PATT 43, Pupils' Attitudes Towards Technology Conference, 2026, Norrköping, Sweden

The PATT43 conference theme is Technology Education Across Boundaries, to signify not only the interdisciplinary, innovative, and boundary-crossing characteristics of technology education worldwide but also the broad array of cooperative opportunities that exist between technology and other subjects and subject areas in the school and teacher education.

Papers are invited to contribute to this overarching theme in a variety of ways, related but not limited to the following suggested topics:

• technology education and STEM/STEAM;
• technology education and sustainability;
• technology education and social sciences;
• technology and craft, maker or design education;
• technology and vocational education;
• technology education and digital tools (e.g. AI);
• technology education for 21st-century readiness;
• assessment in technology education;
• technology and philosophy/history;
• technology and gender, engagement and recruitment; etc.

Abstracts

The PATT43 Norrköping editorial committee will review abstract submissions for the 2026 conference. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 20 October 2025. Feedback on abstracts will be provided by 20 November 2025. Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words. You have to download and use the PATT 43 Abstract template. Click on the following link to submit your abstract via the PATT 43 Proceedings Submission site (the template can be found under About, Conference Proceedings Submissions). Submissions of abstracts will be handled via Linköping University’s OJS.

Research Papers

If your abstract is approved, the deadline for the submission of PATT43 full drafts of research papers is 10 January 2026, and feedback will be provided by two reviewers in a double-blind review process by 20 February 2026. Deadline for submission of the final version of the full research paper is 1 April 2026.

Full research papers should be a maximum of 3,000 words, excluding the title, authors, abstract, keywords and references (note: full papers should not exceed 4,000 words, including everything).

You have to download and use the PATT 43 Paper template. Click on the following link to submit your paper via the PATT 43 Proceedings Submission site (the template can be found under About, Conference Proceedings Submissions). Submissions of full research papers will be carried out via Linköping University’s OJS, and each published paper will be assigned an individual DOI.

PATT 43 Conference Proceedings Editors

• Jonas Hallström, Linköping University, Sweden
• Jeffrey Buckley, Technological University of the Shannon, Ireland
• Nina Kilbrink, Karlstad University, Sweden
• Charlotta Nordlöf, Linköping University, Sweden
• Per Norström, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden