Events
ANGEL wants to help bring people together, and will publish details of our events, and those of member organisations, on these pages. If you have an event you'd like us to post, please be in touch with us.
29 April 2025
Beyond Business as Usual (But Greener) Politics: Global Citizenship Education and the Principles of Degrowth and Interdependence.
Exploring approaches to global citizenship informed by “de-growth” and post-materialist perspectives as well as non-Western and decolonial scholarship.
29 April 2025
Global Education and Learning in the Asia Pacific Region.
Bringing together academics, policymakers, and practitioners with an interest in Global Education and Learning who are working in or on the Asia Pacific region.
12 March 2025
Teachers for a Sustainable Future: Global Education and Teacher Training in Visegrad Countries.
Webinar presenting research results of an international project examining the role of higher education institutions in integrating Global Education, with a particular emphasis on teacher education.
12 February 2025
Activism in Global Education: From Theory to Practice in a Higher Education Context.
Discussing the intersections of education, social justice, and activism. How can educators and researchers foster activist engagement in their work?
22 January 2025
Young people as researchers of global issues.
Interactive session that aims to provoke debate on approaches to involving young people in the design and process of researching global citizenship.
06 December 2024
Major event at University of Bologna focuses on Training Teacher for Global Citizenship Education.
Conference organised by the UNESCO Chair in Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in Higher Education looks at educational practices and research experiences.
28 November 2024
Shaping Tomorrow through Global Education
Organised by HAND Association in partnership with CONCORD Europe and in cooperation with GENE and the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe
12 November 2024
Global Education in Ireland: Critical Histories and Future Directions
3 contributors to this recent Bloomsbury book reflect critically on important aspects of the history of Global Education in Ireland
10 October 2024
Event at University of Porto to discuss ‘Democracy(ies) and Development Education'.
What is the role of Development Education in the context of growing waves of authoritarianism, extremism and radical conservatism in Europe?
27 June 2024
ANGEL / TEESNet Partnership Group to gather at event at Coventry University.
Whole day event entitled 'Educating Global Researchers' hosted by the Centre for Global Learning.
07 June 2024
New Voices in Global Education & Learning 2024.
A new version of ANGEL's summer event focusing on new research and projects by emerging researchers.
27 May 2024
A gathering of the ANGEL SIG on Teacher Education.
Theme: The DICE Project: a model for integrating GCE into primary teacher education in Ireland
20 March 2024
The individual, social cohesion, and democratic citizenship in the age of educational capitalism.
Join Régis Malet, from the Université de Bordeaux, for a brief presentation and discussion on this pressing topic for global education professionals.
12 March 2024
New research on global education and learning.
Students of DERC's Global Learning MA present the exciting new research they have conducted.
05 March 2024
Book Launch: The Emergence of the Ethically-Engaged University
Discussion event for new Palgrave book edited by Emiliano Bosio and Gustavo Gregorutti, and contributions from Hans de Wit, Katherine Wimpenny, Lilian Ferrer, Yusef Waghid, David Killick, and Maria Manzon.
17 January 2024
New opportunities for action with the revised UNESCO Recommendation concerning education for international understanding, co-operation and peace and education relating to human rights and fundamental freedoms.
New revision replaces the 1974 Recommendation
13 December 2023
Transforming education through ecocentric critical thinking
Join Joffy Conolly from the University of Oulu in this webinar which challenges the dominant, human-centric narrative in education.
30 November 2023
Two important new books on Global Education & Learning
Attend in-person or online for the launch of 'Pedagogy of Hope for Global Social Justice' and 'Research in Global Learning'
22 November 2023
Global learning as a dimension of education for democracy
Join ANGEL members from the Universities of Bamberg and Tampere in this webinar which explores the relationship between Democracy Education and Global Learning.
02 November 2023
Embedding a Justice Approach in Secondary Education.
Presentation of the JustEd research project, including the chief output: a practical guide to embedding a justice approach in secondary education.27 September 2023
Launch of ANGEL Early Career Researcher Sub-Network.
