The European Educational Research Journal occupies a position which might be different from that of other nation-based journals. As a European journal, it has been engaged with the issue of “big space” from its very beginning. In fact, Europe and Europeanization form the central problem the journal tries to deal with and understand. The key intuition of the journal is that the fabrication of ‘Europe’ is not a work of top-down policy processes and governments. Rather, Europe unfolded through practices: formal procedures and decision-making, and also meeting up, having conversations, networking, making new links, involving people, circulating and exchanging ideas, crossing boundaries, and imagining futures. Europeanisation was neither hierarchical nor flat, neither formal nor strictly informal, and not simply multilevel. Europe and Europeanization take place through the circulation of people, experts, researchers, workers, through comparison and also through the circulation of ideas, the borrowing of policies, the diffusion of best practices. Our contribution to the symposium will reflect on different ways to engage with Europe and Europeanization. It will also articulate how the EERJ conceives and constructs the European dimensions of its publications and special issues.

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