Even though traditional curricula approaches are limiting the potential of people’s learning, there are notable examples of teacher-led and school-led innovation, evolving technology-enabled pedagogy, and personal learning in every country around the world,.

The very nature of knowledge is changing, and pedagogies should evolve in order to take better advantage of the affordances that technology provides. Objectives and competencies, nature and weight of content, methodologies for teaching and learning, and assessment methods and techniques should be rethought to make educational systems better serve the interests and needs of the citizens.

Sometimes they even go ahead of research, thus marking new directions. We encourage you to showcase your innovative project or experiment in educational practice, even if it is still in process of development. This could be a good opportunity to make an informative and relevant case out of it, to share your results, successful practice, but also your doubts.

Accepted demos will have twenty minutes to demonstrate the case and then will be followed by twenty minutes of discussion with other speakers and participants.

We expect the presentations to be specific and practical rather than theoretical or analytical and address any level of education.

In particular, the seminar organizers are keen to receive proposals that

• are based on or supported by research (or not!)
• demonstrate an experimental or alternative approach to coursework, curriculum, assessment, etc. (see Suggested topics)
• are related to issues of social inclusion and development
• stimulate and provoke a good discussion

Format requirements for demo proposals

• a text document with an executive summary of the proposed presentation, including the essence of the innovation and reference to the main topics of the (max. 2 pages)
• any references or links to additional reading materials (at the end of the document)
• a short bio of the author(s).