Teresa Teixeira Lopo presented the paper The role of Portuguese think tanks in shaping education policy at the Emerging Researchers’ Conference, an event that preceded the ECER 2021 and took place on September 2 and 3 in an online format. The Emerging Researchers’ Conference aims to discuss and debate topical and thought-provoking research projects in relation to the ECER themes, trends and current practices in educational research.

Still within the scope of EERA, but integrated in the European Conference on Educational Research – ECER 2021, which took place from September 6 to 10, the researcher Carla Galego presented, in co-authorship with Lucimar Dantas, Maria Neves Gonçalves, José V. Brás, Beatriz Koppe and Everaldo Almeida, a paper entitled Skills and Curricular Programs: Comparative Analysis of Mother Tongue Programs in the Last Year of Secondary School in Six Countries. This communication results from the research work developed in the framework of the ongoing project at CeiED Língua pra quê te quero?!, coordinated by researcher Lucimar Dantas. Specifically, this paper focused on the comparative analysis of the role of mother tongue in the development of competencies based on the national curriculum statements of six different countries – Brazil, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom.