International Scientific Conference "Emerging Trends in Teaching, Learning and Educational Innovation" · 12 September 2026, Skopje · ISBN 978-608-67060-8-1
This Book of Abstracts accompanies the International Scientific Conference "Emerging Trends in Teaching, Learning and Educational Innovation", held on 12 September 2026 in Skopje and organised by the Institute for Applied Research for Business. It brings together nearly 60 abstracts from authors in North Macedonia and across the region and Europe, spanning everyday practice in primary schools to the strategic challenges of higher education, and from data and artificial intelligence to empathy, inclusion and student well-being.
As the editor writes in the preface: "An abstract is the shortest path into a piece of research... This book can therefore be read as a map of educational research today." Readers who wish to explore particular topics in more depth will find the full papers in the conference's forthcoming Proceedings.
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Book of Abstracts (English / Macedonian, bilingual)Published by the Institute for Applied Research for Business, Ul. Železnička 38/1-5, Skopje. Licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 4.0) — may be used, copied and shared for non-commercial purposes provided the origin is credited.
Topics covered
The abstracts span a wide range of themes in contemporary education research, including:
- Artificial intelligence in teaching, learning and educational leadership
- Empathy, social-emotional learning and student well-being
- Digital transformation, learning analytics and educational technology
- Inclusion of students with disabilities and from immigrant backgrounds
- Higher education curriculum design and labour-market alignment
- STEM/STEAM education and educational robotics
- Teacher professional development and school leadership
Selected contributions include "When Knowledge Becomes Kindness: Stages in the Development of Empathy in Primary School Students" (Aneta Vasiljevikj-Shikaleska, Biljana Gjozinska, Adrijana Bulevska Zarikj), "Post-Digital Paideía: Artificial Intelligence and the Transformation of Philosophy Education" (Boshko Karadzov), "Designing an AI-Enhanced Flipped-Learning Framework for Evidence-Based Public Management Education" (Primož Pevcin), and "Translating Empathy and Social-Emotional Learning into Short Digital Resources for School Practice: A Practice-Based Design Case from the Erasmus+ DigiEmpathy Project" (Jan Malata, Nina Ščerbová), among nearly 60 contributions in total.
Editorial board
Editor: Prof. Dr. Aneta Vasiljevikj-Shikaleska, scientific advisor. For the publisher: Prof. Dr. Biljana Gjozinska, Director. Technical editor: Mila Minovska.
Scientific Committee: Prof. Dr. Adrijana Bulevska Zarikj, Prof. Dr. Aneta Vasiljevikj-Shikaleska and Prof. Dr. Biljana Gjozinska (Institute for Applied Research for Business, North Macedonia), Prof. Dr. Primož Pevcin (Faculty of Public Administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Prof. Dr. Vanče Bojkov (University of Niš, Serbia), Dr. Marieta Aleksandrova Goceva (New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria), Dr. Zoran Dabetić (Faculty of Humanistic Studies, UDG, Montenegro), Prof. Dr. Martin Stojanović (Universidad De Gusto, Spain), Prof. Dr. Miloš Pavlović (Belgrade Academy of Business and Art Applied Studies, Serbia), Prof. Dr. Bojan Georgievski (Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands), Assist. Prof. Dr. Darjan Bojkov (International Business School, Sofia, Bulgaria) and Dr. Gabriela Durčevska Georgieva (Ministry of Education and Science – Bureau for Development of Education, North Macedonia).
Organising Committee: MSc Dragana Veljanoska, Dipl. Eng. Aleksandar Nacharov and Dr. Mila Minovska.