Pan-European University (PEU)
The Pan-European University (PEU) is a private university offering higher education at all 3 levels of study in 20 accredited study programs at its 5 faculties. Since its establishment in 2004, more than 12,000 students have graduated from PEU.
A wide range of study programs, modern and technologically well-equipped premises, as well as the inclusion of top academic staff offer their students a practically oriented education. The faculties were created gradually in response to the needs of the university market in chronological order: Faculty of Law (2004), Faculty of Economics and Business (2005), Faculty of Media (2007), Faculty of Informatics (2009) and Faculty of Psychology (2011). As the only private university in Slovakia, PEU is authorized to offer a PhD. study and at the same time qualified candidates can pursue a professional doctorate, habilitation (docent) and inaugural (full professor) procedures.
The Faculty of Psychology, founded in 2011, is the only one of its kind in Slovakia. It offers full university education in all 3 cycles – bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral. In addition, a professional doctorate (PhDr.) can be obtained in a special procedure.
Our partners from the field of practical psychology management enable our students to share their first-class expertise in the field of providing psychological services – the Slovak National Center for Human Rights, the League for Mental Health and professional associations and chambers of psychologists and psychotherapists. The Faculty of Psychology consists of 3 departments (Department of School and Work Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology and Department of General Psychology) and has 4 supporting departments (Centre of Positive Psychology, Academic Counseling, Psychological Library and Psychological Laboratory). Currently, the number of full-time academic employees is 19 + 9 doctoral students and many external collaborators (approx. 20-30).
FPs focuses on several areas of research, namely school and educational psychology, clinical and health psychology, work and organizational psychology, counseling and general psychology. Faculty members participate in extensive research based on applied positive psychology in schools: social-emotional health of primary and secondary school students and teachers and university students, their subjective experience of happiness and well-being. These research projects continuously bring valuable publication outputs, as well as practical benefits for the schools involved in these projects – students and teachers (teaching materials for teachers in the field of student health and well-being, initial and/or further education of teaching staff).
Selected research projects in relation to the project topic:
- Socio-emotional health of teachers as an important psychological indicator of the school
- The impact of an inclusive elementary school on the mental health and personal development of pupils with special educational needs and intact pupils. (FPs as the main researcher, Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, cooperation with the Faculty of Education of the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica)
- Cross-cultural School Climate Study II.” (FP as co-investigator, international cooperation, ISPA principal investigator)
- Support for teachers to face the challenge of distance learning (RP as co-investigator, international cooperation Lithuania, Latvia, Erasmus+)
The Pan-European University has many international contacts, especially with the International School Psychology Association, the European Federation of Psychological Association, the Czech and Slovak Association of School Psychology, as well as contacts with the Ministry of Education and schools. In the project, he will cooperate with a Spanish university and a Spanish school, as well as schools in the Czech Republic. The experiment will use the same methods to compare the social-emotional health and well-being of pupils in these 3 countries.
