Inclusion and education

ABOUT THE NETWORK OF EDUCATION POLICY CENTERS
The Network of Education Policy Centers is an international non-governmental membership 
organization that gathers 27 members from 21 countries from Eastern and south-eastern Europe, 
the Caucasus and Central Asia. It was founded in 2006. Its members are public and civil-society 
organizations dealing with education at different levels, from education research and policy analysis 
to teacher training and school-based activities. The mission of the Network is to promote flexible, 
participatory, evidence-based, transparent education policies reflecting open society values, which 
mean proactive policy initiatives as well as advocacy and monitoring activities of governments and 
national education systems. The Network addresses the need for independent and information-based 
policy analysis, advocacy for equity, and effective, sustainable solutions in education. The geographic 
complexity in which it operates enhances a qualitative comparative approach as well as the attitude to 
explore new topics and trends in education, such as the extent of hidden or informal private payments 
for public education, the equity dimensions of private tutoring, the ways in which history and social 
studies teaching and learning materials promote (in)tolerance, the models of minority education, and 
the developments of education for sustainability in the region.
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C E N T R A L A N D E A S T E R N E U R O P E , C A U C A S U S A N D C E N T R A L A S I A
Network team
Executive director: 
Lana Jurko
Raffaella d’Apolito, Iva Perković and Pietro Santilli
Network consultants
Dženana Husremović, Elena Lenskaya, Eve Mägi, Ulviyya Mikayilova
Ivona Čelebičić and Zlatan Jovanović, proMENTE social Research
Ivana Cenerić, Tijana Jokić Zorkić and Tijana Nenadović, Centre for Education Policy.

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Global Education Monitoring Report
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