The International Parents Alliance (IPA) recently conducted an impactful teacher training session in Kazakhstan, focusing on parental engagement and trauma-conscious...

Cyberbullying is a pervasive issue in modern education, and research highlights how adult behaviour can significantly influence children’s engagement in...

The Perfect Project is one of those projects that really bring people together. Pouring rain and train hiccups didn’t deter...

Wellbeing at School in the Digital Age Wellbeing at School was the central theme of the eTwinning Annual Conference, held...

Introduction to Collaboration: Sharing, Caring, Daring  The International Confederation of Principals (ICP) and Parents International have recently embarked on a...

Introduction to the Global Symposium on Family, School, and Community Engagement The Brookings Institution has organised a 2-day event in...

The first in-person meeting of the Kitchen Adventure project took place in Budapest on the 3rd and 4th of June...

Introduction Engaging migrant and refugee parents in the educational process is often a challenging task for educators, owing in no...

Between 22 and 27 April, our team visited Ghana to meet and train the team of Parenting Education Network Ghana...

Introduction Exploring parental engagement in the BioBeo Project took center stage during a recent training session held at the University...

Introduction Project PARTICIPATE’s Winter School in the beautiful town of Stavanger, in Norway, kicked off the first of Project PARTICIPATE‘s...

About the Training PARTICIPATE Training in Amsterdam. From the 4th to the 8th of March, IPA hosted a unique Ph.D....

Our Director Invited to the Human Capability Initiative Our Director received an invitation to be a speaker at the first...

The EFFEct Project The Horizon EU EFFEct project kick-off in Leuven took place on the 29-30 January 2024. The core...

Within the framework of our collaboration with Vytautas Magnus University, our team has started training teachers of upper secondary schools...

21-22 November, Warsaw Bridging communities is always a challenge in a time of crisis. The one unfolding in Ukraine has...

The Annual Meeting of the PARTICIPATE Doctoral Network held at the campuses of Dublin City University on 14-16 November 2023...

For two days, members of the five ESF+ (European Social Fund) Communities of Practice (CoPs) met in Brussels on 26-27...

Parents International was invited to contribute to the biennial conference of our partner, the European School Heads Association held in...

The Autumn Session of the INGO Conference of the Council of Europe took place between 9-11 October 2023, coinciding with...

Parents International has long been a supporter of the Happy Schools initiative of UNESCO. On 4 October, we had the...

Our consultant, Luca Laszlo participated and presented at the 5th International Conference on Higher Education Learning Methodologies and Technologies Online...

How do you save a generation? IPA has been part of the Worldwide Commission to Educate All Kids Post-Pandemic for...

We are happy to announce our open summer courses that will be held in Amsterdam. The courses will be about...

The Center for Universal of Education at Brookings has developed and is piloting a set of conversation starter tools. It...

IPA Presents SAILS Project Research Outcomes at Vilnius Conference The International Parents Alliance (IPA) recently had the honor of presenting...

Our first small scale Erasmus+ project, Building Bridges: Good African parenting In Europe ended at the end of November 2022....

In the third and last year of the European Education Policy Network on Teachers and School Leaders (EEPN) has just...

Our Open Schooling in STEAM education Horizon 2020 project, PHERECLOS is ending soon, and the final conference, the Lay of...

The European Research Network about Parents in Education (ERNAPE) held its biennial conference in Nijmegen, the Netherlands at Radboud University...

The ParENTrepreneurs project, supported by Parents International, officially concluded on April 30, 2022. It marked a significant milestone in empowering...

Child Up Final Conference in Brussels 9-10 June 2022 – what we had to say as a member of their...

IPA over the years has worked very closely together with the European School Heads Association. It is vital to make...

Judit Horgas, our expert represented Parents International at the State of Affairs Meeting of the European Education Policy Network on...

Parents International’s message on the International Day of Education – 24 January 2022 Today the world celebrates the International Day...

Parents International has been part of the Education Policy Reform Dialogues organised by OECD since 2018. After a longer break,...

Parents International has organised three face-to-face pilots of the ParENTrepreneurs Training to ensure that the programme we developed in the...

Strong and equal partnership between parents and schools is essential for student success, but it is often not successfully established...

Parents International is a member of the European Education Policy Network on Teachers and School Leaders, and has contributed to...

The Parenting Together project started a series of meetings and training, mostly held in Amsterdam, that mark our work going...

International Day of Families 2021 message by Parents International A year ago, Parents international published a global action plan for...

Parents International has partnered with Europass Teacher Academy, the largest organisation offering trainings for in-service teachers to offer courses on...

Challenges facing NGOS in Conflict and Post-Conflicts Situations – Highlights On 26 February, the Conference of INGOs of the Council of...

