The central body of the NEPS network is the "Annual Meeting of the National Educational Panel", which meets once a year. The deliberations of the Annual Meeting focus on fundamental questions of medium- and long-term planning of the NEPS research and service programme..

Voting members of the annual meeting are:

1. the NEPS Management, the Extended NEPS Management and all NEPS Network Partners who have signed the Network Charter. Together, the three groups form the NEPS Steering Committee.
2. as well as the staff representation elected in the NEPS Employee General Meeting.

The Network Committee advises on current and medium-term questions of NEPS research and service work. It also deals with controversial aspects of the implementation of NEPS research and service planning, reports to the annual meeting and prepares the content of its meeting.

The Network Committee comprises:

1. the NEPS Management and members of the NEPS Extended Management,
2. the elected chair of the NEPS Annual Meeting and its deputy,
3. the elected members of the Network Committee, and
4. the elected representation of NEPS staff.

The Chairs of the Annual Meeting
Newly elected at the 11th Annual Assembly on 19 February 2024:

• Chair: Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany, IFS Dortmund
• Vice-Chair: Prof. Dr. Yvonne Anders, University of Bamberg

These two persons lead the annual meeting, invite to it and organise it. They are also members of the Network Committee by virtue of their office.

The following persons were appointed as members of the NEPS Network Committee: 

• Prof. Dr. Martin Ehlert, WZB Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Frank Goldhammer, DIPF Frankfurt
• Prof. Dr. Guido Heineck, University of Bamberg
• Prof. Dr. Cornelia Kristen, University of Bamberg
• Prof. Dr. Olaf Köller, IPN Kiel
• Prof. Dr. Astrid Schütz, University of Bamberg

Voting members of the employee general meeting of the NEPS network are all LIfBi-external and LIfBi-internal employees who are actively involved in the NEPS. The employees' general meeting elects three employee representatives for a period of three years, who are members of the annual meeting and the NEPS network committee:

1. Two representatives (and two deputies) from among the actively involved NEPS staff at LIfBi, with one of the two taking the chair by mutual agreement.
2. One representative (and one deputy) from among the actively involved NEPS staff at the NEPS consortium partners

The following persons were elected as NEPS staff representatives in summer 2022:

NEPS Staff Representation LIfBi

• Representation: Manja Attig (Chair) & Anika Bela
• Substitutes: Ariane Würbach & Christoph Homuth

NEPS Staff Representation Consortium Partners

• Representation: Cindy Fitzner, WZB
• Deputy: Paul Fabian, TU Dortmund