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.
Pre-planned program
Panel
Workshop
Talk
Other
Student Voices
Panel
Being a student in a democratic school
Students from democratic schools
Workshop
Youth participatory action research training
QUEST
Talk
Gotalk: inclusive children’s councils leading to democratic exchange
Team Gotalk
Karel de Grote Hogeschool
Talk
Children Parliament & Sociocracy – A Path to Empowering Young Voices
Gnanasekar Dhanapal
Inclusion & Diversity
Workshop
How education could be used to bring people together during conflict
Ibrahim Issa
Hope Flowers School Palestine
Talk
Democratic Education in Uganda
Olivia Nannono
Enhance Humanity Uganda
Workshop
A decolonial pedagogy?
How to decolonialise learning & teaching?
Charlie Moreno-Romero &
Silvia McClanahan
Workshop
Being (in)sensitive to discrimination
Gladys Schich
Democratic School Fleks Hamburg
Workshop
IDEC/EUDEC and the political dimension
Dorothea Schütze & Cloe
Online talk
ICS a year on: Sri Lanka’s first formal Democratic school
Yasodhara Pathanjali
Independent Collective School Sri Lanka
Talk
The dialogue starts before the dialogue starts: the neurobiology of dialogue from the polyvagal theory perspective
Nathalie Fradin
Workshop
The neurobiology of dialogue from the polyvagal theory perspective: from theory to practice
Nathalie Fradin
Talk
Human Rights Based Education in times of the Middle East Conflict
Walid Malik
Workshop
Human Rights Based Education in times of the Middle East Conflict
Walid Malik
Talk
Re-inventing Democracy
Nuwan Dissanayaka
Workshop
Decolonize your Mind
Griffin Toffler
Mainstreaming Democratic Education
Interactive talk
Societal transformation driven by deschooling: unconscious bias exercises
Liliana Carrillo
CollectiveUP
Workshop
Sociocracy
Dorianne De Groot & Ruud Van Middelaar
Democratic School
De Ruimte Soest
Talk
Science-based Education
Magi Blagoeva
Democratic School Sofia
Talk
Power dynamics and and the solutions in democratic education
Marie Pons
Orvita
Short presentation followed by an open discussion
Democratic Education in Early Ages: self awareness, respect and participation in safe spaces where fundamental social learning is happening in sensitive development windows
Gabriel Groiss
Workshop
The Pitfalls of Democratic Education
Margo Bruins
Workshop
How to implement democratic education in state schools
Julischka Fell
Talk & Workshop
The anti-learning culture
Ian Cunningham
Talk
Another way is possible: experiences of being a democratic teacher in state schools & The 20% project
Derry Hannam
Workshop
The Art of Learning
Luz Olid and David Caballero (Evolving Education)
Workshop
Human Learning
Luz Olid and David Caballero (Evolving Education)
Meeting
Evolving Education’s Community Reunion
Luz Olid and David Caballero (Evolving Education)
Workshop
Parenting as the Most Effective Way of Social-Emotional Learning
Abdulvahap Yorgun
Workshop
Mathematical Resilience (MR): Empowering students with math anxiety
Abdulvahap Yorgun
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.”