Collaborations and networks

ECRC actively promotes close collaboration between research, policy and practice in the field. Research teams at ECRC have initiated and are involved in numerous collaborative networks with local, national and international partners.Partnerships include universities and research centres, local authorities and early childhood settings, professional associations, advocacy networks, government agencies and departments, and international bodies.They include:

• African Early Childhood Network (AfECN)
• Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC)
• Children’s Research Network for Ireland and Northern Ireland
• CLADE
• Education International
• Erikson Institute
• European Commission
• European Early Childhood Research Association (EECERA)
• INFORM
• Interdisciplinary Group ‘Language and cognition in Childhood’, Universidad Nacional de Colombia 
• International Institute of Qualitative Inquiry (IIQI) - collaborating site
• ISSA
• OMEP
• Reconceptualising Early Childhood Education (RECE)
• Red de Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre Crianza, Enseñanza y Cuidado (RELACEC)
• Think 20 (T20)
• UNESCO