International transdisciplinary research centre for Leadership Excellence and Development (ITRC LEAD)

Vision
The ITRC LEAD aims to gain the regional leading research centre status in the field of leadership.
Mission
The centre’s mission is to provide a wide platform for researching, exploring, understanding and advancing the phenomenon of leadership in order to provide conditions for developing future leaders.
Organizational Structure
The Faculty of Organisation Studies offers programmes covering different business disciplines one of which is leadership-oriented.
In order to strengthen research and scholarship in the field, the ITRC LEAD is proposed as a vehicle for achieving both research and teaching excellence in the field of leadership.
The ITRC LEAD objective is to facilitate interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary research in the field of leadership excellence and development by supporting and promoting local and global collaborative research studies as well as sharing findings from research and thus advancing knowledge in the field.
Aims of ITRC LEAD is to:
- Upgrade and update study programs and existing educational formats.
- Design and organize winter and summer schools on leadership topics.
- Attract distinguished experts from national and international institutions.
- Carry out relevant research projects in the field of leadership excellence
- Contribute to high profile scientific publications in prominent international journals on the topic of leadership excellence.
ACTIVITIES and CONTRIBUTIONS of ITRC LEAD:
- Winter and Summer Schools
- Summer School 2026: Learning Organisations in the 21st century
- Winter School 2026: Future Foresight: Developing Applied Strategic Foresight Competencies.
- Winter School 2025: Leadership Excellence
- Summer School 2024: Coaching in the Organization
- Winter School 2022: Leadership Excellence
- Winter School 2021: Coaching in the Organization
- Scientific Conferences and other Events:
- Panel of Experts: Looking into the Future of Leadership
- NPOT 2021
- Research Projects:
- Scientific research activity (SICRIS)







