The conference invites researchers and advanced graduate students worldwide to submit papers, posters, and symposia related to extended education. It focuses on diversity, equality, and inclusion within extended educational contexts such as after-school programmes, extracurricular activities, and community-based learning. It aims to explore how these settings can support children’s learning, development, participation, and social cohesion, particularly in increasingly diverse societies. The concept of “superdiversity”, discussed by Steven Vertovec, provides an important theoretical perspective for examining social diversity and educational practices. The Call for Participation (CfP) is seeking submissions on educational equity, inclusion and diversity in the context of extended education. The focus is on effective approaches to equal opportunities, gender-sensitive pedagogy and anti-discrimination with reference to the above mentioned educational settings. In addition, strategies for youth participation, for professionalising teams in diversity competence in these educational settings and interdisciplinary approaches to tackling school absenteeism will be addresses, with a view to sustainably strengthening participation and social cohesion. Key topics also include the role of funds of knowledge in supporting children’s participation in extended education, the development of inclusive structures in extended education, civic education, collaboration between extended education, schools and families, multilingual learning environments in extended education, partnerships with NGOs, and the ways in which social inequalities are produced or transformed in contexts of extended education. Submissions must include an abstract of up to 400 word ins English. The submission period runs from 7^th September 2026 to 15^th January 2027.

The conference explores the making and remaking of apprenticeships as a global historical phenomenon, tracing how pre-industrial craft training evolved under industrialisation, state-building, and changing educational ideas. It focuses both on institutional change and on the lived experiences of apprentices, masters, and other actors, and invites contributions from all periods and world regions.

Wie können Hochschulen ihren wissenschaftlichen Anspruch wahren und zugleich gesellschaftliche Verantwortung übernehmen? Die Jahrestagung 2027 lädt zur gemeinsamen Analyse, Selbstreflexion und Diskussion an die Universität Klagenfurt ein.

In Zeiten zunehmender Polarisierung, erstarkenden Populismus und wachsender Anfeindungen gegenüber Wissenschaft wird das Verhältnis von Hochschule und Demokratie brüchiger – und damit neu erklärungs- und gestaltungsbedürftig.

Die Tagung fragt nach den institutionellen, strukturellen und individuellen Voraussetzungen, unter denen Hochschulen wissenschaftliche Qualität sichern, demokratische Kulturen stärken und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung übernehmen können. Dazu gehören chancengerechte Zugänge zur Hochschulbildung ebenso wie der Schutz akademischer Freiheit, demokratische Governance, Wissenschaftskommunikation und politische Bildung. Am 17.03.2027 findet der HoFoNa-Tag statt. Am 18.03.2027 beginnt die Haupttagung; am Abend folgen die Mitgliederversammlung sowie die Verleihung des Ulrich-Teichler-Preises.

Möglichkeit sich zu aktuellen Themen der Berufsbildung mit nationalen und internationalen Expert*innen auszutauschen.

Call for Papers offen bis 1.10.2026

Topics:

• How do we understand the role of VET in preparing young people for work when labour markets and workplaces are in flux nationally and internationally?
• Is this changing the nature of VET and VET curricula? Is it raising new questions on work, labour markets and education? What is core to VET that is stable across different contexts?
• Are systems looking more similar or more different from each other?
• What are the main factors—such as workplace organisation, changing labour markets, changing enrolment in schools and universities, and the nature of economies that are influencing different aspects of VET provision—such as curriculum, governance, partnerships, enrollment patterns—in different countries?
• How do we connect better as researchers, and use VET research to build connection?

Dates and timeline

• Submission of abstracts: opens 15 October 2026, closes 15 November 2026
• Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2026
• Submission of full paper: 20 February 2027
• Feedback to your paper: 31 March 2027. You will then have 10 days to make the necessaries changes.
• Conference: 18-20 May 2027

Vocational Education and Training (VET) in the Nordic countries is shaped by strong welfare traditions, close relationships between education and working life, and longstanding ambitions of equality, inclusion and high‑quality education for all. Nevertheless, Nordic VET systems display substantial variation and complexity, influenced by social, demographic, pedagogical and structural differences across countries, regions, institutions and vocational fields. The 2027 NORDYRK conference Embracing Diversity in VET invites researchers, practitioners and policymakers to explore how such diversity shapes the conditions, opportunities and challenges of VET.   The Call for abstracts opens on November 11, 2026 and closes on January 31, 2027. Registration is required.