Promoting debate across borders
ICCS seeks to stimulate exchange in Europe across borders. Therefore, ICCS brings together people from various countries with backgrounds in research, practice and policy. The network creates a forum for critical dialogue where people can exchange their views and learn from each other, develop new ideas and grow together. In the broad field of church and school related issues topics may vary from very specific ones as the dialogue of religions in the Religious Education classroom to more overarching topics as the role of religion in education. This section gives you insights to current research and discussions in Europe.
The ICCS is a platform for expanding local civil activities to a more international stage. This is very important in a time when populism and nationalism grow not only in Europe, but globally too. To keep an open mind, to meet professionals and activists in this network – this is the biggest benefit of being a member of ICCS. To promote unity and cross boarders: national, professional, disciplinary, personal and natural ones. Proud to be a part of it!
December newsletter out now!
ICCS together with its partner the IV has just published the most recent issue of its newsletter. In this rich edition you can learn more about a research project about Religious education and Covid-19, about an innovative Erasmus+ project about sustainability and spirituality and new approaches...
NGOs assess educational programmes against intolerance and discrimination
Since April 2021, within the framework of the Conference of NGOs at the Council of Europe, an “Interreligious and interconvictional Dialogue" (IRICD) Committee has been set up. While in the European Union there is Article 17, which provides a basis for a dialogue of churches and religious...
Rainbows and opening boxes – Klingenthal participants produce RE stories, which inspire
How can we communicate why religion in public education matters? This was the guiding question of the Klingenthal online conference on 21st October 2021. With the help of two high-quality inputs, one by a theologian, one by a journalist, participants developed their own stories and metaphors to...
Klingenthal conference moves online
Corona puts obstacles in our way but we will overcome them! The bad news: again this year, a face-to-face meeting at Klingenthal castle close to Strasbourg, France, won’t be possible. The good news: Contrary to last year, it won’t be postponed but transformed into an online conference instead. So...
Initiative for common Christian RE in Lower-Saxony, Germany
The churches in Lower Saxony, one Land in Germany, are opening a new chapter: they are campaigning for the introduction of jointly responsible Christian religious education in all types of schools in the state. The initiative is to be discussed in the coming months with the responsible state...
Difficult turn in peace education, views from Armenia
This is a guest article by Arutyun Karapetyan, Programme Officer at the WCC Armenia Interchurch Charitable Round Table Foundation. The principle question we have to answer ourselves is what we, as Christians, can do together in the face of growing violence, aggression, exploitation, mistrust and...
Newly-founded committee for interreligious & interconvictional dialogue
Since April, the Conference of International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) at the Council of Europe has had a Committee for the Interreligious and interconvictional dialogue. Interconvictional here means the dialogue between different worldviews, be they religious or atheistic. Although...
Registration now open – Storytelling at Klingenthal conference
Learn to tell new stories about CindeRElla! The fate of CindeRElla – as metaphore for religion in education – is not settled, but yet to be defined! At the Klingenthal conference, we will go deeper into the subject of storytelling and religious education already started during the two online...
European Online Academy on Populism – Register now
Populist movements by their very name aim to speak to the (ordinary) people. Isn’t that what Churches want to do, too? At the same time, many populist movements seem to be looking for too simplistic solutions for complex societal developments. How can Churches deal with this? The CEC Online...
Zoomthal II: creative stories shed new light on RE in Europe
“And she lived happily ever after. But did she?" With this intriguing question, referring to the Cinderella fairy tale, participants started their exchange at the second Zoomthal online seminar on 26th May 2021. Zoomthal is an online format, which had been developed when the Klingenthal...