EDUCATING IS WORTH IT
II International Congress of Catholic University Centers for the Formation of Educators "Rescuing education"
February 6 to 8, 2026
Registration deadline: May 25, 2025-November 15, 2025
The future of education is in our hands
What can we do?
Themes
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Education and Anthropology
Explanation: All pedagogy is based on an anthropology. Hence, it is of vital importance to clarify the human person in order to contribute to his or her formation.
Associated lines:
- Education of women and men
- Affective education
- Anthropological foundations of education
Formation of trainers
Explanation: The training of teachers, professors and social educators, as it happens in the university, calls for a series of requirements. The objective of this line is to investigate those that must permanently shape the training curriculum.
Associated lines:
- Comprehensive education at the university
- Personalized and customized education at the university
- Mission of Catholic university centers for the training of teachers, professors and social educators
- Training of trainers itinerary
Pedagogy of Faith in the university
Explanation: Systematic reflection on the keys to the pedagogy of faith in the university is proposed to researchers.
Associated lines:
- Education of interiority
- Spheres of faith pedagogy in the university context
Theory of Education and History of Catholic Education
Explanation: Researchers are invited to clarify the fundamental concepts with which the theory of education operates and to contribute original historical and/or biographical studies that allow a better understanding of the key figures of Catholic education and their relevance for the formative itinerary of teachers and professors of the present time.
Associated lines:
- Training, education and teaching
- Subjects of the educational act
- Self-education and self-training in the university
- Institutional actors involved in the education of the child or young person and their mission: Family, School, University, Church.
- Great biographies of key educators and “teachers of teachers” in Catholic education
- Comparative studies of two authors
- Contribution of Catholic institutions to the history of education.
DATES AND DEADLINES
The registration deadline for the congress is November 15, 2025. Participants submitting a paper must register before sending their paper.
Those interested in presenting a paper at the Congress should send their abstract of 500 words maximum to the platform before September 6, 2025.
In case the abstract is accepted, if you wish to be eligible for publication, you must upload your contribution of 7000-9000 words in Word and Times New Roman 12, spacing 1.5 pts before November 15, 2025 to the platform.
Congress venue
San José School
Santa Cruz College Square, 9
47002 Valladolid
Hours of operation
Monday to Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Phone/email
+34 697505646
educando@frayluis.com
The Escuela Universitaria de Magisterio Fray Luis de León (Valladolid), in collaboration with the Catholic University of Valencia, the Catholic University “Sta. Teresa de Jesús” Catholic University of Avila (UCAV), the University of Navarra and the Abat Oliba CEU University (Barcelona), invite all those interested in issues related to teacher training and teacher education to participate in the International Congress of Catholic University Centers of Educators Rescuing Education on November 30 and December 1, 2024 in Valladolid (Spain), in a double modality in person and via streaming. The congress will be available in Spanish and simultaneous translation into English.
Bearing in mind the Delors Report to UNESCO of the International Commission on Education for the 21st century, which underlined the inescapable contribution of education to the development of peoples and the importance of “knowing how to be”, the question arises as to which education and which educators can meet these challenges.
In fact, all pedagogy has as its foundation an anthropology, since every educational act aspires to form the subject according to an idea of what the human person is. At a time in history when the meaning of the human being and of truth is blurred, and when there is a risk of confusing innovation with education, deep reflection on the human person and on the pedagogical agents and theories involved in education become priority tasks for educator training centers. Therefore, such reflection will be an inexcusable path of the inquiry that the Congress intends to carry out. We believe that this, together with an attentive openness to the signs of the times as well as to the educational tradition that precedes us, and the deepening of the keys of the pedagogy of faith in the university environment, places us in the orbit of responding optimally as Catholic centers to the formation of teachers, professors and social educators that the society of our time needs.
Assistance with communication
The registration and payment of the fee in this modality entails:
– Access to the congress.
– Certificate of participation.
– The right to present a maximum of one paper in synchronous or face-to-face mode.
– Certificate for each paper presented.
– After review and selection by the Scientific Committee, the best texts presented at the Congress may be published in a monographic issue of the Peter Lang publishing house and in the journal Estudios de Educación (University of Navarra).
Registration fee*: 80€.
Registration fee* + full board accommodation (6 to 8 February): 200€.
(*) In case a paper has several co-authors (up to a maximum of 3), each of them will have to register and pay the corresponding registration fee.
Assistance only
The registration and payment of the fee in this modality entails:
– Access to the congress.
– Certificate of participation.
– You may not submit papers.
Registration fee: 40€.
Registration fee + full board accommodation (February 6 to 8): 160€.
The deadline for registration is November 15, 2025. Participants submitting a paper must register before sending their paper.