Connect with fellow researchers, exchange ideas, and explore potential collaborations at this first network event.
17 September 2023
Global Education Network (Africa) 12th International Conference
Long running event carries theme of 'Research, Technology and Quality Education for Sustainable Development' for 2023 event in Liverpool, UK.28 June 2023
Global Citizenship and Sustainability Education for 'hopeful' futures: Colloquium for UK members.
Two-day colloquium, hosted at the University of Nottingham, School of Education (UoN SoE), and led by Professor Dalene Swanson, is a collaboration between UoN SoE, ANGEL UK and TEESNet.
19 June 2023
ANGEL's Biennial International Conference 2023
The major international gathering that brings together academics, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners with an interest in research on Global Education & Learning, Education for Sustainability, and Global Citizenship.
01 June 2023
Guardians of the Future: International Organisations, Anticipatory Governance & Education
Susan Robertson (University. of Cambridge) discusses her research on the anticipatory practices deployed by UNESCO and the OECD.
19 April 2023
New voices in Global Education & Learning.
A session of short presentations of exciting new research from ANGEL early career researchers
14 April 2023
A gathering of the ANGEL SIG on Teacher Education
Theme: S-Cool-Links: Uniting teachers for climate action. With Asmita Rajaram - VVOB (Belgium)
14 March 2023
Book launch: Global Citizenship Education in the Global South
Discussion event with inputs from 8 contributors to a wide-ranging new book edited by Emiliano Bosio and Yusef Waghid
08 February 2023
Teacher Education Special Interest Group: New research
Four short presentations on the theme: "Education for sustainable development with pre-service and in-service teachers"
25 January 2023
Rocking the boat: Do Development Education NGOs adequately critique neoliberalism?
Discussion around the provocative new report by Harm Jan Fricke, commissioned by the Centre for Global Education & Financial Justice Ireland18 January 2023
A gathering of the ANGEL SIG on Teacher Education
Theme: Assessing global competence within teacher education programs. How to design and create a set of rubrics with a modified Delphi Method
07 December 2022
DERC webinar: We can do this! Education for survival
UK educators Stephen Scoffham and Steve Rawlinson lead a session providing analysis and critique of sustainability education approaches
24 November 2022
Exploring the links: Development cooperation & global citizenship education
Is the historical relationship between the development cooperation sector and global citizenship education still relevant today?
03 November 2022
European Congress on Global Education in Europe to 2050
Launch of major new Declaration regarding the role of education in contributing to international solidarity, human rights, global social justice, sustainability and peace.
01 November 2022
DERC webinar: Reflecting on Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning
Discussion inspired by new Ipsos MORI evaluation of the major British Council / FCDO project that aimed to promote & enact global learning
28 September 2022
Teacher Education for Equity and Sustainability Network Conference 2022.
Key event will this year focus on "Re-Imagining Teacher Education: Transforming Learning for a Just and Sustainable World".
06 September 2022
British Educational Research Association Conference 2022.
ANGEL to have a presence at the UK's largest annual educational research event, hosted by the University of Liverpool.
24 June 2022
Launch of UNESCO Chair in Global Citizenship Education in Higher Education at the University of Bologna.
Join in person or online for the launch of this new Chairship, appointed to Professor Massimiliano Tarozzi, founding director of the International Research Centre on Global Citizenship Education.
21 June 2022
International Summer School on Researching Global Education and Learning: Using literature.
Apply now to be considered for a 4 day residential summer school hosted by the UNESCO Chair in Global Citizenship Education in Higher Education (University of Bologna).
13 June 2022
ANGEL / TEESNet Partnership: Global Citizenship Education Research Panel.
Join an open gathering of Global Education and Learning research professionals to hear about new research in the field, and to network.
01 June 2022
Regional perspectives: Global education and learning in Latin America.
A snapshot of the current state of global education & learning in Latin America, considered within the context of key current int'l debates.
19 May 2022
Paulo Freire Academic Conference.
