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Religion 2nd most frequently named sensitive issue

The European School Education Platform led a survey among 354 teachers about teaching sensitive and controversial topics. The study offers a range of insights into the complexities and challenges of teaching these sensitive topics and the most effective strategies to overcome them. For instance, while 51% of respondents indicated that religion was a sensitive topic, […]

Cooperation between ICCS and CoGREE

ICCS news: The representation of ICCS as an NGO at the Council of Europe (CoE) will henceforth be carried out in cooperation with CoGREE. A joint meeting was held online on April 8, 2025, to formalize this collaboration. For over two decades, ICCS has been represented in NGO meetings at the CoE by James Barnett, […]

Farewell to Charity Status & New Perspectives for the Future – ICCS Board in Amsterdam

ICCS news: From 10 to 11 February 2025, the Board of ICCS gathered for an in-person meeting in Amsterdam. Participants included Heid Leganger-Krogstad, Tania ap Sion, Bianca Kappelhoff, and Werner Haussmann. The meeting focused on two main topics: the organisational restructuring of ICCS and initial reflections on its future direction. Dissolution of Charity Status Tania […]

XXIIth European Forum for Religious Education in Schools

The next conference organised by the European Forum for Religious Education in Schools (Eufres) engages with topics of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a phenomenon increasingly impacting also the reality of religious education in the classroom. A main goal of religious education is the preparation of students not only how to responsibly participate in today‘s diverse society, which in today’s world is increasingly dominated by technological innovations such as AI. The conference will discuss specific possibilities and limitations of AI in light of religious education‘ tasks and goals. This concerns for instance how to teach background knowledge about theology (applicable to the student’s life reality), how to critically communicate approaches to different forms of faith practices, as well as […]

The CEEC takes part in a major European project on educational reform

The European Committee for Catholic Education (CEEC) is taking part in the IMANARE European research project for a two-year period, alongside three partners: Matej Bel University (Slovakia), the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and the Mala filozofija association (Croatia). Funded by the Erasmus+ programme, this project focuses on a major issue: the role of educational reforms […]

New Platform for Interreligious Dialogue

ICCS news: Are you interested in learning or networking in the field of interreligious and interconvictional dialogue? Then, this platform is for you. Developed by the committee of the same name of the Conference of NGOs in the Council of Europe, the platform invites people in governments, institutions and organisations to find out more about positive developments […]

General Assembly of the IV in Nuremberg

IV news: This year’s General Meeting of the International Association for Christian Education (IV) will take place from 28 to 30 November 2025 in Nuremberg, Germany. It will be hosted by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Evangelischer Schulbünde in Deutschland (AGES), whose chairman, Mark Meinhard, runs the Protestant Wilhelm-Löhe-Schule in Nuremberg. This school is also the venue for the conference. In addition to the statutory tasks of the General Assembly, there will be […]