Sabine Doff of University of Bremen Joins Jury for German School Prize

All public or private general education and vocational schools in Germany as well as German schools abroad can apply for the German School Prize every year. The jury consists of 50 experts from the fields of educational science, school practice and educational administration. They evaluate the schools’ applications based on various criteria: teaching quality, performance, dealing with diversity, responsibility, school climate, school life and extracurricular partners, and school as a learning institution. “Schools can change – the large number of schools that apply for the German School Prize every year are the best proof of this. Working on the jury enables encounters with many impressive examples from all over Germany,” says Sabine Doff.

The jury has already shortlisted twenty schools this year. The jury members are currently visiting these schools and will decide by mid-June which schools will be nominated. The award ceremony for the German School Prize will take place in Berlin on October 2nd, and will be presented this year by Chancellor Olaf Scholz. A main prize worth 100,000 euros will be awarded. Five other schools will receive prizes of 30,000 euros each. Schools from the state of Bremen have already been awarded the German School Prize several times, including the Borchshöhe primary school (Bremen-Vegesack), the Bremerhaven workshop school, the all-day primary school on Buntentorsteinweg and the Bremen-Ost comprehensive school.