We are not trying to sound like your mother but: You just have one more week to submit your presentation proposal for the AEEE conference!  In case you wish to do a presentation but won’t have time to write your proposal by June 30, please contact us as soon as possible.

Social activity update:  We plan a guided visit to the Armani museum (https://www.armanisilos.com/) after sessions on the Thursday (Aug. 28) and a choice of city walking tours on Friday.  When you register, please indicate your choice of walking tour.
And if you already have registered, please update your registration with the choice of walking tour (Go to our website: https://economicseducation.eu/index-personal.php). In this section yo can also download your invoice.

We will release a detailed program in the first week of July. Meanwhile, here is a rough plan:
Thursday, August 28:  11:00 – 16:00, followed by Armani
Friday, August 29:  9:30 – 16:45, followed by walking tours and conference dinner
Saturday, August 29:  9:00 – 13:00, followed by lunch

For further information, please visit https://economicseducation.eu.

Are you planning to give a presentation at the Association of European Economics Education conference but running out of time to submit your proposal?  

Good news: We’re extending the deadline by two weeks to June 30.  Same for the contest: Deadline is now June 30.

Proposals are welcome on any topic related to economics and business education.  We especially encourage submissions with a connection to the conference theme, “The Future is Now.”

Reminder:  The conference will take place at Bicocca University in Milano from Thursday, August 28 to Saturday, August 30.  Information is available at https://economicseducation.eu or by contacting:

Brent Kigner: brentkigner@gmx.at
Theo Roos: vecon@yourchance.nl
Bernd Remmele: bernd.remmele@ph-freiburg.de

News from outside AEEE
The SIEC ISBE conference "Empowering persons through business education" will take place from July 22nd to July 26th in Malta. For more information see https://www.siec-isbe.org/conference-information.html

Do not forget:  The 2025 Association of European Economics Education conference is coming up quicker than in recent years.  It will be in Milan at the end of August: specifically, Thursday 28.8 – Saturday 30.8.  

That means proposals for presentations need to be in by June 15 to guarantee consideration.

See our website, AEEE Association for European Economic Education - Call for Proposals , for information.
We invite submissions in all areas, but particularly in our two new themes, "Artificial Intelligence" and "Gender Diversity."

The deadline for our contest is also June 15.  We encourage you to submit an entry if you are involved in research with an explicitly international character or any project with active collaboration between teachers, teacher trainers or administrators from different countries.  Projects involving collaboration between a researcher and a teacher, teacher trainer or administrator in the same country will also be eligible.  See our website (AEEE Association for European Economic Education) and choose "CONTEST".  

For accommodation suggestions, choose the "City of Milano" tab on the website and then "Staying in Milano".

If you have some free time, we highly recommend you stick around for a day trip to the lakes or to Bergamo, for example.  You can find information by clicking on the menu icon on the "What to do in Milano" page.

Should you have any questions, please consult the website or feel free to contact:

Brent Kigner: brentkigner@gmx.at           
Theo Roos: vecon@yourchance.nl
Bernd Remmele: bernd.remmele@ph-freiburg.de

News for outside AEEE
The Economics Olympiad is a competition for hogh school students aged 14 - 20. 35 countries send out students to the international finals in Ancient Olympia in Greece.
However, a lot of students live in non participating countries.
Econonics Olympiads offer them a chance to enter the competition and to be send out to Greece.
So please tel your students to take a chane to shine on the global stage, showcasing your economic prowess and critical thinking skills among the brightest young minds worldwide!
For more information: EO Global Challenge – Economics Olympiad

You can start planning now:  After a quarter century away, the Association of European Economics Education returns to Milan next year for its 25^th biannual conference, Thursday, August 28 - Saturday, August 30, 2025.

As always, the conference will provide opportunities for researchers, teachers and other professionals involved in economics education to meet with and hear from their counterparts from all over Europe (as well as some from overseas).

Last year’s conference, you may recall, had the title “Preparing for the Future.”  For many of us, it seems to have arrived even sooner than expected.  The 2025 conference will be titled “The Future is Now.”  Two new themes, “Artificial Intelligence” and “Gender Diversity,” will supplement the six from past conferences:  sustainability, entrepreneurship and business economics, financial education and literacy, alternative teaching approaches, teacher training and a miscellaneous category.  We welcome lectures, interactive presentations and workshops in all of these areas.

We will begin accepting presentation proposals, as well as registration, on November 1, 2024.

This year marks the 50^th anniversary of the organization that became the AEEE.  It was founded as a forum for economics educators from the member countries of the European Economic Community to come together to share their knowledge and ideas.  That remains (with obvious updating) the primary purpose of AEEE today. 

