Upcoming webinar: Discussing the frontiers of intercultural education in times of bio-cultural depletion on the planet.

We are delighted to announce the publication of the special issue, Intercultural Education in Times of Climate Change - International Perspectives, Challenges, and Initiatives, in November 2025. Insightful, intriguing, and diverse articles in this issue will help expand our research field in times of worsening conditions on Earth. The Special Issue covers: the biocultural relationship with mountains, and with glaciers; sustainability education through the Council of Europe’s RFCDC model, and through Sámi cosmology; Environmental Education as critical decolonial education in Colombia; teachers’ role in the 2030 Agenda; earthing intercultural practices in a Norwegian higher educational context; Pan-African university education; tree planting in Tanzania; and intercultural sustainable education with unaccompanied foreign minors in the Italian context. All articles are already published online.

A webinar about intercultural education in the Anthropocene, based on the Special Issue, will take place on January 20th at 2 pm. (CET). Hold the date! Further info to follow on the IAIE website and IAIE social media.

A preview of the special issue? 

One of the articles, by Martyn Barrett, explains how young people may be prepared through education to respond as informed and empowered citizens to the threat posed by anthropogenic climate change. He argues that the Council of Europe’s RFCDC can be used for this purpose and shows how this approach also builds young people’s intercultural competence. He also proposes that Intercultural Education and Education for Sustainable Development have a symbiotic relationship to each other, and that both areas of study can be significantly strengthened by the other, especially if they are purposefully intertwined in the curriculum and using appropriate pedagogies.

Numerous other thought-provoking articles examine our area of research and the reimagining of intercultural education in the context of the Anthropocene era. 

IAIE Conference in Athens 2026

Migration, the Global Quest for Educational Equity, and Intercultural Education

June 19-21, 2026 

Following the successful IAIE conference in Budapest in June 2025, the IAIE is proud to announce an international conference that will take place from June 19-21, 2026 in Athens. This conference will have a very specific focus on migration issues. Keynote speaker will be James Banks. The conference will have a slightly different approach compared to earlier IAIE conferences, taking advantage of new online realities.

 IAIE members and SIRIUS member organizations will have priority when registering.

The conference will include, in addition to the keynote talk by James Banks, two

symposia around the issue of migration, and also a visit to an island nearby Athens for more casual and in-depth conversations in an inspiring environment.

Additionally, the in-person conference will be both preceded and followed up by two

online events that will allow more people from other parts of the world to participate in discussions.

A call for papers and further information will follow soon on the IAIE website, on all IAIE social media and through emails.

On behalf of the IAIE organizing committee,

Prof Nektaria Palaiologou

Honorary Vice President IAIE

Conference Host