VI Latin American and Caribbean Biennial on Early Childhood, Childhood and Youth
The 6th Latin American and Caribbean Biennial on Early Childhood, Childhood, and Youth is now accepting submissions. This event provides a platform to share knowledge, connect experiences, and generate ideas that contribute to transforming the lives of children and young people in our region. June 8-12, 2027, in Manizales, Caldas, Colombia.
Call for papers : from November 3, 2026 to February 15, 2027
Participants may include: Researchers and students – Professionals and social organizations – Public policy representatives – People with experiences, practices and knowledge that deserve to be shared.
How to participate?
Choose one of the 100 work tables.
Submit your summary of a maximum of 500 words.
You can submit up to 2 papers and add unlimited co-authors.
All proposals will be evaluated for approval.
The 6th Latin American and Caribbean Biennial on Early Childhood, Childhood, and Youth is the leading regional forum for collaboration among academia, governments, social organizations, the private sector, and multilateral organizations to influence public policy and transform the realities of children and youth. Supported by the RedINJU network and the CLACSO Working Group on Childhood and Youth , the Biennial combines research, political dialogue, and participatory development, addressing strategic issues such as inequality, poverty, violence, social mobilization, diversity, and identities, with the aim of generating concrete alternatives and funding for local projects throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
This Biennial was created in 2014 by the Ibero-American Network of Postgraduate Studies – RedINJU (CLACSO's postgraduate network) and CLACSO's Working Group on Childhoods and Youth. Currently, RedINJU comprises the Center for Advanced Studies of the University of Manizales and CINDE (Colombia), the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (Brazil), the University of the Republic (Uruguay), FLACSO (Argentina), the University of Lanús (Argentina), COLEF (Mexico), the University of La Plata (Argentina), the Salesian Polytechnic University (Ecuador), Luis Amigó University (Colombia), and the University of Valencia (Spain). The Working Group on Childhoods and Youth currently consists of 130 researchers from various countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This VI Biennial will have as its epistemic souths Generational Inequalities, Childhoods and Youths: Politics, Resistance, Poverty and Hunger; Social-Collective Mobilization, Democratic Transformations, Agencies and Violence; and Narratives of Life, Social Movements, Diversities and Identities.
V Latin American and Caribbean Biennial on Early Childhood, Childhood and Youth
From July 17 to 21, 2023, the V Latin American and Caribbean Biennial on Early Childhood, Childhood and Youth was held in Manizales, Colombia. It sought to positively impact the improvement and understanding of the realities experienced by children and young people in Latin America and the Caribbean, through comparative analysis of contexts, the development of research processes, the participatory construction of initiatives and alternatives, direct dialogue with public policies and government actors in different geographies of the region, the ways of linking between States and social organizations, among other practices.
