Prof.dr. Raimonda Brunevičiūtė “Developing an EERA Network Identity – NW 20 through the years”

My first experience with EERA and ECER was also my first experience with NW 20 Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environment. Back in 2004, NW 20, still in its third year of operation, stood out from other networks with clearly defined research boundaries, and therefore I immediately felt an affinity to it. Today, I would like to reflect on my 20 years of experience as its member and co-convenor.
NW 20 has never limited itself to only one area of education. From the intial two thematic presentation clusters in 2002/3, we have grown to cover over 15, most of them permanent. NW 20 may have appeared to have no face of its own, but the network’s founders, link convenors John Willumsen, Pavla Polechova, and Manfred Bayer, and later co-convenors Tony Cotton and Maria-Angels Subirats de Bayego, were particularly supportive, encouraging, and committed to conveying to younger co-convenors the network’s innovative and intercultural approach. This was the network’s face – dynamic, constantly renewing, accepting, accumulating, and developing new ideas. Openness strengthened the network’s identity and helped to sustain the network and to compete with the great topic diversity of newly emerging networks.

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