Virtual Walks
Details on how to participate will be announced after the opening ceremony of the conference!
The InSEA World Congress will take place in 2025 under the hosting guarantee of the Czech Section of INSEA and the Department of Art Education, Faculty of Education, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, Europe.
The organizers express their gratitude and thanks to the partners of this exceptional event. Thanks for your support!
Czech Section of INSEA
The Czech Section of INSEA is a voluntary non-profit association which is a collective member of the international organization of International Society for Education through Art and which aims at promoting cooperation in education through art and education towards art. The Czech Section of INSEA is a national section of this significant world-wide organization and was set up in 1967.
The mission of the Czech Section of INSEA is to encourage and advance education through art and the didactic discourse of art education as well as to contribute to the international cooperation in this area. The association monitors and shares experience from abroad, publishes specialized texts and reports, and dispenses information on world-wide activities in the field of education through visual art in the whole and broadly perceived sphere of aesthetic education.
The Czech Section of INSEA organizes conferences and educational seminars, and is dedicated to the advancement of theoretical research in this area.
Palacký University Olomouc
Faculty of Education
Department of Art Education
Palacký University Olomouc (UP) is an internationally respected and scientifically and academically highly productive university in Central Europe. Founded 22 December 1573, it is the second-oldest university in the Czech Republic and the oldest one in Moravia. For 450 years it has contributed to the intellectual wealth of society and to its scientific, cultural, and social development.
Every year 23,000 students study UP’s eight faculties, which provide over a thousand combinations of Bachelor’s, Master’s, and doctoral study programmes. Virtually every discipline is on offer, in teacher training, law, theology, physical education and sports, the humanities, social sciences, and arts to those in natural, medical, and health sciences. The UP credit system is fully compatible with international ECTS.
The university operates a number of modern science and research centres employing renowned international teams. In 2021, a university institute was established, the Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute (CATRIN), bringing together teams from the CRH, RCPTM and IMTM science centres. Michael Kohajda has been the rector since 2025.
Palacký University Olomouc also focuses on “third mission” community engagement and service activities via educational and socio-cultural events. Since 1966, it has been organising the unique festival of popular science films Academia Film Olomouc (AFO). It founded a popular science centre, Fort Science, and runs the UPoint information centre and shop in the city centre. Since 2021, the university has established a Sustainability Office – Sustainable University, has created the UP Sustainable Development Strategy and is responsible for its implementation. Great emphasis is being laid on international relations and internationalisation. In the global university rankings, UP is regularly ranked among the top three Czech universities.
The Faculty of Education of Palacký University in Olomouc provides higher education to future teachers and other teaching staff for various types of kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, school and out-of-school educational and training facilities. It also focuses on training staff from the field of state administration and local government. The ambition of the faculty's teachers and students is to build on the positive aspects of the rich history of teacher training in Olomouc and to creatively develop them in the spirit of modern European educational trends.
Olomouc Museum of Art
Olomouc Museum of Art was established in 1951 as a part of the Regional Museum in Olomouc. After the year 1989 it became an independent institution with its activities (exhibitions, performances, education) now being carried out in three different locations. The Museum is operated by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. The museum has more than 90 750 collection items which makes it the third biggest institution of its kind in the Czech Republic. Museum presents both long-term and short-term exhibitions of mainly 20th and 21st century art. Since 2007 preparations have been carried out for the transformation of this part of the Museum of Art into the Olomouc Central European Forum. Archdiocesan Museum Olomouc was established in 1998 in cooperation with the Olomouc Archbishopric as the first museum in the Czech Republic focused on spiritual culture. Its premises also include the Romanesque Palace of the Moravian Bishops near St. Wenceslas Basilica at Olomouc Přemyslid Castle. As of the year 1999 the northern part of the former Castle was gradually reconstructed for the needs of the Museum, i.e. the building of the chapter deanery and its husbandry yard. It was opened to public on 1 June 2006. Archdiocesan Museum Kroměříž was established in 2007 as a part of the Museum at the Archbishop’s Palace in the town of Kroměříž. It administers all the local collections amounting to some 105,000 items. Apart from the gallery and historical libraries, a permanent exhibition of gardening in the Czech Lands will be opened. The Archbishop’s Palace in Kroměříž along with its unique historical gardens were proclaimed a national cultural monument in 1995 and recorded onto the UNESCO List of World Cultural and Natural Heritage in 1998.
