As the AECED project reaches its close, it feels important to pause – not simply to summarise outcomes, but to honour the energy, imagination and courage that educators, researchers, learners and partners have invested over these three years. What began in April 2023...
On 21 November 2025, AECED team members, Karine Oganisjana (Latvia), Kardelen Dilara Cazgir (Germany), Uldis Dumins (Latvia) and Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo (Finland), delivered an interactive workshop, “Sensing Democracy-as-Becoming”, in a parallel session at the...
In the beginning of our AECED project, we were placed within a cluster of three projects that had responded to the same Horizon Call, namely ‘Reshaping democracies’ (Horizon-CL2-2022-Democracy-01). As I was new to Horizon, I didn’t quite know what this collaboration...
In September 2025, we (the AECED German Team from Philipps University Marburg) participated in a conference on political education, sustainability, and transformation at the University of Education Weingarten, together with a third research intern and a research...
As part of the UK-wide Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)’s Festival of Social Science 2025 – a free pop-up event exploring the realities of juggling modern life – the AECED UK team invited visitors to The Howard Centre in Welwyn Garden City to...
It was inspiring to see how ideas about the future of higher education brought people together in Ankara, Türkiye. At the 8th International Higher Education Studies Conference (IHEC) 2025, hosted by the Association for Higher Education Studies in Türkiye, Prof. Dr....
