ICEC Conferences
Conference 2025
Addressing Diversity and Equity in ECEC: Converging Trends in European Countries?
30 September and 1 October 2025, GLS Campus Berlin
Conference page: www.dji.de/icec-conference2025[1]
Conference 2023
"Transforming Visions into Practice"
How are Quality Reforms for Early Childhood Education and Care Implemented in Different Countries?
21. Juni 2023 Berlin
International Online Conference 2021
ECEC Centres as a Workplace in International Comparison: Results from the OECD TALIS Starting Strong Survey
24. June 2021
International Conference 2019
Reducing access barriers in ECEC:
International perspectives on local governance
22./23. October 2019, Berlin
International Conference 2016
10 - 11 November 2016, Berlin
Different ways, one goal?
International approaches to quality: regulation and assurance in early childhood
Conference documentation here[6]
International Conference 2014
17 November 2014, Berlin
Longitudinal Studies in early childhood education and care:
What do they tell us about the effects of early education on children's development?
Conference Programme [7]
Longitudinal studies as a part of monitoring early childhood education and care in Germany[8]
Prof. Dr. Yvonne Anders, Freie Universität Berlin
Assessing children’s skills in different countries: Selected national longitudinal studies
National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)
Prof. Dr. Sabine Weinert, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
(Please contact Prof. Dr. Weinert to optain the presentation)
Study of Early Education and Development (SEED)[9]
Prof. Dr. Edward Melhuish, University of Oxford University of London, Birkbeck
National Cohort Study Early Childhood Education and Care (Pre-COOL)[10]
Prof. Dr. Paul Leseman, Universiteit Utrecht
Chances and limits of measuring the impact of ECEC on children’s skills with a longitudinal design[11]
Steven Barnett, Ph.D., Rutgers University New Brunswick (USA)
International meassurement of child abilities
OECD international comparative study on preschool children’s development[12]
Miho Taguma, OECD Paris
International Conference2014
8 - 9 July 2014, Munich
An equal start for all?
International perspectives on selective enrolment and inclusive approaches in early childhood education
The role and impact of universal access to quality ECEC[13]
Dr. Jan Peeters, Centre for Innovation in the Early Years (VBJK), Gent
Differential enrolment patterns in ECEC - European Perspectives
Selective ECEC enrolment patterns in Europe - How does Germany perform?[14]
Dr. Heike Wirth, GESIS, Mannheim
Between expansion and care allowance: selective enrolment in German ECEC[15]
Dr. Christian Alt, German Youth Institute, Munich
National and local policies addressing differential enrolment
Equal access to quality ECEC—what policies make the difference?[16]
Dr. Ludovica Gambaro, University of London, London
Improving accessibility of early child care in Brussels[17]
Ilse Verbeke, Kind en Gezin, Brussels
Inclusive education and care and the role of parents
Families from a migrant background: parents' expectations and experienced quality of ECEC services[18]
Prof. Dr. Birgit Leyendecker, Ruhr University Bochum
Approaches from different countries:
Evaluation of Sure Start children's centres in England: delivery of family services[19]
Dr. Maria Evangelou, Associate Professor University of Oxford, Oxford
Enhancing access by involving parents: Parents‘ initiatives and 'universités parentales' in France[20]
Michelle Clausier, Association des collectifs enfants parents professionnels (ACEPP), Paris
Heterogeneity and inclusive practice in ECEC services - the German program 'Kinderwelten'[21]
Petra Wagner Institute for situational approach (ISTA), Freie Universität Berlin
International Conference 2013
29 - 30 April 2013, Berlin
International perspectives on early childhood education and care -
What can we learn from each other?
An International Perspective
International cooperation concerning questions on early childhood education and care: Aims and strategies of the OECD[23]
Prof. Dr. Barbara Ischinger, OECD-director of education, Paris
Towards quality in ECEC: Aims and activities of the European Union[24]
Nora Milotay European Commission, Directorate General for Education and Culture, Brussels
Current questions concerning the German ECEC system: Why broaden our perspective through international comparisons?[25]
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Kalicki, German Youth Institute, Munich
ECEC staff
Professionalism and competence in early childhood education and care: Systemic, political and conversational[26]
Dr. Mathias Urban, University of East London
Professionalisation put to the test: Ten challenges in the international context[27]
Pamela Oberhuemer, State Institute of Early Childhood Research (IFP)
Curricula: Contents and implementation
Current issues in Swedish early childhood education[28]
Anne Kultti, PhD, Goteborgs University
The current reform of ECEC in Luxembourg and the challenges for society and politics[29]
Manuel Achten, Ministry of Family and Integration, Luxembourg
Monitoring and evaluation
International approaches to monitoring and evaluation: What should we monitor, why and how?[30]
Richard Walley, Ministry of Education, Wellington
Monitoring quality in early childhood education and care: An English perspective[31]
Chris Barnham Department of Education, London