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Belgium
VLUHR is the umbrella organisation for the Flemish Council of University Colleges (VLHORA) and the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR). Unfortunately, like VLHORA and VLIR, VLUHR does not have an English site. The site provides information in Flemish about internationalisation, quality management, and projects that go with it. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

international
G3ict develops policies, standards and technical resources for inclusive ICTs together with United Nations agencies. It engages in institutional advocacy, provides training and certification and organises an annual summit. You will find a lot of information on these tasks on their website. Furthermore, you will find an Open Access publications' section (among others, G3ict [...]

France
This French Wikipedia article provides an overview of the history of teachers' unions in France as well as of current developments and existing unions in the field of education. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

France
Besides UNSA Education and FSU, FNEC-FP FO is one of the biggest federations of teachers' unions in France. The website mainly provides news from the respective unions of FNEC-FP as well as general union news. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Netherlands
Formerly known as "Vereniging van Samenwerkende Nederlandse Universiteiten", the VSNU officially represents the fourteen Dutch research Universities. The association's website provides information on its focus areas, among others: human resources, research, education, finance, governance & accountability, international affairs, communication & public affairs. Furthermore, [...]

Belgium
The website of the Flemish student organisation VVS doesn't have an English website. You can find English information on the website of the European Students' Union (ESU). The VVS was founded in 1938. On its Flemish website, you can find information on its goals and activities, on its position concerning specific educational matters, on events and more. [Abstract: Editors [...]

Netherlands
The Dutch student union ISO was founded in 1993 as an umbrella organisation for 5 local university students councils. Since 1995, ISO also represents students of universities of applied sciences. As of today, ISO represents 35 organizations (december 2013). On its English website, ISO provides information on its vision and mission, on international collaborations (e.g., ISO is [...]

Netherlands
The website of the student organisation LSVb doesn't have an English website. You can find English information on the website of the European Students' Union (ESU). The LSVb was founded in 1963 as a successor to the "Nederland de Studentenvakbeweging" (SVB) founded in 1963. The LSVb claims to be the "official representative of all Dutch students towards the ministry and [...]

Netherlands
The Education Cooperative unites several educational workers unions: * Algemene Onderwijsbond (AOb) (with a short English description on their website) * Beter Onderwijs Nederland (BON) * CNV Onderwijs (with a short English description on their website) * Federatie van Onderwijsvakorganisaties (FvOv) * Platform Vakinhoudelijke Verenigingen Voortgezet Onderwijs (Platform [...]

Netherlands
The Netherlands Educational Research Association VOR provides English information on its organisation, on the eleven thematical sections of VOR (including a PhD group) as well as on the annual Educational Research Days (Onderwijsresearchdagen) that VOR organises jointly with the Flemish Educational Research Forum (VFO). The Dutch version of the website provides more detailed [...]

Netherlands
Unfortunately, the Dutch Association for Teacher Educators (VELON) no longer provides the short English description of the association that it used to have on its website. You can only look it up in the Internet Archive (as of 2018). In Dutch, you can find manifold information about the profession, its norms and rules, official documents concerning the profession, an online [...]

Belgium
The Flemish Council of University Colleges VLHORA "is the umbrella organization of the Flemish University Colleges which defends and promotes the mutual interests of the university colleges." Unfortunately, VLHORA has no English site any more. You can find a copy of the old English site as of 2017 in the Internet Archive. It provided a short overview of VLHORA's history and [...]

Belgium
"The ‘Vlaamse Interuniversitaire Raad’ or VLIR was established in 1976. VLIR represents the Flemish universities, serves as a platform to facilitate cooperation between the Flemish universities, and interacts with the Flemish government in all matters concerning higher education policy. Topics such as education and research policy, university management and administration [...]

Belgium
Flemish Educational Research Forum (VFO) unfortunately doesn't have an English website. VFO is a member of the European Educational Research Association (EERA). Together with the Association for Educational Research of the Netherlands (VOR), it organizes the annual conference for educational research (Onderwijsresearchdagen). VOR's website mainly informs about this [...]

Belgium
Unfortunately, the website of the Flemish Association for Teacher Educators (VELOV) is only available in Dutch. The website informs about VELOV and provides teaching material, information on professionalisation initiatives, working groups for different topics, as well as a newsletter and information on the annual VELOV congress. Every three years, this congress is organised [...]

