EECERA 2023 Conference Chairs
Luís Alberto Ribeiro, President of the Association of Early Childhood Education Professionals (APEI), Portugal
Júlia Formosinho, Institute of Education, University of Minho, Portugal | EECERA Trustee
EECERA 2023 Scientific Committee
Júlia Formosinho, Institute of Education, University of Minho, Portugal | EECERA Trustee
Luís Alberto Ribeiro, Association of Early Childhood Education Professionals (APEI), Portugal
João Formosinho, Institute of Education, University of Minho, Portugal
Inês Machado, Institute of Education, University of Minho, Portugal
Tony Bertram, Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC), United Kingdom | EECERA Trustee
Chris Pascal, Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC), United Kingdom | EECERA President
Cristina Mesquita, Research Center on Basic Education, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal
Johanna Einarsdóttir, University of Iceland, Iceland | EECERA Trustee
Sara Barros Araújo, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
Eleni Loizou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus | EECERA Trustee
Helen Lyndon, Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC), United Kingdom
Jane Murray, University of Northampton, United Kingdom
Zinnia Mevawalla, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom
Lorna Arnott, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom
Ioanna Palaiologou, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Sean Delaney, Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC), United Kingdom
Liz Hryniewicz, Canterbury Christ Church University, United Kingdom
Irene Gunning, EECERA Trustee
Adrijana Višnjić Jevtić, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Ann Farrell, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Sarika Kewalramani, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Conference Organising Committee
Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC) in conjunction with the Association of Early Childhood Education Professionals (APEI),
Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC), Birmingham, United Kingdom
The Centre for Research in Early Childhood is the home of CREC in Birmingham (Charitable Trust) and Amber Publications & Training Ltd (APT). Established by Professor Chris Pascal and Professor Tony Bertram, CREC has been working to improve early years provision for over 25 years. CREC specialises in early childhood research which has relevant and meaningful outcomes for practice and policy. Some of its research is transformed into training and development programmes designed for the specific needs of the early years sector. CREC also offers postgraduate research degrees and has a strong reputation for undertaking reviews, reports, evaluations and consultancy work with many UK local authorities, NGOs and countries. CREC also runs British Early Childhood Education Research Association (BECERA) annual conference and has been EECERA’s strategic partner supporting the delivery of EECERA annual conference since 2009.
Associação de Profissionais de Educação de Infância (APEI), Lisbon, Portugal
APEI is a private non-profit association with the status of public utility, created in 1981. It is an association that aims to promote the professional development of early childhood educators and other professionals, through a set of actions developed throughout the national territory, of discussion of pedagogy and pedagogical practices of quality in early childhood education, currently with about 5,000 members.
The APEI has partnerships with research centers and higher education institutions (universities and polytechnics) and with the Ministry of Education, giving advice on educational policy and in the production of scientific and pedagogical documents to support the operationalization of the curriculum guidelines in early childhood education.
Since 1987 it publishes the only printed journal on early childhood education in Portugal (Cadernos de Educação de Infância), it publishes the international printed journal Children in Europe Today, which involves ten EU countries and it also publishes RELAdEI – Revista Latinoamericana de Educación Infantil, an indexed scientific journal. It has an editorial line that publishes the most recent books edited worldwide, both of pedagogy in childhood and support to the educational practices of professionals.
Each year, APEI promotes a wide range of training actions and seminars, most of them accredited by the Scientific-Pedagogic Council for Continuous Training, involving national and international trainers/speakers. Since 2016 it has held more than a thousand initiatives, involving around 23,000 professionals.