International Day of Education – 24 January 2021   Nearly a year after government reactions to Covid-19 started triggering school...

The Digital Futures Commission is an exciting research collaboration of unique organisations that invites innovators, policy makers, regulators, academics and...

Within the framework of the Assess@Learning project, a European policy experimentation which aims to support the systemic uptake of Digital...

The Global Sustainable Technology and Innovation Community community held its 4th Annual Conference on 26-28 October 2020 in Brussels and...

The TILL project consortium, our collaborators UNIMORE and FREREF are members of, held a great conference on 21 October 2020...

On 8 September the world celebrates literacy on International Literacy Day. In 2020, not surprisingly, the focus is on Literacy...

Parenting for a Digital Future – How Hopes and Fears about Technology Shape Children’s Lives is a new and very...

Due to the COVID19 Pandemic this year, it was not possible to hold the Conference’s live summer session, a special...

Today the world celebrates the Global Day of Parents. According the official UN definition, 1 June is “an opportunity to...

Our team, Eszter Salamon, our Director, two members of the Supervisory Board, Brigitte Haider and Christian Hellevang and our Project...

I came across a very interesting publication on Twitter: a book on Muslim mothers and their role in their children’s...

“Engagement of Small and Medium Enterprises in Work-based Learning” Skopje, 25 and 26 September 2019 The main purpose of this...

The 17th FEAD Network meeting took place on 20 September 2019 in Brussels and discussed issues related to “Celebrating 5...

30 years ago today, the United Nations (UN) made a historic step by adopting the Un Convention on the Rights...

Toys Industries of Europe invited policy makers, professionals, advocacy organisations and representatives of toy manufacturers to an event in the...

ERNAPE, the European Research Network About Parents in Education organised its 12th conference in Gdansk, Poland on 18-20 September 2019...

CEDEFOP, the vocational education agency of the European Union organised an interesting event entitled What role for community lifelong learning...

We were invited to the 1st International True Play Conference and to become a founding member of the True Play...

We wish we had the chance to share the opinion of parents on mobility at the event jointly organised by...

The teams of the DigiLitEY COST Action and MakEY Horizon 2020 research projects met for an international conference in Manchester...

Parents International participated in two very interesting meetings that were organised back-to-back, both highlighting the importance of engaging parents in...

Register for Parents First – Parent Summit 2019 here: https://goo.gl/forms/stVY2EnM1HodwRYc2 Parents International is holding a scientific conference combined with a...

Parents International is holding a scientific conference combined with a marketplace of inspiring practices providing meeting, showcasing and networking opportunities...

Parents International was invited to the 6th International Mayors’ Conference – ACT.NOW held in Vienna, 27/29 January 2019.  As the...

The European Commission has organised an event on education as they usually do every year. Following the 1st European Education...

Public Policy Exchange organised a symposium in Brussels on 15 January 2019 on early childhood development and related systems that...

Parents International will hold a scientific conference combined with a marketplace of inspiring practices providing meeting, showcasing and networking opportunities...

The 9th Forum on Intercultural Learning and Exchange took place in Brussels, Belgium at the European Economic and Social Committee...

This November, IKEA, The LEGO Foundation, Unilever’s Dirt is Good brands and National Geographic have joined forces as the Real Play Coalition with their shared believe in the...

We were invited to represent parents as an important stakeholder group – both lifelong learners and lifelong educators – at...

Euractiv, an independent pan-European media network specialised in EU policies, has produced a special report on the effectiveness of taxation for...

Introduction: The Significance of Lifelong Learning Culture in Europe The European Lifelong Learning Platform held its annual conference on Lifelong...

The final conference of the European project „Breaking the silence together” was held in Noordwijk, the Netherlands on 15 June...

An interesting conference was organised by the international organisation of savings banks and microfinancing institutions, WSBI-ESBG on 22 May in...

The conference focused on challenges countries, parents and children are facing for real equity in education. The speakers and participants...

In some countries school uniforms are a usual practice while in others there are ongoing discussions about introducing them or...

Key principles and methodology Starting points: In VET and apprenticeships there is a need to differentiate approaches according to the...

Parents Call for the Hungarian Government to Celebrate Family Diversity at the ‘World Congress of Families’ PRESS RELEASE In May...

Read the Declaration of Zaragoza 2008, reposted by IPA: Parents have the right to educate their children according to their...

As IPA, we find Charles Desforges‘ Literature Review entitled The Impact of Parental Involvement, Parental Support and Family Education on Pupil Achievements and Adjustment,...

Published for the Vaccine Hesitancy Seminar on 11 December 2017 in Brussels. The event brought together together the World Health...