Argentina
The Argentinian National Association of Faculties in Humanities and Educational Sciences ANFHE is composed of 42 institutional members from 31 national universities. It was founded in 2004 with the aim of fostering academic cooperation in the Humanities and Educational Sciences. The ANFHE website provides information on expert commissions, on their annual conference, on [...]

Argentina
CONADU is the umbrella organisation for all associations of university lecturers at public universities in Argentina. One of their main aims is the support of lecturers' rights. Among others, CONADU runs an "Institute for Studies and Skill Enhancement" - IEC (Instituto de Estudios y Capacitación). IEC does research on work / working conditions etc at university and provides [...]

South-East Asia; Cambodia; Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Philippines; Singapore; Thailand; Vietnam; Brunei Darussalam
Published in 2012, the ASEAN Curriculum Sourcebook (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) is based on a survey conducted 2008-2010 on the curricula of the ASEAN member states. It is meant to bring closer the educational goals of ASEAN states and provides concrete suggestions for elements of a common curriculum which proclaims the values and norms of the ASEAN community. The [...]

Indonesia
Website of the National Teachers' Association of Indonesia. The website provides ample information on the association's aims and activities. Unfortunately, the information is in Indonesian only (English information is outdated). You can find English information on the country specific news sites of the umbrella organisation "Educational International" (see for the right hand [...]

Finland; Kenya
Website of an Association for Swedish-speaking persons with intellectual disability in Finland. The English and Finnisch version only give a short overview over the work of the association. The Swedish version provides information on news, projects, events, ressources, links and more. The association furthermore has a project in Kenya with people with intellectual disabilities [...]

Finland
The English website of this Finnish Association for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities provides a short overview ovr its activities as well as over two of their special programmes. The Finnish website provides information on legal advice, family and work, courses and training, media, events and more. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

North America; Mexico; Guatemala; Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama; Central America
The website Disabled World is an information site on disability that draws its information from websites all over the world. The sub-site on Central America provides short paragraphs about the situation of people with disabilities in the respective Central American countries. Furthermore, you will find links to online publications and other news from the region. [Abstract: [...]

North America; Mexico; Guatemala; Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama; Central America
[Our link leads to an archived site as of 06.02.2015 as the organisation's new website doesn't provide info sorted regionally any more but sorted by subject. For current information please visit the original website] Disability Rights International aims at promoting the rights of people with disabilities internationally. Its sub-site on the Regional Office for Mexico and [...]

Canada
Inclusive Education Canada provides information on inclusive education not only in Canada but worldwide. You will find publications, videos, information about projects and other things. The website furthermore provides a list of partner organisations working in the same field. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

West Africa; Mali; Togo; Burkina Faso; Niger; Sierre Leone; Senegal; Benin; Liberia
The portal PROADIPH ist run by currently 8 West African national organisations for people with disabilities. The portal provides very ample information and documentation (fulltexts) on legislation, research reports, projects, conferences, bibliographies, and much more in the respective countries. You will find written documents as well as audio and video material. [Abstract: [...]

Africa
Inclusion Africa is the regional member of Inclusion International. The NGO was establisehd in 2012 with headquarters in Kenya. It advocates for the inclusion and the rights of persons with disabilities in Africa. The website provides some background information on the aims and the activities of Inclusion Africa, as well as links to conferences, news and others. "Inclusion [...]

Africa; Southern Africa
[Caution: As the original website is momentarily not accessible we link to a copy from the web archive as of March 2022 instead]. The Africa Disability Alliance (ADA), formerly Secretariat of the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities (SADPD) until April 2014, is a pan-african agency that works to promote disability programming and policy implementation processes by [...]

Palestinian Territories
As the Palestinian General Union of People With Disability doesn't seem to have a website of its own, we link you to (contact) information about the Union on another website. You will find information about the mission and activities from 2010 to 2012, as well as an information brochure for download in pdf format. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Finland
SOOL is "a national umbrella organization of all teacher students in Finland". The English summary of the website provides information on goals and activities of SOOL, as well as basic information on Finnish teacher education and the education system. Furthermore, you will find a pdf document in English on "Goals for teacher education 2013-2016". [Abstract: Editors of [...]

Finland; Sweden; Denmark; Norway; Estonia; Lithuania; Latvia; Iceland
SYL as founded in 1921 and is the National Union of University Students in Finland. The website provides information on goals and activities of SYL, including development cooperation, educational and social politics. SYL also publishes a newsletter ("Trending"), and participates in NOM, a regional organisation bringing together the student organisations of Nordic and Baltic [...]

