If you haven’t already booked, register here, and secure your place at our EFPTA 2026 Conference in Ljubljana, 16-19 April!
We’re delighted that we have already received a good number of submissions for posters – this is the first time that an EFPTA Conference will include poster presentations! As we want to offer as much opportunity as possible for potential poster presenters, we are now extending the submission deadline to 13 March 2026. Find full details here, and submit your poster proposal via the online form. We will notify you by 20 March, whether accepted or otherwise. Important – if your poster is accepted, you can register to attend the Conference at the Earlybird rate, even though that deadline has passed!
The Conference programme is coming together. 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.
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. Register before 31 January to get the Earlybird rate (110 euro)! There are not many places still available, so book as soon as possible. Here you will find helpful information about transport and hotels in Ljubljana, including a hotel that offers a discount code.
We received a great set of interesting submissions for workshops, symposia, and short talks! The call for submissions is now closed – check out the final list of workshops. We are very grateful for these contributions from the European psychology teaching community to the Conference programme: they are varied in their topics – all relevant to the conference theme of “Why (learning) psychology matters” – and the presenters are from a wide range of backgrounds / perspectives / nationalities, including psychology teachers, teacher educators, researchers. Look out for details of the short presentations too, coming soon!
The conference schedule overview has information on venue and conference timings over the four days, to help you plan your trip. 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.
We are looking forward to getting together in Ljubljana on 16-19 April 2026!
You can register here.
Links to key Conference information:
Keynote Speaker, Katja Košir: Abstract and Biography
Keynote Speaker, Ana Kozina: Abstract and Biography
Information about Ljubljana transport and hotels