Conferences, colloquia, seminars,…

2020

The EU Recovery Plan should be geared towards education, research and innovation

Manifesto

Statement

G-STIC 2020 Thematic Session Education

Conference Info:https://www.gstic.org/edition-2020/

Safe Schools and Education Rights in a Post Pandemic Era

Organised in cooperation with Ereky Public Law Research Center (PPCU) and the Commissioner for Educational Rights (Hungary)

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2019

G-STIC 2019 Thematic Session Education

Draft programme

Conference Info: https://2019.gstic.org/

Visit to Edu-HRight Research Unit, at the NWU campus, Potchefstroom (South Africa) and at parliamentary Committee discussions, Cape Town (South Africa).

 – Meeting with Master’s and PhD education law students, at NWU, Potchefstroom (South Africa).

– A faculty wide Collaborative Double-Barrelled Seminar, themes are : ‘Hate speech or freedom of expression: Where do we draw the line? A European-South African sociological and educational perspective’, ‘Values in Education and Citizenship. A cross- cultural perspective’ and ‘Good Governance’, at NWU, Potchefstroom (South Africa).

– Lecture ‘Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, South African Children (section 28), education (section 29), social security and care (section 27) plus language rights’, at Vanderbijlpark Campus (South Africa).

– BRICS Education: A new dawn, Working lunch with Edu-HRight members (BRICS Group).

– Lecture at the Seminar: ‘Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4: The importance of educational freedom’, at the Parliament of South Africa, Cape Town (South Africa).

– Meetings with parliamentarians, other politicians, officials, policy makers, civil society groups, home educators, at the Parliament of South Africa, Cape Town (South Africa).

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International Seminar – Law and Education

Organised by the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights, Brasila (Brazil)

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Conference : Inter-regionalism, Sustainability and African Development: Promoting an EU-Africa-China Trialogue

Jointly organised by Jean Monnet Network ‘The European Union, Africa, and China in the Global Age’, Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations, Belgium, EU-Asia Centre, Brussels, Belgium, University of Bradford, UK

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Freedom, autonomy and responsibility. Finding the balance in Catholic education and the law in a global context.

A conference hosted by Australian Catholic University in collaboration with The Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the Institute for Educational Initiatives, University of Notre Dame (USA);

the Congregation for Catholic Education; and the European Association for Education Law and Policy.

Downloads : Conference Flyer, Draft Program
Registration : https://www.acu.edu.au/edlaw2019 
Venue : Australian Catholic University, Sydney

Visit to Brazil :

– Lecture on “Academic Freedom” at the “International Dialogues of Right to Education” at the University of Sao Paolo (Brazil).

– Lecture “Homeschooling: an alternative to public or private education” at the “Post-Graduate Program in Education” of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

– Keynote lecture on “Education in Human Rights in the contemporary world” and thematic panel on “Homeschooling” at the Seminar “100 Days of Government: Priority Agenda on Human Rights”, at the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights, Brasília/DF (Brazil).  Program

– Class on “Future challenges of Education Law and Policy” at the Law School of the Universidade Federal de Bahia, Salvador de Bahia (Brazil).

International Workshop on Refugees and Education  

Venue: Portugal (Lisbon)

International Seminar on Parental Rights and School Choice 

Venue: Portugal (Lisbon)
http://iscrweb.org/about-iscrc/

2018

Venue: Belgium (Brussels)
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Venue: Belgium (Brussels)
programme – online info

International Seminar on ‘Education Poverty en Resilience’

Venue: Russia (Moscow – HSE Center for Educational Law of the Institute of Education of the National research university ‘Higher school of economics’)

International Conference on Multilevel Governance in Education: Top-down Governance, Transfer of Authority and Regional Cooperation

Venue: Russia (Moscow – HSE Center for Educational Law of the Institute of Education of the National research university ‘Higher school of economics’)

2017

ELA closed workshops, Moscow (Russia)

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EduLAw Internship, Belgium

information

EduLAw Internship, Kaunas (Lithuania)

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EduLAw meeting, Tirana and Durrës (Albania)

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EduLAw meeting,Moscow (Russia)

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2016

EduLAw meeting, Bialystok (Poland), 2-3 November 2016 

information 

Grant: 943.663,00 euro 

ELA Conference in Co-operation with the Pázmány Péter Catholic University and Launching of the Global Education Law Forum (GELF)
Budapest (Hungary)
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website

“European Education Law”
Kaunas (Lithuania) 
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Conference ‘20th Anniversary: The Hague Recommendations Regarding the Education Rights of National Minorities’

organised by the OSCE at the Royal Theatre
The Hague (The Netherlands)

Closed expert seminar

„Education Law Reforms”
Tirana (Albania)

Global Home Education Conference 2016 

Conference Venue: Windsor Florida Hotel, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 

Closed workshop on the Erasmus+ applications

Vilnius (Lithuania)

2015

Grant: 943.663,00 euro 

co-organized by the Congregation for Catholic Education and the European Association for Education Law and Policy, at Castelgandolfo
Rome (Italy)

