ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ
ΥΠΟΥΡΓΕΙΟ ΠΑΙΔΕΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΘΡΗΣΚΕΥΜΑΤΩΝ
Early childhood education and care: For more and better quality for all
19th June 2014
European policy context
10.00 – 10.20
Opening Speeches (Eugenides Foundation – Main Conference Room, 1st floor)
10.20 – 10.35
The role of ECEC in education and in EU education policy (Antonio Silva Mendes –
Director, Unit B, Education and Vocational Training – European Commission DG
Education and Culture)
10.35 – 11.05
Main findings of the study on effective ECEC to prevent ESL – putting ECEC into the
learning continuum (Dr Jan Peeters – Centre for Innovation in the Early Years, Ghent)
11.05 – 11.30
Coffee break (1st floor Peristyle)
Setting the scene: what research and data tells us and what we are looking for
11.30 – 12.00
Key data on ECEC – latest qualitative data from across the EU on ECEC (Akvile
Motiejunaite - Eurydice)
12.00 - 13.00
International perspectives on ECEC: Roundtable discussion on current research
findings (Ineke Litjens – OECD; Juliane Hencke – IEA; Steffen Knoll – IEA; Abbie Raikes
– UNESCO; Deepa Grover – UNICEF; and Paul Leseman - EC 7th Framework Study /
University of Utrecht) Chair: Keith Brumfitt (EC Consultant)
13.00 -14.30
Lunch (Metropolitan Hotel – La Veranda Restaurant, 8th floor)
Key principles for a quality framework for ECEC: discussion on a draft proposal and on possible indicators
14.30 – 14.50
Key principles for a European quality framework for ECEC - presentation of a proposal
developed by the Thematic Working Group on ECEC (Maresa Duignan – Department
of Education & Skills, Ireland) followed by discussion in workshops.
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(Eugenides Foundation – Main Conference Room, 1 floor)
15.00 – 17.00
Parallel workshops: each workshop will focus on one of the five key themes of the
Framework and will allow for reflection on indicators informed by the earlier
presentations on current research developments.
15.45 – 16.15
Coffee break (Eugenides Foundation – 1st floor Peristyle & Metropolitan Hotel Foyer, 1st floor)
17.00 – 17.20
Short summary of main outcomes from the workshop discussions (rapporteurs)
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(Eugenides Foundation – Main Conference Room, 1 floor)
17.20 – 18.00
The way forward on ECEC: data and indicator development - A panel discussion (Abbie
Raikes – UNESCO; Arlette Delhaxhe – Eurydice; Lars Hornung Bahn - Ministry of
Children, Gender Equality, Integration and Social Affairs, Denmark; Mary McLoughlin Department of Children & Youth Affairs, Ireland; Tove Mogstad Slinde– Chair of the
OECD ECEC Network) Chair: Nora Milotay (European Commission)
20th June 2014
Proposal of key principles for a quality framework for ECEC: continuation of discussions and focus on European
policy cooperation on ECEC
9.00 - 10.30
Parallel workshops: translating key principles into national circumstances and
corresponding actions.
10.30 – 11.00
Feedback from the workshops – focus on main ideas for next steps in European policy
cooperation (rapporteurs) (Eugenides Foundation – Main Conference Room, 1st floor)
11.00 – 11.20
Coffee break (1st floor Peristyle)
The way forward
11.20 – 12.00
Quality ECEC in a global perspective (Professor Hirokazu Yoshikawa– Courtney Sale Ross
Professor of Globalization and Education and University Professor Steinhardt School of
Culture, Education and Human Development, New York University)
12.00 – 13.00
Political panel on the way forward at European level - The feedback from the workshops
and the keynote speech of this session will provide the basis for this panel.
(Antonio Silva Mendes – Director, European Commission, DG Education and Culture;
Professor Hirokazu Yoshikawa – Co-Chair of the early childhood development and
education workgroup of the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network; Jana
Hainsworth – Secretary General, Eurochild; Dr Pedro Cunha – Director, Ministry of
Education, Portugal; Stefan Shaefers – European Programme Advisor, King Baudouin
Foundation; Dr Sotirios Glavas – President, Institute of Educational Policy, Greece)
Chair: Nora Milotay (European Commission)
13.00 – 13.15
Closing (Athina Plessa-Papadaki, Acting Director General, Ministry of Education and
Religious Affairs, Greece)
The Workshops (Day 1, 15.00 and Day 2, 9.00)
WORKSHOP
Access
(Eugenides Foundation –
Main Conference Room,
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1 floor)
Curriculum
(Metropolitan Hotel –
Crete Room, 1st floor)
Governance and
Funding
(Metropolitan Hotel –
Corfu 1 Room, 1st floor)
Monitoring and
Evaluation
(Metropolitan Hotel –
Chios Room, 1st floor)
CHAIR
Christele Vannieuwenhuyzen
Kind en Gezin, Belgium
CASE STUDY
Carmen Anghelescu
International Step by Step Association,
Romania
Birgit Riedel
German Youth Institute
Zuzana Lynch
Matej Bel University, Slovakia
Maresa Duignan
Department of Education & Skills, Ireland
Mary McLoughlin
Department of Children & Youth Affairs,
Ireland
Eleni Mousena
Ministry of Education and Religious
Affairs, Greece
Eulalia Alexandre
Director, Direçao-Geral da Educaçao,
Portugal
Monique De Koning
Ministry of Education, Culture and
Science, The Netherlands
Claudia Fligge-Hoffjan
Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior
Citizens, Women and Youth, Germany
Workforce
Lars Hornung Bahn
Tiina Peterson
Ministry of Children, Gender Equality, Ministry of Education and Research,
Integration and Social Affairs, Denmark
Estonia
Stig
Lund
(Metropolitan Hotel –
ETUCE, Denmark
Corfu 2 Room, 1st floor)
*One member of the Roundtable discussion (on international perspectives in ECEC) will participate in each workshop