Thirteenth International Summer School on Mind, Brain and Education

2018 October 16–20

Migrants and Refugees in the 21st Century: Children in and out of schools

Directors of the School:
Kurt W. Fischer, Antonio M. Battro and Sebastián J. Lipina
Director of the Course: Marcelo Suárez Orozco
Program Officer of the School: Lula Majdalani


Battro, Antonio
Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican

MD (University of Buenos Aires). PhD (Psychology, Université de Paris). Former activities: Member of the Centre International d' Epistémologie Génétique, Geneva (Jean Piaget); Directeur Associé École Pratique des Hautes Études, Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale et Comparée. Paris; Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Education, Harvard; Chief Education Officer, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, President International Mind, Brain and Education Society, IMBES (2009). Current activities: Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences; Member of the National Academy of Education (Argentina); and Director of the International School on Mind Brain and Education, Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy.