Conferences and seminars

October 24-26, 2024

Thinking against the grain: Critical Pedagogy, Popular Education and Revolution. ESREA Active Democratic Citizenship and Adult Learning (ADCAL) Research Network Conference.

Faro, Portugal

Call for Papers 

June, 6 – June, 9, 2024

Telling human stories from the borderlands: adult learning in a natural and artificial world. Conference of the Life History and Biography Network.

Newcastle, United Kingdom

Call for Papers

January, 2024 – June 2024

Spaces and Times of Transitions. Recalibrating the Multiple Scales of Change in Adult Education. Research Symposium Series 2024 of the network on Spaces, Times, and the Rhythms of the Education of Adults and its Movements network.

More Information and Registration

February, 29 – March, 2, 2024

5th Conference of the ESREA Network onPolicy Studies in Adult Education 

Funchal, Portugal

Call for Papers 

 

 

November 24-26, 2023

Conference of the ESREA Working Life and Learning Network on Co-creating towards new solutions in work-integrated learning

Kent, United Kingdom

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November 8-10, 2023

The European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) ELOA & ReNAdET network conference Educating and learning across the lifespan – adult educators and older learners perspectives. Theory, research, practice and policy.

Tallinn, Estonia

Call for Papers

September 7-9, 2023

The conference of the ESREA Network Between Global and Local – Adult Learning and Communities will be held at the Yeditepe University: ‘Adult Education in the Midst of Crises.’ 

Istanbul, Turkey

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July 3-7, 2023

12th research seminar of the ESREA Network History of adult education and training in Europe on Adult education and learning for social change in the 19th-20th centuries: Ideas, movements, and circulation of knowledge’

St. Wolfgang,  Austria

Call for Papers | More information

July 5-7, 2023

1st conference of the new TEAE Network (TEAE – Transformative and Emancipatory Adult Education) Reimagining transformative and emancipatory adult education for a world to come’

Patras, Hellenic Open University

Call for Papers

June 22-25, 2023

ESREA’s “Life History and Biography” Network is planning their meeting/conference in ‘Exploring belonging and meaning: Lifescapes – Landscapes – Timescapes

Trondheim University, Norway

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May 26-27, 2023

ESREA Active Democratic Citizenship and Adult Learning Research (ADCAL) Network Conference Movements for Democracy, Critical Learning and the Limits of What we Know’

University of Belgrade, Serbia

Call for Papers

2 January 17, 2022

2nd Zoominar of the ESREA Network Migration, Transnationalism and Racism

Zoominar on ‘Multiculturalism at a Crossroads: Combating Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia during COVID-19 in Canada’ 

Online Event

March 3 – 6, 2022

ESREA Conference of the Network Life History and Biography Network

Conference on ‘Encountering the other: biographies, spaces and relationships in adult education’ 

Poland, Wroclaw

 

March 28, 2022

3rd Zoominar of the ESREA Network Migration, Transnationalism and Racism.

Zoominar on ‘Decolonizing’ Inter-cultural and Citizenship Learning with International Students in Canada? Exploring the Possibilities’

Online Event

May 16  20, 2022

ESREA Spring School for Doctoral Students on ‘Research on Adult Education and Transformation: Mapping Possibilities and Embracing Complexity’.  

Austria, University of Klagenfurt

Call for Applications

June 6, 2022

Preconference of the ESREA Network Migration, Transnationalism and Racism on ‘Contextualizing racism and migration: time, place and generational perspectives in anti-racist praxis’

Scotland, University of Glasgow

Call for Papers

June 27 – July 1, 2022 *Postponed to 3-7 July, 2023*

12th research seminar of the ESREA Network History of adult education and training in Europe on ‘Adult education and learning for social change in the 19th-20th centuries: Ideas, movements, and circulation of knowledge’

Austria, St. Wolfgang

Call for Papers

Due to the current covid situation, the seminar has been postponed to 3-7 July, 2023.

July 1 – 31, 2022 with online event on July 27, 2022

The Working Life and Learning Network will be involved in the International WIL Unconference on ‘New Problems. New Solutions’.

