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IEA together with the European Commission has launched a new Research & Policy Grant for Early Career Researchers, opening its first call for applications.

The World Education Research Association, in collaboration with IEA and the University of Hamburg, has opened the call for the WERA Visiting Researcher Award 2026. The award offers researchers in education the opportunity to spend six to eight weeks in Hamburg in 2026.

The next cycle of ICILS, ICILS 2028, is currently at a stage where education systems are still enrolling to participate, and researchers have been preparing revisions to the assessments. What updates can we expect from ICILS 2028 to reflect a rapidly changing technological landscape?

IEA offers two annual research awards to recognize high-quality empirical research using IEA data. The next application deadline is 31 March 2026.

Looking back at the highlights from 2025 we are grateful to our network members and partners for their continued work on improving education using IEA data and inviting us to participate in their events.

IEA Research for Education, dedicated to investigating critical questions in educational research, released its 16th and 17th volumes in 2025, continuing to deliver important data-driven findings to the research community.

Focusing on partnership and collaboration, IEA has published three IEA Compass: Briefs in Education this year with authors from Education International, the World Bank, and Educational Research Centre.

IEA’s TIMSS 2023 Longitudinal is the first student-level longitudinal extension of TIMSS. TIMSS 2023 Longitudinal reassessed fourth- and eighth-grade students who participated in TIMSS 2023 in the fifth and ninth grades.

The report explores an important new framework, school climate health.

The gathering provided a chance to explore critical topics impacting large-scale assessments.