EUROPEAN DOCTORATE IN TEACHER EDUCATION (EDITE): 15 EARLY STAGE RESEARCHER POSITIONS

EUROPEAN DOCTORATE IN TEACHER EDUCATION (EDITE)

EDITE – EJD PROGRAMME VACANCIES: 15 EARLY STAGE RESEARCHER POSITIONS AT FIVE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES

APPLICATION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 4, 2015

The EDiTE project offers 15 full-time researcher positions in the field of Teacher Education at five universities (host universities) for well-motivated and excellent early stage researchers from Europe and other countries (under the condition that the funding authority approves the funding of all 15 ESR positions). The positions are financed from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement number 676452.

Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) are invited to apply to pursue individual research projects at one of the five partner universities (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; University of Innsbruck, Austria; University of Lisbon, Portugal; University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, Poland and Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) in the framework of the joint EDiTE research program as employed researchers. They will also be enrolled in the EDiTE PhD programme at host universities. The overall term of employment is 36 months, which should be concluded by a successful research project with the awarding of the PhD title by the host institution and a joint EDiTE diploma by the EDiTE university consortium.

For information on how to apply, please visit www.edite.eu.

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South Europe ISCAR

This will be 19-24 March 2019 in Ioannina, Greece. Jointly hosted by the University of Ioannina Department of Early Childhood Education, and the University of Crete Department of Psychology.

Abstracts are due on 30th September 2018. There will be a dedicated PhD day. See the conference website for more information, including about the conference’s dedicated thematic axes.

Future events in Scandinavia

The next Nordic Conference will be in Trondheim, Norway (18-20 June 2019). The regional ISCAR webpage will be updated with details when they are announced. The theme is Research and practices within and around boundaries, and the conference is arranged by the national activity theory group led by ISCAR Executive member May Britt Postholm.

ISCAR members may also be interested to attend the second UArctic Congress (3-7 September 2018), which is being held by the University of Oulu and University of Helsinki.

Visit of the Vygotskij Library in ‘s-Hertogenbosch

On Monday 26th November 2015, Martijn van Schaik (ISCAR secretary) took Malcolm Reed (ISCAR president) to meet Chiel van der Veen at the A Vygotskij library (part of the Vygotskij Foundation; www.vygotskijfoundation.nl) that has been set up in the Netherlands in the city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch on the premises of the Activiteit, national center for Developmental Education. Continue reading Visit of the Vygotskij Library in ‘s-Hertogenbosch