World Congress Rome site – ELA programme – Conference Manual

University of Trento 
Trento (Italy)
info – website

2014

Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Angelo Sraffa Department of Legal Studies (Italy)
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Kyiv (Ukraine)
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University of Trento (Italy)
info– programme
cocoa project

Expert Meetings on Education Law and Policy

at the University of the Free State and of the South African Education Law and Policy Association (SAELPA) at the University of Potchefstroom (South-Africa) and the Education Department, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein (South-Africa)

Intensive course: ‘Education Law, Contemporary Themes’

University of São Paulo (Brazil)  

2013

ELA Teamleader of the EU Project ‘Rule of Law – Higher Legal Education in Iraq’

meetings with the Iraqi beneficiaries and stakeholders
Erbil (Iraq)

Trento (Italy)
programme– registration– more info

Annual ELA conference Coping with New Legal Challenges in Education

organized by European Association for Education Law and Policy
Kaunas (Lithuania)

Building Safe Schools for Children with Rights 
Kaunas (Lithuania)
info – programme

ELA Teamleader of the EU Project ‘Rule of Law – Higher Legal Education in Iraq’

meetings with the Iraqi beneficiaries and stakeholders 
Erbil (Iraq)

2012

Brussels
info & programme

Building Safe Schools for Children with Rights 
Kaunas (Lithuania)
info – programme

Brussels
info & programme

Seminar on ‘Parental Rights in Education’ 

info about the project and the seminar

info about the project and the conference  – programme

2011

Warsaw (Poland)
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Lisbon (Portugal)
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Torino (Italy)
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Kiev (Ukraine)
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Rotterdam (the Netherlands)
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Padua (Italy)
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Brussels (Belgium)
link – programme

Berlin (Germany)
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2010

Brussels (Belgium)
programme – presentations: Ulrich Teichler, Daniel Zajfman, Gülsün Saglamer, Jo Ritzen, Peter Maassen, Philippe De Buck, Sophia Eriksson

International conference on ‘Religion, Beliefs, Philosophical Convictions and Education: From Passive Toleration to Active Appreciation of Diversity’

Bruges (Belgium) 
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Intensive Summerschool Programme on International, European and Comparative Education Law and Policy

Antwerp (Belgium) 
Assignments – Council Framework Decision – ELA Summer School (pdf) – ELA Summer School (ppt)
CASE OF COSTELLO-ROBERTS v. THE UNITED KINGDOM – OPUZ v. TURKEY – IP2010 (ppt)

Green paper

The EU mission in education and research: available legal tools for  policy development in the next decade and beyond.  Towards embedded mobility and European quality assurance

Cover letter to President Junker

Green paper

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Closed Dutch-Flemish symposium on ‘Religion and the public sphere’ 
Tilburg (Netherlands) 
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Closed seminar on ‘the European dimensions of education policies’ 
Maastricht  (Netherlands)
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2009

International Seminar on the Right to Education 
Bahia (Brasil)
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Piet Akkermans Lectures 2009
Laura Lundy – Queen’s University Belfast ‘The 20th Anniversary of the Convention of the Child: the impact on education rights in Europe’ 
Hans-Eberhard Zahn – Stiftung Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen ‘The 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall – Using the remains of the Stasi headquarters as a space for truth and for educating against indifference’
Antwerp (Belgium)
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Annual ELA Conference
Public-Private Partnership in Education:  the economic value of education, competition in education, and the limits of commercialisation of education 
Antwerp (Belgium) 
programme – questionaire: DOC – PDF – registration: DOC – PDF 

Closed workshop on corruption in education 
Antwerp (Belgium) 
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Intensive Summerschool Programme on International, European and Comparative Education Law and Policy
Antwerp (Belgium) 
ELA summer school 2009 – cases and regulations  – presentations

UNESCO Chargé de Mission and the Flemish University presidents visit Palestinian Universities 
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Education in Ukraine – the development of private educational establishments 
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Participation in the workshop on advocacy for fulfillment of human rights in education through a solid knowledge base and strong civil society support in Turkey 
Istanbul (Turkey)

2008

EMIE (ECNAIS)
Brussels – Belgium
link ECNAIS – link EYG

Day of the researcher
Brussels – Belgium
link FWO – link Kennismakers

Participation of experts in the fifth EDEN research Workshop: ‘Researching and promoting access to education and training: the role of distance education and e-learning in technology-enhanced environments’
UNESCO, Paris
link Eden

ELA closed workshop on the role of courts in advancing the implementation of the right to education 
Berlin (Germany)

Summerschool
Intensive Programme on International and Comparative Education
Law and Policy and the UNESCO chair on the Right to Education 
Antwerp (Belgium)
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Conference on urbanisation and the risks of ethnic segregation
Organised by the Irmgard Coninx Stiftung 
Berlin (Germany) 

Fact-finding mission at the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Higher Education of Egypt Cairo (Egypt), and at the Cairo UNESCO office in Cairo
Cairo (Egypt)

Closed workshops on cooperation on the Right to Education in Turkey 
Istanbul (Turkey)

Closed roundtable with Israeli and Palestinian and European experts on a
partnership for peace and the promotion of active citizenship through
education 
Jeruzalem