UK, Pearson College London

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July 14  16, 2022

Conference of the ESREA Network Access, Learning Careers and Identities

Portugal, University of Algarve 

Call for Papers

July 18 – 20, 2022

Conference of the ESREA Network Gender and Adult Education

Conference on: ‘Gender and Adult Education in the era of social and cultural changes: (New) risks and challenges’

Portugal, University of Algarve

Call for Papers 

September 29 – October 1, 2022

ESREA Triennial Conference on ‘New Seeds For a World to Come. Policies, Practices and Lives in Adult education and Learning‘

Italy, University of Milano Bicocca

Call for Papers

November 3-5, 2022

Conference of the ESREA Network Education and Learning of Older Adults on ‘Education and Learning of Older Adults – Individual, Local, and Global Perspectives’

Portugal, Bragança

Call for Papers

 

January 21 – 23, 2021

ESREA Conference of the Network Activ Democratic Citizenship and Adult Learning

Ireland, Maynooth

Due to the corona virus pandemic, this event is unfortunately cancelled. Please contact the organisers for more information. 

February 25th, 2021

A series of research dialogues of the Network Active Democratic Citizenship and Adult Learning on ‘the pulse of freedom: Learning from experiments in democracy’. First of three sessions, followed by the 26th of March and the 30th of April.  

Call for papers  

March 4 – 7, 2021 

ESREA Conference of the Network Life History and Biography Network

Conference on ‘An Ecology of Life: Discourses, dialogue and diversity in biographical research’ 

Conference Poster

Poland, Wroclaw

Call for papers 

March 26th, 2021

A series of research dialogues of the Network Active Democratic Citizenship and Adult Learning on ‘the pulse of freedom: Learning from experiments in democracy’. Second of three sessions, followed by the 30th of April.

Call for papers 

April 29th, 2021

Book Launch Conference of the Network Working Life and Learning and Pearsons College London on ‘Applications of Work Integrated Learning Among Gen Z and Y Students’

Please find more information in the brochure and on the website.

April 30th, 2021

A series of research dialogues of the Network Active Democratic Citizenship and Adult Learning on ‘the pulse of freedom: Learning from experiments in democracy’. Third of three sessions.

Call for papers 

June 3 – 6, 2021 

ESREA Conference of the Network Adult Education in Global Times: An International Research Conference (AEGT 2021)- Departement of Educational Studies (ubc.ca)

Canada, Vancouver

June 9, June 11 & June 16, 2021

Online Seminars of the Network Policy Studies in Adult Education on Critical Policy Research in Challenging Political Contexts”. Please register (book a ticket) online using the Eventbrite links by 31 May.

– Seminar 1: Wed. 9 June 15:00-16:20 CET: Critical Voices Between PIAAC and New Literacy Studies” Details and registration at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/critical-voices-between-piaac-and-new-literacy-studies-tickets-151233115319

– Seminar 2: Fri. 11 June 15:00-16:20 CET: Lifelong Learning, Global Social Justice and Sustainability” Details and registration at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lifelong-learning-global-social-justice-sustainability-tickets-151084127693

– Seminar 3: Wed. 16 June 15:00-16:20 CET Study of Adult Education in Different Political Contexts & the Impact of Political Context on Research into Adult Education” Details and registration at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/study-of-adult-education-in-different-political-contexts-tickets-151234920719

July 15 – 17, 2021  

Conference of the ESREA Network Gender and Adult Education

Conference on: ‘Gender and Adult Education in the era of social and cultural changes: (New) risks and challenges’ 

Portugal, University of Algarve 

Call for papers  

Due to the corona virus pandemic, this event is postponed for July 2022. Please contact the organisers for more information.

August 29 – September 3, 2021

Summer School on ‘International Perspectives on education Policy’ (IPEP)

Handbook

Denmark, Aalborg University

September 16 – 18, 2021

ESREA Conference of the Network Between Global and Local – Adult Learning and Communities

Conference on ‘Looking back for the future. Reconsidering adult learning and communities’

Spain, Seville

Call for papers 

Oktober 18, 2021

First of the bimonthly zoominars by the ESREA Migration, Transnationalism and Racism Network on ‘Anti-Colonial Teaching and Learning through Contradictions: Migration and Resettlement on Occupied Land’ held by Dr Sara Carpenter and Shirin Haghgou

Digital Zoominar

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Oktober 21 – 22, 2021

ESREA Conference of the ESREA Research Network on Education and Learning of Older Adults (ELOA) on ‘Contemporary challenges of intergenerational education in lifelong learning societies’

