News Before 2011

The Annual General Assembly 2009 has elected two new office bearers for EERA. Prof. Lejf Moos will follow Prof. Ingrid Gogolin as President of EERA; Prof. Theo Wubbels will take over the role as treasurer from Prof. Wim Jochems.

The World Education Research Association (WERA), a major new scholarly society with a global reach, will be formally recognized in ceremonies on September 29, 2009 in Vienna Austria. The event marks the end of more than two years of intensive effort by representatives of education research associations from around the world to establish a new forum to advance and share scholarly knowledge on education on an international scale.

The EERQI information session at ECER 2009 will welcome Louisa Anastopoulou and Manuela Alfe, the Scientific Officers in the EU responsible for funding of Education Research.

The Excellence Initiative of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg are to award 5 doctoral candidate scholarships starting January 1st 2010 Application deadline is 9 December 2009

New Network on Mathematic Education Research was founded, Network 9, Student Assessement changed its name and focus.

The World Education Research Association (WERA) invites proposals to establish International Research Networks (IRNs). The purpose of WERA-IRNs is to advance education research worldwide on specific scholarly topics. IRNs are temporary collaborative groups of scholars working on a specific research topic primarily through virtual communication. IRNs synthesize knowledge, examine the state of research, and stimulate collaborations or otherwise identify promising directions in research areas of worldwide significance.

EERA has introduced Web 2.0 technologies for ECER 2010. The conference is on twitter and flikr and will offer live radio broadcasting plus keynote streaming.

Vienna, Austria: Representatives of 25 national, regional, and international specialty education research associations from around the world gathered in Vienna on September 29, 2009 to commemorate the founding of the World Education Research Association (WERA).