The European Summer University on the History and Epistemology in Mathematics Education (ESU) is originally the initiative of to the French Mathematics Education community of the IREMs, in the early 1980’s. From those meetings emerged the organization of a SU on a European scale, in close cooperation with the HPM group.

The upcoming Tenth ESU will be held in 2026 in Aveiro, Portugal. More information will be provided when available.

We list below the previous ESU’s in reverse chronological order. Links to the conference websites and/or proceedings are provided when available.

2022, 21-25 July, Nineth ESU, Salerno, Italy

2018, 20-24 July, Eighth ESU, Oslo, Norway

2014, 14-18 July, Seventh ESU, Copenhagen, Denmark

2010, 19-23 July, Sixth ESU, Vienna, Austria

2007, 19-24 July, Fifth ESU, Prague, Czech Republic

2004, 12-17 July, Fourth ESU, Uppsala, Sweden (conjointly with the ICME-10 Satellite Meeting of HPM)

1999, 15-21 July, Third ESU, Leuven & Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

1996, 24-30 July, Second ESU, Braga, Portugal (conjointly with the ICME-8 Satellite Meeting of HPM)

1993, 19-23 July, First ESU, Montpellier, France