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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

With great pleasure the National Talent Centre of the Netherlands would like to extend you a warm welcome to join us next year in The Hague, The Netherlands, as we host the 18th Conference of the European Council for High Ability on 31 August – 3 September 2022. Abstract submissions are welcome for consideration and can be submitted via the conference website until Monday 11 April 2022, 23.59 hrs. CET. 

CONFERENCE THEMES

• Innovative Educational Practices
• Creativity without Limits
• Supporting Talent Development & Personal Growth
• Connecting Research & Practice in Meaningful Ways
• Engaging Every Learner: Motivation & Flow
• Pupil’s voice
• Creating New Traditions
• Giftedness across the Lifespan

SUBMISSION

Abstracts can be submitted through the online submission form only.

The deadline for the online submission is 11 April 2022, 23.59 hrs. CET.

MORE INFO &
CALL FOR ABTRACTS

THE HAGUE
GREAT CITY FOR A CONFERENCE!

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There is so much to see and to experience in the city by the sea, you certainly will not get bored. With the most historic sites per square meter in the Netherlands, The Hague oozes culture and history. Visit The Hague monuments such as the Binnenhof, Noordeinde Palace, and the Peace Palace. Take some time to visit one of the many beautiful museums. Or just go to the beach for a relaxing moment.

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ECHA 2022 CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT

+31 71 2020 303  |  info@echa2022.org

International ECHA Conferences were and remain biannual summits in the last more than three decades. Every two years, the International ECHA conference brings together scientists and practitioners who are dedicated to the field of gifted education and talent support. On one hand, organizing an International ECHA Conference is a time-consuming and exhausting task. On the other hand, it is a rewarding, enriching and satisfying mission, which gives the possibility to you, the Organizer team, to show the world that your country and your organization stand up for the highly able people of all ages, and gives many long-term benefits. The General Committee of ECHA invites organizations involved in gifted education and/or care of highly able young people in Europe to submit their application to organize the 19^th International ECHA Conference in September 2024. The Guidelines for an ECHA Conference can be downloaded from HERE (ECHA International Conference guidelines). 

You should submit your application using the Application Form downloadable from HERE (ECHA International Conference proposal 2024) before the 30^th of January 2022 by email to ECHA Admin <admin@echa-site.eu>. The ECHA General Committee will then discuss the proposals, inform applicants about each other’s proposal, and the opinion of the General Committee about the proposals. Applicants will be able to withdraw or modify their application until March 30^th . The General Committee will announce the time, organizer and venue of the 19^th International ECHA Conference to the applicants and at the ECHA website by 30th April 2022. We look forward to receiving your proposal!

Registration is now open for the

7^th Bildungskongress in Muenster

in association with the LemaS-Conference 2021

22.09.-25.09.2021

Identifying Potential – Developing Talents – Sustainable Education

We are pleased to announce the 7^th Bildungskongress in Muenster entitled “Identifying Potential – Developing Talents – Sustainable Education”, which will take place from September 22^nd to 25^th, 2021, together with the annual conference of the research association “LemaS” (Leistung macht Schule, an initiative to enhance talent development in German schools). The congress will be held digitally. 

The congress aims to connect research approaches from the fields of gifted education and gifted support with sustainability (SDGs) and the related aspect of social responsibility. A central concern are the global challenges of the 21^st century (e.g. global climate and world health) and the question, how individualized talent support can prepare pupils of a new generation to meet these challenges in a dedicated, creative and constructive way. Based on these central questions, the congress, on the one hand, aims to ascertain, how the achievement-related potential of children and adolescents can optimally develop on a long-term basis and, on the other hand, how their talents can be integrated with regard to the role of civil society in shaping a sustainable future, in terms of ecology, society, economy, culture, politics, globalization and digitalization. In this context, also the function of states, or, more specifically, of educational policies (e.g. future teacher training, curriculum design and teaching methods for sustainable education) are to be discussed.

Confirmed Speakers are: Rena Subotnik, Jutta Allmendinger, Robert Sternberg, Armin Nassehi, Bernd Ulrich, Sally Reis, Joe Renzulli, Charles Fadel, Jan Bransen, Kristina Reiss, Kai Niebert and Andreas Schleicher (among others).

For more information see: https://icbfkongress.de/ (information in English on the right)

Register here: https://wwuindico.uni-muenster.de/e/mbk2021

Early Bird registration available until 30^th June 2021.

If you have questions, feel free to contact our team: icbfkongress@uni-muenster.de 

The keynote speakers for the 17th ECHA Conference, organised by Portuguese Association for Gifted Children – APCS, have been announced, as well as an Early Bird registration fee. Visit echa2021.org for more details, or click on the photos below.

The World Council for Gifted and Talented Children will host its first Virtual World Conference over two weekends, July 31 – August 1 & August 7 – 8. The conference platform, SpotMe, will offer several networking opportunities including matchmaking for finding new colleagues with similar interests, question/comment feeds, video breakout sessions, among other features.

The conference will feature eight keynote presentations. There will also be 24 simulive sessions, eight live panel discussions, and many on-demand and audiovisual presentations. The schedule is staggered across three time zones to make it more accessible no matter where you live, and the simulive/live sessions with be recorded for later viewing.

