• Scientific Symposium “Defining educational action research in Greece: In prospect of forming a professional community of teacher researchers”, organized by the Department of Philosophy and Social Studies, University of Crete, the Department of Pre-school Education, N.K. University of Athens and CARN (Collaborative Action Research Network) in Rethymno, on June 27, 2015.
• (in collaboration with the Greek Historian’s for Education Society, and the Department for Pre-School Education, University of Crete) Panhellenic two-Days Conference Historiography of Greek Education: Reassessments and Prospects, Rethymno, November 2-3, 2012.
• One-day Conference (22 Σεπτεμβρίου 2010) within the framework of Students Training funded program.
• (In cooperation with Chrysoula Anagnostopoulou) One- Day Conference entitled “The Worlds of Kornilia Preveziotou (Istanbul 1878-Athens 1964): an editor and intellectual, Athens, December 13, 2014.
• Scientific Symposium on Defining Educational Action Research in Greece: towards the prospect of forming a professional community of teacher-researchers. Co-organization: Department of Philosophy and Social Studies University of Crete, Faculty of Early Childhood Education National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN), Rethymno June 27, 2015.
• http://www.fks.uoc.gr/_/pw/site/assets/files/1128/programma_symposiou_27_june_ 2015.pdf
• One-Day Conference Kypseli - A Research Database: Women’s press in the Ottoman Space (1845-1922), Rethymno, November 28, 2015.
• CARN Conference 2017: Rethymno, Greece, Reflecting on Action Research in an unequal world: an alternative perspective towards democracy .Friday October 20th – Sunday October 22nd.
• Exhibition entitled Women's Press – Women of the Press: Women's Periodicals and Women Editors in Ottoman Space (1845-1923). The participation concerns the research, documentation, selection of material and texts of the editors Alexandra Papadopoulou & Charikleia Korakidou and the periodicals Hmerologion ton Kyrion [Ladies’ Almanac] & Hmerologion ‘Hpeiros’ [Almanac ‘Hiperus’]. Organization: Department of Philosophy and Social Studies of the University of Crete, Hellenic Open University under the auspices of the Regional Unit of Rethymno. Rethymno, November 9-11, 2018. Chair organizers: Associate Professor Katerina Dalakoura, Associate Professor Nikos Vafeas.
• 1st One day conference for the World’s Day of Sexual Health entitled: “Sexual education is the bridge for the sexual health”, Department of Education, Municipality of Rethymno in cooperation with the Department of Philosophical Studies, University of Crete, Rethymno, September, 2019.

Organization of conferences, sessions in conferences workshops:

• Workshop: Women’s Social and Political Experiences in Modern and Contemporary Balkans, Rethymno, 10 June 2015.
• A session titled Women’s Journals in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Balkans (19th and early 20th centuries): Social Inequalities and Feminisms, proposed and presented at an International Conference organized by International Federation for Research in Women’s History (IFRWH) Αmsterdam 22-28 August 2010.
• An international session titled «Women writers from the Ottoman territories during the 19th c», at the International Conference  21st Conference of COMITÉ INTERNATIONAL DES ÉTUDES PRÉ-OTTOMANES ET OTTOMANES (CIEPO), organized by Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Department of Turkish Studies, Oriental Institute, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, 7-11 October 2014.
• An international session titled Collaboration Across Boarders: feminism(s), nationalism and politics in Interwar Balkans, for the Conference THE CAMPAIGN FOR WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE:
  NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES, 31st August –1st September 2018, University of Portsmouth, UK.
• An international session titled: Women’s Press-Women of the Press: Women’s Periodicals and Women Editors in the Ottoman Space. Faculty of Philosophical and Social Sciences. 9-11 Νοεμβρίου 2018. http://ottomanwomenspress.fks.uoc.gr/?q=node/5

In prospect of formulating dynamic learning networks of future teachers through action research: the role of their initial university education

Intra-school Teacher Training in Primary and Secondary schools

Formative assessment of pilot implementation of the new Curricula, within the framework of the Action NEW SCHOOL (School of the 21st century) – New Curriculum

Elements of critical literacy in the pilot Curriculum of Modern Greek Language for Gymnasium / Middle School

Exploring our training through Action Research within the Programme “Adult Education and Alternative Programmes of Participative Leadership”

Alternative forms of students’ assessment: prospects and difficulties in Gymnasium / Middle School

Developing Critical Language Awareness on pupils in a socio-cultural environment of crisis: a case study

Promoting change in school through collaborative practices: professional communities of learning as a framework of collaborative action

Bridging languages and memories to foster multiple identities: "Never leave your backpack behind!"

