Compared with the previous years, the number of participants in 2025 was stable and consistent during the sessions.
The “Education and Psychoanalysis” group remains steady from year to year, fostering greater understanding and in-depth exchanges. Around a main group of 20 researchers, the network is open to ’visiting researchers’ who take part in one or two sessions.
Network 21 has gradually become a forum for exchange among its members, who seem to feel confident enough to share both their research findings and their epistemological questions, while respecting the diversity of approaches. This dynamic leads some researchers to strengthen their cooperation, for instance through publications or collaborations during international conferences.
Each ECER is an excellent opportunity to meet new colleagues from different countries, so we have to continue to develop contacts to enlarge the network, particularly in the UK and the USA. We are also working on the extent of contact with the Spanish – and Portuguese – speaking world. The contacts made for the book-in-progress for Bloomsbury also help us expand the network. Contact with international psychoanalytic associations (more specifically in the Czech Republic) could also help to raise the visibility of the network.
ECER 2025 has also been an opportunity for a new discussion with Network 19 Link Convenors in order to organise a joint session during a coming ECER Conference.