Contribute to our 2025 Conference! We are structuring the conference to maximise the provocation of deep thinking and rich discussion. We warmly invite teachers, academics, researchers and community and business educators to submit proposals. Help us to Collaborate, Strengthen and Advocate across the Australian environmental education community. Presentations and workshops must be designed with online participation prioritised. Templates have been provided to assist in your proposal submission. Please copy and paste your responses into the online form here.
Key dates:
○ Monday, 3rd March – Submissions open.
○ Friday, 2nd May – Submissions due by 11:59 pm.
○ Monday, 5th May – early-bird registration opens.
○ Friday, 13th June – Applicants notified (whether included or not) by this date.
○ Monday, 23th June – Presentation/workshop titles and descriptions finalised.
○ Friday, 27th June – Program ready.
○ Friday, 11th July – Pre-recorded presentations due.
PROPOSALS:
The Call for Proposals includes two options: Presentations in concurrent sessions, to share work in the field and stimulate facilitated discussion, and interactive Workshops, as outlined below. You are welcome to submit proposals for both a presentation and a workshop, or multiple proposals. To do so please complete the linked form in full for each submission. Symposium proposals are also welcome. If you work in a team, and would like to curate one of the concurrent sessions to present a symposium, with multiple presenters presenting on a common theme, please indicate this by selecting ‘Symposium’ when you are asked to ‘Select an option’ (last question on first page of google form).
NOTE: This year, the Research Symposium will be a curated event, hosted by AJEE, with presenters selected by invitation only. Other researchers are encouraged to submit a proposal for either a Short Presentation or a Workshop to be included in the conference itself. Please direct all enquiries to: AAEE Conference Coordinator Anna Wylie conference@aaee.org.au
OPTION A: SHORT PRESENTATION
The conference will include concurrent sessions, based on our key themes of Strengthen, Collaborate and Advocate. These sessions will consist of three 10-minute presentations followed by 30 minutes of facilitated discussion with the presenters and audience. Presentations must focus on a powerful question/theme/idea while briefly sharing your project/work to contextualise and provoke.
If you wish to share your work in this way and seed these discussions, please prepare a 200 word written OR a 2-min recorded submission, in which you provide:
- Title (10 words):
- Target audience: early childhood, primary, secondary, tertiary & vocational, government & industry, community, cross-sectoral, other _______ (choose only one option)
- Statement of powerful question or theme or key idea of presentation (this will be used to locate your presentation in the program) (30 words);
- Proposal (200 words to address the following)
- Context of project/work
- What you did
- What you found
- What it means to the environmental education community
The template below will assist you to prepare your submission. Copy the details into the online form here.
NB. If your proposal is selected for the conference you will be required to pre-record the 10-minute presentation. We can provide some support to organise the pre-record. We will also manage the tech on the day, and enable you to field incoming questions (in the chat feature) during your presentation. A facilitator will then manage the discussion.
OPTION B: WORKSHOP
The conference will also include 30 minute or 60 minute workshop sessions. These are intended to be hands-on, fully interactive sessions. If you wish to facilitate a workshop, please prepare a 200 word written OR 3-min recorded submission, in which you will provide:
- Title (10 words):
- Target audience: early childhood, primary, secondary, tertiary & vocational, government & industry, community, cross-sectoral, other _______ (choose only one option)
- Statement of powerful question or theme or key idea of presentation (this will be used to locate your presentation in the program) (30 words);
- Proposal (200 words to address the following)
- Context of project/work
- What it means to the environmental education community
- Workshop outline including facilitator actions and participant actions, and timeline.
The template below will assist you to prepare your submission. Copy the details into the online form here.
Please remember: This is an online conference. We will be employing a plethora of online tools to foster collaboration, and welcome your suggestions as well.