Conference Programme



Venue: DSW University of Lower Silesia, Wagonowa 1 Street, Wrocław, Poland

Conference Timetable (schedule in Polish local time, UTC +1)

Thursday 12th June 2025

11:30 - 12:00
Registration & Welcome Coffee | room 11
Welcome by Conveners of BGL: Adult Learning and Communities ESREA Network

12:00 - 13:00
Plenary Session | room 20
Introduction by Ewa Kurantowicz

Key-Speech  Professor Ewa Bińczyk
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
How to Educate on Constructive Imagination in the Anthropocene?

13:00 - 14:00
Lunch | Wagonowa Bistro

14:00 - 14:45
Poster Session | room 11

Joachim Bröcher
Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany
Transformative Community Projects in Rural Areas

Alexander Kolling, Marie Rathmann
Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, Germany
Adult Education and High-Performance Computing

Nele Rathke
Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences and Free University Berlin, Germany
Outreaching Political Adult Education

Ewa Kurantowicz, Paweł Rudnicki
DSW University of Lower Silesia, Poland
Critical Sustainable Development Learning

14:45 - 16:30
Session 1 | room 20
Moderator: Rob Evans

Amanda São Vicente, Liliana Paulos, Carla Vilhena, António Fragoso
CEAD, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Education for Sustainable Development
Discussant: Joachim Bröcher

Sylwester Zagulski
University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland
Community Education and Civic Engagement
Discussant: Nele Rathke

Nicoletta Tomei, Gianluca Amatori
Università Europea di Roma, Italy
Sustainable Development in Micro-insular Contexts
Discussant: Eleni Papaioannou

16:30 - 17:00
Coffee Break | room 11

17:00 - 19:00
Session 2 | room 20
Moderator: Adrianna Nizińska

Anke Grotlüschen, Karola Cafantaris, Klaus Buddeberg
University of Hamburg, Germany
Critical Thinking of Adult Education Staff
Discussant: Alicja Szostkiewicz

Clotilde Lechuga-Jiménez, Juan-Carlos Tójar-Hurtado, Leticia-Concepción Velasco-Martínez, Juan-Jesús Martín-Jaime
University of Malaga, Spain
Development of Transversal Competencies in HE
Discussant: Robert Opora

Alan Bainbridge
Queen Margaret University, UK
Wilding Higher Education
Discussant: Rob Evans


19:00 - 21:00
Welcome Reception

Friday 13th June 2025

9:00 - 11:00
Session 3 | room 20
Moderator: Paweł Rudnicki

Rob Evans
formerly OVGU Magdeburg, Germany
Reflections on Sustainability in Lives and Work
Discussant: Tomasz Zarębski

Eleni Papaioannou
Open University of Cyprus
Women’s Educational Trajectories
Discussant: Cindy Hanson

Tomasz Zarębski, Karolina Reinhard
DSW University of Lower Silesia, Poland
Rortyan Anti-anti Ethnocentrism
Discussant: Katja Lihtenvalner

11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break | room 11

11:30 - 14:00
Session 4 | room 20
Moderator: Antonio Fragoso

Katja Lihtenvalner
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Radical Education and Critical Consciousness
Discussant: Sylwester Zagulski

Cindy Hanson
University of Regina, Canada
Autoethnographic Journey Toward Sustainable Futures
Discussant: Alan Bainbridge

Margaret Nugent
Maynooth University, Ireland
Development Education's Role in the Food Industry
Discussant: Nicoletta Tomei

Katarzyna Gawlicz
DSW University of Lower Silesia, Poland
Teaching about Climate and Environmental Crisis
Discussant: Anke Grotlüschen

14:00
Lunch | Wagonowa Bistro


18:30-22:00

Saturday 14th June 2025

9:00 - 11:00
Session 6 | room 20
Moderator: Ewa Kurantowicz

Katarzyna Smulska, Alicja Szostkiewicz
WSB Merito University Torun, Poland
Sustainability in Informal Adult Learning
Discussant: Vít Dočekal
 
Dimitrios Papadopoulos
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Adrianna Nizińska
University of Wroclaw, Poland
Swedish Local Actors in Education for Sustainable Development
Discussant: Margaret Nugent

Vít Dočekal, Miroslav Dopita
Palacký University Olomouc Czechia
Jana Ter-Akopow Čemusová
University of New York in Prague, Czechia
Barbara Kappler, Christopher J. Johnstone
University of Minnesota, US
Professional Learning through Collaborative Communities
Discussant: Katarzyna Smulska

11:00 - 12:00
Closing Session and Next Steps | room 20
Moderators: Rob Evans & Ewa Kurantowicz

12:00
Lunch & Coffee | room 11