UCLA School of Education, the University of Southern California, and Soka University of America to host event to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Paulo Freire’s life.
10 May 2022
Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism.
A research seminar from Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti showcasing approaches to dealing with volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity in our challenging times.
01 March 2022
DERC Seminar: The Pedagogy of Chocolate.
Exploring the use of chocolate as a teaching and learning resource in global learning and sustainability education.
09 February 2022
Cooperation between NGOs & schools: Conditions for success.
A discussion and exploration of current research on how to achieve successful and impactful NGO-school cooperation for Global Learning.
08 February 2022
Launch of Doug Bourn's new book, 'Education for Social Change'.
DERC Director leads a debate with leading thinkers on education for social change to mark the launch of his new book with Bloomsbury Academic.
19 January 2022
Special focus: Research on Teacher Education.
Event looking at current research in teacher education for global citizenship and sustainable development in Europe and beyond.
02 December 2021
From Development Education to Global Citizenship Education: Evolving narratives in international development.
Seminar exploring how changing paradigms and practices in international development cooperation resonate with evolving trends in DE and GCE.
08 November 2021
Climate Change Education: Reflecting on COP26.
This event, part of the ANGEL Seminar series, will look at the present state of, and future of climate change education.
02 November 2021
Grounding PISA: a critique of the OECD measure of global competence.
DERC event featuring UCL Institute of Education doctoral student Heela Goren.02 September 2021
#ECER2021 online event.
Annual gathering of the European Educational Research Association to be totally online this year.
22 June 2021
Event to examine key new global education publication.
DERC Seminar discusses issues raised by the new book 'Teaching for Social Justice and Sustainable Development Across the Primary Curriculum'.14 June 2021
Launch: A new European Declaration on Global Education to 2050.
ANGEL partners GENE is hosting a high-level political event on 14 June to launch this important 18-month process.
08 June 2021
4th Global Conference on Education and Research (GLOCER 2021).
Major US event, now being held as online only event, includes strands relevant to ANGEL members.
25 May 2021
ANGEL Conference 2021: Pedagogy Of Hope And Global Social Justice.
Bringing together researchers, policy makers and practitioners, our conference is the meeting place for Global Education professionals.
25 May 2021
Programme published for Bridge 47's major online gathering, Imagine 4.7.
Bridge 47’s next big global event, Imagine 4.7, is happening on 25-27 May, online
17 May 2021
UNESCO DCMÉT Chair Symposium.
Major week-long event from the UNESCO Chair in Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education.
17 May 2021
UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development.
A key conference for those working on Education for Sustainable Development.
19 April 2021
Discussion event marks release of interesting new collection.
Lunchtime launch event brings together 4 contributors to this wide ranging new book examining perspectives on GCE in higher education.
30 March 2021
DERC Seminar: Fairtrade, global learning and business as (un)usual.
Next in this series of online seminars run by ANGEL partner organisation the Development Education Research Centre examoines work of Fairtrade Foundation.
09 February 2021
DERC seminar to focus on rights-based approaches in schools.
Assessing the impact of rights-based approaches in schools: Unicef UK's Rights Respecting Schools Award.
24 November 2020
Global BarCamp 4.7.
Civil society umbrella organisation Bridge 47 to run interactive participant led virtual event to provide a space for critical discussion on transformative learning and SDG 4.7.
17 November 2020
Next DERC seminar to focus on Education for Social Change.
The Development Education Research Centre's Douglas Bourn discusses his work on pedagogical approaches for education for social change.
09 November 2020
Global Education Digest Offical Launch.
Launch of the new edition of ANGEL's multilingual bibliography of global education research and materials, now in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
05 November 2020
Networking European Citizenship Education Conference 2020.
The annual event of the European platform for citizenship education examines: "Reconnecting in a post pandemic world. Citizenship education for democracy and sustainability."
22 October 2020
Webinar: Challenging the Theory-Practice Divide in the Context of Development Education Centres in England.
Research aims to address the lack of knowledge about conceptualisations of DEGL and the theory-practice relationship from the perspectives of practitioners.
