Here comes the first ESREA newsletter for 2014: In the beginning of February we had the first meeting with the Steering Committee in Milano at Milano Bicocca University. It was an informative meeting where the new members where introduced to the organization of ESREA, the work of the Steering Committee as well as a strategic discussion for the coming three years. The Steering Committee also elected Laura Formenti from Milano Bicocca University as a new chair and Adrianna Nizinska from University of Lower Silesia as vice chair. 

In the newsletter you can read an exclusive interview with the new chair of ESREA.

This year six of ESREA eleven networks are planning to have a conference. The Life History and Biography research network just had their annual conference in Magdeburg. So, as always, there are a lot of activities going on in ESREA.

I hope that the spring is coming to all of you!

Best wishes

Sofia 

Sofia Nyström, PhD

Senior lecturer

Secretary of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA).