Conference Agenda

Session Overview

Date: Sunday, 01/Feb/2026

6:00pm
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8:00pm

Pizza for Juniors

Date: Monday, 02/Feb/2026

8:00am
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11:00am

Junior Workshop: The art of delivering a talk

by Hedwig Ens

10:15am
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11:15am

Arrival & Registration (SIGs)

11:15am
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12:15pm

SIG Digital Media Meeting

SIG Perinatal Health Meeting

12:15pm
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12:30pm

Break

12:30pm
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1:30pm

SIG Neurocognitive Development Meeting

SIG Play Meeting

SIG Research with families in vulnerable situations Meeting

1:30pm
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2:15pm

Arrival & Registration

2:15pm
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2:30pm

Welcome & Opening of the Annual Meeting 2026

2:30pm
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3:30pm

Keynote I

Prof. Dr. Shazly Savahl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands
University of the Western Cape, South Africa

3:30pm
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5:00pm

Poster Session 1 & Coffee Break

3:45pm
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6:30pm

Alliance Enfance Session (DE/FR)

5:00pm
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6:30pm

Symposium 1: Context and Individual Differences in Early Childhood Learning: Findings from the LEAPS Study

Symposium 2: Children and Digital Media (KiDiM)

Symposium 3: The SIG Neurocognitive Development Symposium: Multimodal Pathways to Neurodevelopment: From Connectivity and Genes to Cognition and Intervention

6:30pm
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7:30pm

Apéro

Date: Tuesday, 03/Feb/2026

8:30am
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8:45am

Arrival & Registration

8:45am
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9:00am

Welcome

9:00am
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10:00am

Keynote II

Dr. Stephanie Simon

Institute for Social Pedagogy, Adult Education and Pedagogy in Early Childhood, Dortmund University, Germany

10:00am
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11:30am

Poster Session 2 & Coffee Break

11:30am
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1:00pm

Symposium 4: Navigating Languages and Multilingualism in Early Childhood: Familial and Institutional Practices in Challenging Contexts

Symposium 5: Multi-sectoral Approaches to Child Protection in Switzerland: Early Childhood Adversity, Contextual Risks, and Multisystemic Interventions

Symposium 6: Context Matters: The Role of Parenting and Pedagogy in Children’s Biobehavioral Development from Infancy to the Early School Years

Workshop 1: Children’s Voices in Action: Applying the Mosaic Approach

1:00pm
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2:00pm

Lunch

2:00pm
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3:30pm

Symposium 7: Fostering Diversity, Inclusion, and Participation in Early Childhood: Tools, Perspectives, and Participatory Approaches

Symposium 8: Families and Screens - Early childhood screen use beyond screen time

Symposium 9: The Mosaik of Childhood: Linking Sport Activities, Competencies, Self-Perceptions, and Well-Being to Foster Resilience for Challenging Childhoods

Workshop 2: Who Counts as an Early Childhood Expert? A workshop on the co-production of social vulnerability and professional legitimacy

3:30pm
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3:45pm

Break

3:45pm
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4:45pm

Final discussion: Research and socio-pedagogical and medical practice

4:45pm
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5:00pm

Poster Award & Closure