Funding extended for four years
The BRISE collaborative project – Bremen Initiative for Strengthening Early Childhood Development – has been extended for another four years. Funding from the Federal Ministry of Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMBFSFJ) enables the project to continue providing scientific support to children and their families – now up to the fourth grade.
How can children be best supported?
BRISE aims to investigate the long-term impact of early childhood education and support measures. Since the project began, over 400 families have been closely monitored to understand how children can best be supported under different living conditions – from early childhood through school age.
Ready for school? How BRISE supports children during the transition to primary school
A particular focus of the new support phase is on the transition to school and the associated school readiness of the children. The preschool support measures in BRISE primarily aim to promote the cognitive and socio-emotional development of the children.
The children's school readiness is being assessed
These cognitive factors (including language skills and early mathematical abilities), as well as an increasing capacity for self-regulation, promote children's school readiness. It is therefore only logical that the upcoming BRISE funding phase will assess children's school readiness.
Tests determine whether early interventions have positive effects
Using the LONDI screener, a scientifically based testing procedure that can assess basic skills in primary school, the study also investigates whether the early support measures implemented in BRISE and the support measures in the daycare centers have positive effects on the linguistic and mathematical skills of the children at the end of the first and second grades.
Goal: Greater educational equity – from the very beginning
The continuation of BRISE is an important step towards evidence-based education policy and the development of reliable prevention pathways. The results are intended not only to enrich the scientific discussion but also to provide concrete impetus for practice, policy, and administration – for greater educational equity from the very beginning.
Research program enables comprehensive investigation
The project consortium is conducting a longitudinal intervention study with children from disadvantaged families. The research program comprehensively investigates the cumulative effects of the intervention on early childhood development.
Further information on the BRISE project:
BRISE series on the family blog of the Bremen family network (2022)
Website for the BRISE project
To the BRISE project data and publication overview
Source: Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education, press release , June 18, 2025