The Lower Saxony State Institute for Teacher Education and School Development (NiLS) has about 70 full-time members of staff who have been working successfully for more than 25 years.NiLS initiates and supports processes of quality development at schools and in the education system in Lower Saxony bydeveloping curricula, guidelines and evaluating schoolbooksstate-wide coordination, evaluation and documentation of pilot schemesoffering further education for teachersEuropean and international projects in educationdeveloping and establishing competencies in school and quality managementFor more than 10 years now, the project group European and International Affairs at the NiLS has been coordinating and operating the European and international education collaboration of Lower Saxony.