

Product: Adult education research, digital teaching and competence tools, specialist library and publication databases, and statistics on continuing education providers.