International Democratic Education Conference

IDEC@EUDEC 2025 Belgium

August 1 to 7, 2025

De Kluis, Sint-Joris-Weert, Belgium

Program

At the IDEC@EUDEC 2025 conference, there will be a pre-planned program featuring keynote speakers. In addition to this, we will have a significant amount of open space within the program where conference attendees, both adults and children, can organize spontaneous activities. These activities may include workshops, games, lectures, or any other creative formats.

Speakers

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Wishes regarding the program

When you register for the conference, you will have the opportunity to share your preferences for the conference program.

This includes:

  • Suggesting a topic you are interested in and would like to see featured in a lecture, workshop, or similar session.
  • Proposing to give a lecture, workshop, … on a topic of your choice.

Open space

The open space allows conference attendees to organize activities of their choice, which can range from serious discussions and workshops to fun games, such as hide and seek. If someone wishes to participate in an activity, they can give their consent to join.

The Principles of open space remind us how to think about uncertainty and surprises:

  • Whoever comes is the right people
  • Whenever it starts is the right time
  • (Wherever it happens is the right place)
  • Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened
  • When it’s over it’s over

In open space, the “Law of the 2 feets” says that “You, and only you, know when you are learning and contributing as much as you can.” It reminds us that “If you find yourself in a situation where you are neither learning or contributing, use your two feet, and/or whatever you use to get around, to go somewhere you can learn and contribute more.”