ERNAPE - European Research Network About Parents in Education

2025 Verona – Programme

ERNAPE 2025 – University of Verona | Dept. Human Sciences – June 04-06, 2025

VENUE: Polo didattico Zanotto – Viale Università, 2, 37129 Verona VR

The book of abstracts will be available soon.

Final Programme

Wednesday 04 June 2025Thursday 05 June 2025Friday 06 June 2025
8:30 – 18:00
Registration open
Location: Polo Zanotto Hall (ground floor)
8:30 – 18:00
Registration open
Location: Polo Zanotto Hall (ground floor)
8:30 – 13:30
Registration open
Location: Polo Zanotto Hall (ground floor)
9:00 – 13:00         
Poster session
Location: Polo Zanotto Hall (ground floor)
09.00 – 10.30
Parallel session 1:
Session 1a. Room T.1 (Ground floor)
Session 1b. Room 1.1 (First floor)
Session 1c. Room 1.2 (First floor)
Session 1d. Room 1.3 (First floor)
Session 1e. Room 1.4 (First floor)
Session 1f. Room 1.5 (First floor)
Session 1g. Room 1.6 (First floor)
09.00 – 10.30
Parallel session 4
Session 4a. Room T.1 (Ground floor)
Session 4b. Room 1.1 (First floor)
Session 4c. Room 1.2 (First floor)
Session 4d. Room 1.3 (First floor)
Session 4e. Room 1.4 (First floor)
Session 4f. Room 1.5 (First floor)
10.30 – 11.00
Coffee break
Location: Polo Zanotto Hall (ground floor)
10.30 – 11.00
Coffee break
Location: Polo Zanotto Hall (ground floor)
11:00 – 12:30
ERNAPE Steering Committee Meeting
Location: Seminar Room 1 – Polo Zanotto “Palazzo Lettere” (ground floor)
11.00 – 12.00
Keynote 2: Prof. dr. Paola Milani, University of Padua
The relationship between families, teachers and social services: a good practice in preventing the impact of family vulnerability on children’s development

Location: Room T.2 – Polo Zanotto (ground floor)
11.00 – 12.00
Keynote 3: Prof. dr. Claire Hynes, University of East Anglia
Who the Cap Fits: Narratives of Writing, Legacy and Place

Location: Room T.2 – Polo Zanotto (ground floor)
14:00 – 14:30
Welcome and opening
Prof. dr. Valentina Moro, Head of the Department of Human Science, University of Verona
Prof. dr. Livia Cadei, President of the Italian Society of General and Social Pedagogy (S.I.P.e.G.e.S.), Catholic University of Milan
Elisa La Paglia, Town Councillor of the Municipality of Verona in the area of Education and school policies, Libraries, School building, Health and community services
Location: Room T2 – Polo Zanotto (ground floor)
12.00 – 13.30
Parallel sessions 2
Session 2a. Room T.1 (Ground floor)
Session 2b. Room 1.1 (First floor)
Session 2c. Room 1.2 (First floor)
Session 2d. Room 1.3 (First floor)
Session 2e. Room 1.4 (First floor)
Session 2f. Room 1.5 (First floor)
Session 2g. Room 1.6 (First floor)
12.00 – 13.30
Parallel sessions 5
Session 5a. Room T.1 (Ground floor)
Session 5b. Room 1.1 (First floor)
Session 5c. Room 1.2 (First floor)
Session 5d. Room 1.3 (First floor)
Session 5e. Room 1.4 (First floor)
Session 5f. Room 1.5 (First floor)
14:30 – 15:00
Music moment
Location: Room T2 – Polo Zanotto (ground floor)
13.30 – 14.30
Lunch break

Location: “Cloister of San Francesco” Via S. Francesco, 22
13.30 – 14.30
Lunch break

Location: “Cloister of San Francesco” Via S. Francesco, 22
15:00 – 16:00
Keynote 1: Prof. dr. Laura Formenti, University of Milan-Bicocca
Shared authority and transformative learning: a difference-based paradigm for educators

Location: Room T.2 – Polo Zanotto (ground floor)
14.30 – 16.00
Symposia:
c) The essential role of partnerships among families, schools, and communities in adoption and foster care
coordinated by Anna Guerrieri
Location: Room T.1 (ground floor)

d) Transitioning in communities for families and children – between institutions, positions and norms
coordinated by Lene S. K. Schmidt
Location: Room T.2 (ground floor)
14.30 – 16.00
Symposia
e) Collaboration between parents and staff in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)
coordinated by Ingrid Midteide Løkken – Location: Room T.1 (ground floor)

f) Where is the student in the digital home-school relationship?
coordinated by Unn-Doris K. Bæck
Location: Room T.2 (ground floor)
16:00 – 16:30
Coffee break 
Location: Polo Zanotto Hall (ground floor)
16.00 – 16.30
Coffee break
Location: Polo Zanotto Hall (ground floor)
16.00 – 16.30
Coffee break
Location: Polo Zanotto Hall (ground floor)


16:30 – 18:00
Symposia:
a) The Italian model of ‘Consultori Familiari’ as an integrated service that builds educational partnerships among Families, Schools, and Communities
coordinated by Livia Cadei
Location: Room T.1 – Polo Zanotto

b) Transitions of children in childcare and education: The perspective of parents
coordinated by Margreet Luinge
Location: Room T.2 – Polo Zanotto




16.30 – 18.00
Parallel sessions 3
Session 3a. Room T.1 (Ground floor)
Session 3b. Room 1.1 (First floor)
Session 3c. Room 1.2 (First floor)
Session 3d. Room 1.3 (First floor)
Session 3e. Room 1.4 (First floor)
Session 3f. Room 1.5 (First floor)
Session 3g. Room 1.6 (First floor)
16.20 – 17.30
Roundtable
Prof. dr. Cristina Bertazzoni – Consultant and Pedagogical Supervisor of the Mantua Farm School
Cesare Moreno – President of the Association Maestri di Strada Onlus
(in English “Street Teachers Association”)
Angela Nava Mambretti – President of the Coordinamento Genitori Democratici Onlus (in English “Democratic Parent Coordination”)
Location: Room T.2 (ground floor)
18:30 – 21.00
Welcome Reception
Location: “Cloister of San Francesco” Via S. Francesco, 22
18.30 – 19.30
Touristic visit* to the Basilica of San Zeno
20.00 – 22.00
Social dinner at the Vescovo Moro Restaurant

*Only for Social Dinner Participants
17.30 – 18.00
Closing of the conference and future appointments
Location: Room T.2 (ground floor)
18.30 – 20.15
Guided tour of the Historic Centre of Verona (up to 60 pax. A reservation – on the website – is needed)

Further information will be provided on the ERNAPE website

Parallel sessions (details to be updated)