Jurka Lepičnik Vodopivec is a full professor of Pedagogy at the Faculty of Education at the University of Primorska. Her professional and scientific work focuses on teaching communication, education for a sustainable future, and media studies. Recently, she had engaged in the professional development of preschool teachers, competences and ICT competences of preschool teachers and children, and in hidden curriculum. She holds and lectures undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral study subjects at the Faculty of Education at University of Primorska. She is member of Council of Experts for preschool educational at the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia. She was awarded the University of Primorska for teaching excellence 2014. She was awarded the of Educational Research Institute and Slovenian Educational Research Association 2016. She has published over than 100 papers, also in International Journals.