Promoting giftedness and achievement is one of the core tasks of every school. In order to challenge and promote the high-performing and potentially particularly high-performing students within their domains, schools and teaching must change at the institutional, organizational, structural, personnel and content levels.

The interdisciplinary research network LemaS is addressing this issue as part of the research and school development project "Leistung macht Schule". The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and is embedded in a ten-year joint initiative of the federal and state governments and the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany (KMK) to promote (potentially) high-achieving students. LemaS is made up of 28 leading scientists from 18 universities and colleges and works in a total of 22 sub-projects with 300 primary and secondary schools nationwide on structures in schools and teaching that promote achievement and giftedness.

With its collaborative project, the LemaS research network aims to change the attitudes of the actors and to optimize school and teaching structures that promote giftedness and achievement on the basis of theory and evidence by providing scientific advice, support and formative evaluation of the work at the schools in the two core modules "Development of a school mission statement geared towards school development that promotes achievement and establishment of a cooperative network structure" (core module 1) and "Challenging and promoting in regular classes" (core module 2).