Faculty of Education of UP (FE) and its academic staff have long held a prominent position in the research community both nationally and internationally. Thanks to the high expertise of its researchers, FE has shown excellent results, especially in the areas of prevention, education, research, intervention and awareness-raising related to risky behaviour on the Internet, in the creation of systematic reviews, in special pedagogy, in research on healthy lifestyles and in the development of the field of art education and research in art education.

Faculty of Education of UP academic staff have also been active in the editorial boards of international scientific journals, not only in Europe, but also in Canada, Brazil or Japan. Dr. Miloslav Klugar has long held the position of editorial board member in the prestigious scientific journals JBI Evidence Synthesis, or Frontiers of Public Health. Some have held positions at the level of referee in prestigious journals – Associate Professor Jiří Kantor – reviewing for the prestigious Research in Developmental Disabilities, or Quality & Quantity – International Journal of Methodology.

Faculty of Education of UP hosted over 800 foreign visitors. Among the most prominent personalities was undoubtedly the world-famous American psychologist Ramani Durvasula, who lectured at FE in 2019 on narcissism in society and in partner relationships. The newly established Center of Evidence-based Education and Arts Therapies hosted distinguished professors at FE: In 2023, Professor Karin Schumacher came from the Berlin University of the Arts to lecture on music therapy and autism; in 2022, Professor Jos de Backer from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, known for his work on musical improvisation in a therapeutic context, lectured here; in 2021, Professor Jaakko Erkkilä from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, psychotherapist and music therapist lectured on music therapy and psychiatry. In 2022, the Centre hosted two professors who presented the field of clinical guideline development methodology. These were Professor Holger Schünemann from McMaster University in Canada and Professor Zachary Munn from the University of Adelaide in Australia. In 2019, FE hosted Professor Richard Hickman from the University of Cambridge, who presented on Art and Design Education.

Faculty of Education of UP was also involved in an international scientific society through the Centre of Evidence-based Education & Arts Therapies: JBI Affiliated Group. This Centre is part of the international Joanna Briggs Institute Collaboration and works closely with the Czech National Centre for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation in Brno (Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech Evidence-Based Healthcare Centre: Joanna Briggs Institute Centre of Excellence, Masaryk University GRADE Centre). FE organized in cooperation with 4 universities the International Scientific Conference of students of doctoral study programmes in the field of social sciences, the conference was also intended for young and novice researchers.

Article:  Petra Šobáňová, Vice-Dean of UP Faculty of Education, receives The Edwin Ziegfeld Award  (2021, FE NEWS)

Prestigious R&D&I awards granted

Kamil Kopecký, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.

The best project of the year 2023 in the Czech Republic – Kybercena 2023 for E-Safety – Centre for Prevention of Risky Virtual Communication of the Faculty of Education of Palacký University Olomouc.

Awarded by - Cyber Security Centre

Kamil Kopecký, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.

The award for the Best Crime Prevention Project in 2023 at the local level for E- Safety – Centre for the Prevention of Risky Virtual Communication of the Faculty of Education of Palacký University Olomouc.

Awarded by - Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic

Kamil Kopecký, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.

Bronze Medal of the Deputy Police President for the Criminal Police and Investigation Service, Brigadier General Tomáš Kubík, to Professor Kopecký for his support and long-term cooperation with the Police of the Czech Republic (in the field of prevention, education, intervention, knowledge sharing and research), 2023.

Awarded by - Police of the Czech Republic

Milan Mašát, Mgr. Ph.D. MBA

Best Paper in Ireland International Conference on Education (Dublin, Ireland, 2023), Contribution to Implementation of Innovative Methods in Teaching Literary Education from the Perspective of University Students.

Awarded by - Infonomics Society

Petra Šobáňová, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.

Award of the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports for outstanding educational activities at the university for the year 2022 (especially for significant innovations in the field of educational activities).

Awarded by - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic

Kamil Kopecký, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.

Award of the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports for outstanding educational activities at the university in 2020 (mainly for activities in the field of virtual communication risks and for the E-Safety project, which focuses, among other things, on increasing the digital literacy of future teachers, safe teaching in cyberspace and research on cybercrime prevention and cybersecurity).

Awarded by - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic

Adéla Hanáková, Mgr. Ph.D.

Rector's Honorable Mention to the authors/authors of the 2022 professional book – Delivering Telepractice in Speech Therapy (the book provided a comprehensive view of modern technology, which, especially during the global pandemic of COVID-19, played a very important role in the delivery of speech therapy intervention).

Awarded by - Palacký University Olomouc

Jitka Málková, doc. RNDr. CSc. 

Awarded by the Administration of the Krkonoše National Park (Director PhDr. Robin Böhnisch) and the Administration of the Polish Krkonoše National Park – Karkonoski Park Narodowy (Director dr inż. Andrzej Raj) for Long-term arctic-alpine tundra research (2021).

Administration of the Krkonoše National Park, Administration of the Polish Krkonoše National Park – Awarded by - Karkonoski Park Narodowy

Petra Šobáňová, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.

The Edwin Ziegfeld Award for Leaders in Art Education – for comprehensive activities in art education through international collaboration and research projects, including research that focuses on the intersection between theoretical and practical knowledge in art education and that has influenced the development of art education not only in the Czech Republic but also in other countries (2021).

Awarded by - American Society for Education through the Arts (USSEA)

Pavel Režný, doc. PaedDr. Ph.D.

Annual Award of the Union of Czech Choirs for 2020 – award for the promotion of Czech music abroad and for pedagogical contribution in the field of choral singing.

Awarded by - Union of Czech Choirs