We are excited to announce that our Keynote Speakers for the Ljubljana 2026 EFPTA Conference will be Professor Katja Košir of the Department of Psychology, University of Maribor, Slovenia, and Professor Ana Kozina, Head of Centre at the Pedagoški inštitut (Educational Research Institute), Ljubljana, Slovenia. Keep an eye on Conference programme updates to discover the topics of their talks, on the conference theme of “Why (learning) psychology matters”.

And we are delighted, too, that Professor Anja Podlesek, Ph.D, the President of Društvo psihologov Slovenije (the Slovenian Psychologists’ Association), and Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Ljubljana, will give a welcome speech at the opening of Conference along with EFPTA President, Mairi Rice.

You can register to attend the conference here. The online form contains information on fees as well as practical info for taking part in the Conference. Please register as soon as possible, as places are limited.

You’re invited to contribute to the programme – the call for submissions is open! Please consider offering a workshop, or symposium, or short talk. We welcome submissions from psychology teachers, teacher educators, researchers, or students. Any topic relevant to the conference theme of “Why (learning) psychology matters” will be considered. You can apply via this form, which also gives details of deadlines and when you’ll be notified of acceptance.

Take a look at the conference schedule overview which has information on venue and conference timings over the four days, to help you plan travel and accommodation. We are indebted to our Slovenian colleagues who will host the conference, and to the National Education Institute of Slovenia and the Secondary School of Nursing, Ljubljana, for their generous support. Psychology is widely taught in high schools in Slovenia, and it is one of the most popular subjects; find more information about psychology education in schools in Slovenia here.

EFPTA Conferences attract participants of many nationalities and are conducted in English. Our very successful 2024 Conference in Helsinki was attended by participants of 17 nationalities from Europe and beyond, and we very much look forward to getting together again with our international colleagues in psychology education in the spring of 2026!

If you would like to publicise the Ljubljana Conference in your school/institution, you can download a printable A3 poster or A5 two-sided flyer.

The EFPTA Conference organising group are working hard to plan the event, and meanwhile, watch this space for more updates, including an invitation to submit a workshop / symposium / short presentation, later in October.

We are looking forward to getting together in Ljubljana on 16-19 April 2026!

You can register here.