Recognizing opportunities, supporting education systems.
Institute Chancenrecht am Rhein - Your partner for equity in opportunities,
innovation and professional support in education.
Rethinking education.
From many problems to clear solutions. Chancenrecht am Rhein connects experience, science and practice to realise sustainable change in the education system.
Teachers and educational staff are facing immense pressure: staff shortages, rising expectations, and complex societal challenges are pushing many to their limits. Yet what schools need most are committed professionals who feel supported, competent, and effective in their roles. What is still missing, however, are sustainable approaches that integrate scientific knowledge into everyday school practice and build structures that allow educators to work effectively and with emotional safety over the long term.
The daily reality in schools is increasingly defined by excessive workloads, staff shortages, and conflicting demands on educators. Every day, teachers navigate complex situations – often without adequate structural support or effective opportunities for professional development.
A gap still persists between research and practice. Scientific insights rarely reach schools in ways that make them transferable and sustainably effective. As a result, valuable ideas remain unused – and teachers, under constant time pressure, are left to find their own paths and solutions.
Schools operate within the tension between performance demands, quality management, and social responsibility. Teachers are expected to ensure inclusion, individual support, and achievement under increasingly challenging conditions.
Evidence-based, practical, supportive, and built for lasting impact.
The six areas of opportunity are at the heart of our work. They connect research with school practice to make education systems more equitable, innovative, and emotionally safe — for teachers as well as for students. This creates an environment in which educational staff can act effectively and every child has the chance to develop their potential and actively shape the future. This is only possible when the professionals within the education system themselves experience opportunities for both professional and personal growth.
Trust in people, concepts and impact.
Chancenrecht am Rhein is supported by an interdisciplinary team from science, education, and consulting. It brings together research, experience, and mindset — creating solutions that work because they come from people who truly understand education.
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Together with strong partners.
Our international advisory board combines long-standing and expertise with a strong commitment to social change. Our growing network of partners supports the institute in fulfilling a major societal mission – making education fit for the future.
Where research guides practice - and education achieves meaningful change.
We focus on supporting teachers, educational teams, and stakeholders in education policy and administration. We design tailored formats that address needs exactly where support is required. Our diverse range of services reflects the many pathways to accessing high-quality education.
Our professional development formats combine scientific evidence with practice-oriented school, classroom, and system development. We qualify diverse stakeholder groups within the education system in key thematic areas such as responding to challenging behaviour, mental health in education, emotional safety and
relationship-centered practice, and inclusive school and teaching development. Our formats open up entirely new avenues for action, support sustainable school development processes, the reduction of educational disadvantage, and the long-term well-being of teachers.
She has been a nationally and internationally valued expert on current challenges in education systems for over 25 years. As a former primary and lower secondary school teacher, she creates keynote experiences that skillfully dissolve the still-common devaluations between theory and practice—and practice and theory. In her talks, she combines scientific precision with strong practical relevance and inspires audiences to reimagine educational institutions as learning and resilient organisations—built for and by people.
Our research examines how scientifically grounded concepts can be effectively transferred into schools and sustainably embedded in everyday practice. In the UMBRAISE-Transfer project, we work closely with schools to explore the conditions that enable systemic school development—particularly in the areas of inclusion, mental health, and relationship-centered pedagogy. Our approach combines transfer and evaluation research with practice-oriented school development and draws on Change Management Models and the concept of Professional Learning Communities. Through design-based and participatory methods, schools become active research partners. This creates practice-relevant insights that can flow directly into qualification and transfer processes.
For many years, Professor Lucia B. Amrhein has advised education ministries, school supervisory authorities, education policymakers, and entire educational regions on evidence-based and sustainable system development, that places equity and inclusion at the heart of efforts to build high-quality education systems. With more than 25 years of experience, Professor Lucia B. Amrhein supports strategies that foreground pedagogical quality, inclusion, and mental health for both teachers and students—laying the foundation for high-performing teaching and learning environments.
Listen. Engage. Take part. Trust that grows.
Impact arises when knowledge is shared and perspectives come together. Through our podcast series and events, we connect people from research, education, and society — inspiring, practice-focused, and always at the forefront of educational innovation.
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What partners, teachers and institutions say about the collaboration.
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Together for greater educational equity.
Redesigning education together.
Would you like to shape your school, project, or network to be equitable, inclusive, and future-ready?
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