Leibniz-Institut FÜR Die Pädagogik DER Naturwissenschaften UND Mathematik An DER Universität Kiel

Leibniz-Institut FÜR Die Pädagogik DER Naturwissenschaften UND Mathematik An DER Universität Kiel, operating as Leibniz-Institut, is a foreign state-controlled institution of higher learning based in Kiel, Germany that participates in federal research programs as a sub-recipient on National Science Foundation and Department of Education grants focused on science and mathematics education. The vendor operates exclusively as a sub-recipient; it holds no prime federal contract awards or grant prime positions and does not sit on federal contract vehicles.

Leibniz-Institut's federal footprint is narrow and recent. The three sub-awards in the source data span January 2024 through November 2025, all routed through Michigan State University as the prime grantee and funded by the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (100% of awards, $190 thousand combined dollars obligated). All three sub-awards address the same research project: "Exploring a novel strategy to support the development of knowledge-in-use of energy in high school." The institute's roles across the sub-awards are substantive: developing high-quality assessments for students' understanding of the energy concept; designing curricular modules implementing quantitative systems-transfer approaches to energy instruction at the high school level; supporting pilot and field enactments of the modules and assessments in classrooms; and analyzing student progression data. The scope spans assessment development, curriculum design, classroom testing, metric development, and publication of research findings on student learning outcomes in energy concepts, particularly energy conservation.

Activity is minimal and recent — two awards in 2024 and one in 2025 — with no recompete cliff or pipeline visibility in the source data. Leibniz-Institut operates as a specialized research collaborator on U.S. science education grants rather than as a federal contracting vendor or independent grant recipient.