26th World Congress for professionals working in Early Childhood Education

The 26th World Congress for Early Childhood Education will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden on August 11-13, 2010. The theme of the congress is "Children - citizens in a challenged world". Organiser of the World Congress is OMEP, the World Organization for Early Childhood Education.

The congress comprises three strands: Education for Sustainable Development; Gender equality and equal rights; and Different childhoods.

The foundation for the event rests on UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs aim, among other things, to give all children the right to be in school by 2015, to improve women's situation and to ensure gender equity.

Organiser of the World Congress is OMEP, the World Organization for Early Childhood Education. OMEP is an international, non-governmental and non-profit organisation concerned with all aspects of early childhood education and care (ECEC). The organization is currently established in over 60 countries and is represented at meetings of UNESCO, UNICEF, and other international organisations with similar aims.

Full congress information is posted on www.omep2010.org