International research for the teaching professions at Charles Sturt University (CSU) will be marked during a ceremony at CSU in Wagga Wagga on Monday 6 December following the signing earlier this year of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Academic Cooperation by CSU and the University of Western Ontario (UWO) in Canada. Dean of CSU’s Faculty of Education, Professor Toni Downes, will welcome UWO Associate Professors Allan Pitman and Anne Kinsella to CSU. Professor Bill Green from CSU leads the cooperative initiative between the two universities for research in professional education. Similar agreements involving CSU’s Research Institute for Professional Practice, Learning and Education (RIPPLE) have been signed in recent years with the University of Tromsø in Norway, the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), and the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (the Netherlands). Leading these latter agreements is Professor of Education at CSU, Professor Stephen Kemmis. He will also oversee two meetings from Monday 6 to Friday 10 December of about 70 academics and PhD students from Australia, Canada, Finland, Norway, Sweden and The Netherlands.  The researchers are exploring how teachers in Australia and overseas can ‘develop the moral, social and professional capabilities characteristic of excellent teachers’.