Ottoman Women’s Press (19th century –beginning of 20th): Social inequalities and feminisms

Methodology and research tools for the study of female publishing activity

East-West and the politics of location: receiving the “West” (re)discovering the “Orient”

Ottoman Women’s Press: The Construction the database Kypseli, as a digital research environment 

Professional training of the students of the Philosophy and Social Studies Department

Digital Humanities: Gender History and History of Women 

Feminism(s) and Politics in the Interwar Balkans: The Little Entente of Women (1923-1932)

Digital Reconstruction of the Archgeneia Educational Institutions (1857-1922) in Epivates [Selimpasa] of Thrace

Women Writers in History - Toward a New Understanding of European Literary Culture

Women and Modern Empires 1840 to the Present (WAME) 

Interactive practices of Gymnasium pupils in their group work within the framework of Critical Literacy

Women Educators and Pedagogical thought in the Greek speaking territories (19th c. -1932)

Women’s Press- Women of the Press: Women Editors and periodicals in the Ottoman Space

Feminist Cooperation in the Interwar Balkans -The Little Entente of Women (1923-1939):  Feminist, Political, Social and Economic Policies and Strategies

The Little Entente of Women and transnational feminism in the interwar period

Children’s life quality: participation, recreation and play

Από τα γλωσσικά ρεπερτόρια του Διευθυντικού Λόγου εξουσίας στο μετασχηματισμό της εκπαιδευτικής κοινότητας: μια συμμετοχική έρευνα-δράσηΑπό τα γλωσσικά ρεπερτόρια του Διευθυντικού Λόγου εξουσίας στο μετασχηματισμό της εκπαιδευτικής κοινότητας: μια συμμετοχική έρευνα-δράση

(FACULTY) Ekaterini Dalakoura (Assoc. Professor), Eleni Katsarou (Assoc. Professor). Giorgos Akoumianakis (Teaching Staff), Elena Vitalaki (Teaching Staff), Nectaria Liodaki (Teaching Staff), Eugenia Perysinaki (Teaching Staff), Ch. Anagnostopoulou (PhD candidate), Marianthi Palazi (PhD candidate), Elefth. Papastefanaki (PhD candidate), Athanasios Kakavelakis (PhD candidate), Parisis Papaioannou (PhD candidate), Konstantinos Sipitanos (PhD candidate), Anna Sfakianaki (PhD candidate), Vasiliki Pasparaki (PhD candidate), Alexandra Kokaraki (M.A.), Maria Paitaki (M.A.), Ipakoi Papadopoulou (M. A.), Ek. Karyotoglou, Maria Kakepi, V. Vlacha, Katerina Vasileiadou, Kassandra Beikaki (post graduate students). Antigoni Zisi: Teacher, on contract with the University of Crete Research Fund.

