Publication alert! The main findings of the empirical study about what Covid-19 has revealed to RE specialists across Europe are published as an open access article at the Journal of Religious Education. The study was led by five researchers from the ICCS and EFTRE networks: Tania ap Siôn (Wales), Sandra Cullen (Ireland), Sonja Danner (Austria), Bianca […]
The Intereuropean Commission on Church and School (ICCS) is a European network, created in 1958 as a result of the initiative of individual representatives of various European churches. The aim was to provide a framework for cooperation in monitoring and developing the place of Religious Education in European schools.
In the beginning it was no more than a conference organising committee, that organised a conference every three years. But the range of activities has broadened substantially over the last two decades.
ICCS is now active in the field of church and school and focuses on topics such as religious education, multicultural and multi-religious learning, norms and values education, ecumenical learning, education in Europe and the position of religion in the European education policy.
Together with its partner, the IV, ICCS has published the latest issue of its joint newsletter.This time you can read more about this year’s IV General Assembly in Cieszyn, where the idea was born to collect concepts for combating anti-Semitism, and about the Bavarian-Hungarian kindergarten meeting in Passau. In addition, GPENreformation and the Presbyterian Church […]
The European Wergeland Center (EWC) marks its 15th anniversary in November 2023 by running several seminars to share insights from their work from November until March 2024. The Center was established in Oslo by the Council of Europe and Norway in 2008. EWC is a resource centre on education for intercultural understanding, human rights and democratic citizenship. It […]
Als Gastdelegierter von ICCS nahm Dr. Werner Haußmann an der Zusammenkunft des „European Christian Environmental Network“ (ECEN) vom 31.08-03.09.23 in Roskilde (Dänemark) teil und konnte sich dabei auch mit einem Grußwort an die etwa 80 Delegierten wenden, in dem er…
The international and interreligious conference – conducted by the Research Unit for Public Religion and Education (RUPRE) of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) – in cooperation with Religions for Peace (RfP) is scheduled as a three-day event from 30 September…
The Conference of European Churches (CEC) has elected new leaders during its General Assembly 2023 in Tallinn, Estonia: H.E. Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain of the Ecumenical Patriarchate has been elected as president, and Rt Rev. Dr Dagmar…
The Conference of INGOs (CINGO) held its annual spring session in hybrid format on 24-26 April 2023. An exchange of views with Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić and the adoption of the INGO Conference Recommendation to the Council of Europe…
In 1992 the first School-church service group formed in Denmark. The intention was to build a service for schools which was equivalent to the one offered to schools in most Danish museums, Zoos and other culture institutions where guided tours…