Austria | Belgium | Czech Republic | Estonia | Europe | Finland | France | Germany | Lithuania | Netherlands | Norway | Portugal | Republic of Ireland | Slovakia | Spain | Sweden | Switzerland

Austria
Details about the Austrian Society for Research and Development in Education (OEFEB) can be found on their website.
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Belgium
The Flemish Educational Research Forum (VFO) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
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Czech Republic
Details about the Czech Educational Research Association (CAPV) can be found on their website.
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Estonia
Details about The Estonian Educational Forum (EEF) can be found on their website.
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Europe (multiple country organisations)
The European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
The European Educational Research Association (EERA) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
Pedagogical and Educational Research Information Network For Europe (PERINE) was funded by the European Commission and provides an excellent example of the type of infrastructure needed for the exchange of knowledge beyond language barriers. TLRP strongly supports the concept.
John Brennan, leader of the 'Social and organisational mediation of university learning' project' (SOMUL) chairs a conference of the European Science Foundation (ESF) in September 2007 in Sweden. Full information.
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Finland
Finland has a national educational research programme that is broadly complementary with TLRP. The Academy of Finland 's Life as Learning (LEARN) Research Programme started in 2002. The programme focused upon the reinterpretation of lifelong learning and the reinterpretation of work-related learning.
30 March 2007 saw representatives of the TLRP Thematic Seminar Series on Education and Neuroscience participate in a seminar with colleagues in Finland. See here for more details.
Details about the Finnish Educational Research Association (FERA) can be found on their website.
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France
The Institut national de recherche pédagogique (INRP) has engaged with TLRP in a range of collaborative activities. INRP works in partnership with a wide range of organisations in order to contribute to the development of research in education on a national scale. INRP's current research activity is particularly focused upon learning processes; changes in the education system; and the development of teaching knowledge and professionalism.
Details about the Association des Enseignants et chercheurs en Sciences de l'Education (AECSE) can be found on their website.
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Germany
TLRP Director Andrew Pollard sits on the Academic Advisory Council for the Zentrum fur Schul- und Bildungsforschung (Centre for School and Educational Research) (ZSB)) based at the Martin Luther Universitat, Halle-Wittenburg.
TLRP recognizes the interests it shares with the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF) for both research on the quality of national educational systems and the distribution of research knowledge. Eckhard Klieme has met with Andrew Pollard to discuss collaboration.
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Lithuania
Details about the Lithuanian Academic Educational Association (LERA) can be found on their website.
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Netherlands
The Program Board for Educational Research (PROO) of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) co-ordinates programmes on educational research. The latest programme focuses upon preschool and early school learning; innovative learning; vocational training; staff competence development; the school as a learning context; and schools and social cohesion.
Details about the Netherlands Educational Research Association (NERA) can be found on their website.
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Norway
Norway has a national educational research programme that is broadly complementary with TLRP. The Norwegian Research Council Division for Culture and Society programme is on Knowledge, Education and Learning. The programme focuses on research on learning in education, the labour market and society in general.
One of the projects in the Norwegian programme (PROLEARN) was explicitly designed to mirror the approach of the TLRP Early Career Learning project and, as such, is an example of purposive bilateral co-operation. The PROLEARN project traces the early career development of nurses, teachers, accountants and engineers.
In June 2006 Professor Andrew Pollard visited Oslo to deliver a conference keynote speech entitled "TLRP: a UK adventure in coordinated research for evidence-based policy and practice in education”.
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Portugal
Details about the Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciencias da Educacao (SPCE) can be found on their website.
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Republic of Ireland
The Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
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Slovakia
Details about the Slovak Educational (research) Society (SERS) can be found on their website.
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Spain
Details about the The Asociacion Interuniversitaria de Investigacion Pedagogica (AIDIPE) can be found on their website.
Details about the Sociedad Espanola de Pedagogia can be found on their website.
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Sweden
The Swedish Government set up the Committee for Educational Science (CES) as a special expert body of the Swedish Research Council with a focus on research on learning, knowledge formation, education and teaching. The CES has a temporary mandate up to year-end 2008.
In October 2006 Andrew Pollard delivered a keynote speech on TLRP to the Swedish Research Council's Educational Sciences Annual conference.
In December 2006 a delegation of researchers from the Swedish Research Council Committee for Educational Sciences visited TLRP headquarters in London on 4th December on a fact finding trip to hear about TLRP.
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Switzerland
The Swiss Society for Research in Education (SSRE) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
Andrew Pollard was a member of the CERI OECD team which conducted a 2006 external assessment of educational research in Switzerland.
Images provided by The UC Atlas of Global Inequality
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