Author: Monica Kerme

Two paid volunteering positions at QUEST Belgium

In the framework of European Solidarity Corps, we are looking for two paid volunteers to join our team in Brussels starting mid February. These should be two persons from 18 to 30 years old, high motivated to work in our multicultural and active team and to move to Belgium! The two positions are “events assistant” […]

EUDEC`s Team Meeting in Berlin

Eudec team

EUDEC’s team held a meeting in December in Berlin, Germany. From left: Martina Paone, Gabriel Groiss, Silvia McClanahan, Monika Kerme, Ishaan Pandley, Charlie Moreno-Romero, Paola Boccia, Paula Urban and Mike Weimann While most of EUDEC’s work is done remotely, with team members spread across the world, this time we had the chance to meet in […]

Ateliertisa / Facilitator @ Escuela Democratica Tamilla (SP)

The post starts in Feb 2025. About us. Tamilla (formerly known as Banana Mountain) is a bi-lingual land-based democratic learning community for unschooled young people aged 6 – 18, located in Las Alpujarras, Andalusia, Spain. Since 2019 we have been enacting a conception of learning environment as a co-created ecosystem, neither child-led nor adult controlled, […]

Participation Forum, organised by SALTO Participation & Information in Tallinn

Participation Forum

On 27–28 November 2024, around 150 stakeholders from the Youth, Education, and Training sectors across 26 EU countries gathered in Tallinn, Estonia for the Participation Forum, organized by SALTO Participation & Information. Martina Paone was representing EUDEC and had 3 days full on interesting and inspiring meetings, workshops and networking. EUDEC`s Counsil Member and co-founder […]

IDEC@EUDEC 2025 in Belgium

Next EUDEC 2025 conference is held in Belgium! From 1st to 7th of August in De Kluis, Sint-Joris-Weert, Belgium. And this year we are having IDEC and EUDEC together in one conference. The Belgium team is working hard with planning and organizing, so we are expecting some really exiting speakers and interesting topics! Do you […]

Freie Schule Leipzig (DE), Hort- und Verwaltungsmitglied

Hortleitung im kollektiv geführten Hort Du suchst keinen 0815-Bürojob und möchtest mit viel Eigeninitiative in einem solidarischen Miteinander mitwirken? Dann komm zu uns ins Hort- und Schul-Verwaltungs-Team einer selbstverwalteten, freien demokratischen Grund- und Oberschule inklusive Hort (72 Hortkinder), in der Schüler innen von Klasse 1 bis 10 gemeinsam lernen und leben. Wir haben keine klassische […]

Bamble (UK), Internship

Are you looking for a gap year opportunity in democratic education? Maybe you want to test whether or not facilitating at an SDE setting is the thing you want to do? Perhaps you’ve just finished conventional teacher training and felt like something really significant was missing, and you want to immerse yourself in a more […]

EUDEC Conference 2024 – the Netherlands – 29th July to 4th August 2024

The next EUDEC Conference will take place in the Netherlands from 29th July to 4th August 2024. It will gather hundreds of participants from all over the world (teachers, parents, children…) to have fun and talk about democratic education… More details on this page

EUDEC supports IDEC 2023 resolution

The 30th International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC) 2023 in Nepal has called on the United Nations’ Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to clarify that “compulsory education” means a guarantee of universal access to education and does not mean forcing a child to attend school. EUDEC supports the resolution and joins the call […]

Call for papers – Self-Directed Educational contexts

There is a call for papers to create a special issue about Self-Directed Educational Contexts for the journal ‘On the Horizon’ by Emerald. Please visit this Emerald link.