ecer

Ecer, in common reference, most often denotes the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), an annual scholarly event organized by the European Educational Research Association (EERA). ECER brings together researchers, teachers, policy makers, and practitioners from across Europe and beyond to share research on education. The conference is held in different European cities each year and features a program of plenary lectures, themed networks, parallel sessions, workshops, symposia, and poster presentations. Topics span a broad range of educational issues, including policy analysis, pedagogy, inclusion and equity, learning technologies, curriculum development, teacher education, and lifelong learning.

The ECER program is designed to foster discussion and collaboration among researchers at various career stages. Attendees typically select from multiple strands or networks aligned with specific disciplinary or thematic interests, while keynote speakers highlight developments and challenges in the field. The conference also serves as a platform for early-career researchers to present work and build professional networks. In addition to the live program, ECER often produces conference proceedings or linked publications that disseminate the presented research more broadly, contributing to debates in educational theory and practice.

Beyond ECER, the sequence of letters “ecer” can appear in other contexts as an acronym or as a word in different languages. It is not tied to a single universally recognized entity outside the European Educational Research Association’s conference usage, so encounters in other domains typically require local disambiguation.