Digital Conference

Call for papers

Oktober 29, 2021

ESREA Conference of the Research Network for Adult Educators, Trainers and their Professionalisation on ‘Adult Educators in time of crisis: Well-being, Changes in Identity and Professional Practice in European Adult Education’

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Poster

Call for papers

November 26, 2021

Webinar of the ESREA Network Active Democratic Citizenship and Adult Learning on ‘Making Hope Practical: a Dialogue on Freire

February 27 – March 1, 2020

ESREA Conference on the Network Life History and Biography

Conference on “Activism in a troubled world – auto/biographical and narrative perspectives on struggles for the good and beautiful”

England, Canterbury

April 22-24, 2020

ESREA 5th International Conference of the ESREA Migration, Transnationalism and Racisms Network

Conference on “Contextualizing racism and migration: time, place and generational perspectives in anti-racist praxis”

Glasgow, Scotland

Call for abstracts

Due to the corona virus pandemic, this event is unfortunately cancelled. Please contact the organisers for more information. 

June 4-7, 2020

ESREA Conference on the Network Adult Education in Global Times research Conference

Conference on “Adult Education in Global Times”

Vancouver, Canada

Call for proposal (EN) Call for Proposal (FR)

June 25-28, 2020

4th Biennial Conference of the Network ‘Transformative Processes in Learning and Education’ (TPLE) and the Hellenic Hellenic Adult Education Association

Athens, Greece

Call for Proposal

Due to the corona virus pandemic, this event is unfortunately cancelled. Please contact the organisers for more information. 

October 15-17, 2020

ESREA Conference on the Network ‘Gender and Education’

Conference on “Gender and adult education in the era of social and cultural changes in Europe: (new) risks and challenges”

Algarve, Portugal

Call for Papers

Due to the corona virus pandemic, this event is postponed. Please contact the organisers for more information. 

February 28 – March 3, 2019

ESREA Conference of the ESREA Network on Life History and Biography

Conference on “Artful language and narratives of adult learning”

Bergen, Norway

May 10-11, 2019

ESREA 10th Conference of the ESREA Research Network on Education and Learning of Older Adults (ELOA)

Conference on “The pluralisation of transitions to the after-working life phase:

Gender capital, silver productivity and mental health”

Ljubljana, Slovenia

May 16-18, 2019

ESREA 4th Conference of the ESREA Network on Policy Studies in Adult Education

Conference on “Adult Education and Learning Policy in a World Risk Society”
Prague, Czech Republic

June 13-15, 2019

ESREA 11th Conference of the BGL-ALC Network

Conference on “Living and Learning in Diverse Communities”

Pécs, Hungary

September 19-22, 2019

ESREA 9th Triennial European Research Conference

Conference on “Adult Education research and practice between the welfare sate and neoliberalism”

Conference Programme

Conference detailed Programme

Belgrade, Serbia

October 16-18, 2019

ESREA 6th Conference of the Network Adult Educators, Trainers and their professional Development

Conference on “Adult Educators, Trainers and their professional Development”

Thessaloniki, Greece

November 7-9, 2019

ESREA Conference on the Network Access, Learning Careers and Identity

Conference on “ESREA Access, Learning Careers and Identities Network Conference,

Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education”

Coimbra, Portugal

October 19-20, 2018

ESREA network on Active Democratic Citizenship and Adult Learning
Conference on “Adult Education and struggles for democracy in precarious times”
Linköping, Sweden

October 11-13, 2018

ESREA network on Education and Learning of Older Adults
Conference on “Older adults’ well-being: the contribution of education and learning”
Faro, Portugal

July 4-6, 2018

ESREA network on History of Adult Education and Training in Europe
Seminar on “Pioneering women and men in European adult education (19th and 20th Centuries)”

Paris, France

June 28 – July 1, 2018

ESREA network on Interrogating Transformative Processes in Learning and Education
Conference on “Contemporary Dilemmas and Learning for Transformation”

Milan, Italy, University of Milano-Bicocca

June 13 – 15, 2018

ESREA network on Migration, Transnationalism and Racisms
Conference on “Building Solidarities for Anti-Racist Adult Education”

Edinburgh, Scotland, University of Edinburgh

June 7 – 10, 2018

ESREA network on Between Local and Global: Adult Learning and Global Communities
Conference on “Education 2030 & Adult Learning: Global Perspectivies and Local communities – Bridges or Gaps? Agendas, praxis and reserach”

Opatija, Croatia

March 1-4, 2018

ESREA network on Life History and Biography
Conference on “Togetherness and its discontent”

Turin, Italy, COREP-SAA

November 9-11, 2017

ESREA network on Education and Learning of Older Adults (ELOA)
8th conference on “Identity, voice, creativity, action!”

