• To become the first of a series of several forums to share experiences of success, to exchange up-to-date scientific knowledge in the field of inclusive education and to provide an opportunity for those committed to inclusion to reflect about alternative ways of overcoming barriers to participation and to fight exclusion;
• To facilitate longlasting partnerships between people and institutions from the same or different countries, as well as for learning with each other about current ways of accessing national and international resources for projects that aim to guarantee the right of every person to a full life, to education, to social recognition and to professional opportunities;
• To contribute towards making inclusive education better known and understood as a quality education for all children of social groups 'at risk', including among others those with disabilities, street children, females, children from African-Caribbean communties, children from ethnic groups, working children, abused children, children with HIV/AIDS, cancer or other terminal disease, and pupils with a history of academic failure or dropout.

Congress Chairwoman: Windyz Brazão Ferreira

• Meeting the challenges of a quality and inclusive education for all
  Alan Dyson, University of Newcastle, England
• The rights of children in Latin America
  Representative of the Defense for the Rights of the Children (to be confirmed)
• Gender equity in the inclusive education movement
  Sarah Whitelaw, University of Leeds, England
• International Dialogue between international NGOs that support inclusive education and Latin American NGOs
  Lena Saleh, Former Chief, Section for Special Needs Education UNESCO Paris

• Self-Advocacy and the voice of members of social groups 'at risk';
  Brian O'Toole, School of the Nations, Guyana
  Ana Paula C. de Resende, Association of the Physically Disabled of Uberlândia, Brazil
• Legislation vs. inclusion: school development and teacher training programmes;
  Maria Teresa Égler Mantoan, University of Campinas, Brasil
  Sue Pearson, University of Leeds, England
  Carlos Manhiça, University Eduardo Mondelane, Moçambique (to be confirmed)
  Eugênia Fávero, Procuradora Geral da Republica, Brazil
• Technology Information and media: supporting educational and social inclusion;
  (To be confirmed)
• Preventing educational exclusion: infance health and family breakdown
  Craig Loftin, UNICEF, Brasil
  Helia Molina, Regional Adviser on Child and Family Health and Population in Latin America (to be confirmed)

• Networking: Ed-Todos/The Enabling Education network partnership in Latin America
  Susie Miles, The Enabling Education Network-EENET, England
  Windyz B. Ferreira, Edtodos/EENET, Brasil
• Rights of the disabled in Latin America
  Elena Dalbo, Federación Argentina pro Atención a las Personas con Discapacidad Mentales-FENDIM, Argentina
• Convention on the Rights of the Child: an instrument of defense
  Anna-Karin Petré, SCF Sweden, Latin America Adviser on Disability Issues
  Windyz Ferreira, Ed-Todos/ Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil
• Gender and social and educational inequality
  Sara Whitelaw, University of Leeds, England,
• Popular Education and inclusion in Latin America
  Edna da Góes Brennand, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil
  Jorge Jeria, Chile/USA
• Inclusion of youth in the labour market
  Emilia Prestes, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil

1. Sharing experiences of educational success
   In this theme we expect to share successful experiences led by
   1. NGOs - motivation, action and results,
   2. Teachers and/or school communities, teaching-learning experiences with pupils with disabilities in the mainstream system,
   3. Formal and non-formal education of children and young people from disadvantaged social groups.
2. Teacher training and human diversity in the classroom
   Innovative and inclusive teaching strategies in the classroom: successful experiences of providing equal opportunities for participation and gender equality.
3. Accessing the curriculum: effective learning process and information technology
   Successful experiences of inclusion through information technologies.
4. Mothers, fathers and supporters in action
   Fighting educational exclusion: successful experiences for the right to education in the mainstream system.
5. Successful partnership
   Collaboration between families, schools, universities, government, institutions, NGOs and national/international agencies in seeking resources (material, human and financial) in order to implement and sustain inclusive social and educational projects.
6. Preventing social and educational exclusion from taking place
   Experiences of projects that aim to prevent social and educational exclusion of children and young people from vulnerable groups, including preventative approaches to premature death, to HIV/AIDS infection, to child exploitation (labouring, sexual abuse, and prostitution), to social and cultural deprivation, etc.
7. Sharing experiences of successful action-research projects
   Social and educational intervention projects that aim at overcoming barriers for participation, promoting sustainable development and supporting individual and community empowerment.