The workshop, hosted by Prof Lenka Sokolová on 19 May, explored a new international competences model for psychology education, and invited psychology teachers to respond to a survey on the topic.

Psychology teachers / educators from several European countries took part in the webinar. Lenka outlined the International Competences for Undergraduate Psychology (ICUP) model, including the thorough process of its development by 120+ experts from 40+ countries. It is a framework that shows the transferable knowledge, skills, and values that come from an undergraduate psychology degree, and it is intended as a guide to support both curriculum policy for psychology education in local and national contexts and course design on the school level.

In the workshop, Lenka’s presentation was followed by open discussion amongst participants on how the ICUP model, though designed with university-level psychology education in mind, may be relevant for the teaching of psychology in schools and colleges at pre-tertiary / pre-university level, including which aspects of the model they felt might be applicable for their own psychology teaching.

Lenka invited everyone to participate in a survey on the topic. She is conducting this research with her colleague, Dr Karen Marangio, under the auspices of their universities: Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia, and Monash University, Australia, respectively.

The survey is open to all school psychology teachers / educators in Europe – please complete it, and share the link with your colleagues and networks too! Click here to take the survey, or use the QR code in the image below.