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Prague Montessori Congress 2027

Terms & Conditions

These Terms and Conditions govern registration, participation, ticket use, cancellations, media, recordings, and related matters for the Prague Montessori Congress 2027.

Congress dates April 23 to 25, 2027
Venue Kongresové centrum Olšanka, Prague
Last updated June 24, 2026
Contents
1. Organizer and scope 2. Congress details 3. Registration and contract 4. Tickets, prices, payment and invoices 5. Group registrations 6. Ticket use and transfers 7. Cancellations and refunds 8. Congress changes and force majeure 9. Travel, visas and accommodation 10. Participant conduct and safety 11. Photography, filming and Event Media 12. Optional Media Release 13. Participant content and testimonials 14. Intellectual property and recordings 15. Personal data and privacy 16. Liability 17. Complaints and consumer disputes 18. Governing law and final provisions

1. Organizer and scope

The Prague Montessori Congress 2027 is organized by Montessori Institute Prague s.r.o., with its registered office at Pod radnicí 152/3, 150 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic, Company ID: 25434110, VAT ID: CZ25434110, referred to in these Terms as the Organizer, we, us, or our.

Montessori eshop s.r.o. is not the organizer of the Congress and is not a party to the ticket contract. It may only use Event Media where a Participant has separately granted the Optional Media Release described in Section 12.

These Terms apply to every person who registers for, purchases, receives, transfers, or uses a ticket for the Prague Montessori Congress 2027 (the Congress).

By completing registration, purchasing a ticket, accepting a transferred ticket, or attending the Congress, you confirm that you have read and accepted these Terms.

2. Congress details

The Congress takes place from April 23 to 25, 2027 at Kongresové centrum Olšanka, Táboritská 23, Prague, Czech Republic.

The Congress is an in-person event. Its main language is English. Selected sessions may include Czech interpretation.

The current Congress program, speakers, ticket options, venue details, and practical information are published on the Congress Website.

3. Registration and contract

Registration is available through the official registration process on the Congress Website or through a group registration arranged directly with the Organizer.

Your registration becomes binding when we confirm it by email and receive full payment, unless we have agreed otherwise with you in writing.

You are responsible for providing complete, accurate, and current registration, contact, and billing details. We are not responsible for difficulties caused by inaccurate or incomplete information submitted during registration.

If you register a group, you confirm that you have authority to register the listed Participants and to provide their registration information to the Organizer.

4. Tickets, prices, payment and invoices

Ticket prices, ticket categories, payment options, and applicable taxes are shown during registration. The applicable price is the price displayed when registration is completed.

Ticket prices may increase as the Congress approaches. A change in price will not affect a ticket that has already been purchased and paid for.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, discounts and promotional offers cannot be combined.

An invoice will be issued using the billing information submitted during registration. Please review it promptly and contact invoices@amiprague.cz if correction is needed.

We may cancel an unpaid registration if payment is not received within the payment period stated during registration or otherwise agreed in writing.

5. Group registrations

Groups of three or more Participants are eligible for a 10% discount on each ticket in the group. Where the current group offer applies, five paid registrations may qualify for one complimentary sixth ticket.

Group registrations must be arranged directly with the Organizer. Please contact courses@amiprague.cz.

If a group booking is canceled, reduced, or changed and the remaining number of Participants no longer qualifies for the relevant discount or complimentary ticket, we may recalculate the booking before processing any refund.

6. Ticket use and transfers

Tickets are personal and may not be resold, auctioned, used for commercial promotion, or offered through unauthorized third-party channels.

If you are unable to attend, you may transfer your ticket to another person before the Congress. To arrange a transfer, email courses@amiprague.cz with the full name and email address of the replacement Participant.

We may refuse entry, cancel a ticket, or request additional verification where we reasonably believe that a ticket has been obtained fraudulently, misused, resold without authorization, or remains unpaid.

Participants may be asked to show their registration confirmation or proof of identity when collecting their Congress badge.

7. Cancellations and refunds

All cancellation requests must be sent in writing to courses@amiprague.cz. A cancellation request becomes effective when received by the Organizer.

Cancellation policy for Prague Montessori Congress 2027:
Full refund for cancellations received on or before February 22, 2027.
50% refund for cancellations received from February 23 through March 24, 2027.
No refund for cancellations received on or after March 25, 2027.

You may transfer your ticket to another Participant instead of canceling it, in accordance with Section 6 of these Terms.

No refund is due where you are unable to attend because of illness, travel disruption, visa refusal, delayed travel documents, personal circumstances, or another reason outside the Organizer's reasonable control.

Tickets for the Congress relate to a leisure activity taking place on specific dates. Where applicable law permits, the statutory right of withdrawal does not apply.

