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As part of the initiative to support emerging communities for Mathematics Education research in Eastern Europe, ERME contributed to the project Trends in Mathematics Education Research (TiMER). The project led to a conference in Krakow in 2022, and has now led to a book, edited by Mirosława Sajka. The book is available for free download from the project site here, or directly from ERME here. More information about the TiMER project can be found here.

The proceedings from CERME14 have now been published. In the HAL Archives you can find the contributions from each TWG as well as Preface, Introduction and Plenary lectures.

The proceedings as one complete PDF are now available. They can be downloaded from the CERME14 site or directly here (WARNING: Large file, 280MB).

The 14th YERME Summer School (YESS14) will take place in Utrecht from 2 to 7 August 2026. The first announcement can be found here. Note that the deadline for applications is 30 January 2026.

A number of ETCs are under planning for 2026. As soon as information is available, each of the conferences will be announced here, with links to their respective websites.

ETC 19: Connecting the Learning of Mathematics Teaching to Practice, Prague, Czech Republic, 4-7 February, 2026

This ERME Topic Conference focuses on what it takes to get the learning of practice at the forefront, to infuse regard for teaching as a practice (in and outside the classroom) throughout the system of professional education (pre-service and in-service), in goals, design, activities, and assessments.

The heading of this post is linked to the website of the conference.

ETC 20: Feedback & Assessment in Mathematics Education – FAME2, Budapest, Hungary, 3-5 June, 2026

This ERME Topic Conference focuses on the assessment of mathematics part of mathematics education research. It deals with formative and summative assessment and related feedback, its consequences for students’ learning and its impact on teachers’ practices.

The heading of this post is linked to the website of the conference, and the first announcement can be found here.

ETC 21: Synergies and COnnections for the future in STEM education from a mathematical [modeling] PErspective – SCOPE-Math, Würzburg, Germany, 22-25 September, 2026

The SCOPE-Math conference aims to explore the evolving landscape of STEM education, focusing particularly on mathematical modelling. As teaching, learning, and assessment practices continue to evolve in response to disruptive global events and increasing interconnectedness, the conference will address how STEM integration and mathematical modelling can respond to these changes in meaningful and innovative ways.

The heading of this post is linked to the website of the conference.

ETC 22: Communication and Diversity in Mathematics Education: Exploring language, meaning making and methodologies, Cork, Ireland, 25-27 August, 2026

This conference is the fifth in a series of ETCs related to language in the learning and teaching of mathematics.

The topic of the conference includes all research highlighting the role of language and interaction in learning and teaching mathematics from kindergarten up to university mathematics, as well as research related to pre-service teacher education and professional development. 

The heading of the post is linked to the website of the conference. The first announcement can be found here.

ETC 23: INDRUM2026, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 15-19 June, 2026

This conference is the sixth conference organised by the International Network for Didactic Research in University Mathematics (INDRUM), all of them ETCs.

INDRUM aims to contribute to the development of research in didactics of mathematics at all levels of tertiary education, with a particular focus on supporting new researchers in the field and on a dialogue between the communities of Mathematics and Mathematics Education. 

The heading of this post is linked to the website of the conference.

ETC 24: Argumentation and Proof in Teaching and Learning of Mathematics and Interactions with other Disciplines, Milan, Italy, 22-25 June, 2026

This conference originates from the CERME TWG on Argumentation and Proof, which has been active for more than 20 years.

Argumentation and proof are widely studied topics in mathematics education at all levels. The conference will also address the need and relevance of developing research on argumentation and proof in mathematics education in interaction with other disciplines.

The heading of the post is linked to the website of the conference.

ETC 25: CITAD8: 8th International Conference on the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic, Barcelona, Spain, 19-23 January, 2026

This conference is the eighth conference focusing on the theoretical framework ATD. CITAD5 in 2016 was the first ETC.

CITAD8 will be an opportunity to further engage in the theoretical and methodological debate by discussing the research praxeologies developed within the framework of the ATD. Contributions are expected to highlight the research praxeologies which are being developed and deployed, including new ATD concepts and tools or new uses of them. 

The heading of this post is linked to the website of the conference.

ETC 26: MEDA 5 – Mathematics Education in the Digital Age, Linz, Austria, 14-18 September, 2026

This conference is the fifth MEDA- conference, and it is focused on the topic Mathematics, Technology, Interdisciplinarity.

The conference aims to explore the evolving intersections of Mathematics, Technology, and Interdisciplinarity, focusing on how more integrated approaches can reshape mathematics education to be more meaningful, inclusive, and future-ready. Key themes will include the role of formative assessment in supporting learner agency and growth, strategies for inclusive pedagogy that address equity and access, and the integration of sustainability as both a context and a goal within mathematics curricula.

The heading of the post is linked to the website of the conference.

