ABSTRACT
In 2007, scientists from the German Institute for International Educational Research, the Frankfurt Goethe University and the Frankfurt Sigmund-Freud-Institut conceived the idea of a joint venture which would investigate children's individual development. The general research objective of the Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk (IDeA) Center is the empirical reconstruction of individual development and adaptive education of children at risk. The establishment of the IDeA Center in Frankfurt significantly contributes to a structured and interdisciplinary scientific exchange about issues concerning children at risk for developing academic difficulties. The IDeA Center is structured into some interactive research domains, which allows for the complementary study of the two main research foci "children at risk" and "adaptivity". Researchers at the IDeA Center aim to come to a systematic theoretical and empirical investigation of the interactions between socio-emotional and (neuro-) cognitive factors of children at risk.
