10.00 – 10.25:
Registration & coffee
10.25 – 11.00
11.00 – 11.15
A New Innovative Approach to Early Childhood Intervention – the VIDA Project ? Read abstract
by Bente Jensen, Ass. Professor and Project Manager, Aarhus University
11.15 – 11.45
Early Years Research as a Foundation for Future Life and Implications for Policy-Making ? Read abstract
by Edward Melhuish, Professor, University of London
11.45 – 12.00
Break
12.00 – 12.30
Child Care and Child Development: An Economist’s View ? Read abstract
by Tarjei Havnes, postdoctoral research fellow at ESOP, Dept. of Economics, University of Oslo and senior researcher at Statistics Norway
12.30 – 13.00
Staff Competence Requirements in Early Childhood Education and Care ? Read abstract
by Dr. Jan Peeters, Ghent University, Belgium
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 15.15
Workshops & Coffee
At the workshops participants can discuss aspects of ECEC based on experiences from VIDA, own research or practice and reflect on how international research-based knowledge of ECEC is used in a Danish context in the VIDA intervention program.
15.30 – 16.00
Long-Run Benefits from Universal High Quality Preschooling ? Read abstract
by Mette Gørtz, Head of Centre for Survey/Register Data (CSSR), The Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI)
16.00 – 16.45
Panel sum-up
Workshop moderators summarize highlights from the workshops.
16.45 – 16.55
Concluding remarks
by Bente Jensen, Ass. Professor and Project Manager, Aarhus University
16.55 -
Refreshments
The conference is at Aarhus University, Department of Education (Campus Emdrup in Copenhagen). In the morning the working language is English, but in the afternoon the working language may be both Danish and English.
