Bastian Granas
"Educational innovation is more than projects – it is cultural change. For genuine transformation, we need a learning education system that shapes change through openness, cooperation, and sustainable structures."
Focus of work
- Strategic communication & Stakeholdermanagement
- Digital education, artificial intelligence in education and educational infrastructures
- Educational governance and evidence-based practice in the education system
- Technological innovation, open source and open education
Curriculum vitae
Bastian Granas is an consultant specialising in educational technologies. He is a qualified secondary school teacher and studied German, History and Education at Ruhr University Bochum. Whilst working, he also completed a degree in School Management and Quality Development at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, as well as various further qualifications, including as a product and innovation manager and as a school development facilitator. His work focuses on the intersection between educational practice, policy and research. His main areas of interest include data-driven school development, educational and school research, open education, AI in education, and the design of digital educational ecosystems and infrastructures.
Publications
Rörtgen, Steffen; Blümel, Marcus; Lohrer, Jörg; Buchwald-Chassée, Gina; Granas, Bastian (2026): Data Spaces in Educational Infrastructures. In: Tödt, Katia; Granas, Bastian; Büching, Corinne (Hrsg.): Digital Education and Innovation. Springer, Cham.
Wilhelm-Weidner, Arno; Deimann, Markus; Schubert, Michael; Granas, Bastian (2026): Shaping the Future: Prefigurative Politics and the Political Dimension of Open Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. In: Tödt, Katia; Granas, Bastian; Büching, Corinne (Hrsg.): Digital Education and Innovation. Springer, Cham.
Tödt, Katia; Büching, Corinne; Granas, Bastian (2026): Digital Education and Innovation: Objectives and Conceptual Classification of the Volume. In: Tödt, Katia; Granas, Bastian; Büching, Corinne (Hrsg.): Digital Education and Innovation. Springer, Cham.