06 October 2020
IDEA Conference ‘Rising to the Challenge - Global Citizenship in 2020’.
Four days of keynotes, panels and workshops coordinated by the Irish Development Education Association.
24 September 2020
Virtual launch of new report on the current state of the Nepalese education sector.
The British Council and UCL Institute of Education are jointly publishing a report featuring writing by ANGEL members.17 September 2020
TEESNet Conference 2020: Education as a Pedagogy of Hope and Possibility.
12th annual conference focuses on: ‘Education as a Pedagogy of Hope and Possibility: The Role of Teacher Education in Leading Narratives of Change'.
24 August 2020
European Educational Research Association Conference 2020.
The next ECER conference will be held in Glasgow, UK, and will have the theme of "Educational Research (Re)connecting Communities".
03 July 2020
International Conference on Ethics Education.
Please see this announcement from ANGEL members who are part of the International Association for Education in Ethics:
16 June 2020
Webinar: Environmental education in early years teaching.
Online seminar with UCL researcher Adriana Burciaga González looking at interpretations of environmental education in Mexican preschools.11 June 2020
Early Career Researchers Online Conference 2020
The next Academic Network on Global Education and Learning Early Career Researchers Conference will now be held entirely online, hosted by the University of Oulu, Finland.31 May 2020
Philanthropy in Education: Reflections and Actions towards 2030.
Conference adminsitered by NORRAG, the global membership-based network of international policies and cooperation in education, as well as the Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation.
07 May 2020
Webinar on Global Citizenship Education.
Enabel, the Belgian Development Agency, and Global Education Network Europe are hosting a free international webinar on Global Citizenship Education.
04 February 2020
Next in the DERC Seminar series to focus on environmental education.
11 December 2019
Bridge 47-run session on developing Global Citizenship Education partnerships.
03 December 2019
Meet the authors at the launch of 'Critical Global Semiotics'.
03 December 2019
IDEA to launch a Code of Good Practice for Development Education.
11 November 2019
International Association for Intercultural Education Conference 2019: November 11-15, Amsterdam.
05 November 2019
“Envision 4.7” - an event to envision how SDG 4.7 is implemented in Europe.
29 October 2019
DERC Seminar Series: "Development education for ‘the privileged’: exploring power and pedagogy in a gap year programme in South America".
24 October 2019
Networking European Citizenship Education Conference 2019.
24 – 27 October 2019, Glasgow
09 October 2019
AFS Global Conference 2019: Active Global Citizenship—and How to Educate for It.
23 May 2019
DERC Seminar: Integrating Buddhist/Soka perspectives into Global Citizenship Education.
21 May 2019
Global Conference on Education and Research (GLOCER 2019).
May 21-24, 2019 at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee campus, USA.
09 May 2019
ANGEL CONFERENCE 2019: Reflections and documents.
Information, including programme, feedback report, pictures and video, on ANGEL Conference 2019 - perhaps the largest ever academic conference solely focusing on global education.
20 November 2018
DERC Seminar Series: "Teachers and the GLP: engagement and impact".
16 October 2018
Exploring global citizenship teacher education across Europe: A comparative analysis.
12 September 2018
BAICE CONFERENCE 2018: Comparative Education and Development Alternatives
11 September 2018
Teacher Education for Equity and Sustainability Network (TEESNet) 11th Annual Conference.
05 September 2018
"Freedom in a fractured world: Sustaining the legacy of Nelson Mandela".
19 June 2018
DERC seminar series: Teaching ‘Generation Like’ about digital global citizenship.
14 June 2018
Early Career Conference on Global Education and Global Citizenship.
05 June 2018
"Sinergias para a transformação social – colaboração e conhecimento".
17 April 2018
Hear from young participants in the Future Youth Schools Forums.
20 March 2018
"Global skills for a global society?" - part of the DERC seminar series.
11 March 2018
PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP: A SHARED COMMITMENT.
11th – 13th March 2018 | TRENTO, Italy.
06 February 2018
