IEA INSIDER 2024
Enrollment and Outreach for ICCS 2027—Building Research Collaborations
BY RALPH CARSTENS & LAUREN MUSU
ICCS 2022 recently wrapped up, marking a significant milestone in the field of civic and citizenship education and providing a wealth of publicly available, open resources including the framework, international and European reports, the open- access international database and respective user guide, and a technical report. Numerous national reports, Compass Briefs , Teacher Snippets , journal articles, and other publications are either readily available or will be released in the coming months and years.
The conclusion of ICCS 2022 heralds the beginning of the next cycle in 2027. The ICCS 2027 ISC at the University of Bath and IEA invited existing participants and all of its members to participate in the new cycle. Among the first to confirm were Chinese Taipei, Chile, and Spain. Key insights from ICCS 2022 and strategic directions for its future were discussed at the final NRC meeting in Amsterdam in June 2023. In February, the first meeting of ICCS 2027 NRCs and representatives from confirmed and interested countries was held in Hamburg. The meeting aimed to present conceptual plans and operational approaches and to hold in-depth discussions about the study’s direction and priorities in the context of rapidly changing national, regional, and global contexts (see page 19 for further details on the outcomes of this meeting).
Europe, the study has been generously supported by the European Commission’s Education, Audiovisual, and Culture Executive Agency, which provides significant funding to enable Erasmus+ countries to participate. Education for democratic citizenship plays a crucial role in the European Education Area strategic framework and discussions on an EU-level indicator based on ICCS’s civic knowledge test are ongoing. At the time of writing, 19 eligible countries have confirmed their intent to join ICCS 2027 and additional ones are expected pending final decisions from ministry officials. “There is still an open opportunity for countries to enroll in this unique study and to join us in shaping the future of civics and citizenship education.”
IEA’s commitment to international research collaboration and comparative debate is exemplified through ICCS. In
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