ETC 27: GAME II – Game-based and Playful Approaches to Mathematics Education, Landau, Germany, 23-25 September, 2026

This is the second GAME-conference, and it wants to provide a meeting point for researchers in Mathematics Education who deal with issues related to the use of games in the teaching and learning of mathematics.

The conference will contain plenary activities as well as seminars and workshops in parallell sessions, and also a demonstration session where researchers and practitioners present games they have designed for students and teachers from local schools and kindergartens. 

The heading of the post is linked to the website of the conference.

ETC 28: Collaborative Settings in Mathematics Teacher Education, Lisboa, Portugal, 29 June-1 July, 2026

This conference emerges from the activity in the TWG with the same name as the conference, TWG28, and it will follow up topics addressed at the recent CERMEs and other meetings.

Examples of collaborative settings are lesson studies, learning studies, teacher research groups and teacher design teams. The TWG which forms the basis for this ETC has discussed the particularity of collaborative settings in terms of e.g., organisational contexts, affective and emotional issues, and the particularity on knowledge creation and co-construction of professional knowledge.

The heading of the post is linked to the website of the conference.

CERME15 will take place in Bratislava (Slovakia) 8-12 February 2027. The call to apply for new Thematic Working Groups has now been released – go to this link to find the complete call.

A proposal to establish a new TWG should contain well founded arguments for why it is needed. See details in the call. It is expected that no more than three new TWGs will be accepted.

Proposals should be submitted before 15 August 2025 to Andreas Eichler (eichler [at] mathematik.uni-kassel.de) and Dorota Lembrér (dorota.lembrer [at] mau.se). Chair and Co-Chair of the IPC for CERME15.

Kind regards,
Andreas Eichler, Dorota Lembrér, and Frode Rønning (president of ERME)

The deadline has now expired.

The Congress of ERME, the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, has seen a steady growth in the number of participants up to its present level of about 900 participants. The recent CERME 14 in Bozen-Bolzano gathered 850 participants from more than 50 countries. 

CERME 15 is already planned to be held in Bratislava in February 2027, and then we need to start planning for CERME 16 in 2029. 

The ERME board calls for mathematics education research groups willing to do an important service to the functioning of the community by submitting a bid to host the next congress. (Note that commercial conference agencies can not apply alone, only mathematics education research groups, possibly with the help of conference agencies).

For further details about what the bid should contain, please see the complete call on this link. 

Bids should be submitted before 26 September 2025 by email to

Frode Rønning, President of ERME, frode.ronning@ntnu.no

If you have any questions on planning and necessities of the congress, 
do not hesitate to ask Frode Rønning.

The deadline has now expired.

The ERME Board would like to invite all TWGs to apply for organising ERME Topic Conferences (ETCs) in 2026. As the growth of CERME cannot continue beyond its present level, ETCs can be a good way to include more people into the spirit of ERME. An ETC needs not be limited to one TWG, but a collaboration between two or more TWGs could open perspectives that are not easily accommodated within CERME.

On this link you can find the complete call for ETCs to be held in 2026. Proposals must be submitted no later than 15 August, 2025, but we will handle proposals as soon as we can when we receive them.

Kind regards,
Berta Barquero, Zelha Tunç-Pekkan and Frode Rønning (see email adresses in the call)

The deadline has now expired.

I would like to express my thanks for the confidence I have been shown by being elected the new president of ERME. Also, I would like to repeat from the Closing Session my sincere thanks to everybody who has worked hard, both locally and internationally, to make CERME14 in Bozen-Bolzano such a great success.

I will also repeat here the announcements that I included in the Closing Session so that they are known to everybody:

• CERME15 will be held in Bratislava, Slovakia, 08-12 February, 2027
• YESS14, summer school for young researchers, will be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 02-07 August, 2026. Announcement will follow.

Then there is CERME16, which is still completely open. A call for bids will be launched on the ERME site. Also, a call for proposals to arrange ETCs in 2026 will be launched on the ERME site.

Kind regards,
Frode

In Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) about 900 members of ERME are busy at the CERME14 conference, enjoying the excellent modern facilites at the NOI campus of University of Bozen. You can access a growing gallery of photos from the event here.

At the ERME General Meeting, Frode Rønning (Norway) was elected President of ERME. Also, the following new members of the board were elected: Berta Barquero (Spain), Derya Diana Cosan (Denmark, YR representative), Hanna Palmér (Sweden) and Florian Schacht (Germany).

Here is the agenda for the general meeting. The minutes of the previous General Meeting are here. As for the board elections, the following candidates have been proposed:

For president: Frode Rønning (Norway)

For regional representative (South West Europe): Berta Barquero (Spain)

For non-regional representatives: Hanna Palmér (Sweden) and Florian Schacht (Germany)

For YERME representative: Derya Cosan (Denmark) and Tim Läufer (Germany)

Except for the YERME representative, where 1 is to be elected, there is exactly one candidate for each of the vacant positions. For these, the election will be a “yes/no” vote.

You can find proposers and statements of the candidates here.