Multinational Collaborative Research Projects

Six-Nation Education Research Project (SNERP) was an international initiative, coordinated by GSE International, to conduct comparative education research. Scholars and policymakers from Germany, Japan, China, Singapore, Switzerland, and the United States examined higher education, language and literacy, education and economic growth, education evaluation and indicators, vocational education, and mathematics and science education. Each of the six research projects aimed to incorporate the central theme of education as the key to economic growth.

Eight-Nation Education Research Project is a continuation of the successful Six-Nation project, which held its final conference in October 2001 at Penn. Both Thailand and Korea had observer status at the final conference and expressed an interest in joining any future collaborative project among the nations. At a planning conference in Bangkok in June 2002, it was unanimously agreed to extend the original six-nation project to eight.

The most recent meeting was in St. Gallen, Switzerland, in May 2006. Research conducted for the project included the topics higher education, mathematics and science education, high school to higher education transition and teacher quality, supply and retention, which were each presented by researchers from Japan, Singapore, Switzerland and the U.S., respectively.