8. Congress changes and force majeure

We will make every reasonable effort to deliver the Congress as advertised. However, we may make reasonable changes to the program, speakers, timetable, session format, venue rooms, interpretation arrangements, technical format, or other operational details where necessary.

A speaker cancellation, speaker replacement, timetable adjustment, change to an individual session, or change to interpretation arrangements does not by itself create a right to a refund, provided that the Congress remains substantially delivered.

If the Congress is postponed, your ticket will remain valid for the replacement date. We will inform registered Participants about available options if they cannot attend on the replacement date.

If we cancel the Congress without offering a replacement date or substantially equivalent alternative, you will receive a refund of the ticket price paid to us.

We are not responsible for failure to deliver the Congress as planned where this is caused by circumstances outside our reasonable control, including natural disasters, public health emergencies, war, terrorism, strikes, government restrictions, severe weather, venue unavailability, or failure of essential infrastructure.

9. Travel, visas and accommodation

You are responsible for arranging and paying for your own travel, accommodation, travel insurance, health insurance, visas, and any other arrangements required to attend the Congress.

We may provide a registration confirmation or invitation letter for visa purposes after successful registration and payment. This does not guarantee that a visa or travel authorization will be granted.

We are not responsible for your inability to attend because of visa refusal, delayed travel documents, travel disruption, illness, accommodation availability, or other personal circumstances.

10. Participant conduct and safety

Participants are expected to behave respectfully, professionally, and safely throughout the Congress.

Harassment, discrimination, intimidation, violence, disruptive behavior, damage to property, or conduct that compromises the safety, dignity, or experience of others will not be tolerated.

You must follow reasonable instructions from the Organizer, venue staff, security staff, technical staff, and emergency services.

We may refuse entry to, or remove from, the Congress any person whose conduct is unsafe, unlawful, seriously disruptive, or in breach of these Terms. In such circumstances, no refund will be due.

11. Photography, filming and Event Media

The Congress is a documented event. Photography, filming, audio recording, and other media production may take place during public Congress sessions, networking activities, workshops, and other Congress-related activities.

For the purposes of these Terms, Event Media means photographs, videos, audio recordings, livestreams, testimonials, interviews, written feedback, and other visual or audio materials created during or in connection with the Congress.

The Organizer will take reasonable steps to inform Participants about media activity at the Congress and to respect the choices of Participants who do not grant the Optional Media Release described in Section 12.

Important: accepting these Terms does not itself grant consent for close-up photography, interviews, named testimonials, or identifiable use in advertising. That permission is requested separately through the Optional Media Release.

12. Optional Media Release

Participation in the Congress is not conditional on granting the Optional Media Release. You may attend even if you do not give this consent.

If you voluntarily opt in through the separate Media Release checkbox during registration, you authorize the following entities to use identifiable Event Media in which you appear:

  • Montessori Institute Prague s.r.o., Pod radnicí 152/3, 150 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic, Company ID: 25434110.
  • Montessori eshop s.r.o., Na sekyrce 1392/2, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic, Company ID: 07290471.

The Optional Media Release may cover use of your identifiable image, voice, name, job title, approved testimonial, or other agreed contribution for:

  • documentation and reporting on the Prague Montessori Congress 2027;
  • future editions of the Prague Montessori Congress;
  • websites, newsletters, social media, and organic digital communication;
  • printed materials, brochures, presentations, publications, and press materials;
  • paid advertising, including social media advertising, display advertising, search advertising, and print advertising;
  • promotion of Montessori Institute Prague and Montessori eshop products, services, events, courses, and educational activities.

The Optional Media Release is granted worldwide for five years from the end of the Congress, without payment or other compensation to the Participant.

You may withdraw your Optional Media Release at any time by contacting courses@amiprague.cz. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of use before withdrawal. After receiving your request, we will stop future use of identifiable Event Media where reasonably possible.

Contractors such as photographers, videographers, editors, technical suppliers, and advertising agencies may process Event Media on behalf of the Organizer or Montessori eshop s.r.o. but do not receive an independent right to use it for their own purposes.

No partner, sponsor, speaker, exhibitor, venue, or other third party receives an automatic right to use identifiable Event Media of Participants.

13. Participant content and testimonials

If you voluntarily provide feedback, a testimonial, a written contribution, a photograph, video, audio recording, or other material for publication, you confirm that you have the right to provide it.

If you separately agree to publication or submit material for promotional use, you grant Montessori Institute Prague s.r.o. and Montessori eshop s.r.o. a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free right to use, reproduce, edit for length or format, publish, translate, distribute, and promote that material for the purposes set out in the Optional Media Release.

You retain ownership of your original material, subject to the permission you grant.

14. Intellectual property and recordings

All Congress content, including presentations, slides, recordings, handouts, visual materials, branding, session formats, program materials, and other content is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights.

