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CeiED – the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Education informs that it welcomes and supports applications to the Individual Scientific Employment Stimulus Call – 8th Edition, promoted by the FCT

The COCAG (Critical Perspectives on Career and Career Guidance) COST Action has launched two open calls:

• The 2026 COCAG Grant Awards.
• The COCAG COST Training Event: 13^th ECADOC Summer School.

2026 COCAG Grant Awards

There are five types of grants available:

• Short Term Scientific Mission Grants (STSMG)
• Dissemination Conference Grants (DCG)
• Young Researchers and Innovators (YRI) Conference Grants
• ITC Conference Grants
• Virtual Mobility Grants

The call will run through the year until June 1st 2026, with intermediary deadlines on December 12th 2025, February 2nd 2026, March 16th 2026, June 1st 2026. Applications will be assessed on these dates, and applicants will be notified within two weeks after the intermediary deadlines.

Find full details, eligibility information, and application guidelines here.

13^th ECADOC Summer School

The 13th ECADOC Summer School for doctoral students in career guidance and counselling will be held in Dublin, Ireland from 17th to 21st August 2026 inclusive.

The Summer School will be hosted by Associate Professor Conor McGuckin, Director of the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities, School of Education, Trinity College Dublin. The programme consists of readings, keynote presentations, collective academic supervision, reflections on a research career, and international collaboration.

Applications

• Are eligible to apply current doctoral students in Career Guidance and Counselling or in a closely related.
• Participants will be selected based on the relevance of their research, quality of their proposal and motivation to take part.

The Summer School will be conducted in English and take place over five days. Participants will be expected to actively participate across the five-day programme.

Important dates

• Deadline for application: 30th January 2026. Please submit as one file PDF to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
• Notification of acceptance: 10th February 2026

Professor Luzia Lima-Rodrigues, a member of CeiED and Director of the Master’s Degree in Special Education and the Postgraduate Programme in Special Education and Inclusive Education at Universidade Lusófona, was invited to deliver the opening keynote at the II International PROFEI Seminar, the III National PROFEI Seminar (Professional Master’s in Inclusive Education) at UNESPAR (State University of Paraná), and the I Southern Regional Seminar, held from 10 to 12 December 2025 at the UNESPAR Paranaguá campus.

In her keynote lecture entitled “Teacher Education: Pathways to Promoting Equity in Inclusive Pedagogical Practice”, Luzia Lima-Rodrigues presented the results of the research project she coordinated, “Public Policies and Continuing Teacher Education for Inclusive Education”, published in 2024 by Instituto Alana in collaboration with UNESCO/Brazil.

After joining the celebrations of the International Week of Science and Peace promoted by UNESCO in November, the year 2025 concluded with a new milestone in the commitment to science as a common good.

Luzia Lima-Rodrigues, researcher at CeiED and Director of the Master’s in Special Education and the Postgraduate Programme in Special Education and Inclusive Education at Universidade Lusófona,

On December 10, CeiED and Universidade Lusófona welcomed Professor Heidi Harju-Luukkainen, Director of the Education Unit at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland).