DCU IoE hosts EERA Executive Meeting
DCU IoE hosts European Educational Research Association (EERA) Executive Meeting
The Executive Board of the European Educational Research Association (EERA) met for the first time in DCU in late January 2018. Founded in 1994 EERA is a European-wide network of educational associations which boasts more than 40 regional and national associations from 35 different countries as members. EERA connects educational researchers from Portugal to Russia and from Iceland to Turkey. EERA also enjoys worldwide partnerships with educational associations such as the World Education Research Association (WERA) and takes part in discussions within European networks on the development of programmes in support of research. EERA organizes the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), one of the most important European conferences covering the broad field of educational research which annually hosts up to 2,500 researchers. A key aim of EERA is to support high quality educational research – research which is aware of its own context as well as the transnational contexts and reflects political and cultural differences.
The Executive Board operationalises decisions made by the EERA Council and meets three times per year. At this meeting discussions were held relating to the forthcoming EERA conference in Bolzano and ongoing publication and research projects.
The Executive Board is made up of :
- President : Prof Theo Wubbles
- Secretary General : Prof Maria Pacheco Figueiredo
- Treasurer: Prof Herbert Altrichter
- Networks Representative on Council Prof Jani Ursin
- EERA Manager: Angelika Wegscheider
- President Elect: Prof Joe O'Hara