Richard Heise works at the “Institut for Didactics of Democracy” at the Leibniz University of Hannover. His research focusses on political education within the digital world, aiming at teaching and learning strategies to strengthen both digital skills and political competences. Richard Heise coordinates the project “Digital Resistance” funded by the European Union/Council of Europe Joint Programme DISCO that creates a teaching strategy to implement the topic of “fake news” in school.