WCGTC conference 2025

Since 1988, Association for Talent and Giftedness /STaN/, NGO, member of ECHA, WCGTC and HELP, has been trying to help gifted children develop their potential fully and with joy.

Although we work as best we can and have managed to bring the issue of giftedness to the attention of society, the situation is still not satisfactory.
We see this in the problems that many gifted children encounter during their education.

In order to contribute to change for the better, we are looking for the best in our country and in the world that we could offer or use for inspiration and cooperation.

We organized the 19th WCGTC conference Prague 2011. At the request of the Minister of Education, we created a working group of experts on gifted education in 2012 and recommended the necessary measures.
But it is a Sisyphean task. We have been almost to the goal several times, but with frequent changes in the post of Minister of Education, we were back at the beginning with the next one.

The quality of education is very important for every society (everyone says it, but not everyone really realizes it) and cannot be solved halfway if it is to be successful.

In our presentation, we will present the principles of STaN’s activities, some examples of gifted problems, and mention the exceptionally gifted and what contributed to their success. We will also draw attention to very high-quality and lesser-known initiatives aimed at supporting the gifted.

Basic principles of STaN’s activities:

• Expertise
• Ethics
• Usefulness/applicability
• Importance/necessity
• Effectiveness
• International relevance

The seat of STaN is in Prague 13. Here, since September 1989, we had implemented:

• Club of bright and curious children
• STaN Parents‘ Club
• STaN Working Days
• Little Owls Class in Rozmarýnek Kindergarten
• STaN Conferences Cooperation with Mohylová Elementary School