We encourage you to join the celebration by entering our competition.  To be eligible, you will present a project that involves either research with an explicitly international character or active collaboration between teachers, teacher trainers or administrators from different countries.  You can find information about the prize, deadline and so forth on our website, https://www.economicseducation.eu.

Should you have any questions, please consult the website or feel free to contact:

             Brent Kigner                 brentkigner@gmx.at

             Theo Roos                    vecon@yourchance.nl

             Bernd Remmele            bernd.remmele@ph-freiburg.de

Milan, specifically, Bicocca University will host the 2025 AEEE conference, August 28 - 30 2025.  We will have more information in upcoming newsletters.

Speaking of conferences, thanks again to everyone who participated in Leeuwarden and helped make it such a success.  If you gave a presentation, we think – and expect you agree – that your contribution merits wider dissemination.  That is why we will launch the online journal, Economia, this year.  (Or re-launch, to be precise - an earlier generation of Economia was published on paper in the 1990s.)  We welcome articles based on the presentations or, in fact, any contributions related to economics education.  We will soon send out information about how to submit your article.

And do not forget, you can check out PowerPoints and other materials from the sessions you attended (or did not attend) in October 2023 through your Personal Account on the AEEE website. 

Only a few days left befiore you share your knowledge at the conference.
Also thanks to you we will have a great conference this year.
Digiboards and/or beamers are available. For instruction how tu use, Click here!

Make sure you can plug into the system using a HDMI-connector.
Bring, if needed, your own adaptor.

Please be so kind to upload your presentations and/or materials so your participant can bring your knowledge to his or her home.

This years conference is promising to be an awesome and inspiring conference with great keynotes and very interesting lectures, presentations and workshops. Please check out https://economicseducation.eu/index-programme.php for the programme. From here you can also create your personal schedule for the conference.
We made a special version for your smartphone in which you only see the programme and your personal schedule. Click here! [https://economicseducation.eu/app.php] or use the QR-code at the end of this newsletter.
We are looking forward to meet you in Leeuwarden this week. 

Transport to Leeuwarden
If you arrive at the airport, the best way to travel to Leeuwarden is by train.  It takes a little bit longer than driving by car. You can by a ticket online (Travel planner | Plan your journey | NS) or at the ticket counter. A ticket is valid for the chosen day, so you do not reserve a seat.
The trains runs every half hour from track 1-2 and will take a litte over 2 hours.  The training running 5 minutes after the hour requires a train change in Zwolle at the same track.
If you arrive by car, the address is Rengerslaan 8, Leeuwarden. Parking is available at € 2,50 a day. When you stay in Notiz Hotel, parking is free.

Wednesday
The Leeuwarden crew would love to meet you on Wednesday night when you are already in Leeuwarden. There will be a welcome diner at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, October 11 at Eetcafe Het Leven Leeuwarden.
If you are interested, please write to Hans Reijgersberg at hreijgersberg@gmail.com to reserve a place.  (This is separate from the conference so everyone pays individually.)

Thursday
We start Thursday October 12 at 11:00 AM. Registering is available form 10:00 AM. 
Be sure your invoice has been paid upon arriving.
We start at the mill “Eendragt”,  which is located at NHL Stenden. It is a beautiful restored hulling mill from 1786. We are proud that we can welcome you in this special location.
On Thursday we will run our pub quiz in the innovation lab of NHL Stenden. Next to having fun together, you can take a glimpse of the possibilities at NHL Stenden.

Friday
On Friday we have our traditional social activities and conference dinner. Please be sure that your preferences are set before Monday 06:00 PM.
Go to AEEE Association for European Economic Education to check.

Saturday Lunch
On Saturday lunch will be served at restaurant Wannee. The restaurant is run by students from NHL Stenden Hotel Management. The restaurants serves fair, flavourful, local dishes, with no artificial flavourings, and for which unusual vegetables and methods of preparation play a major role. Pure and natural.

We are really looking forward to meet you next week!

We have set the programme for the 24th AEEE Conference on European Economics Education.
Your contribution has been scheduled. Please check AEEE Association for European Economic Education - Programme (economicseducation.eu).

In order to serve the particpants at your contribution, please upload your PowerPoint and / or extra materials.
This will give those participants a more complete experience.
For uploading your files, please go to: AEEE Association for European Economic Education - My contributions (economicseducation.eu).

Thanks in advance for your cooperation.

Social Activities
Are you planning to attend the AEEE conference in Leeuwarden but have not registered yet?
As you know, you can register until the conference begins on October 12 by clicking here.
But if you want to be sure of getting your choice among the three simultaneous social activities, you need to tell us by October 5. 
Recall that the choices are:
1. guided tour through the center of Leeuwarden and the former prison.
2. guided boat tour through the canals of Leeuwarden.
3. escape room activity in the former prison.

