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Dagmar Strohmeier is Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Linz. She studies peer relations among (immigrant) adolescents with a cross-cultural and cross-national perspective. She developed and cross-nationally implemented the ViSC Program in schools and is the principal investigator of the EU funded "Europe 2038" project. Petra Wagner is Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Linz. She has a broad experience in psychological research as well as teaching. Her research focuses on self-regulation, scholastic stress factors, time management, social work in schools, and evaluation and is published in various international journal articles. Barbara Schober is Professor for Psychological Research on Education and Transfer at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her main research activities focus on lifelong learning, learning motivation and its development, gender differences in educational contexts, self-regulation, teacher training, development and evaluation of intervention programs in educational context and implementation research.

Introduction: Bildung-Psychology: Theory and practice of use inspired basic research 1. Overcoming the ivory tower: Transfer and societal responsibility as crucial aspects of the Bildung-Psychology approach 2. Social-emotional development: From theory to practice 3. Bildung-Psychology and implementation science 4. Gender role self-concept at school start and its impact on academic self-concept and performance in mathematics and reading 5. School burnout and engagement profiles among digital natives in Finland: a person-oriented approach 6. Fostering pupils’ lifelong learning competencies in the classroom: evaluation of a training programme using a multivariate multilevel growth curve approach 7. The implementation and evaluation of the ViSC program in Cyprus: challenges of cross-national dissemination and evaluation results 8. A Bildung-psychological investigation into student motives: McKinsey- or von Humboldt-oriented?