The 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) will take place from April 8 to 12, 2026, in Los Angeles, California, United States. The conference theme is “Unforgetting Histories and Imagining Futures: Constructing a New Vision for Education Research."
Events

The International PIAAC Conference 2025 will be held in Mannheim on Sept 30–Oct 1 and provide a platform for sharing interdisciplinary research based on the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). The focus will be on data from PIAAC 2023, covering topics like cognitive skills, group comparisons, and methodological advancements.

The European Conference on Educational Research (ECER 2025) will be held at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, from the 09 - 12 September 2025. The conference will be preceded by the Emerging Researchers' Conference (ERC).
The EARLI 2025 conference, hosted by the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction and the University of Graz, Austria, will be held from August 25-29, 2025. The event will explore the theme "Realising Potentials through Education: Shaping the Minds and Brains for the Future."

The 70th Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Conference will be held from March 28 to April 1, 2026, in San Francisco, California, United States. The conference theme is “Re-examining Education and Peace in a Divided World.”

The 11th IEA International Research Conference (IEA IRC), hosted by INVALSI and Roma Tre University, will be held on June 25–27, 2025, in Rome, Italy, with pre-conference workshops on June 23–24, 2025.

The Conference of the Arbeitsgruppe für Empirische Pädagogische Forschung (AEPF) will be held from September 22-24, 2025 at the University of Duisburg-Essen.