ICMI was formed more than a century ago (see https://www.mathunion.org/icmi/organization/historical-sketch-icmi) and international events like the International Congress on Mathematics Education (ICME) have been held since 1969. Mathematics education research does not have an equally long history and is a rather young field of research, with its roots often embedded in local contexts. However, one can say that the field is now at a turn of its history when, there is a need for a set of references with theories, methodologies, results and fields of investigation that the community can claim as the most important trends.

Of course, this is a begs the question as to how to select which are the most important trends to be represented, at least initially. Since 2003 ICMI has honored outstanding individuals every second year with two awards:

• The Felix Klein Award, named after the first president of ICMI (1908-1920), honours a lifetime achievement.
• The Hans Freudenthal Award, named after the eighth president of ICMI (1967-1970), recognizes a major cumulative program of research.

In order to build our resources ICMI has decided to focus on each Klein and Freudenthal ICMI Awardee, through what we have called the AMOR (Awardees Multimedia Online Resources) project. The more recent Emma Castelnuovo award, named after the Italian mathematics educator born in 1913, in celebration of her 100th birthday and in honor of her pioneering work, has been established to recognize outstanding achievements in the practice of mathematics education. It is now in the process of being integrated into the AMOR project.

Here is a table of all the awardees to date (following this link https://www.mathunion.org/icmi/awards/recipients-icmi-awards  you can access the citation of all awardees).

ICMI AMOR project is a long-term project that is built for the prosperity and history of Mathematics Education research. In 2017, and for practical reasons, Jean-Luc Dorier started with the three French awardees. He contacted: Annie Bessot and Claire Margolinas for Guy Brousseau, Marianna Bosch for Yves Chevallard and Michèle Artigue herself. The five of them have since worked regularly in order to give shape to the project. They made different choices and decided on the frame of the project. They received some technical support from the University of Geneva, from Isabelle Descombes for the graphical design, Alexandre Bourquin for the filming and editing and Sandra De Grazia for the web design. Recently, Abraham Arcavi joined the project and has begun work on the Anna Sfard Unit with Anna herself.

Each unit is devoted to one awardee and consists of a series of 8 to 12 modules between 10 and 30 minutes up to a total of 120-180 mins of videos. One module is basically a slide presentation with a speaker visible in the right below corner (sometimes full screen). The same graphic design (made by Isabelle Descombes) and music jingle (composed especially by Gabriel Bosch, Marianna’s son) is used to give a unity to the project. The speaker can be, but is not necessarily, the awardee him/herself. There can also be variation from one module to the other or even within the same module. A range additional multimedia, including films, animations can be used. No doubt new media formats will emerge over time.

The idea is that each module gives some keys to help reading some research papers which are given as free access resources attached to each module. There is also a global selected bibliography of the awardee’s work and of connected researchers.

An introductory module (Module 0) on each awardee presents some biographical and scientific elements of the background of the awardee. All the videos are in English, like most of the text. Some texts in other languages will sometimes be available.

We will try build the many modules as fast as possible but as can be imagined, the development of a unit takes time and not all awardees will have their resources online immediately.

At its Executive Committee Meeting held on March 10-12, 2025, ICMI decided to set up an ICMI AMOR Advisory Board.
 
The roles of the Advisory Board are to:
·       Establish priorities for new AMOR units to be created and help with contacting people who can design these new units.
·       Help anyone who wants to start building a new AMOR unit in the project, explaining the goals and the format, and interacting with this person or persons about the various design possibilities.
·       Identify the ideal characteristics for each new AMOR unit to be added, based on features of units that have already been designed and published.
·       Offer advice and feedback on the design of a whole AMOR unit and each module in it. This is not a formal review but instead an advisory process to help optimize the quality of the finished product.
·       Take action to promote the project to new and existing audiences and to enhance its impact. This means reviewing what is known about existing use of the AMOR units and proposing new uses and new audiences. It also means communicating about the project and its possible uses via various media and conferences.
 
The members of the Advisory Board are appointed by ICMI EC for a period of 4 years starting on April 1, 2025.
 
The Advisory Board is composed of a balanced mixture of persons active in the origin of AMOR and senior and junior researchers in mathematics education working and living in different parts of the world and using different theoretical tools, reflecting the possible users of the ICMI AMOR Projects. The total number of Advisory Board members should be between 9 and 15.
 
Here is the list of first appointees starting on April, 1, 2025:
 
-        Michèle Artigue (France)
-        Marianna Bosch Casabò (Spain)
-        Nadav Ehrenfeld (USA/Israel)
-        Anthony Essien (South Africa)
-        Fraser Gobede (Malawi)
-        Xingfeng Huang (China) 
-        Ruchi Sunil Kumar (India)
-        Nathan Lombard (France/Switzerland)
-        Daniela Pages (Uruguay)
-        Anna Sfard (Israel)
 
The work of the Advisory Board will be chaired by Betina Duarte, who as ICMI Vice-President is in charge of the ICMI AMOR Project, with the help of Jean-Luc Dorier, ICMI Secretary-General.