The EWC facilitates bridge-building between research and educational practice in the field of intercultural understanding, human rights and democratic citizenship.

The State of the Art Project

The State of the Art Project is a space where scholars and researchers are invited to publish their views on important research topics and scholarly debates. To make the R&D section a vivid place, and to facilitate the exchange of ideas and views, a comment function will be provided soon.

Prof David Kerr is Principal Research Officer at NFER (National Foundation for Educational Research) and Visiting Professor of Citizenship at Birkbeck College, London, in the United Kingdom. David has been closely involved since 1999 in the Council of Europe's work on education for democratic citizenship and human rights education (EDC/HRE). He is a member of the EDC/HRE Project Advisory Group and helped to draft the new Council of Europe Charter on EDC/HRE. Read his statement.


Upcoming: Prof. Viola Georgi on Migration, Memory and Citizenship; Prof. Michael Byram on Evaluation and Assessment; Dr. Frédérique Brossard Børhaug on capability approach.


Ongoing projects and results

Research contributes to educational practice and vice versa. Latest research projects and their key findings related to issues of democratic citizenship, human rights and intercultural understanding are shortly introduced. To encourage dialogue among researchers and practitioners about findings and their relevance for educational practice, the EWC regularly  organizes face-to-face consultations across Europe.

REDCo - Religion in Education is the first project which will be discussed with teacher trainers, teachers, students and other professionals in education this autumn in Norway, Germany and Austria. Read more...


Market place

Call for papers, funding opportunities and other announcements will be soon published here.