Karol Jakubík | General Director, Department of Regional Schooling and Adult Education
Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic

Karol Jakubík is the Director General for Upper-Secondary Education and Lifelong Learning at the Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic. With more than 16 years of executive leadership in education policy, legislative drafting, and systemic reforms, he leads national transformations bridging school education, vocational training (VET), future skills, and emerging technologies. As a principal architect of Slovakia’s Vocational Education and Training and lifelong learning legislation, Karol has spearheaded reforms in dual education, work-based learning, Centres of Excellence, and labor-market-aligned skills governance. Concurrently, he steers national curriculum modernization, embedding future-ready transversal competences and AI literacy as a cross-curricular priority across Slovak schools. At the forefront of Slovakia’s digital transition, he oversees landmark national initiatives:

• National Project AI Vouchers for Schools: A demand-driven funding model ensuring equitable access to certified educational AI tools, supporting inclusion, and reducing teachers' administrative workload.
• National Project Slovak LLM Model (NP LLM): Developing sovereign national language infrastructure and leading Slovak technical education providers to build secure, culturally aligned AI for education.

An experienced international expert cooperating closely with the European Commission, OECD, Cedefop, and ASEM, Karol focuses on practical teacher enablement, strong industry-education links, and ethical AI guardrails—ensuring technological innovation directly strengthens pedagogical quality and workforce readiness.