The 7th annual conference: Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education responds to the UN General Assembly’s Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training (UNDHRET) of 19 December 2011 as well as the Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education (2010).
The conference is a meeting place for academics, including master’s and doctoral students, education policymakers and practitioners, and civil society activists from across Europe and the wider world.

The Helsinki Summer School course offers up-to-date lectures, discussion of research papers as well as research talks on the latest developments and advances in the fields of intercultural communication and education. Practical sessions will help the participants to improve their own work. The course is aimed at Master’s and PhD students who specialize in any aspect related to intercultural communication and education.

This conference is multisited and will take place first at the University of Helsinki, Finland. The aim is to allow researchers working on Intercultural and multicultural education (but also on other ‘labels’ such as global, transcultural education) to get together and discuss their differences and similarities and to put an end to "rivalries"… The fact that the conference sites are located on different continents allows widening the debates as these notions are not only driven by research traditions (local and transnational) but also by political contexts.