Relevant Conferences and submission dates will be highlighted throughout the year on the Upcoming Events section of the website. Listed in Relevant Conferences below are a number of regular events that offer opportunities for disseminating work on the Global Approach in Initial Teacher Education. Please use the Conference News forum to highlight other relevant conferences, conference papers or information on conferences you have attended.

Relevant Conferences

Citized Conferences

These conferences bring together the leading figures in citizenship education from around the world and provide an opportunity for collegial discussions and debate.

http://www.citized.info/?strand=6&r_menu=conferences

Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges

The next EAUC conference will be 22-24^th March, 2010, Bangor University. The conference aims to highlight the sector’s successes on sustainability issues, whilst also providing a forum for delegates to discuss the future for their institutions in an ever changing world and their developing responsibilities for the both environment and the local community.

Details of the EAUC and the conference can be found at:

http://www.eauc.org.uk/home

IDEAS ‘Taking a Global Approach to Initial Teacher Education’ Conferences

The IDEAS ‘Taking a Global Approach to ITE’ has held two annual conferences. The conference report for the 2009 conference is here

IDEAS ‘Taking a Global Approach to ITE’ Conference Report 2009

Research Association Conferences

SERA

For details of the SERA (Scottish Educational Research Association) conference:

http://www.sera.ac.uk/

BERA

For details of the BERA (British Educational Research Association) conference:

http://www.bera.ac.uk/

ECER

The European Educational Research Association holds an annual conference. The academic work of the Association is organised into 23 thematic networks. The networks most relevant to the Global Approach in ITE are Network 7 - Social Justice and Intercultural Education, Network 20 - Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environments and Network 10 - Teacher Education Research.

Information about the networks can be found here

http://www.eera-ecer.eu/networks/

The main conference link is here. Prior to the conference, the papers relating to each network can be viewed separately.

http://www.eera-ecer.eu/ecer/ecer2010/

UK Teacher Education Network on Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship Conferences

The UK Teacher Education Network on Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship has held two Annual Conferences. For full details of previous and future conferences, go to:

http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/ccci/uk_ite_network/conferences_info.shtml

World Environmental Education Congress

The 5th World Environmental Education Congress ( May 10^th – 14^th 2009) gave nearly 2,200 stakeholders from 106 different countries the opportunity to join forces in exploring new ways to live together in schools and institutions, neighbourhoods and businesses, and in cities, towns and regions. This link gives details of this event:

http://www.5weec.uqam.ca/EN/

The next congress has not yet been announced. This link is the main website:

http://www.environmental-education.org/index.php?lang=en