The European Educational Research Association (EERA) is association of national and regional associations representing educational researchers in Europe. EERA aims to encourage collaboration amongst educational researchers in Europe, promote communication between educational researchers and international governmental organisations and disseminate and highlight state-of-the-art findings of educational research, primarily through the annual European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) and its associated journal, the European Educational Research Journal (EERJ), the EERA Blog and the EERA Book Series - Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Educational Research.
EERA was founded in June 1994 as a result of discussions among many national educational research associations and several major research institutes throughout Europe which identified the need for a European association to foster the exchange of ideas amongst European researchers, promote collaboration in research, improve research quality and offer independent advice on educational research and policies to European and national policy-makers, administrators and practitioners. From 1994 to 2007, EERA was constituted as a Charity under British Law and based in Glasgow, Scotland. Since 2008, EERA has been operating from its new office in Berlin, Germany, and is constituted as a non-profit organisation under German Law.
EERA aims to promote collaboration among educational researchers and their respective associations in Europe. It promotes communication between educational researchers and international governmental organisations, such as the EU, Council of Europe, OECD, and UNESCO. Furthermore, EERA seeks to disseminate the findings of educational research and to ensure that the contribution of educational research to policy and practice is recognized and desired.
EERA is constituted as an association of associations (i.e. there are no individual members). Its membership is made up of more than 30 national and regional Educational Research Associations from all parts of wider Europe.
EERA is governed by Council and the Executive Board].
The executive board is made up of the President, the Treasurer and the Secretary General who are elected for a four-year term:
2022 Executive:
Council consists of the representatives of the member associations and the co-opted Council members – the Networks’ Representative on Council, the editor of EERJ and the Convener of the Emerging Researchers' Group.
The academic work of EERA and especially the ECER conference is organised in networks. They are either discipline oriented or focus on certain research themes within educational research.
EERA actively promotes the work and professional development of early researchers and PhD students and has therefore established the Emerging Researchers´ Group (ERG).[1]
The Emerging Researchers' Group seeks to:·
| Year | Authors | Paper | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Panagiota Gkofa | Greek Roma's Educational Pathways: Mapping Factors Leading to Success | |
| 2014 | Iryna Kushnir | The Role of the Bologna Process in Defining Europe | |
| 2013 | Cora Lingling Xu’ | Identity and Cross-border Student Mobility: The Mainland China-Hong Kong Experience and Its Inverse-directional Parallel European Implications | |
| 2012 | Triin Lauri | School choice policy – seeking to balance educational efficiency and equity: A comparative analysis of 20 European countries | |
| 2011 | Anneli Schwartz | Student Responses to a Saviour Pedagogy: An Ethnographic Study | |
| 2010 | Daniel Fischer | Educational Organisations as "Cultures of Consumption | |
| 2009 | Konstanze Spohrer | Deconstructing “Aspiration”: UK policy debates and European policy trends | |
| 2008 | Katrin Kaufmann and Halit Öztürk | Migration background and participation in continuing education in Germany | |
| 2007 | Nasser Mansour | Religious beliefs: A hidden variable in the performance of science teachers in the classroom | |
| 2006 | Amanda Cook-Jones | The Changing Role of the Teaching Assistant in the Primary School Sector |
EERA's most visible contribution to the dissemination of educational research is the annual European Conference on Educational Research (ECER).
The first ECER took place in Twente, Netherlands in 1992. Numbers of attendants have grown steadily since then. Usually ECER attracts over 2500 researchers from about 70 different countries.[2]
| 2022 | Yerevan & ECER+ Online | Armenia | ||
| 2021 | Geneva (Online) | Switzerland | Online | |
| 2020 | Glasgow | Scotland | Canceled | |
| 2019 | Hamburg (2nd time) | Germany | ||
| 2018 | Bolzano | Italy | 2,900[3] | |
| 2017 | Copenhagen (2nd time) | Denmark | ||
| 2016 | Dublin (2nd time) | Ireland | ||
| 2015 | Budapest | Hungary | ||
| 2014 | Porto | Portugal | ||
| 2013 | Istanbul | Turkey | ||
| 2012 | Cádiz | Spain | ||
| 2011 | Berlin | Germany | ||
| 2010 | Helsinki | Finland | ||
| 2009 | Vienna | Austria | ||
| 2008 | Gothenburg | Sweden | ||
| 2007 | Ghent | Belgium | ||
| 2006 | Geneva | Switzerland | ||
| 2005 | Dublin | Ireland | ||
| 2004 | Crete | Greece | ||
| 2003 | Hamburg | Germany | ||
| 2002 | Lisbon | Portugal | ||
| 2001 | Lille | France | ||
| 2000 | Edinburgh | Scotland | ||
| 1999 | Lahti | Finland | ||
| 1998 | Ljublijana | Slovenia | ||
| 1997 | Frankfurt/Main | Germany | ||
| 1996 | Seville | Spain | ||
| 1995 | Bath | England | ||
| 1992 | Twente | Netherlands |
EERA supports advanced research and training for young researchers and established scholars by funding season schools, projects, seminars, workshops and roundtables of its networks. Since 2009 EERA has run a series of summer schools for emerging researchers.
The European Educational Research Journal (EERJ)[4] is the official journal of the European Educational Research Association (EERA). It is an international peer-reviewed journal with an editorial board drawn from across Europe and representing leading scholars in the educational field. The EERJ Editor is a member of the EERA Council.
EERA, in partnership with Springer,[5] publishes a book series focusing on presenting educational research in an innovative, transdisciplinary format. Drawing on extensively on the work of the 33 EERA Networks, the book series seeks to explore issues of importance in educational research in a manner that highlights the potential contribution of distinctive European research approach to the development of the field. The first five titles have been published as of 2022 and cover the following areas:
In 2020 EERA launched the 'EERA Blog' a forum dedicated to disseminating educational research in a more accessible yet still academically rigorous manner. Submissions are invited from across Europe and beyond.
EERA is an active member of a number of international research networks including the WERA (World Education Research Association),[6] ISE (Initiative for Science in Europe)[7] and EASSH (European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities)[8]