The country's most influential education research congress will bring together academics, teachers, and decision-makers in Santiago.

The Interdisciplinary Congress on Educational Research – CIIE 2026 Congress – will be held from October 27 to 29, 2026, in Santiago, Chile, and will bring together presentations from national and international researchers. In its seventh edition, the focus will be on education in service to society and the role of research in a time of change.

Academics and researchers from various disciplines and study centers, teachers, educational leaders and other education professionals, decision-makers, students and the general public will meet between October 27 and 29 at the Extension Center of the East Campus of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, in the VII Interdisciplinary Congress on Educational ResearchThe CIIE Congress is the most important educational research meeting in the country and the region; a biennial milestone that brings together the latest trends and findings in studies on the educational system, developed in Chile and Latin America.

The CIIE Congress is the result of a joint and interdisciplinary effort by leading organizations in educational knowledge production. It is organized by the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, through its Faculty of Education, el CEPPE UC and the Educational Justice Center; the University of Chile, through the Institute for Advanced Studies in Education and the HELLO; and the Educational Leaders Center from the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso. In addition, the Chilean Association of Researchers in Education (ACHIE) co-organizes the event. National Council of Deans in Education (CONFAUCE), the Faculties of Education of the Alberto Hurtado University and the Diego Portales University, Research Center for Socio-Educational Transformation (CITSE) of the Catholic University Silva Henríquez and the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences.

Seventh edition of the Congress focusing on the meaning of education

The focus of the CIIE will be “Education at the service of society. Meaning, horizon and role of educational research in a time of change”“Its seventh edition aims to highlight the central role of educational research in generating evidence, discussion, and proposals that will advance what UNESCO (2023) has called a 'new social contract,' contributing to a sustainable and just society,” says Mauricio Pino Yancovic, general coordinator of the CIIE Executive Committee and adjunct researcher at CIAE. In this context, the event will be a space for meeting, reflection, and knowledge dissemination, allowing for reflection on the meaning, scope, and role of educational research, with an interdisciplinary and pluralistic perspective for Chile and Latin America.

The CIIE is held every two years. In the previous version, held in 2024, the Congress brought together more than 1.200 attendees and more than 650 exhibitors, with an average of 160 presentations per day and with a wide variety of topics covered: school coexistence, curriculum analysis, special educational needs, migration and school segregation, gender inequality, evaluation practices, initial teacher training, educational trajectories, quality assurance, educational leadership, democracy and citizenship, educational justice and continuous improvement, among others.

In this 2026 call for papers, in addition to addressing these and other emerging topics, various presentation formats will be considered—papers, posters, and symposia—in three categories: conceptual or theoretical papers, empirical studies, and literature reviews. The congress's research areas, as well as the requirements and details for submitting papers, will be available soon on the official CIIE 2026 website.