Your ticket gives you access to the Congress for your own personal and professional learning. It does not transfer ownership of any intellectual property rights to you.

You may take photographs for private and non-commercial use, provided that you do not disrupt sessions or infringe the privacy of other Participants.

You may not record, livestream, reproduce, distribute, upload, sell, publish, translate, share, or make available full presentations, workshops, lectures, slides, handouts, or other Congress content without prior written permission from the Organizer and the relevant speaker or rights holder.

The Organizer may use speaker presentations, recordings, and related materials only to the extent permitted by agreements with the relevant speaker or rights holder.

15. Personal data and privacy

15.1 Controller and purpose

Montessori Institute Prague s.r.o. is the controller of personal data processed for registration, ticket administration, payment, invoicing, Congress communication, customer support, access management, safety, and legal obligations.

Montessori eshop s.r.o. is an independent controller only where it receives and uses Event Media under a valid Optional Media Release. It does not automatically receive Congress registration data, contact lists, or email addresses for its own marketing purposes.

15.2 Legal bases

We process personal data on the following legal bases:

  • performance of the ticket contract and steps requested before entering into that contract;
  • compliance with legal obligations, including accounting and tax obligations;
  • our legitimate interests in Congress operations, safety, fraud prevention, and defending legal claims;
  • your voluntary consent for the Optional Media Release and optional marketing communications.

15.3 Recipients and transfers

We may share relevant personal data with service providers necessary to deliver the Congress, including registration and payment providers, invoice providers, venue partners, technical suppliers, email providers, photographers, videographers, and professional advisers.

If Event Media is used on advertising or social media platforms, those platforms may process it under their own terms and may transfer data outside the European Economic Area. We will use appropriate safeguards where required by applicable law.

15.4 Retention

Registration and invoice data will be retained for the period necessary to administer the Congress and comply with legal and accounting obligations. Event Media used under the Optional Media Release may be retained and used for five years from the end of the Congress, unless consent is withdrawn earlier.

15.5 Your rights

Depending on applicable law, you may request access to your personal data, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability, or object to processing based on legitimate interests. You may withdraw consent at any time.

For questions about registration data or Event Media managed by Montessori Institute Prague, contact courses@amiprague.cz. For Event Media used by Montessori eshop s.r.o., contact julie@montessorieshop.com.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Czech Data Protection Authority, the Office for Personal Data Protection.

More information is available in the Montessori Institute Prague Privacy Policy and the Montessori eshop Privacy Policy.

16. Liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Organizer is not liable for loss of personal belongings, indirect losses, lost profits, travel disruption, accommodation costs, visa costs, exchange-rate changes, or other losses arising from circumstances outside our reasonable control.

You attend the Congress at your own responsibility and should arrange suitable insurance for travel, health, belongings, and cancellation where needed.

17. Complaints and consumer disputes

If you have a question, concern, or complaint, please contact us first at courses@amiprague.cz.

If a consumer dispute cannot be resolved directly, a consumer may use the out-of-court dispute resolution procedure provided by the Czech Trade Inspection Authority.

18. Governing law and final provisions

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Czech Republic. This does not affect mandatory consumer protection rights that may apply under the law of your country of residence.

For Participants acting as businesses or organizations, disputes arising from these Terms will be submitted to the competent courts of the Czech Republic.

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain valid and enforceable.

We may update these Terms where necessary for legal, operational, safety, or organizational reasons. Changes will not materially reduce the rights of Participants who have already purchased a ticket unless required by law or necessary for the safe delivery of the Congress.

AMI 12–18 Educator and Writer

David Kahn

A leading voice in Montessori adolescent education, with a long-standing focus on the philosophy, psychology, and educational goals of the 12–18 plane of development.

David Kahn is one of the foremost voices on Montessori adolescent education in the English-speaking world. He holds a B.A. in fine arts and classics from the University of Notre Dame and the AMI Montessori Elementary diploma from Bergamo, Italy.

He has seventeen years of Montessori teaching experience, twelve of them as teaching principal at Ruffing Montessori School in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

His writing on the philosophy, psychology, and educational goals of Montessori adolescent education has been widely published in the field.

AMI 6–12 Trainer

Baiba Krumins Grazzini

AMI 6–12 Trainer and Director of Training at FCISM Bergamo, continuing one of the oldest AMI elementary training traditions in the world.

Baiba Krumins Grazzini is an AMI 6–12 Trainer and Director of Training at the Fondazione Centro Internazionale Studi Montessoriani, FCISM, in Bergamo, Italy. FCISM is the first and oldest AMI elementary training institute, established by Mario Montessori himself in 1961.

Baiba was Co-Director of Training with Camillo Grazzini from 1992 to 2004 and has been the sole Director of Training at FCISM since 2004. Her work is closely connected with AMI elementary training, cosmic education, and the foundations of Montessori practice for children aged 6–12.

She has lectured internationally in Spain, Ireland, India, and Japan, where she gave the first elementary training course. Through her long work in Bergamo and abroad, Baiba continues the elementary training tradition that has shaped AMI Montessori education across generations.

Keynote Speaker

Lynne Lawrence

Executive Director of the Association Montessori Internationale, leading AMI’s global work in teacher training, research, development, and Montessori educational projects.

Lynne Lawrence has been Executive Director of the Association Montessori Internationale since 2008. Before that, she served as AMI General Secretary ad interim and headed the AMI Human Resources Committee.

She was Director of Training and Schools at the Maria Montessori Training Organisation, now the Maria Montessori Institute, from 1989. This role placed her at the centre of AMI-recognised teacher training for nearly two decades before she took on the global leadership of the association.

In her role as Executive Director, Lynne actively promotes AMI's involvement in Montessori educational projects in developing countries, alongside teacher training programmes globally, research and development, and the many other areas of the association's work.

AMI 0–3 Trainer

Heidi Philippart

AMI 0–3 Trainer shaping how Montessori principles are applied from birth, in both the home and the prepared environment.

Heidi Philippart M.A. (Edu), AMI (Dip), lives and works in Amsterdam. She was first introduced to Montessori in the late 1980s and early 1990s while working under the guidance of Patty Wallner (AMI Assistants to Infancy Trainer) and Silvana Montanaro, founder of the AMI Assistants to Infancy programme.

Heidi trained in Denver with Judi Orion at the Assistants to Infancy level and has worked extensively within the 0–3 environment. She is an AMI Trainer at the Assistants to Infancy level, as well as an AMI Trainer of Trainers and External Examiner.

In 1996, she opened her first Montessori school, which she continues to run in the centre of Amsterdam, working with approximately 80–90 families each year.

Her work focuses in particular on supporting parents in the application of Montessori principles and bilingualism in the home environment. She has lectured extensively both in the Netherlands and internationally, including in France, the USA, Australia, Britain, Japan, Vietnam, India, China, and South Africa, on topics such as toilet independence, preparation of the home environment, and the development of the child from birth to three.

AMI 3–6 Trainer

Madlena Ulrich

AMI 3–6 Trainer bringing decades of classroom practice and international training experience to early childhood Montessori.

Madlena Ulrich spent her childhood in Germany, where she attended a Montessori Elementary school.

She later moved to Norway and obtained a Bachelor’s degree as a preschool teacher at the University College of Vestfold. She completed her AMI 3–6 training at Mount St. Mary’s Montessori College in Dublin.

Since 1995, she has worked in Montessori classrooms and has been actively involved in the development of Montessori education in Norway through lecturing and serving as Vice President of the national Montessori association (NMF).

In 2008, she began her Training of Trainers, working for two years with Molly O’Shaughnessy in Minnesota and attending a summer course with Ulla Wikefeldt in Sweden.

Since 2010, she has been training students in Norway, working in close collaboration with Carla Foster (AMI 6–12 Trainer). She is also part of the AMI China Faculty and has contributed to courses in China, Russia, Romania, and Thailand, gaining extensive multicultural experience in the application of Montessori pedagogy.

Madlena regularly delivers lectures and AMI certificate courses internationally.

AMI 6–12 Trainer

Carla Foster

AMI 6–12 Trainer contributing to the development of AMI timelines and deepening how we present human history to the child.

Carla Foster is an AMI Elementary Trainer originally from California and has been living in Norway since 1995.

She holds AMI diplomas at both the 3–6 and 6–12 levels, from MMI London and the Montessori Institute of Milwaukee. She has worked with children aged 3–6, 6–9, and 9–12 in both private and public Montessori schools.

Carla has been an AMI Elementary Trainer since 2011.

In recent years, she has been part of the creation committee for the new AMI timelines of human beings and the chart of the Family Tree of Hominins, giving her a unique insight into the reasoning behind how human history is presented within Montessori education.

AMI 12–18 Trainer

Françoise Sansoni

AMI 12–18 Trainer bringing a cross-plane perspective informed by work in infancy, primary, and adolescent Montessori environments.

Françoise Sansoni was born and raised bilingually and biculturally in the United Kingdom. She later moved to France and then to the United States in 1996 as a young mother of two.

She has been involved in Montessori education for approximately 25 years.

Françoise began her Montessori journey with an AMI Primary diploma and deepened her understanding of pedagogy and practice through several years of work with young children.

She later completed her 12–18 training and consolidated her experience through work in adolescent communities, alongside lecturing. From its inception, she has been part of the 12–18 Training of Trainers programme.

Françoise is now an AMI 12–18 Trainer and holds AMI diplomas at the Assistants to Infancy, Primary, and 12–18 levels. She offers lectures, workshops, and certificate courses in both French and English.