EECERA 2025 Conference Chair
Zlatica Zacharová, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
EECERA 2025 Scientific Committee
Anežka Hamranová – Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Eva Vancu – Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Romana Schunova – Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Jana Holubčíková – Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Dagmar Nemček – Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Lucia Bundová – Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Robert Osaďan – Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Vladimír Filipovič – Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Magda Petrjanosova – Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Pavol Kopinec – Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Jóhanna Einarsdóttir – University of Iceland, Iceland | EECERA Trustee
Maelis Karlsson Lohmander – University of Gothenburg, Sweden | EECERA Trustee
Irene Gunning – EECERA Trustee, Ireland
Zlatica Zacharová – Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Sean Delaney – Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC), United Kingdom
Conference Organising Committee
Faculty of Education, Comenius University Bratislava in conjunction with Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC).
Faculty of Education | Comenius University Bratislava
Founded in 1946, the Faculty of Education of Comenius University is the oldest faculty of education in Slovakia and one of the biggest in the country.
The faculty offers education for pedagogical staff (teachers and educators) for pre-primary, primary and secondary schools, experts for education, labour and social affairs and healthcare resorts as well as teachers and educators for all kinds of special schools and facilities in Slovakia.
The Faculty, regarded as one of the leading research centres, has a highly developed programme based on an interdisciplinary approach of the so called general programme with individual subjects, subjects’ didactics and teaching practice for all levels of school education and education facilities. The importance of teacher training, modernization of methods and teaching processes is in closed connection with the current state of our school system and the results of monitoring of various surveys together with work on the new curricular programmes are among the priorities of the faculty.
The important part of the offer of study programmes is formed by non-teaching specializations such as speech therapy, social work, psychological and career counselling for individuals with disabilities, special pedagogy, medical education, tutoring and social education, foreign languages and cultures. The faculty is regarded as being a unique workplace and a centre of scientific research in many of the above mentioned fields.
Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC), Birmingham, United Kingdom
The Centre for Research in Early Childhood is the home of CREC in Birmingham (Charitable Trust) and Amber Publications & Training Ltd (APT). Established by Professor Chris Pascal and Professor Tony Bertram, CREC has been working to improve early years provision for over 25 years. CREC specialises in early childhood research which has relevant and meaningful outcomes for practice and policy. Some of its research is transformed into training and development programmes designed for the specific needs of the early years sector. CREC also offers postgraduate research degrees and has a strong reputation for undertaking reviews, reports, evaluations and consultancy work with many UK local authorities, NGOs and countries. CREC also runs British Early Childhood Education Research Association (BECERA) annual conference and has been EECERA’s strategic partner supporting the delivery of EECERA annual conference since 2009.