Leeds, United Kingdom, Leeds Beckett University

November 2-4, 2017

ESREA network on Access, Learning Careers and Identities
Conference on “Exploring learning contexts: implications for access, learning careers and identities”

Rennes, Frances, University Rennes 2

October 18-20, 2017

ESREA network on Adult Educators, Trainers and their Professional Development (ReNAdET)
5th conference on “Learning Journey, adult educators and social changes”

Tallin, Estonia, University of Tallin

October 12-14, 2017

ESREA network on Gender and Adult Learning
2017 conference on “Gender – Diversity – Intersectionality. (New) Theories and Policies in Adult Education”

Koblenz, Germany, University of Koblenz-Landau

June 8-10, 2017

ESREA network Between Global and Local: Adult Learning and Development
2017 conference on “Adult learning & communities in a world on the move: between national tensions and transnational challenges”
Wrocław, Poland, University of Lower Silesia

May 25-27, 2017

ESREA network on Policy Studies in Adult Education
3rd conference on “Equity, Social Justice and Adult Education and Learning Policy”
Verona, Italy, University of Verona

March 2-5, 2017

ESREA network on Life History and Biography
25th conference on “Discourses we live by – (How) Do they benefit the world we live in?”

Copenhagen, Denmark, University of Aarhus

November 17-19, 2016

ESREA network on Education and Learning of Older Adults (ELOA)
7th conference on “Aging in a multicultural world – individual and social context of learning”

Wrocław, Poland, University of Wrocław

June 24-26, 2016

ESREA network on Interrogating Transformative Processes in Learning
2nd conference on “The role, nature and difficulties of dialogue in transformative learning”

Athens, Greece, OTE Academy

March 3-6, 2016

ESREA network on Life History and Biographical Research
Conference on”Resources of Hope. The place of hope in researching learning lives”

Canterbury, United Kingdom, Cathedral Lodge

November 25-27, 2015

ESREA network on Access, Learning Careers and Identities
Conference on “Continuity and Discontinuities in Learning Careers: Potentials for a Learning Space in a Changing World”

Seville, Spain, University of Seville

November 11-13, 2015

ESREA network on Adult Educators, Trainers and their Professional Development (ReNAdET)
4th conference on “The role of higher education in the process of professionalisation of adult educators”

Larnaca, Cyprus, Open University of Cyprus

October 14-16, 2015

ESREA network on Education and Learning of Older Adults (ELOA)
6th conference on “Lifelong learning for older adults: hopes, fears and expectations”

Jönköping, Sweden, Jönköping University

October 8-10, 2015

ESREA network on Gender and Adult Learning
Conference on “Contemporary Issues and Perspectives on Gender Research in Adult Education. History, Philosophy, Methodology and Practice”

Belgrade, Serbia, University of Belgrade

March 5-8, 2015

ESREA network on Life History and Biographical Research
Conference on “Stories that make a difference”

Milan, Italy, University of Milano-Bicocca

October 22-24, 2014

ESREA network on Education and Learning of Older Adults (ELOA)
5th conference on “Innovations in Older Adult Learning: Theory, Research, Policy”

La Valletta, Malta, University of Malta

June 26-28, 2014

ESREA network Between Global and Local: Adult Learning and Communities
Conference on “Local Change, Social Action and Adult Learning: Challenges and Responses”

Lisbon, Portugal, University of Lisbon

June 26-27, 2014

ESREA network on Interrogating Transformative Processes in Learning
1st conference on “What’s the point of transformative learning?”