Welcome Diner
Some participants will dine together at 7pm on Wednesday, October 11, the evening before the conference. 
You can find out about the restaurant at Eetcafe Het Leven Leeuwarden.
If you are interested, please write to Hans Reijgersberg at hreijgersberg@gmail.com to reserve a place.  (This is separate from the conference so everyone pays individually.)

Workships, presenatations and lectures
All the accepted proposals are online now, you can check them at Our Website.
We will soon set the definitive programme.

 Running out of time?  We can help.  We are extending the deadline for submissions to the upcoming AEEE conference by a week, to September 18.  We have also eliminated the extra fee for late registration.  You can register normally right up until the first day of the conference. 

Reminder: The 24th Association of European Economics Education conference will be held about a month from now, October 12-14, in Leeuwarden, Netherlands.  Information is available at economiceseducation.eu.

The fourth is Annika Johnson, a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Bristol, UK.  She will tell us about CORE (Curriculum Open-access Resources in Economics) Econ, which produces free ebooks and other resources that place global societal issues, such as sustainability, at the center.  You can learn more about CORE Econ at The Core Website.

As you may recall, AEEE inaugurated a competition this year for projects involving international or teacher-researcher collaboration.  The excellent winning entry, titled "Preparing for an Uncertain Future: The Scenario Method in Economics Education," was submitted by Annette Kern, René Langohr and Juliane Schwarz.  You can attend their workshop at the conference.

First, a quick reminder: If you plan to attend the 24th European Economics Education conference in Leeuwarden, Netherlands in October, you should book accommodation soon. You can find hotel recommendations on our website: Click here.

You can register on the website (Click here) or submit a presentation proposal there (Click here). Any submission received by June 21 is guaranteed a decision within a week.

The social side of the conference is taking shape. The conference banquet will be held on Friday in a former prison that has been transformed into an attractive center for culture, bars and restaurants. You can see information about the prison here: Website Blokhuispoort.

Prior to the banquet, we offer these activities:
1. guided tour through the center of Leeuwarden and the former prison.
2. guided boat tour through the canals of Leeuwarden.
3. escape room activity in the former prison.
When you register (Click here), please indicate your first and second choices. (You can change your selection later in your profile if you wish.)

If there is sufficient interest, we will provide a free bus between Schiphol Airport and Leeuwarden. The bus would leave Schiphol on Wednesday (Oct.11) at 17:30 and return from Leeuwarden at 10:30 the following Sunday. The ride lasts about 2 hours. If you wish to take the bus one or both ways, please note that when you register. (You can always change your selection later in your profile.)

AEEE is pleased to announce the first three of our keynote speakers for the upcoming European Economics Education conference in Leeuwarden (October 12 - October 14), Netherlands:

Adele Atkinson is currently Professor of Practice in Financial Literacy and Wellbeing at the University of Birmingham.  Prior to her return to academia, she was Head of Financial Education at the OECD, where she was responsible for a network of over 120 countries, providing technical assistance, developing international policy guidance and undertaking novel research.

Victoria Westra-Snouck Hurgronje is coordinator of sustainability at our host university, NHL Stenden. She is the key driver of the Green Wave, a comprehensive joint initiative of students and employees at the university that includes everything from practical recycling solutions to in-depth research and policy making.

Sam de Muijnck is chief economist at the Dutch independent think tank, Our New Economy. Together with Joris Tieleman, he published a book on how to reform economics education, Economy Studies: A Guide to Rethinking Economics Education.  Besides his economics activities, Sam is a breakdance teacher and hip-hop artist.

For further information about the conference, visit our website, https://www.economicseducation.eu. 
You can also register there, submit a presentation proposal or learn about our contest.

The conference is still six months away but it is never too early to book accommodation.  Leeuwarden is a popular destination for tourists and conferences.
Check our Leeuwarden section at our website for some hotels that offer AEEE discount.

As always, we look forward to seeing you in October.

AEEE – the Association of European Economics Education – wishes you a happy, healthy and, most of all, sustainable 2023.  Sustainable, of course, because that is the main theme of the upcoming conference in Leeuwarden, Netherlands on October 12-14.

As always, the conference is open to anyone involved in economics education: researchers, teachers, teacher trainers, administrators.  We look forward to welcoming back everyone who attended the 2021 conference, as well as those who were prevented from coming, and we hope to see plenty of newcomers.

AEEE is pleased to introduce a contest this year for potential conference participants.  We will send out information about that shortly.

