Conference program – Collaborative Leadership or Resilient Educational Institutions

Conference program

Day 3 | Saturday, 27th September 2025

Translation to and from Croatian will be available in Inova Lab for Day 3

8.30 – 10.00	Registration	FFRI Ground Floor
9.00 – 10.30	Keynote Jonathan James, Centre for Education Research and Innovation, OECD: Agency in action: School leadership for a sustainable tomorrow Introduction by Rasa Nedzinskaitė-Mačiūnienė, Vytautas Magnus University	Inova Lab
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee break	FFRI Ground Floor
11.00–12.30	Keynote session UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report #LeadforLearning Leadership for inclusion lessons from Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia Manos Antoninis, UNESCO, Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report (30 min.) When Commitment Collides with Constraints: The Moderating Role of Inclusive Attitudes and Job Satisfaction on School Leaders’ Mandate for Inclusion Jasna Kovačević, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (30 min.) Country Case Study on Leadership for Inclusive Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina Lamija Spahić, proMENTE, Bosnia and Herzegovina (30 min.) Inclusive Education Initiative in Two Azerbaijani Schools Ulviyya Mikayilova, ADA University Azerbaijan; Dr. Zorka Karanxha, University of South FloridaUSA; Lalakhanim Orujova, Creative Times Academy LLC, USA (15 min.) Moderator: Lana Jurko	Inova Lab
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch
Parallel sessions
14.00 – 16.00	Croatian focused Symposium – #Lead for Inclusion Manos Antoninis, UNESCO GEM Report Vesna Kovač, University of Rijeka Sanja Brajković, Network of Education Policy Centers Željka Štampar Zamuda, Primary School Tomaša Goričanca, Mala Subotica TBC, Education and Teacher Training Agency Moderator: Lana Jurko	Inova Lab
14.00 – 15.30	Leadership for Inclusion: The Principal’s Role in Addressing Diversity in Educational Institutions Marko Strle, National Education Institute, Slovenia School Management Support to Teachers of Minority education Institutions in Latvia a during the transition to Education in Latvian Language Darja Pallo, University of Latvia, Latvia; Antra Ozola, University of Latvia, Latvia Gender-Based Academic Mobbing in Turkish Universities: A Meta-Analysis from a Feminist Perspective Evrim Erol, Kutahya Dumlupinar University, Turkey The Principal Profession in the Context of Different Levels of the Education System Matilda Karamatić Brčić, Department of Pedagogy, University of Zadar, Croatia; Višnja Perin, Development and Consulting Ltd., Zadar, Croatia; Igor Radeka, Department of Pedagogy, University of Zadar Moderator: Ulviya Mikailova, ADA University	FFRI 301
14.00 – 15.30	School Development Program: Resource Manual Adna Sokolović, Center for Educational Initiatives Step by Step, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Belma Čutura Center for Educational Initiatives Step by Step, Bosnia and Herzegovina What teachers value in the selection of primary school principals Vlatka Kovač, Primary school Grigor Vitez Zagreb, Croatia The role and perspective of the school pedagogue: Experiences from Kosovo Osman Buleshkaj, Kosovo Pedagogical Institute, Kosovo Moderator: Mualla Aksu, Faculty of Education	FFRI 302
14.00 – 15.30	Resilient Systems, Resilient Students: The Role of Leadership, Autonomy, and School Closures in Shaping Academic Resilience Rasa Nedzinskaitė-Mačiūnienė, Vytautas Magnus University, Education Academy Lithuania; Egle Stasiunaitiene, Vytautas Magnus University, Education Academy Lithuania Competence-based curriculum: How transnational bureaucracy created a behaviouristic outcome-based school system in Norway Knut Ove Æsøy, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway Moderator: Jasna Kovačević, University of Sarajevo	FFRI 303
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee break	FFRI Ground Floor
16.00 – 16.30	Closing of the conference	Inova Lab

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