The ICO educational programme provides a conceptual basis and organizing framework with the aim of supporting PhD candidates to develop themselves to the highest possible level of professional researcher in the field of education and training. To this end, ICO establishes formal educational structures…
The different elements in the ICO mission lead to the organization of the research programme into ‘thematic groups’. These thematic groups can be regarded as Special Interest Groups. The thematic groups are responsible for the organization of ICO’s thematic courses and also contribute to…
Institutes of fourteen Dutch and Belgian universities participate in ICO. These universities constitute the inter-university graduate school ICO. To become a member of ICO, you have be appointed at one of the ICO universities, and should be employed in a faculty or institute participating…
On Friday 4 December, at 13:30 hours exactly, Lisa Boonk (Open University of the Netherlands) will defend her thesis Exploring, measuring, and evaluating parental involvement in vocational education and training. More information (in Dutch) and a link to the defence ceremony can be found at…
Learn MoreA main part of our Spring Schools are the PhD presentation sessions. The participating PhD’s will all present their work, sometimes for the first time, and this can be quite and exiting experience for them. To give the presenters valuable feedback and make the…
Learn MoreOnline ICO ISS2021: March 16-18, 2021 Registration opens in December 2020 After we had to cancel the ICO International Spring School 2020 at the last moment, we have decided to organize the next ICO International School (ISS) not in 2022, but already in 2021….
Learn MoreUTRECHT, 7 – 9 JULI 2021 Na een jaar uitstel vindt van 7 tot 9 juli 2021 de 50ste editie (!) van de Onderwijs Research Dagen (ORD) plaats. Deze ORD wordt georganiseerd door de Universiteit Utrecht, de Hogeschool Utrecht en het Universitair Medisch Centrum…
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