• Βλάχα, Π., Κακέπη, Μ. & Κατσαρού, Ε. (2018). Αναπτύσσοντας την Κριτική Γλωσσική Επίγνωση των μαθητών σε κοινωνικο-πολιτισμικό περιβάλλον κρίσης: Μια μελέτη περίπτωσης. Νέα Παιδεία, τχ. 166: 92-104.
• Λόγοι για την εκπαίδευση στα ελληνικά γυναικεία περιοδικά του οθωμανικού χώρου (19ος αι.- 1906): Η γυναικεία λαϊκή εκπαίδευση, Μνήμων 31 (2010): 115-150
• «Μεταξύ Ανατολής και Δύσης: Η εκπαιδευτική θεωρία της Σαπφούς Λεοντιάδος (1830-1900)» Θέματα Ιστορίας της εκπαίδευσης 11-12 (2013-2014): 89-127.
• Katsarou, E. & Tsafos, V. (2013). Student-teachers as researchers: towards a professional development orientation in teacher education. Possibilities and limitations in the Greek university. Educational Action Research 21 (4): 532-548.
• Katsarou, Ε. (2017). The multi-paradigmatic character of contemporary educational action research: a promising perspective or an underlying threat?, Educational Action Research, 25(5): 673-686.
• Katsarou, E. & Sipitanos, K. (2019). Producing and disseminating marginalized knowledge through students’ drawings, videos and crafts, Punctum International Journal of Semiotics, 5 (1): 92-113.
• Katsarou, E. & Sipitanos, K. (2019). Contemporary school knowledge democracy: possible meanings, promising perspectives and necessary prerequisites, Educational Action Research Journal, 27 (1) (special issue on Κnowledge Democracy): 108-124.
• Dalakoura, K., İstanbul’da Yayınlanan (19. yy. – 1908) Rumca Kadın Dergilerinde Eğitim Tartışmaları [in Turkish], Kebikeç: İnsan Bilimleri İçin Kaynak Araştırmaları Dergisi 31 (2011): 29-52.
• Dalakoura, K., «Between East and West: Sappho Leontias (1830-1900) and her Educational Theory”, Paedagogica Historica 51, τχ. 3 (2015): 298-318.
• Dalakoura, K., “Changing Identities in Ottoman Context: The National «Self» and the «Other» in 19th Century Greek Women’s Writings”, Espacio Tiempo Y Educacion, vol. 4, 1 (January 2017): 1-21.
• Κατσαρού, Ε. & Τσάφος, Β. (2016). Διερευνώντας τις διαλογικές πρακτικές των μαθητών σε ομάδες εργασίας: μια κοινωνικο-πολιτισμική μελέτη περίπτωσης. Στο Χοντολίδου, Ε., Τσοκαλίδου, Ρ., Τεντολούρης, Φ., Κυρίδης, Α., Βακαλόπουλος, Κ. (επιμ). Μνήμη Σωφρόνη Χατζησαββίδη. Γλωσσολογικές και Παιδαγωγικές Προσεγγίσεις (σσ. 450-475). Αθήνα: Gutenberg.
• Δαλακούρα, Κ. «Ιστορία της εκπαίδευσης και φύλο στη σύγχρονη ελληνική ιστοριογραφία», στο Το φύλο στην ιστορία: αποτιμήσεις και παραδείγματα, επιμ. Ε. Φουρναράκη, Γ. Γκότση, Α. Διαλέτη. Αθήνα: Ασίνη, 2015, 53-77.
• Katsarou, E. (2014). Critical action research and the challenge of postmodernism. Perspectives and limitations. In Thomas Stern, Franz Rauch, Angela Schuster, & Andrew Townsend (eds.). Action Research, Innovation and Change: International Perspectives across disciplines (pp. 191-201). Taylor & Francis.
• Katsarou, Ε. & Sipitanos, Κ. (υπό έκδοση-2020). Students as autoethnographers in multicultural and multilingual school contexts: developing critical literacy for inclusive classrooms. In Α. Chatzidaki & R. Tsokalidou (eds). Challenges and Initiatives in Refugee Education: the case of Greece. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Dalakoura, K., “Paradoxes, Contradictions and Dilemmas in Greek Women Teachers' Life and Work (19th century –Interwar Period)”, in Women’s Education in the Mediterranean World: Historical Perspectives (19th -20th centuries), eds. Antonella Cagnolati, Antonio Francisco Canales. Series: DONNE NEL NOVECENTO. Roma (Italy): Aracne, 2017, pp. 63-90.
• Dalakoura, K., “History of Education Issues [Themata Istorias tis Ekpaidefsis] (Greece)”, in Connecting History of Education: Scientific Journals as International Tools for Global World, eds. J.L. Hernandez Huerta, A. Cagnolati, A. Diestro Fernandez. Series Education, no. 3. FahrenHouse: Salamanka (Spain), 2015, 31-35
• Όψεις της γυναικείας επιχειρηματικής δραστηριότητας: Ελληνίδες εκδότριες στον οθωμανικό χώρο (1887 – 1922)
• Αρχιγένεια Εκπαιδευτήρια και γυναικεία κινητικότητα και κοινωνικότητα: συμβολή στις διαδικασίες εκσυγχρονισμού και εθνικής συγκρότησης στο οθωμανικό και ελληνικό πολιτικό πλαίσιο (1857-1922)
• Το εκπαιδευτικό πρόγραμμα των φεμινιστικών οργανώσεων του Μεσοπολέμου (1920-1936) (σε εξέλιξη)
• Φύλο και πολιτική : Μορφές συμμετοχής και δραστηριοποίησης των γυναικών στην πολιτική ζωή από την προεπαναστατική περίοδο έως την έναρξη του Α παγκοσμίου πολέμου (σε εξέλιξη)
• Γυναικεία εκπαίδευση, ταξικότητες, κοσμοπολιτισμοί και εθνικισμοί: Το Ζάππειο Παρθεναγωγείο Κωνσταντινούπολης (1875-1922) (σε εξέλιξη)
• Κατσαρού, Ε. (2016). Εκπαιδευτική Έρευνα-Δράση: Πολυπαραδειγματική διερεύνηση για την αναμόρφωση της εκπαιδευτικής πράξης. Αθήνα: ΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ.
• Κατσαρού, Ε. (2020 – υπό έκδοση). H Δημοκρατία στο Σχολείο. Προοπτικές από την αξιοποίηση διαδικασιών έρευνας-δράσης και κριτικού γραμματισμού. Αθήνα: ΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ.
• Δαλακούρα, Κ. (κύρια συγγραφέας) και Σ. Ζιώγου-Καραστεργίου, Η εκπαίδευση των γυναικών – Οι γυναίκες στην εκπαίδευση (18ος -20ός αι.): Κοινωνικοί, ιδεολογικοί, εκπαιδευτικοί μετασχηματισμοί και η γυναικεία παρέμβαση. Αθήνα: Σύνδεσμος Ελληνικών Ακαδημαϊκών Βιβλιοθηκών, 2015 (σελ. 346) URL. http://hdl.handle.net/11419/2585.
• Δαλακούρα, Κ. (2008). Η εκπαίδευση των γυναικών στις ελληνικές κοινότητες του οθωμανικού χώρου (19ος αι.-1922): Κοινωνικοποίηση στα πρότυπα της πατριαρχίας και του εθνικισμού. Αθήνα: Gutenberg (σελ.449).
• Οργάνωση και επιμέλεια έκδοσης (invited editor) του Espacio Tiempo y Education, vol. 4, no. 1 (January-July 2017) με θέμα «Education in Southeastern Europe: from Empires to Nation-States». http://www.espaciotiempoyeducacion.com/ojs/index.php/ete/issue/view/7
• Δαλακούρα, Κ., Σ. Χατζηστεφανίδου και Α. Χουρδάκης (επιμ.), Ιστοριογραφία της Ελληνικής Εκπαίδευσης: Επανεκτιμήσεις και προοπτικές. Ηράκλειο: Εκδόσεις της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής, 2015 (σελ. 576).
• Δαλακούρα Κ., Β. Δεληγιάννη-Κουϊμτζή, Χρ. Τζήκας, Β. Φούκας, επιμ., Θέματα ιστορίας της ελληνικής εκπαίδευσης και φύλο (10ος και 20ός αι). Θεσσαλονίκη: Εκδόσεις Κυριακίδη, 2017 (σελ 506).
• Κατσαρού, Ε. & Τσάφος, Β. (επιμ.) (2018). Ορίζοντας την Έρευνα-Δράση στην Ελλάδα. Στην προοπτική διαμόρφωσης μιας επαγγελματικής κοινότητας εκπαιδευτικών ερευνητών. Πρακτικά του 1ου Πανελλήνιου Συμποσίου για την Εκπαιδευτική Έρευνα-Δράση, Ρέθυμνο, 27-06-2015. Τα πρακτικά είναι διαθέσιμα στη διεύθυνση: http://www.actionresearch.gr/sites/default/files/1o_symposio.pdf
• Αυγητίδου, Σ., Κατσαρού, Ε. & Τσάφος, Β. (επιμ.) (2019). Εκπαιδευτική Έρευνα-Δράση: Ζητούμενα, Συγκρούσεις, Προοπτικές. Πρακτικά του 2ου Πανελληνίου Συμποσίου για την Εκπαιδευτική Έρευνα-Δράση, Φλώρινα, 01-04-2017. Τα πρακτικά είναι διαθέσιμα στην ηλεκτρονική διεύθυνση: http://www.actionresearch.gr/sites/default/files/2o_symposio_0.pdf
• “Empires in Balkans –Greece: “Digitized Sources and abstracts” in (online collection) Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820 (published by the Centre for the Historical Study of Women and Gender, State University of New York, Binghamton, and Alexander Street of Alexandria, Virginia).