Those interested in presenting a paper at the Congress should send their abstract of 500 words maximum to the platform before September 6,2025.
In case the abstract is accepted, if they wish to be published, they should upload their contribution of 7000-9000 words in Word and Times New Roman 12, 1.5 pt. spacing. before November 15, 2025 2025 to the platform.
Accommodation will be at the Centro de Espiritualidad del Corazón de Jesús, Calle Santuario, 26, 47002 (Valladolid).
How to get from Madrid to Valladolid:
- TrainMadrid-Chamartín-Clara Campoamor RENFE train station, 28036, (Madrid, Spain)
- BusBus Station South – Calle de Méndez Álvaro, 28045 (Madrid, Spain). ALSA Company.
Papers must be original and may be written and read in Spanish and English.
All papers must be related to one of the thematic lines of the Congress.
Those interested in presenting a paper at the Congress must submit their abstract of 500 words maximum to the platform before October 15, 2025.
In case the abstract is accepted, if they wish to be published, they should upload their contribution of 7000-9000 words in Word and Times New Roman 12, 1.5 pt. spacing. before January 7, 2025 to the platform.
A maximum of three authors per paper is allowed.
RULES FOR THE ORAL PRESENTATION OF PAPERS
The Scientific Committee will select those papers to be presented publicly during the Congress.
The presentation of the papers may be made in person or synchronously online, i.e. in real time.
Participants presenting a paper will have 15 minutes for their presentation.
The reading of the works is personal and non-transferable. If there are several authors on a paper, at least one of the authors must be in charge of the paper, either in person or virtually.
To publicly defend a communication it is necessary to be registered in the Congress.
RULES FOR PUBLICATION OF SELECTED PAPERS
The Organizing Committee reserves the right to select and distribute those papers that will be proposed to publishers and journals for publication. The publisher and journal (Peter Lang (Q2) and Journal of Education Studies? The above-mentioned institutions reserve the right of admission with their own procedures for the supervision of scientific quality.
The languages of publication will preferably be Spanish and English.
Authors will be informed in due time of the publication rules in each case.
Target
The objective of the conference is to reflect on the key to education in order to establish the meaning of authentic university training for educators of our time.
The Congress is organized around five thematic axes that seek to reflect the different dimensions of the educational challenge centered on the person:
- Education and Anthropology
- Formation of Trainers
- Pedagogy of Faith in the university
Theory of Education and History of Catholic Education
We invite all researchers and educators to attend the Congress and to submit a communication proposal along the lines of the thematic axes mentioned above.
Program
Friday, February 6th
Welcome
Dinner
Sightseeing tour
Saturday 7 February
9:30 h Opening
Excellency and Rev. Mr. D. Luis Javier Argüello, Archbishop of Valladolid and President of the Spanish Episcopal Conference.
Magfca. and Excma. Prof. Dr. Ms Mª del Rosario Sáez Yuguero, Rector of the Catholic University of Avila
Hon. Ms. Mª Carmen Madrid, Director of EUM Fray Luis de León, Valladolid
9:45 a.m. Opening conference
The suicide of the West. The renunciation of the transmission of knowledge
Ms Alicia Delibes Liniers, Former Vice-Minister of Education of the Community of Madrid
11:00 h Coffee-break
11:30 a.m. Communications
13:00 h Holy Mass
14:00 h Lunch
4:30 p.m. Round table – Literary training for teachers, an impossibility or a hope in the digital era?
Moderator: Ilmo. Mr. Prof. Dr. Fernando Javier Romera Galán (Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education, Catholic University of Avila)
Prof. Dr. Ms Mª Consolación Isart (Catholic University of Valencia)
D. Miguel Sanmartín (Writer and jurist)
18:30 h Plenary Conference
The school has a remedy
Prof. Dr. D. José María Barrio (Complutense University of Madrid)
20:45h Dinner
22:00h Evening
Sunday, February 8
10:45 a.m. Round table – Teacher-student relationship, a question of opposition or of family?
MODERATOR: Prof. Dra. Ms Beatriz de Ancos Morales (Catholic University of Valencia)
Prof. Dr. Ms Ana Risco Lázaro (Catholic University of Valencia)
Prof. Dr. Ms Tania Alonso Sainz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
12:45 p.m. Communications
13:45 h Presentation Closing Remarks
Ilmo. Mr. Prof. Dr. D. Álvaro Antón Sancho, Academic Secretary of EUM Fray Luis de León (Valladolid)
14:30 h Lunch
Office hours
Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Address
Tirso de Molina 44
47010 Valladolid
Spain
Contact email
educando@frayluis.com
Contact phone
697505646
