Our Sponsors and Exhibitors

Cappelen Damm Akademisk is a major Norwegian publisher of textbooks and other teaching materials for university and college-level students and offers books on a wide range of topics in ECE.

Cappelen Damm Akademisk is also a leading publisher of Open Access books and journals in the Nordic countries. We provide the support of experienced editors, professional handling of content through the various phases of peer review and production, and customize digital publishing solutions. All of our Open Access books and journals are available online at https://cdforskning.no/cdf and can be read and shared freely.

Award winning Tales Toolkit provides interactive, child-led resources aimed at early years, all using symbols representing story structure. These innovative resources give children independence to create and write stories around interests using anything to hand from a conker to a picture of Mum!

Children are supported through sensitive interactions where the combination of symbols, props, actions, songs, talk and clear repeated structure supports learning. Providing playful storytelling where ideas are valued, and children’s voices are heard.

These resources come with research based online training and ongoing support to ensure maximum impact across various learning areas.

Goldsmiths University proved Tales Toolkit impacts language, literacy, creativity, social skills, problem solving and closed the gender gap in Literacy, all with little planning involved!
Winner of several awards, including multiple awards from Nursery World and ERA, and funding received from organisations such as The Lego Foundation, Education Endowment Foundation and the Department for Education.

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Routledge partners with world-class authors, from leading scientists and researchers, to scholars and professionals operating at the top of their fields. Together, we publish in all areas of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine sectors, specialising in Education. We are one of the world’s leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, eBooks, text books and reference works. Visit our stand for more information about our full range of delegate benefits.

The Centre for Research in Early Childhood is the home of CREC in Birmingham (Charitable Trust) and Amber Publications & Training Ltd (APT). Established by Professor Chris Pascal and Professor Tony Bertram, CREC has been working to improve early years provision for over 25 years. CREC specialises in early childhood research which has relevant and meaningful outcomes for practice and policy. Some of its research is transformed into training and development programmes designed for the specific needs of the early years sector. CREC also offers postgraduate research degrees and has a strong reputation for undertaking reviews, reports, evaluations and consultancy work with many UK local authorities, NGOs and countries. CREC also runs British Early Childhood Education Research Association (BECERA) annual conference and has been EECERA’s strategic partner supporting the delivery of EECERA annual conference since 2009.

Through its Annual Conference, its Journal, Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and the activities of its membership, EECERA is a leading international contributor to the development of research, policy and practice in the developing field of early childhood. Visit our stand to find out more and discuss opportunities, such as submitting an article for the journal, becoming a reviewer, proposing a new SIG, a special issue for the journal or a book project.

KINDknow [BARKkunne] is a centre for kindergarten research at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, funded by the Research Council of Norway (2018-2028). We strengthen research, practices and initiatives to the best pf children, families and kindergartens. KINDknow supports values for a sustainable future of culture and nature.

KINDknow's core values include Outstanding research: The centre conducts high-quality research and uses courageous leadership to develop theories, methods, practice-developing approaches, narrative knowledge and evidence-based knowledge; Sustainability: The research designs reflect ecological, economic, cultural, social and systemic aspects of children's lives and their rights. The researchers maintain play and exploration, growth, health and formative development of children, staff and families through generating knowledge; Glocality: The centre collaborates with different generations, sectors, disciplines, institutions, countries and organizations. The researchers ensure diversity and representation from many localities and include indigenous perspectives when appropriate. The centre explores meanings of time, place, relationship and mentality; Co-creation, innovation and sharing: Research design is characterized by co-creation and innovation to find problems and solutions that are relevant to the kindergarten sector and teacher education. The centre translates knowledge to children and adults by developing varied and adapted resources.

Representatives of KINDknow will be glad to explain about the work of the centre and our projects. We will have project’ reports and annual report with us. We will also have examples of our publications, both scientific and children’s books.

KINDknow on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hvl-barnkunne-senter-for-barnehageforskning/
KINDknow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BARNkunne

The Early Childhood Education for Sustainable Citizenship Awards are accredited by Organisation Mondiale pour l'Education Préscolaire (OMEP), with training and resources provided in partnership with GECCO: Champions for Change in Early Childhood. As an established and recognised accreditation provider, the ECESC Award scheme has contributed to the development of the UNESCO Green School Quality Standards, and as an ‘aligned’ accreditation it shares the UNESCO Greening Education Partnership (GEP) aim of showing that at least 50% of preschools achieve the global objectives by 2030. Initially developed for application in the UK Preschool context, the scheme is currently being translated and adapted for use internationally with our first Bronze accreditation awarded to Napho Children’s Centre in Thailand in 2024. The OMEP Award will be increasingly promoted internationally through World OMEP and the GEP.

OMEP is an international non–governmental and non-profit organisation with consultative status at the United Nations and with UNESCO. Founded in 1948, and operating in more than 60 countries, OMEP advocates for early childhood education and care as a right, and as a tool for youn children to attain citizenship, wellbeing, and dignity. OMEP has been developing research and training resources, and promoting Early Childhood Education for Sustainable Development for more than 20 years in partnership with UNESCO.

GECCO is a registered charity. It was founded in 2017 with the aim of promoting and supporting sustainable behaviours and decision-making among children, their parents, their educators, and carers. GECCO is a major resource provider in support of education for sustainability and has already gained many campaign successes pioneering work on Nappies and Toilet training, Sustainable Food, the reduction of plastics and sustainable procurement more generally.