Angel Congress on Global Education Research, Berlin, Germany
Members of the Ecigal research group, together with collaborating teams from the Universities of Cantabria and Asturias, presented a paper entitled “Youth Engagement with Global Challenges” at the congress organised by the Academic Network on Global Learning (ANGEL) at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin (4-6 June 2025). We shared the emerging results of our project […]
CIPIES Congress
The ECIGAL research group, together with the Colexio de Educadoras e Educadores Sociais de Galicia, the SEPA-interea Group of the USC, the ForInterMed Group of the UNED and the Faculty of Education and Social Work of the UVigo, are organising the 1st International, Professional and Interuniversity Congress of Social Education on the 8th and 9th […]
Postdoctoral stay opportunity with Ecigal
The UDC offers the opportunity for a postdoctoral stay in the field of Global Citizenship Education through the Horizon Europe – MSCA programme. Please send expressions of interest before the end of May for consideration. Click here for more details in English.
We welcome Carmen Vizoso
We finished March with the arrival of Visiting Professor Carmen Vizoso Gómez, from the Department of Theory and History of Education at the University of León, who will be with ECIGAL for two months. The stays of visiting professors are always very enriching for the group, as they share experiences, and open the door to […]
TOOLKIT: Promoting children’s participation at a local level
We are sharing this toolkit with you, aimed at professionals and key figures who support children and adolescents in decision-making processes. It was designed as part of an inter-university project that some of us were involved in, led by the University of Barcelona, in collaboration with the University of A Coruña, UNED and the University […]
New addition to the ECIGAL team
Welcome José Miguel Samaniego to the ECIGAL team José Miguel Samaniego, Researcher, Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Programme In their own words: I am an engineer by training from the National University of Loja, in southern Ecuador. For two years I was in Germany doing a Master’s in Science and Technology Studies at the Technical […]
Webinar “Youth Investigating Global Issues”
ECIGAL will participate in the Webinar Youth Investigating Global Issues Wednesday, 22 January, 2025 – 16:00 As part of the Science Nova Cidadã. Investigating to Face Global Challenges* project, we intend to open a debate with experts on the feasibility of directly involving young people in the design and research process of global citizenship. Moderated […]
Workshops on Participatory Action Research
We participate in Xornadas de Investigación Acción Participativa on the Mestizaje of knowledges for the construction of utopias organised by Hegoa at the University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU) on 28 and 29 November 2024. It was the first in a series of three – two further events are to be held in Colombia in […]
Launch of the GloboJoven project
The ECIGAL team is launching the Critical Global Citizenship project through collaborative research with young people (GloboJoven), funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. As a coordinated project, we are collaborating with teams from the University of Oviedo and the University of Cantabria. We have just held the first meeting of the three […]
Participation in the VI International Congress on Education, Environment and Development (VI CIEAD)
Boli and Renée participated in the VI International Congress on Education, Environment and Development (VI CIEAD), held in Leiria (Portugal) from 13 to 15 November 2024. We gave the following talks: Education for global citizenship as a European challenge: the case of Spain ECIGAL and the mapping of experiences of Global Citizenship Education Communicating the […]