About Us

The European Institute of Education and Social Policy (www.eiesp.org) is a non-profit organisation with thirty-four years experience in the analysis of education and training policies in Europe and in the partner countries of the European Union. The institute was founded in 1975 by the European Cultural Foundation (the Secretary-General was Raymond Georis) to meet a need of the European Commission by contributing to the development of cooperation in education in Europe.

During the 1980s the EIESP played a strategic role in the launching of the European Commission programmes of student mobility. It was responsible for designing and managing the pilot operation for the ERASMUS programme and contributed to the first generation of European education programmes. The EIESP also worked on employment and social policy issues in cooperation with the Centre for Work and Society of the Université de Paris IX Dauphine, directed at that period by Jacques Delors.

The EIESP contributes through its work and its international network to strengthening cooperation in education in Europe and between Europe and its partners.

The EIESP, which is self-funding on the basis of its contracts and activities, has been based in Paris since 1976. It has a small core staff and an extensive network of consultants and partners. It regularly offers internships to post-graduate students. The Chair of the Board since 2004 has been Alain Michel, an Inspecteur Général de l’Education nationale in France and Honorary President of the French Association of Education Managers (AFAE). The director is Jean Gordon.

The EIESP edits the European Journal of Education, published by Wiley-Blackwell (www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0141-8211&site=1).
EJE is a peer reviewed journal of international reputation and readership specialised in research on education and the evaluation and review of education and training policies in a global perspective. It is thematic and recent issues include: Learning to live together, Futures of learning, Education and well-being, as well as issues on higher education (on quality and management), Europe and China, etc.

The members, administrators and the network of the institute and the European Journal of Education are from different European countries, North America and the MEDA region. The editorial board and the editorial correspondents of the journal bring an international perspective in the different domains of research and policy analysis for lifelong learning. The Chair of the editorial board is Roberto Carneiro, an highly respected academic and a former Minister of Education of Portugal. He was a member of the UNESCO International Commission, chaired by Jacques Delors, that wrote ‘Learning, the Treasure Within’.