Brian Pearce, newly retired director of the Interfaith Network for the UK, was July 15th awarded the honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the Warwick University degree congregation.

We are proud to announce that Robert Jackson has been appointed as Professor II in Education and Religious Diversity at the European Wergeland Centre.

The European Wergeland Center in cooperation with Oslo University College is organizing the seminar "Religious Diversity in Intercultural Education - policies and practices" on the 2nd of March, 2010. The seminar is open to everyone.

This new e-journal includes a wide variety of free articles for teachers and others interested in learning more about religions and beliefs, with contributions from perspectives rarely found in conventional text books, for example Zoroastrian, Pagan, Bahá’i, Humanist, Orthodox Christian, as well as from the more familiar religions.

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The three-year project ‘Investigating the Religious Identity Formation of Young People in Mixed-Faith Families’ (June 2006–September 2009) was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), a public funding body in the United Kingdom. The project built on previous studies on religious nurture within the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit (WRERU) in the Institute of Education at the University of Warwick.

The European Wergeland Center in cooperation with Oslo University College is organizing the seminar "Religious diversity in intercultural education - policies and practices" on the 2nd of March, 2010. Prof. Robert Jackson from the University of Warwick will be one of the main speakers.

The International Association of Universities and Notre Dame University – Louaize are jointly organizing the 2009 IAU International Conference on The Role of Higher Education in Fostering the Culture of Dialogue and Understanding. It will be held at and hosted by Notre Dame University – Louaize in Lebanon, on November 4-6, 2009.

The Council of Europe organized, in co-operation with the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, a conference on “Universities as Actors of Intercultural Dialogue in Wider Society”, in Moscow, June 2009. The EWC Executive Director, Ana Perona-Fjeldstad took part in this conference. The conference report is now available.

Queen's University is now inviting applications for the sixth year of the postdoctoral fellowship program in "Democracy and Diversity". Each year, one non-renewable 12-month fellowship will be awarded. The 2010-11 fellowship will start on July 1, 2010.