" ... regardless of the religious education system that exists in a particular country, children must receive tuition that takes account of religious and philosophical diversity as part of their intercultural education" Standing Conference of European Ministers of Education (Istanbul, 2007)

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Seminars in Torhout, October 2008
Seminars in London, March 2009

NEWS

Faith to Face a new initiaive on religious dialogue - more

Berlin rejects religious lessons - read more

REDCo recommendations are now published - read

Conferences:

  • OFTO and IRD conference in Oradea, Romania, 5th-9th Oct, 2009 - more
  • Alternative spiritualities, the New Age and New Religious Movements in Ireland: an interdisciplinary conference, October 30th-31st, 2009 - more
  • FBI conference, Sept 24th-26th, Tartu, Estonia - more

The next meeting of the EFTRE board is in Helsinki in November, 2009 - executive members only.

Report of the Budapest conference. All the materials from the conference are now available on the website. The 2010 conference will be in Bruges in Belgium - Aug 25th-28th.

A paper by Bert Roebben from the Budapest conference.
Spring 2009 EFTRE newsletter - publications
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EFTRE is pleased to promote the MA in RE by distance learning from Warwick University.
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