Athens, Greece, Royal Olympic Hotel

June 18-20, 2014

ESREA network on Policy Studies in Adult Education
2nd conference on “Interrogating Sustainability in Adult Learning Policy: European and Global Perspectives”

Aalborg, Denmark, Aalborg University

May 13-15, 2014

ESREA network on Migration, Transnationalism and Racism
3rd conference on “Multiculturalism Today: Aspirations, Realities and Crisis Debates”

Wrocław, Poland, University of Lower Silesia

March 31 – April 2, 2014

ESREA network on Working Life and Learning
2nd conference on “Workplace Learning and Development in Times of Globalization and Uncertainty”

Osnabrück, Germany, Osnabrück University

March 6-9, 2014

ESREA network on Life History and Biographical Research
Conference on “Before, Beside and After (Beyond) the Biographical Narrative”

Magdeburg, Germany, University of Magdeburg

November 28-30, 2013

ESREA network on Access, Learning Careers and Identities
Conference on “Times of Change: The Role of Adult Education in Times of Crisis

Linköping, Sweden, Linköping University

November 1-3, 2013

ESREA network on Adult Educators, Trainers and their Professional Development (ReNAdET)
3rd conference on “Professionalisation of Adult Educators. International and Comparative Perspectives”

Bonn, Germany

October 23-25, 2013

ESREA network on Education and Learning of Older Adults (ELOA)
Conference on “Learning Opportunities for Older Adults: Forms, Providers and Policies”

Vilnius, Lithuania, Mykolas Romeris University

October 10-12, 2013

ESREA network on Gender and Adult Learning
Conference on “Private(s) World(s). Gender and Informal Learning of Adults”

Coimbra, Portugal, University of Coimbra

February 28 – March 3, 2013

ESREA network on Migration, Transnationalism and Racism
Conference on “Researching Learning Lives: On Discipline, Inter-disciplinarity and Imaginative Imperatives in Auto/biographical and Narrative Research”

Canterbury, United Kingdom, Christ Church University

September 19-21, 2012

ESREA network on Education and Learning of Older Adults (ELOA)
3rd conference on “Intergenerational Solidarity and Older Adults Education in Community”

Ljubljana, Slovenia, University of Ljubljana

April 19-20, 2012

ESREA network on Migration, Transnationalism and Racism
Conference on “Europe in Crisis. Migrations, Racism and Belongings in the New Economic Order”

Graz, Austria, Karl-Franzes University of Graz

March 1-4, 2012

ESREA network on Life History and Biographical Research
Conference on “Embodied Narratives. Connecting Stories, Bodies, Cultures and Ecologies”

Odense, Denmark, University of Southern Denmark

February 10-12, 2012

ESREA network on Policy Studies in Adult Education
1st conference on “Trans-nationalization of Educational Policy Making. Implications for Adult and Lifelong Learning”

Nottingham, United Kingdom, Nottingham University

November 24-26, 2011

ESREA network on Access, Learning Careers and Identities
Conference on “Transitions and Identity in Learning and Life”

Aveiro, Portugal, University of Aveiro

November 21-22, 2011

ESREA network on Working Life and Learning
Conference on “Pushing Forward the Agenda: Emerging Issues in Working Life and Learning Research”

Linköping, Sweden, Linköping University

November 9-11, 2011

ESREA network on Adult Educators, Trainers and their Professional Development (ReNAdET)
2nd conference on “The Future of Adult Educator(s): Agency, Identity and Ethos”

Tallin, Estonia, University of Tallin

October 25-27, 2011

ESREA network on Education and Learning of Older Adults (ELOA)
2nd conference on “Elderly, Education, Intergenerational Relationships and Social Development”

Braga, Portugal, Minho University

June 16-18, 2011

ESREA network on Active Democratic Citizenship and Adult Learning and ESREA Network on the History of Adult Education and Training in Europe
Joint conference on “Adult Education and Citizenship. Relations in Space and Time”

Budapest, Hungary, Eötvös Loránd University

June 9-11, 2011

ESREA network on Gender and Adult Learning
Conference on “Introducing Gender into Academia – (In)visible act”

Montpellier, France, University of Montpellier 3

April 28-30, 2011

ESREA network on Between Global and Local: Adult Learning and Communities
Conference on “Transforming/researching communities”

Istanbul, Turkey, Boğaziçi University

March 3-6, 2011

ESREA network on Life History and Biographical Research
Conference on “Human Agency and Biographical Transformations”