If you are interested in attending and, possibly, giving a lecture or workshop there, please see our website: 

http://www.economicseducation.eu

 Happy New Year from your AEEE team!

You can start planning now for the 24^th Association of European Economics Education conference next year.  It will take place Thursday, October 12 – Saturday, October 14, 2023, in the lovely city of Leeuwarden, the capital of the Netherlands province of Friesland.

As always, the conference will provide an opportunity for researchers, teachers and other professionals involved in economics education to meet with and hear from their counterparts from all over Europe.
For next year’s conference title, we’ve chosen “Preparing for the Future: Teaching economics for a sustainable world.”  We look forward to interesting presentations on this timely topic.
Beyond the focus on sustainability, the conference will feature five additional themes:  entrepreneurship and business economics, financial education and literacy, alternative teaching approaches, teacher training – for the first time – and a miscellaneous category.  We welcome contributions in all of these areas.

You have plenty of time to prepare.  Registration and submission of presentation proposals open on January 15, 2023 and close the following September 11 (submissions) and September 18 (registration).
Leeuwarden, its historic city center surrounded by canals, was a European Capital of Culture in 2018. Its Kleine Kerkstraat was named “The Loveliest Shopping Street in the Netherlands” in 2010 and 2012.
Our host university, NHL Stenden, is a short walk or bike ride along a canal from the center.  The university’s open architecture supports its learning approach, Design-Based Education, with its emphasis on practical problem-solving in a collaborative environment.

Further information about the conference is available on the renewed AEEE website, www.economicseducation.eu.   

Should you have any questions feel free to contact us:
Brent Kigner: brentkigner@gmx.at 
Theo Roos: vecon@yourchance.nl
Bernd Remmele: bernd.remmele@ph-freiburg.de 

Dear friends and colleagues … AEEE sends you our best wishes for 2022.  We hope your teaching, research or whatever you are up to in your personal or professional life becomes less complicated. Our sincere thanks to everyone who participated in the Freiburg conference and made it such a success.  Once again, we saw the synergies that arise from bringing together teachers, researchers, teacher trainers, administrators and others involved in economics education.  Well-presented lectures and workshops combined with active participation to make for an informative and stimulating conference.  The rare chance to meet face to face made it particularly enjoyable. We have to acknowledge, however, that we missed those of you who would have liked to attend but could not.  We look forward to seeing you at the 2023 conference. We are pleased to announce that the 2023 conference will be held in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, the birthplace of M.C. Escher and Mata Hari.  No date yet. Happy New Year from your AEEE team!

A class at the Stockholm School of Economics.  The professor obviously has never attended an AEEE conference.

Here is some scheduling information to help you plan your trip to the Association of European Economics Education Conference in Freiburg:

• The conference will begin at 11:00 on Thursday, October 7 with short opening remarks followed by the first keynote;
• Sessions will end on Saturday at 12:00, with lunch following.  For those who are able to stay later, we offer a wine tasting from 16:00 until about 18:00.

And here is updated information on our four keynote speakers:

• Carmela Aprea (Chair of Economic and Business Education – Instructional Systems Design and Evaluation at the University of Mannheim Business School and Director of the Mannheim Institute for Financial Education);
• Dirk Loerwald  (Professor for Economic Education at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg and Scientific Director of the Institut für Ökonomische Bildung);
• Panagiota Tzamourani (Senior Economist in the Research Centre of the Deutsche Bundesbank);
• Kristof De Witte (Professor in Education Economics and Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven and holder of the chair in Effectiveness and Efficiency of Educational Innovations at United Nations University at Maastricht University).

Do not forget to submit your proposal: Click here.

Vaccinations accelerating, travel barriers falling, group restrictions loosening – all trends indicate that conditions will be in place in October for a great conference. We are busy now making arrangements for the conference in Freiburg.  Our website has been updated with information about accomodation and traveling. (Click here).

Call for Proposals We invite proposals for presentations under the five conference themes: economic inequality, entrepreneurship and business economics, financial literacy, alternative teaching approaches, and miscellaneous.  You can read descriptions of the themes here and the Call for Proposals here.  Submissions that incorporate the conference theme “Teaching economics to bridge divisions” are naturally encouraged. Submit your proposal directly at this page.

For further information about the conference, please visit our home page

We are pleased – very pleased, in fact – to announce that the 23rd European Economics Education conference will take place this year.  It will be in Freiburg, as planned, but, to be safe, we’ve pushed the dates back to Thursday, October 7 – Saturday, October 9.  Since indications – including a promise from Angela Merkel – are that everyone will have a chance for vaccination by end of summer, we are confident that our conference will be among the first to take place again in real space. 

