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The First EDUCA Summer School on 25-26 September 2025 in University of Jyväskylä

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University of Jyväskylä, Ruusupuisto, Alvar Aallon katu 9, Jyväskylä
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Programme

Please note: the programme is preliminary!

Thursday 25.9.2025

8:00-12:00 Registration is open at Ruusupuisto building

9:00-11:00 Workshop on research ethics: Prof. Niina Rutanen, JYU: Mapping Your PhD Journey: Ethics, Integrity, and Responsible Research (Aimed for doctoral researchers from EDUCA-Doc pilot and EDUCA Flagship, postdocs are also welcome)
Room: Helena D104

10:00-11:00 Supervisors Collegium Meeting in EDUCA-Doc Doctoral Education Pilot
Room: Juho D101

11:00 Lunch (own expense)

12:00 Opening of the EDUCA Summer School Conference
Room: Helena D104

12:30 Keynote: Prof. Lars-Erik Malmberg, University of Oxford: "Intraindividual variability"
Room: Helena D104

13:30 Coffee break

14:00-16:00 Paper Sessions 1-7

  • Session 1: Youth in Focus: Learning & Development I
    Room: Emma B102
  • Session 2: Youth in Focus: Learning & Development II
    Room: Elsa B101
  • Session 3: Students' Motivation in Learning Environments
    Room: Toivo E207
  • Session 4: Well-being and Support Structures in Educational Communities
    Room: Päivö E208
  • Session 5: Socioemotional Development and Well-being from Early Childhood to Adolescence
    Room: Isa E314
  • Session 6: Targeted Interventions for Learning and Well-being
    Room: Onni E214
  • Session 7: Essential Competencies for Learning in the Digital Age
    Room: Juho D101

16:00 Ending the day together
Room: Helena D104

Opportunity to participate in the City of Light Festival

Unofficial gathering place: Restaurant Sohwi, Vaasankatu 21, Jyväskylä

Friday 26.9.2025

8:30 Paper Sessions 8-12

  • Session 8: Learning Environments & Collaborative Learning in Classroom
    Room: Isa E314
  • Session 9: Teachers' Competence and Well-being
    Room: Toivo E207
  • Session 10: Digital Tools and Learning Experiences in Education
    Room: Onni E214
  • Session 11: Impacts and Ethical Tensions in Education Policy
    Room: Päivö E208
  • Session 12: Multicultural Competencies and Social Factors in Education
    Room: Juho D101

10:30 Break

11:00 Keynote: Prof. Mutlu Cukurova, University College London: "Teacher-AI Teaming in Education: Replacement, Amplification, & Augmentation of Human Competence"
Room: Helena D104

12:00 Lunch (at own expense)

13:00-14:00 Poster Session

  • Group 1: Cognitive and social mechanisms of learning
    Room: Päivö E208
  • Group 2: The role of technology in education
    Room: Onni E214
  • Group 3: Language and literacy learning
    Room: Isa E314
  • Group 4: Challenges in teaching and learning environments
    Room: Toivo E207

14:00 Coffee break

14:30 Panel discussion: Future challenges in Finnish education
Room: Helena D104

15:15 Next EDUCA Meetings and other programs
Room: Helena D104

15:30 Conference ends

After the official program, participants may choose to stay in Jyväskylä for the Researchers’ Night – a city-wide celebration of science, dialogue, and discovery. It’s a good chance to engage with local research and culture in a relaxed evening setting.

Book of Abstratcs

Please find all abstracts here (pdf)
Book of Abstratcs updated on 23 September 2025


In case you need to make changes to you abstract, please contact Suvi Antonen (suvi.antonen@utu.fi).

Instructions for the chairs and presenters

Please find the instructions here (pdf)

Speakers

Prof. Lars-Erik Malmberg

Prof. Mutlu Cukurova

Prof. Niina Rutanen

Lars-Erik Malmberg is Professor of Quantitative Methods in Education at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK. He began his career as a primary school teacher in Finland and holds the title of Docent in Education with a focus on quantitative methods at Åbo Akademi University in Vasa, Finland, where he also earned his Doctorate in Education. He completed his postdoctoral research at Yale University and was awarded a prestigious RCUK Academic Fellowship from 2007 to 2012.

Professor Malmberg applies advanced quantitative models to investigate substantive research questions in education. His work focuses on intrapersonal learning processes and the modeling of intrapersonal data. He has published extensively on the effects of education, childcare, and parenting on developmental and educational outcomes, as well as on teacher development. He has authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications and served as Editor-in-Chief of Learning and Instruction from 2018 to 2021.

Prof. Cukurova investigates human-AI complementarity in education. He directs the UCLAIT team and leads the Design and Use of AI in Education course at UCL. In addition, he is engaged in policy-making activities as an external expert (including UNESCO, IAEA, and EC external expert groups and co-authored the UNESCO AI Competency Framework for Teachers). He was the programme co-chair of the International Conference of AI in Education in 2020, CSEDU in 2022, and will be chairing the LAK conference in 2026. He is part of UCL's Grand Challenges on Transformative Technologies working group, named in Stanford’s Top 2% Scientists List, Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Educational Technology and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction.

Prof. Niina Rutanen specializes in multidisciplinary childhood studies and early childhood education at the University of Jyväskylä. She serves as Vice-Head of the Department of Education, where she leads the development of the department’s research environment. Her teaching focuses on postgraduate-level education, including doctoral supervision.

Rutanen is actively involved in research on early childhood institutions and children's everyday lives, with particular attention to under-three-year-olds, peer interaction, and children's agency in shaping lived environments. She has contributed to broader projects on educational transitions and methodological innovation in childhood research, including the use of ethnography and eye-tracking video analysis. Her work has informed ECEC policy and practice development, and she is engaged with stakeholders both within and beyond academia.

Registration

Registration for the EDUCA Summer School mini-conference is now closed.

Accommodation

Participants will be responsible for booking and paying for their own accommodation directly with the hotels.

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