• Collaboration with the European Network of Education Foundations for educating educators “KASTALIA”. A basic aim of the network is to develop collaborations between Foundations on themes of teaching and research, as well as students exchange, staff exchange, etc. (for further information, see the Network site: https://www2.uef.fi/en/kastalia)
• Collaboration with the international network of action research (Collaborative Action Research Network-CARN). A basic aim of the network is its members’ collaboration in developing discourse on action research and supporting relevant programmes in local, national and international level (see more at the Network site: http://www.esri.mmu.ac.uk/carnnew/index.php)
• Organization of the annual Conference of the CARN Network in 2017 in Rethymno (Gallou Campus), 20-22 October. Conference Site: https://carnreth2017.wixsite.com/carn
• Exhibition and Conference on Women’s Press-Women of the Press: Women’s Periodicals and Women Editors in the Ottoman Space. Organization: Department of Philosophy and Social Studies of the University of Crete, Hellenic Open University under the auspices of the Regional Unit of Rethymno. Rethymno, November 9-11, 2018.
• http://ottomanwomenspress.fks.uoc.gr/?q=node/5

In  collaboration with:

• University of Belgrade (Faculty of Philology): on Digital Humanities issues, and more precisely on Digital History of Women and Press.
• St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria (Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, & Faculty of Slavic Studies), Women Studies and Research Center, University of Istanbul : on issues concerning Gender and Women’s History in Ottoman and Post Ottoman Space.
• Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Deaprtment of History, Indiana University US, Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia, Institute of Contemporary History, Belgrade: on issues concerning Feminisms and Politics in Balkans (Interwar period).