Finland
In contrast to FUURT (Finnish Union of University Researchers and Teachers), YLL "is a trade union for all teaching staff at the non-professorial level, whether tenured or untenured." The English summary of the website provides information on tasks and activities of YLL. YLL is part of the OAJ - Trade Union of Education in Finland. Together with FUURT and the "Finnish Union [...]

Finland
The website of the Finnish Union of University Professors provides information on its goals and its work, on the profession of a professor (public image of the professor, Legislation, Ethical guidelines, Professor of the Year Directory of Professors - acessible only to members, History of the Development of Professorship in Finland), on working conditions and on union [...]

Finland
The OAJ has more than 120,000 members, ranging from teachers in early childhood education to lecturers in universities. The website provides information about the work of OAJ, the Finnish education system, teacher education, ethical principles of the profession and more. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Finland
"The Finnish Society for the History of Education is a science association that was founded in 1935. The society promotes historical research concerning education and training and supports interests in such in Finland. The society publishes the peer-reviewed journal, Kasvatus & Aika (Education & Time), which is published quarterly [under "Julkaisut" in the Finnish version [...]

Finland
Unfortunately, the Finnish Society for Social Pedagogy doesn't have an English website. On its Finnish website, it informs about the society's activity, like organising conferences and seminars, supporting a youth network, awarding a prize for PhD theses. The site also provides information on sociopedagogical studies and research in Finland.[Abstract: Editors of Education [...]

Finland
The Finnish Educational Research Association is in charge of organising the annual conference of Finnish researchers in education, of the association's publications and of the special interest groups inside the association. The website hence provides information on conferences, the subjects of the special interest groups as well as English abstracts of the articles in the [...]

Finland
FUURT ist the Finnish Union for University Researchers and Teachers, also including "library personnel and other academic experts". The website provides ample information on the FUURT's activities, as well as on everything you need to know when working at a Finnish university. The union also has a special group for international researchers working in Finland. Together with [...]

Finland
This page provides a list of Finnish (university) institutes and centres that are related to evaluation in education, but also to teaching and educational research. Amongst others, it lists faculties and school of education of important Finnish universities, as well as professional associations, lobby organisations, unions and others. The list is provided by the Finnish [...]

Palestinian Territories
As for the moment the General Union of Palestinian Teachers - GUPT has no website of its own, we link you to the news pages for Palestine provided by Education International, an international network of trade unions in the field of educationYou can find more information, e.g. on the history, cooperations (as of 2014) and naming / renaming of the GUPT (founded in 1990) on the [...]

international
DPI was established in 1981 and according to their own statement, it "continues to be the world's ONLY cross-disability Global Disabled People's Organization (DPO)". DPI's focus is on Youth, Women, Post 2015 Development Agenda, Neglected Regions, Universal Periodic Review, World Bank Safeguards. You will find a lot of reports, information on projects, official documents and [...]

Austria; international
The Austrian Association of Research and Development in Education (ÖFEB) was founded in 2000 and is divided into 7 sections reflecting the different fields of educational research it is focussed on: >> VET and adult education >> elementary pedagogy >> empirical research in education >> (research in) teacher education >> media pedagogy >> research [...]

France; international
A list of associations that work in the field of education and are officially accredited and sometimes subsidised by the French Ministry of Education. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

France
The CNVL is a body of elected representatives of secondary pupils. The council has an advisory function for the Education Ministry in matters of school work and of the financial, social, cultural and sportive life in the lycées. Unfortunately, the website doesn't seem to be up to date any more, the last information being the one on the autumn meeting in 2013. [Abstract: [...]

France
The FSU was created in 1993. Besides UNSA Education and FNEC-FP FO, it is one of the biggest federations of teachers' unions in France. The website provides information on the FSU's organisation, its education policy goals and programmes for the next years, and the general union policies including current developments and news. Moreover, FSU also has several regular [...]

France
The FCPE, a Federation of parents` organisations in France, was founded in 1947. According to their own statement, FCPE is the "most representative parents` council" of France because the majority of persons in the parents' participation bodies of the French school system are members of the FCPE. The homepage gives access to statements of the FCPE concerning current school [...]

France
UNSA Education, known as Fédération de l`Education nationale (FEN) from 1930 to 2000, is the federation of more than 20 teacher unions which represent teachers and other education staff. Besides FSU Enseignement and FNEC-FP FO, it is one of the biggest federations of teachers' unions in France. The website provides information on UNSA's organisation, its education policy [...]