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The members of the European Educational Research Association (EERA) are national and regional Educational Research Associations from all over Europe.  The objective of the EERA is to encourage the connection between educational researchers and educational research associations and institutes within Europe, thus increasing research.

This year, “The European Conference on Educational Research”-ECER- (Annual Conference) will take place in Vienna, Austria. The title of the conference will be “Theory and Evidence in European Educational Research.”

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The European Sociological Association (ESA) aims to facilitate sociological research, teaching and communication on European issues, and to give sociology a voice in European affairs. This year the 9th European Sociological Association Conference was held between the 2nd and the 5th of September 2009, in Lisbon, Portugal, under the general title of “European Society or European Societies”?

Parts of the INCLUD-ED Integrated Project (FP6, 2006-2011) results were presented at this conference in the Research Network Sociology of Education. Members of the Include-Ed Project presented two papers about the findings obtained during the first year in relation to European Educational Systems and successful practices which increase equity and efficiency in education. Lídia Puigvert (member of the General Coordination team) and Adriana Aubert from the University of Barcelona presented a paper written in collaboration with partners Laura Engels (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom) and Teodor Alexiu Mircea (Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara, Romania) entitled “Overcoming educational inequalities: Differences between mixture, streaming and inclusion” on September the 4th, 2009.

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The second Advisory Committee meeting for the Includ-ed project took place on the 20th of June 2009 in Barcelona Science Park. People representing the various vulnerable groups who the research is addressed to participated in this meeting: young people, cultural groups, people with disabilities, and women.

In the first part of the meeting the results related to practices which are promoting the improvement of academic performance and social inclusion were presented. Some of the latest contributions from Project 3 were also described, as well as the analysis of the link between education and success in other social areas. One of the aspects which were underlined in relation to this project was the transition from a Dialogic Contract for Educational Inclusion to a Dialogic Contract for Social Inclusion. This transition meant moving from the transformation of a school to the transformation of an area or a neighbourhood. In that sense, the importance of using the critical communicative methodology in order to carry out this process was highlighted, which involves including the whole community. Finally, the way in which public administrations are asking for scientific results which make these area and neighbourhood improvements possible was stressed, as well as the impact this has on vulnerable groups. This situation was discussed during the meeting, and members of the Advisory Committee made proposals. Amongst these proposals, the following ones are underlined:

* It is a priority to pay attention to the opinions of people who actions for improvement are aimed at. The research team should respond responsibly in order to ensure that this process is rigorously carried out.

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2nd Meeting of panel of Experts, 13 of June, 2009

The second Panel of Experts meeting for the Includ-ed project took place on the 13th of June 2009 in Barcelona Science Park. Various members of the Panel and of the general coordination team attended this meeting.

The first results from Projects 1 and 2 were presented in the afore mentioned meeting, and the local and international impact these results are obtaining at both scientific and political levels in the different social areas was also described at the same time. Another of the aspects which was discussed was the importance of achieving results which are transferable to all European Union contexts.

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