European Hub for Cultural Psychology

Educational processes through the lenses of Cultural Psychology
2025-12-01 13:30 - 2025-12-03 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Tallinn University, Estonia
This international conference provides an avenue for new directions of cultural psychology in a scholarly context dedicated to discussion of relevant issues in the study of educational process, professional identity development, maintenance, and loss. Coordination of these
research topics across different countries allows for synthesis of new ideas as the topics of identity are universal for the science of cultural psychology. This international collaboration is the inauguration of collaborative ties of scholars, led by coordination by the CULTS research group of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA, Brazil), and the Competence Center of Cultural Psychology (Tallinn University, Estonia) to bring together researchers from different locations in the Americas (Brazil, Mexico) and in Europe (Estonia, Denmark, Italy).
The avenue provides discussions to reflect on educational processes with the specific focus on semiotic mediation. The focus is on the promotion of innovative ideas and practices of early-career scholars.

Kitchen Seminar
2026-03-04 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-03-11 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-03-18 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-03-25 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-08 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Online (University of Salerno), Italy
The “K-seminar” (“kitchen seminar”) is a “think tank” that has been continuously running through weekly face-to-face and videoconference meetings since 1997 (first at Clark University; since 2013 at Aalborg; and in Salerno from 2019). Its focus is on discussion of new or unfinished projects (research designs, drafts of publications, new ideas for research). It has created (through weekly deliveries of discussion materials directly into e-mail boxes) a dynamic international research community that counts more than 600 members worldwide. It operates on the basic principles of full equality of expression of constructive ideas independent of seniority or discipline. Its key restriction is the explicit avoidance of political discussions (of science, as well as of society). While these are important issues for sure, they also can divert scientists from concentration on research problems that need to be solved. The general rule is: everybody can come and go whenever one desires, so the focus that keeps people together is joint interest in the topic discussed.

Summer School: Culture, Psychology & Qualitative Research
2026-05-15 09:00 - 2026-05-18 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Aalborg University, Denmark
We would like to refer you to two other PhD courses that the Centre for Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University organizes this year:
PhD course “Discourse Analysis” by The Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Aalborg Universitet on May 15, 2026 (organized by Carolin Demuth): This 1 day course will give an introduction to discourse analytic approaches, such as Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Discursive Psychology (DP) and give examples how they can be fruitfully applied to various areas of social research. It provides practical guidance on how to apply discourse analysis as well as focused discussions of, and feedback on students’ research projects. The course is open to PhD students from any disciplines who are interested in doing discourse analytical research. Key note lecture: Eleftheria Tseliou, Professor of Research Methodology and Qualitative Methods, Laboratory of Psychology, Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Thessaly, Greece; Filippos Tentolouris, Assistant Professor, Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Thessaly, Greece. More details will follow soon on the CCP website: https://www.communication.aau.dk/research/research-centres/ccp