Geneva, Switzerland, University of Geneva

October 7-9, 2010

ESREA network on Education and Learning of Older Adults (ELOA)
1st conference on “Demographic Change and the Education of Older Adults”

Munich, Germany, Ludwig-Maximilians University

May 20-22, 2010

ESREA network Between Global and Local: Adult Learning and Development
Conference on “Transforming/researching communities”

Seville, Spain, University of Seville

March 4-7 , 2010

ESREA network on Life History and Biographical Research
Conference on “Representing lives and learning. The science and poetics of our work”

Växjö and Kalmar, Sweden, Linnaeus University

December 2-3, 2009

ESREA network on Migration, Ethnicity, Racism and Xenophobia
Conference on “Diversity and Social Cohesion – Are these incompatible objectives?”

Sheffield, United Kingdom, University of Sheffield

November 6-8, 2009

ESREA network on Adult Educators, Trainers and their Professional Development (ReNAdET)
Conference on “Educating the adult educator. Quality provision and assessment in Europe”

Thessaloniki, Greece, Aristotle University of Macedonia

October 8-10, 2009

ESREA network on Gender and Adult Learning
Conference on “Researching Gender: Participation, Identity and Flexibility in Adult Learning”

Hull, United K, University of Hull

June 11-13, 2009

ESREA network on Active Democratic Citizenship
Conference on “Civil Society as an Arena for Learning”

Stockolm, Sweden, Södertörn University

June 8-9, 2009

ESREA network on History of Adult Education and Training in Europe
Conference on “Life course and learning in history: cultural, societal and individual perspectives on adult education and training in Europe”

Turku, Finland, University of Turku

May 28-30, 2009

ESREA network Between Global and Local, Adult Learning and Communities
Conference on “Local Development, Community and Adult Learning: Learning Landscapes between the Mainstream and the Margins”

Magdeburg, Germany, University of Magdeburg

March 12-15, 2009

ESREA network on Life History and Biographical Research
Conference on “Wisdom and knowledge in researching and learning lives: diversity, difference and commonalities”

Milan, Italy, University of Milano-Bicocca

December 10-12, 2008

ESREA network on Access, Learning Careers and Identities
Conference on “Educational Journeys and Changing Lives”

Seville, Spain, University of Seville

May 29-31, 2008

ESREA network Between Global and Local, Adult Learning and Communities
Conference

Wrocław, Poland, University of Lower Silesia

March 6-9, 2008

ESREA network on Life History and Biographical Research
Conference on “The emotional dimensions of learning and researching lives: a neglected species?”

Canterbury, United Kingdom, Canterbury Christ Church University

July 9-11, 2007

ESREA network on Gender and Adult Learning
Conference

Olsztyn, Poland, University of Warmia and Mazuri in Olsztyn

June 26-28, 2007

ESREA network on Working Life and Learning
Conference

Barnsley, United Kingdom, The Northern College

June 14-15, 2007

ESREA network on Active Democratic Citizenship and Adult Learning
Conference on “Changing relationships between the state, civil society and the citizen. Implications for adult education and adult learning”

Minho, Portugal, University of Minho

March 1-4, 2007

ESREA network on Life History and Biographical Research
Conference on “Concepts of learning”

Roskilde, Denmark, Roskilde University

December 7-8, 2006

ESREA network on Access, Learning Careers and Identities
Conference on “Learning to change? The role of identity and learning careers in adult education”

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Université Catholique Louvain

October 20-22, 2006

ESREA network Between Global and Local, Adult Learning and Communities
Conference on “Human development and adult learning”

Faro, Portugal, University of Faro

June 28-30, 2006

VII European seminar of the ESREA/SERFA research network
Conference on “Cross-cultural influences in the history of European adult education”

Paris, France, Universitè René Descartes

March 2-5, 2006

ESREA network on Life History and Biographical Research
Conference on “Transitional spaces, transitional processes and research”

Volos, Greece

October 18-20, 2005

ESREA network on Working Life and Learning
Conference

Wrocław, Poland, University of Lower Silesia

October 14-16, 2005

ESREA network on Gender and Adult Learning
Conference on “Claiming space-making waves: methodological and ethical concerns in researching gender in adult learning”

Geneva, Switzerland

September 15-18, , 2005

ESREA network on Active Democratic Citizenship and Adult Learning
Conference on “Adult education and civic duties”

Tallin, Estonia, Tallin University

March 3-6, 2005

ESREA network on Life History and Biographical Research
Conference

Anghiari, Italy, Free University of Autobiography

November 12-14, 2004

ESREA network on Working Life and Learning
Conference on “Learning participation and democracy in late modernity working life”

Barnsley, United Kingdom, Northern College

March 2-7, 2004

ESREA network on Life History and Biographical Research
Conference in association with the Biography and Society Section of the International Sociological Association

Roskilde, Denmark, Roskilde University

December 11-13, 2003

ESREA network on Access
4th conference on “Equity, access and participation: research policy and practice”

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

September 11-13, 2003

ESREA network on Gender and Adult Learning
Conference on “Boundaries in flux: interrogating gender and adult learning”

Coventry, United Kingdom, University of Warwick

September 4-6, 2003

ESREA network on Active Democratic Citizenship
Conference on “Connections, active citizenship and multiple identities”

Leuven, Belgium, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

May 16-17, 2003

ESREA network on Migration, Racism and Xenophobia
Conference

Nottingham, United Kingdom, University of Nottingham

March 6-8, 2003

ESREA network on Life History and Biographical Research
Conference

Canterbury, United Kingdom, Canterbury Christ Church University

March 7-10, 2002

ESREA network on Life History and Biographical Research
Conference on “European perspectives on life history research: theory and practice of biographical narratives”

Geneva, Switzerland, John Knox Centre

May 30 – June 1, 2002

ESREA
Conference on “Adult education and the labour market VII”

Roskilde, Denmark

June 21-14, 2001

ESREA network on Active Democratic Citizenship
Seminar

Bochum, Germany

April 5-8, 2001

ESREA network on Gender and Adult Learning
Conference on “Challenging gender”

Geneva, Switzerland

March 8-11, 2001

ESREA network on Life History and Biographical Research
Conference on “Research meets practice”

Bad Bederkesa, Germany

October 19-22, 2000

ESREA
Conference on “Adult education and the labour market VI”

Seville, Spain

September 25-26, 2000

ESREA network on Access
Seminar

Barcelona, Spain

March 16-19, 2000

ESREA network on Life History and Biographical Research
Conference on “Gender, learning and biography”

Roskilde, Denmark

September 11-13, 1999

ESREA
Conference on “Transitional spaces, transitional processes and research, social change and active citizenship in the learning society”

Poznań, Poland

April 23-25, 1999

ESREA network on Gender and Adult Learning
First meeting

Bochum, Germany

 ESREA Triennial Conferences

September 2025

11th Triennial Research Conference: Triennial Conference Call for tender for hosting the 2025 ESREA

September 29- October 02, 2022

10th Triennial Research Conference ‘New Seeds for a World to Come. Policies, Practices and Lives in adult Education and Learning.’

University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy

September 19-22, 2019

9th Triennial Research Conference on “Adult Education research and practice between the welfare sate and neoliberalism”

Belgrade, Serbia

September 8-11, 2016

8th Triennial Research Conference on “Imaging diverse futures for adult education: questions of power and resources of creativity”

Maynooth, Ireland, Maynooth University

September 4-7, 2013

7th Triennial Research Conference on “Changing Configurations of Adult Education in Transitional Times”

Berlin, Germany, Humboldt University

September 23-26, 2010

6th Triennial Research Conference on “Adult Learning in Europe. Understanding Diverse Meanings and Contexts”

Linköping, Sweden, Linköping University

September 20-23, 2007

5th Triennial Research Conference on “Adult learning and the challenges of social and cultural diversity: diverse lives, cultures, learnings and literacies”

Seville, Spain, University of Seville

September 16-19, 2004

4th Triennial Research Conference on “Between ‘old’ and ‘new’ worlds of adult learning”

Wrocław, Poland, University of Wrocław

September 13-16, 2001

3rd Triennial Research Conference on “Wider benefits of learning: understanding and monitoring the consequences of adult learning”

Lisbon, Portugal, University of Lisbon

1998

2nd Triennial Research Conference on “Learning to live in the learning society”

Brussels, Belgium

1995

1st Triennial Research Conference on “Adult learning and social participation”

Strobl, Austria