You can see descriptions of the conference themes on our website, www.economicseducation.eu.  Contributions are invited in all themes, and we particularly encourage workshops and presentations on teaching about inequality – causes, effects, solutions, and so forth – or on how economics education will change post-coronavirus.

Both registration and submission of session proposals will open on March 8. To give you as much flexibility as possible, deadlines are set at September 1 for proposals and September 15 for registration. It would aid our planning, of course, to get attendance information earlier so we encourage you to register before the summer if possible.  As a small thank you, we offer a €10 discount on the registration fee until June 21.  (Keep in mind that you get a full refund of the fee if you need to cancel later.) We look forward to seeing you, at last, in Freiburg. 

We hope you are staying safe and sane. To compensate for time lost to quarantine and so forth, the deadlines for registration and submission of presentation proposals have been pushed back a few weeks.  That means we will accept presentation proposals until June 7 and registration without late fee until June 14.  (For further information about the conference, see www.economicseducation.eu).

As of now, there is no plan to change the conference dates, August 24-26.  Other organizations are generally leaving late-August events in place.  In fact, many have postponed spring events to August.  But, as we know, things can change rapidly. The AEEE team will meet on April 7 to make an assessment and send out a note afterward.  In case the conference needs

Since we cannot see into the future, any input would be appreciated. (Kindly write to Brent Kigner: brentkigner@gmx.at.)  We would particularly like to find out if the virus is interfering with people’s plans to attend the conference because, for example, classroom research is blocked or funding channels aren’t operating.  Be well.

After calling them they agreed to extend their offer for one week. So, if you want to stay close to the venue, and did not book a hotel yet, please book this week before June 29th.

Go to our website (https://www.economicseducation.eu/?page=1&sub=&onder=28) to download the AEEE reservation form.

AEEE encourages you to make your reservations in Copenhagen now because rooms in Copenhagen will get booked soon. AEEE has made special conference arrangements with Hotel Cabinn Metro. (https://www.economicseducation.eu/?page=2&sub=6&onder=28) See our overview of workshops and presentations offered to you at this AEEE Conference. (https://www.economicseducation.eu/?page=2&sub=6&onder=48)

AEEE added Inge R�pke as key note speaker to our programme. Inge R�pke is Professor with Specific Responsibilities at Aalborg University, Copenhagen (The Technical Faculty of IT and Design, Department of Planning, Sustainable Design and Transition, Center for Design, Innovation and Sustainable Transitions). She trained as an economist and holds a PhD in social sciences. R�pke has written about the development of modern ecological economics, trade, economic growth and consumption.

Ørestad Gymnasium is a high school leaving examination with a special profile focusing on media, communications, and culture. Specialized study programmes are offered within the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. Ørestad Gymnasium is proud to be featured in this impressive project 'Innovation 800', which tells the creative story of the University of Cambridge and will help inspire its students to be the world's next great innovators. More about �restadt Gymnasium

We are proud to announce our first two keynote speakers: Pall Rikhardsson Phd, the Dean of the School of Business at Reykjavik University. He is also a full professor in accounting focusing mainly on management accounting, continuous auditing and business analytics in his teachings and research, with a special interest in environmental matters. Professor Dr Michael Wohlgemuth on Brexit, populism and the future of Europe. Michael Wohlgenuth is economist and director, Open Europe Berlin. Director of the think tank Open Europe Berlin, professor of political economy at the private University Witten/Herdecke, affiliated fellow at the Walter Eucken Institute, Freiburg, and tutor at the post-graduate programme Social Market Economy of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. More about our keynote speakers Contributors are invited to submit proposals to share their findings, experiences and expertise with a broad audience of teachers and researchers at the 2018 AEEE conference. Check for more information and our guidelines. Contributors can choose from among three session formats, which vary by length and degree of interactivity, and a less-structured "Flipped Marketplace". Click here for more information

We are pleased to announce that the 22nd European Economics Education Conference will take place 22-25 August 2018 at the Ørestad Gymnasium in Copenhagen. Check our website for more information.

Contributors are invited to submit proposals to share their findings, experiences and expertise with a broad audience of teachers and researchers at the 2018 AEEE conference. Check for more information and our guidelines.

Contributors can choose from among three session formats, which vary by length and degree of interactivity, and a less-structured "Flipped Marketplace". Click here for more information

We overhauled our website last summer. More information is available than ever before. Check our website. Having just celebrated its 850th birthday, our host city Copenhagen is full of attractions. See more of Copenhagen.

The only way to register for the AEEE 2018 Conference is through our website. Click here to register.