The beginning of EUDEC, 2006-2009
2006
July/August: Meetings in Lodz, Poland, and at Sands School in England to discuss the need for networking in the field of democratic education in Europe
October:The Freie Schule Leipzig offers to host and organise the European Democratic Education Conference, EUDEC 2008, in cooperation with the University of Leipzig and the Sudbury Schule Halle-Leipzig
2007
March: First European planning meeting for EUDEC 2008 held in Leipzig, Germany.
July: Seven schools involved in the conference planning receive Comenius grant for a multi-lateral partnership.
October: Second European planning meeting; election of interim council for new European network.
November: First regional conference on democratic education hosted by the Pedagogy Academy in Lodz, Poland.
December: Third European planning meeting in Vienna; meeting of Comenius partner schools.
2008
February: The European Democratic Education Community is founded at the fourth European planning meeting in Leipzig; election of first council. The Phoenix Education Trust (UK) takes the young organisation under its wing, offering start-up funds, organisational support and non-profit status.
March: EUDEC receives recognition as an official project of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.
July/August: The Community's first conference, EUDEC 2008, attracts more than 400 participants from 25 countries to 10 days of workshops and seminars in Leipzig, Germany.
2009
March: EUDEC is registered as an independent non-profit organisation with headquarters in Leipzig, Germany.
Annual General Meetings:
- Cieszyn, Poland, 2009
- Roskilde, Denmark, 2010
- IDEC-EUDEC 2011 in River Dart Country Park, UK
- EUDEC 2012 in Freiburg, Germany
- EUDEC 2013 in Soest, Netherlands
- EUDEC 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark
- EUDEC 2015 in Ojrzanów/Warsaw, Poland
- IDEC@EUDEC 2016 in Mikkeli, Finland
Read more about the aims here.