Learn more and register at https://worldgifted2021.com/register/

International ECHA Conferences were and remain biannual summits in the last more than three decades. Every two years, the International ECHA conference brings together scientists and practitioners who are dedicated to the field of gifted education and talent support. On one hand, organizing an International ECHA Conference is a time-consuming and exhausting task. On the other hand, it is a rewarding, enriching and satisfying mission, which gives the possibility to you, the Organizer team, to show the world that your country and your organization stand up for the highly able people of all ages, and gives many long-term benefits. The General Committee of ECHA invites organizations involved in gifted education and/or care of highly able young people in Europe to submit their application to organize the 19^th International ECHA Conference in September 2024. The Guidelines for an ECHA Conference can be downloaded here: ECHA International Conference Guidelines

You should submit your application using the Application Form downloadable here (ECHA International Conference proposal 2024) before the 15^th of June 2021 by email to the Vice-President of ECHA, Prof. Albert Ziegler at albert.ziegler@fau.de. By August 31st the ECHA General Committee will discuss the proposals, inform applicants about each other’s proposal, and the opinion of the General Committee about the proposals. Applicants will be able to withdraw or modify their application until October 10th. The General Committee will announce the time, organizer and venue of the 19^th International ECHA Conference to the applicants and at the ECHA website by 30th October 2021. We look forward to receiving your proposal!

https://www.echa2021.org/

With great pleasure Gordon Academic College of Education would like to extend you a warm welcome to join our conference, as we host the 3rd Thematic ECHA Online International Conference on teaching gifted and able students. The cooperation of the organizing institution, and support by ECHA will guarantee high quality standards of the conference.

Conference dates:  5^th-7^th of March, 2023.

Reasons to attend

• Exposure to latest developments in teaching gifted and able students
• Creating partnerships that could evolve to further studies
• Creating a significant body of knowledge regarding theory and practice
• Opportunity to share and discuss ideas regarding different teaching aspects with researchers, educators,

psychologists, parents, and stakeholders

• Being part of creating an impact on the education of gifted and able students
• opportunities for publishing your work

On the conference website  www.echa2023.org

you will find the call for papers, important dates, types of presentations, confirmed keynote speakers and the conference program.

Instructions on submission of abstract and a link to  a Google Form are available on the website.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to use the following conference e-mail address echa23@Gordon.ac.il

An answer is guaranteed as quickly as possible.

We kept registration fees as low as possible to enable policy makers, program coordinators, teachers, and lecturers from all around the world to join and share their knowledge on teaching gifted and able students.

As an ECHA member you will get a discount for presenting and/or participating.

This is a great opportunity to be exposed to, as well as present your professional knowledge, and discuss teaching of gifted and able students all around the world.

All conference keynotes, presentations, and materials will be available to participants for the duration of six months.

We welcome you to take part in this important conference, and are looking forward to receiving your abstract.

Sincerely,

Dr. Hava Vidergor           Dr. Roxana Reichman

Conference Chair             Conference co-chair

On behalf of the conference organizing committee

The Association of Hungarian Talent Support Organisations (MATEHETSZ) together with the University of Debrecen, Hungary organises the international 2nd Thematic ECHA Conference online in March 2021.

The topic of the Conference is ‘Closing the achievement gap’. The persistent disparity in academic performance or educational attainment between different groups of students is a topical issue in gifted education, and the achievement gap is closely related to the concept of equity, fairness in education, equal access to learning opportunities and greater equality in educational achievement, attainment and benefits, all key goals of a caring talent support system.

Our everyday life now abounds in online meetings and activities due to restrictions
imposed by the pandemic. It was originally planned to receive and host attendees in
Budapest, but given the global circumstances, the Conference had to be converted into an online event. The usual 1.5-2-day thematic conference has been extended a whole week, with opportunities to join it twice a day, at 10:00 a.m. and 16:00 p.m. CET. The presentations of each day will be repeated in the morning of the following day to provide comfortable access to people all over the world. Consequently, the Conference will last for an unusual six days, from 23 to 28 March 2021, so it will actually be a so-called ECHA Thematic Week.

During this week we will hear from leading researchers, keynote and invited speakers such as Márta Fülöp (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Frank C. Worrell (Berkeley, CA), Paula Olszewski-Kubilius (Northwestern University), Jonathan Plucker (Johns Hopkins University) and Tibor Péter Nagy (Hungarian Academy of Sciences).

The measures instigated to fight COVID-19 have made tackling the
underprivileged situation more topical than ever. School shutdowns can deprive students of the educational opportunities they need to build a brighter future, and thereby compound disparities in learning and achievement. In addition, underprivileged students are more likely to remain remote and less likely to have access to the prerequisites of online learning such as electronic devices, internet access and live contact with teachers. Left unaddressed, these opportunity gaps would translate into even wider achievement gaps.

In view of the global economic challenges and in line with our conference topic,
participation at the Conference Week will be free of charge to all, but preliminary
registration is required.

ECHA members registered to the conference will later be provided access to all presentations for 6 more months.

Please register to the conference here: https://echa2021budapest.org/?page_id=178

For more info visit the website: https://echa2021budapest.org/

If you have any queries relating to the conference, you can contact the conference organisers at ECHA2021Budapest@tehetseg.hu