Regional Museum in Olomouc
The beginnings of the Regional Museum in Olomouc date back to 1883, when the Patriotic Museum Society established its own museum as the first Czech museum in Moravia. Today the whole museum collection fund amounts over 1,000,000 items. It comprises of geological, mineralogical, paleontological, zoological, entomological, archeological, numismatic, ethnographical, cartographic, military, medical-pharmaceutical, musical, decorative arts collections, followed by collections dealing with the development of industry, transport, business and handcrafts. The architectonic development of the region is shown in a large collection of topographic graphics, drawing and painting. It is worth pointing out that there is also the collection of historical shot targets, illustrating a. o. the iconography of Olomouc. Literary evolution of the region is documented through literary inheritance in the literary museum archives. The museum´s photographic archives contains about 300,000 negatives. In the lapidarium over 400 unique items are deposited, which document the building´s evolution since the Roman style up to the 19th century. The library with more than 70 000 volumes also takes care of unique collection of 126 manuscripts and 2000 ancient prints.
The permanent exhibitions are situated in the building at náměstí Republiky, No 5 in Olomouc. This building was originally a convent of the order of St. Clara. The first convent was founded here already in the 13th century, but it was rebuilt in the 18th century into a late baroque style. The convent was cancelled in 1781 by the emperor Joseph II as well as others cloisters, which members didn´t engage in care for the ill or in education. In convent´s church the university library was located and the convent´s buildings were used as barracks. Since 1951 these buildings belong to the Regional Museum in Olomouc.
Along the permanent exhibitions there are also two exhibition halls - Northern Hall and Large Hall, where on average 20 exhibitions take place annualy.
University of Hradec Králové
Thousands of young people, both Czech and foreign students, meet at the modern campus of the University of Hradec Králové, a few steps from the historic centre. In addition to lecture halls, seminar and computer classrooms, there is a university library, script shop, art gallery but also relaxation zones, canteens, and other places to loosen up. The spectrum of educational activities includes the fields of economics, informatics, and management at the Faculty of Informatics and Management, teaching, artistic and linguistic disciplines at the Faculty of Education, natural sciences and engineering fields at the Faculty of Science, social sciences and humanities at the Philosophical Faculty. UHK is a scientific institution that offers students participation in research grants and competitions. Thanks to the rich international links with institutions in more than 60 countries of North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe, university students can gain valuable professional and life experience during student mobilities for studies and traineeships abroad.
The University of Hradec Králové is working towards strengthening our position in international comparison. By virtue of our academics and other employees but also students, we all together managed to join the ranks of universities in prestigious rankings. The QS World University Rankings is considered one of the three most prestigious and trusted international comparisons that measure the quality of universities. In 2021, for the first time, UHK entered the main ranking. And for the year 2024 UHK was placed on the shared 1001–1200th position. In the Czech environment, UHK is currently at 11th place.
Faculty of Education is the biggest founding faculty of the University of Hradec Králové. It provides high quality education in accredited teacher-oriented and non-teacher oriented programs. Diversity guaranteed via 13 departments from those oriented on linguistics through P. E. and sports, technical subjects, pedagogy and psychology, music and visual art to departments and programs focusing on non-teaching pedagogy, transcultural communication, religious and ethics education and philology.
Faculty of Education supports development of teaching and non-teaching helping professions, professional skills key for intercultural environment, life-long education, scientific and art performance, Czech language and culture related summer schools or courses run by the popular University of Third Age.
University of South Bohemia
We are a modern public university located in České Budějovice. Like our town, we offer a unique experience in a broad range of study programmes. We educate about 9 000 students at 8 different faculties in more than 200 programmes including bachelor's & master's degrees as well as doctoral programmes.
Our faculties: Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Theology, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Technology.
We are proud to be a top-quality science & research centre specialising in education and research in natural, human, health and social sciences and technology. USB proves its high standard by passing strict criteria of prestigious international rankings such as QS or THE. In the THE Young University Rankings 2023, the University of South Bohemia placed in the 301–350th place range globally and in the 1st place in the context of higher education institutions in the Czech Republic. Additionally, the QS World University Rankings 2024 scored USB in the 1001st – 1200th place range. Such excellent results are a sign that the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice is building on its previous successes in the THE Emerging Economies University Rankings 2022 (251–300 range) and THE World University Rankings by subject 2024:
'Life Sciences' (401–500 range), 'Physical sciences' (501 – 600 range), 'Education' (601+ range), 'Arts and humanities' (601+ range), 'Social sciences' (801+ range), and 'Clinical & health' (801+ range). USB also placed 145th in the QS University Rankings EECA.
At USB you will benefit not just from the modern and dynamic environment but also from the individual approach to students that our staff of well-known scientists and professors consider essential. The campus includes many state-of-the-art facilities like the Science and Technology Park, Student Club and University pre-school facility. Given the new pavilions for the Faculty of Science, Faculty of Agriculture and Technology, Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters and the unique world-class CENAKVA centre focused on Fisheries and Protection of Waters located in Vodňany, you simply cannot go wrong. The University of South Bohemia is an attractive destination for students and an excellent calling card for graduates.