In this episode Fiona Kelleher, from Early Childhood Ireland speaks to us about the European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) Conference held recently in Lisbon. She chats about what Early Childhood Ireland brought to the event, what we gained from it and how we are sharing these learnings with our members. She outlines the various research projects the Early Childhood Ireland delegation presented on and the keynote speakers who addressed the conference. She provided details of the NCCA Updating Aistear Consultation with babies, toddlers and young children, with which Early Childhood Ireland is involved as a partner with Maynooth University and Stranmillis College. This is the research Fiona presented on at EECERA. You can read the report here https://ncca.ie/media/6220/consultationreport.pdf