On June 4 to June 6 2025, UIK participated in the 14th Biennial conference of the European Research Network About Parents in Education (ERNAPE) in Verona: “Educational Partnership between Families, Schools, and Communities. Weaving vibrant alliances to empower individuals and overcome collective vulnerabilities”.
The ERNAPE 2025 Conference encourages educators, researchers, and scholars from all over the world to address the challenges and opportunities that contemporary socio-economic, and cultural conditions of vulnerability and human frailty offer to open cracks in the neo-liberal system to enable quality socio-educational pathways to truly living for all. The theme of the conference — “Educational Partnership between Families, Schools, and Communities. Weaving vibrant alliances to empower individuals and overcome collective vulnerabilities” — invites us to reflect critically on how we build meaningful, inclusive, and responsive educational alliances in times of profound social, political, and environmental change.
During this conference, Anna Błasiak and Ewa Dybowska from UIK presented a paper titled: “Relationship between school, family, community in everyday practice (myths and reality)”. This paper included a presentation of the Let’s Care project and specific issues built around the theme of school, family, community and partnership. The research aims of this paper were:
- To identify good practice in school, family, community partnerships supporting children’s educational success.
- To recognise myths and stereotypes as well as barriers and challenges in the relationships between school, family, community.
- To identify the needs and expectations of all collaborating school actors.