Programme
Scientific Programme
THANK YOU, all of you, who participated and made the congress so fantastic. We are working on all the presentations and how to make them accessible. In the meantime, you can read the Opening Address and the Report to the OMEP Congress and to the ESD Project Seminar about the OMEP ESD Child interview project.
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Click here >> to find the Book of Abstracts
Please, click here >> to find the Amendments and Cancellations in the Programme
Monday, August 9 – Tuesday, August 10
Annual meetings for delegates representing the National Committees of OMEP
Tuesday, August 10
PEDAGOGEN - the three buildings
1.00 pm – 7.00 pm Registration is open at PEDAGOGEN
Local OMEP members will welcome you at the registration desk. There will be an informal social reception between 4 pm and 7
pm, and you will have the possibility to ask questions and to get
directions for restaurants etc.
Posters can be put up at PEDAGOGEN
Exhibitions can be put up at PEDAGOGEN
4.00 pm- 7.00 pm Time available for regional/national meetings for OMEP members,
There are classrooms at PEDAGOGEN
To book a room, please send an e-mail to
A limited number of tickets for free visits to some museums are available at the Registration desk when you register.
Welcome to the museum of world culture, a museum for global contemporary issues.
We want to take all ages seriously. That’s why we have opened the exhibition “Earthlings” an intergalactic space museum for our smallest visitors. There we can discuss how we live today and in the future.
We invite you (50 persons) to a guided tour of the museum and a dialogue about how to talk big issues with small earthlings.
Welcome to Universeum science discovery center
We take an holistic approach to science and techmology. Our vision is to create experiences that increase young people´s desire to enhance their knowledge and to become actively involved with the natural sciences and technology
We invite you (30 persons) to a presentation of the science center.
Ekocentrum - an independent foundation
Ekocentrum is a non-governmental organisation, NGO, with its roots in the Swedish environmental movement. Founded in 1993, Ekocentrum has made a journey from the suburbs of Göteborg into the centre of town, at the Chalmers Technical University area.Permanent exhibition of good examples
Rather than focussing on the problems related to climate, pollution etc, the exhibition shows solutions and good examples on how to change the development! There are theme rooms featuring energy, transports and logistics, buildings, waste & recycling, water, personal care, consumtion etc. From clean-tech to waste renewal.
Wednesday, August 11
Poseidon - outside KONSERTHUSET
7.30 - 8.45 am Registration is open at PEDAGOGEN
9.00 am sharp Opening ceremony at the CONCERT HALL
Child Participation Outdoors in the Swedish Preschool
Ingrid Engdahl, President OMEP Sweden Children from Brunnsboskolan Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson, OMEP World President Mikael Alexandersson, Dean, University of Gothenburg Inger Maurin, Vice President, Swedish Teachers’ Union Görel Thurdin, President UNESCO Sweden
10.00 am Children - citizens in a challenged world
Jan Eliasson
Former President of the United Nations General Assembly and
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden
11.00 am - Registration and information center is open at PEDAGOGEN
11.00 am – 1.00 pm Walking through the city to PEDAGOGEN
Lunch at PEDAGOGEN
1.00 pm – 2.30 pm Parallel sessions 1 at PEDAGOGEN
Coffee/tea break
3.00 pm – 4.30 pm Parallel sessions 2 at PEDAGOGEN
4.30 pm – 5.00 pm Poster presentations
6.00 pm Cultural programme at the CONCERT HALL
The Role of Early Childhood Education for a Sustainable
Society
Professor Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson, University of Gothenburg,
World President of OMEP
7.00 pm Buffet at the CONCERT HALL
Offered by the City of Göteborg and the Region of Västra Götaland
Thursday, August 12
8.15 am Meeting time for Study visits, we travel in groups together
More information about the study visits >>
9.00 am - Study visits including time for discussions and lunch
Return to the city centre
2.00 pm Cultural Programme at the CONCERT HALL
Open listening: creative evolution in early childhood settings
Professor Bronwyn Davies, University of Western Sydney and
Professorial Fellow, Melbourne University
3.00 pm Walk to PEDAGOGEN, Coffe/tea
4.00 pm – 5.30 pm Parallel sessions 3 at PEDAGOGEN
5.00 pm – 6.00 pm Poster presentations
7.30 pm - Congress dinner at Kajskjul 8
Packhusplatsen 11, Göteborg
Friday, August 13
9.00 am Cultural programme at the CONCERT HALL
Children, diversity and sociocultural change in Southern
Europe
Dr. Silvia Carrasco Pons, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
10.00 am Walk to PEDAGOGEN, Coffe/tea
10.45 am – 12.15 am Parallel sessions 4 at PEDAGOGEN
12.15 am – 1.30 pm Lunch at PEDAGOGEN
1.30 pm – 3.00 pm Parallel sessions 5 at PEDAGOGEN
3.00 pm Coffee/tea, walk to the CONCERT HALL
4.00 pm Cultural programme at the CONCERT HALL
Preschool in 5 cultures: welcoming migrant children
Professor Sylvie Rayna, Université Paris XIII
5.00 pm - Closing ceremony