莱布尼茨教育轨迹研究所（LIfBi）成立于2013年5月29日，是莱布尼茨协会的成员之一，为促进德国教育研究而创建，为实证教育研究提供基本、跨区域、具有国际意义的基础研究设施。研究所包含4个主题不同的部门，包括工作单元能力、学习环境、个性以及幼儿和学校教育；教育决策和社会不平等、移徙、重返教育以及结构和制度等工作单位，具有社会学和经济背景；数据中心、方法开发以及软件开发；研究管理和控制、调查协调、研究通信和调查技术。
       LIfBi于2014年1月1日开展的国家教育小组研究（NEPS），以科学使用文件的形式准备并向科学界传播德国国家教育小组研究的调查数据，提供了有关教育过程和能力发展的纵向数据，研究项目内容涉及社会和经济问题，关注德国教育体系以及其他教育问题，从各方面深入研究教育轨迹的形成、发展、结果以及后续影响。

The Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectory (LIfBi) was founded on 29 May 2013 as a member of the Leibniz Association to promote educational research in Germany, providing basic, cross-regional and internationally significant basic research facilities for empirical educational research. The Institute contains four theme-diverse sectors, including unit of work capacity, learning environment, personality, and early childhood and schooling; Educational decision-making and social inequality, migration, return to education and structures and institutions, with a sociological and economic background; Data center, method development, and software development; Research management and control, survey coordination, research communications and survey techniques.
       The National Education Panel Study (NEPS), launched by LIfBi on 1 January 2014, prepares and disseminates survey data from the German National Education Panel Study to the scientific community in the form of a document on the use of science, providing longitudinal data on educational processes and capacity development, covering social and economic issues, Pay attention to the German education system and other education issues, in-depth study the formation, development, results and subsequent impact of educational trajectory from all aspects.