AEEE gathers educators, researchers, and professionals interested in all aspects of economics and business education worldwide. It emphasizes practical teaching tools, cross-border issues, and engaging presentations for secondary teachers, university researchers, and trainers.

AEEE supports educators, researchers, and organizations in promoting economics education at all levels, including pedagogy research, curriculum development, tests, and learning materials cooperates with different national and international organisations.
AEEE fosters collaboration on European economies and EU-specific knowledge while encouraging exchanges and joint projects and cooperates with different national and international organisations.

Activities and Events
AEEE organizes biennial conferences featuring lectures, workshops, games and simulations on topics like sustainability, entrepreneurship and business education, financial education and literacy, alternative teaching approaches, teacher training, artificial intelligence and gender equality.The economic, social, political and environmental crisis we have been experiencing for several years has highlighted the need to adapt the education of school pupils. We believe that the dissemination of economics education is essential to help the young to engage with the issues at stake.
Read more The AEEE is an association by German Law seated in Lahr/Schwarzwald and therefore entered in the register of associations of the Lahr District Court.
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Chairman: Brent Kigner Email: Click here

General Secretary: Theo Roos Email: Click here

Treasurer: Bernd Remmele Email: Click here

President: Orla Duedahl Email: Click here

The Assocation has two kinds of memberships:
1. Full membership
   Full membership can only be obtained by associations who are involved at national level in economics education. For a full membership they have to support the aims of the AEEE, and pay the appropriate membership fee. The Association, to continue, must have at least three affiliated associations. Full membership members have voting rights in the Council They will forfeit voting and membership rights if they have not paid their fees within six months of the due date, or by decision of the Council.
   
   Annual subscription fee:
   Under 1000 members: € 200
   1001 - 5000 members: € 275
   Over 5000 members: € 350
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2. Associate membership
   Associate membership are divided into two kinds: Corporate membership and Individual membership. Corporate membership can be obtained by non-government, voluntary and business organisations with a commitment to economics education. Individual membership is open to those individuals who support the aims of the AEEE.
   
   Annual supscription fee
   Corporate membership € 60
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The organisation
The AEEE was formed from a predecessor organisation "The Working Committee of Secondary Economics Education in EEC Countries". Its two founders were Dicky Phillips, Secretary of the British Economics Association, and Edouard Maurice, an Economics Educationist at University Foundation of St. Ignatius, Antwerp. The first exploratory meeting of the Working Committee took place in Antwerp, Belgium in 1974. This led to the decision to mount of series of biennial conferences, each of which led to the publication of a book with position papers on a variety of key issues facing economics educators across the EEC, with the same name as the conferences.

The Working Committee expanded its membership to include one representative from each EEC country. In some countries the representative came from a national economics teachers' association; in others, notably, France and Wallonie, the representative was a national inspector; one or two countries were represented by individual, distinguished teacher trainers, e.g. Italy.

In 1990 the Association of European Economics Education (AEEE) was formed, to widen participation and reduce dependence on the European Commission. The new constitution was written by Steve Hurd, from the UK, and ratified by the Council of the Working Committee. The AEEE had two classes of membership: associations, who each had a member of Council, and individual members, who received the Association's journal "Economia" and could attend conferences and a General Assembly. Within 4 years AEEE individual membership grew to 650, and conference attendance expanded substantially.
Thanks to financial assistance from European Commission programmes, the pattern of biennial conferences continued.

Our Projects
The Association has also organised a series of projects to allow economics teachers in different countries to work together. Many of these were linked to preparing the ground for a forthcoming conference, but a number broke new ground in developing curriculum materials for use in schools throughout Europe. The most notable of these have been:

1. The European Economics Teaching Database Project - EURECO and SECOS.
2. Macro-economics Database of Europe in Transition Project with the Council of Europe.
3. Economics and Business Across Europe Project with BP

The AEEE Journal "Economia" achieved a very respectable standing within the Economics Education community, and attracted contributions from many countries across the world but proved uneconomic in the longer term.

There have also been moves to open the conferences organised by National Associations to AEEE members. This has happened with two conferences organised by Italian teachers in Milano, a joint national conference organised by VECON in the Netherlands and the Flemish Economics teachers in Belgium and a conference of the UK Economics and Business Education Association in Glasgow.AEEE, the Assocation of European Economics Education , settled in Freiburg Germany, is responsible for the processing of personal data as stated in this privacy statement.
It is represented by the Chairman Brent Kigner (brentkigner@gmx.at)
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