ICSEI

The IMTEC foundation is an active member of ICSEI and a former member of the board.
ICSEI is an unique organization, that bring together policy makers, practitioners and researchers around the world to develop knowledge, policies, and practices focused on improving the quality and equity of education. Discussion and debate are crucial in improving education around the world. We need to critically engage with new and innovative ideas, if we want to make our educational organizations more effective.

Improving the quality and equity of education also means that networking is important. ICSEI is the home of several active networks: Early Childhood Education, Educational Leadership, Data Use, 3P (policy makers, politicians, and practitioners), MoREI (Methods of Research in Effectiveness and Improvement), and the Professional Learning Network (PLN). These networks meet at the annual congresses, but they are also active in between congresses. For example, members publish books and papers together and the networks send out newsletters, organize twitter chats and deliver online sessions. Important resources, such as knowledge on how to make educational organizations more effective, travel through these networks and the relationships that people have formed throughout the congresses.

Making educational organizations places of high quality and equity also implies that evidence plays an important role. Therefore one of the purposes is also conducting and promoting research. At the annual congress, and also in between congresses, different ways of conducting research and different sources of evidence are discussed. Members discuss and debate innovative ideas, the latest research evidence, practitioner-based evidence, practices and strategies. How we can use all these different sources of evidence to improve education is one of the central questions.

ICSEI is also a global organization that would like to disseminate knowledge worldwide. There are a standing committee on communications and knowledge sharing, working on, for example, the website, newsletters, and other publications. Moreover, as a global organization ICSEI strive to organize the conference at a different continent every year, to give policymakers, practitioners and researchers from around the globe access to everything we have learned collectively. 
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