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Network report 2016

Minutes for Network21 meeting & Network report
Time and place: 10th March, 2016, 15.00 – 15.45; Small Festival Hall.

Attendants: see below

Agenda:

  1. Activities in NERA 2016 Helsinki
    • On the network sessions:
    • 10 sessions, 5 symposia, 1 round table, 1 poster=> app 60 presenters, discussants etc
    • 8 papers + one symposium moved to other networks, 2 rejected
  2. Activities between NERA 2015 and 2016:
    • co-operation with SERA, Marianne Dovemark, Palle Rasmussen & Taina Saarinen participated in SERA annual conference in Aberdeen, presenting a Nordic panel The present situation and challenges for education policy in Nordic welfare states
    • We applied for and received pre-conference funding from NERA, but decided not to organize a pre-conference because of the overlapping JustEd pre-conference
  3. Activities 2016-2017
    • Continued co-operation with national organizations – John Benedicto Krejsler will take discussions up with NERA Board
      1. Co-operation particularly with and between national organisations outside the Nordic countries
      2. Perhaps a panel in NERA 2017?
      3. continue discussions during the spring about organisation & funding
    • Continued discussion on the pre-conference
      1. focus will be on doctoral students, but also more senior researchers will be welcomed
      2. The idea for the theme: Publishing of policy studies in education
        1. discussions / informal sessions / workshop on journal publishing
        2. practical de-mystification of the review process
        3. Inviting editors from Scandinavian journals

On behalf of the  meeting
Taina Saarinen & Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret, NW 21 Convenors

Attendants in network meeting on March 10, 2016, Helsinki:

Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret U. of Helsinki
Taina Saarinen U. of Jyväskylä
Palle Rasmussen U. of Aalborg
Caroline Runesdotter U. of Gothenburg
Gun-Britt Wårvik, U. of Gothenburg
Katharina Sass, U. of Bergen
Sonja Kosunen, U. of Helsinki
Piia Seppänen, U. of Turku
Jaakko Kauko, U. of Tampere
Galina Gurova, U. of Tampere
Hannele Pitkänen, U. of Helsinki
Heidi Vartiainen, U. of Helsinki
John Benedicto Krejsler, Aarhus U.

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