After twenty years of working together, the staff of the ELTE EKL Savaria Library and Archives bid farewell to Éva on the occasion of her retirement. She joined our university as a librarian at the Institute of Pedagogy, which closed in 2006. We worked together on integrating the 30,000-volume library into the SKL collection, as well as on joint programs such as library competitions, Book Sundays and Teen Gallops. Éva has always remained a librarian at heart and has continuously supported our library’s reader services through volunteer work. We are deeply grateful for her work and cooperation. Congratulations on this well-deserved honor.
Honoring the Recipients
On the occasion of Teachers’ Day, the Local Government of Szombathely once again presented awards to those professionals who have served the cause of education through their outstanding work over many years. It is a great joy for us that Éva Marianna Gerölyné Kölkedi, Deputy Director of the ELTE Savaria Regional Pedagogical Service and Research Center, received the “For the Cause of Education in Szombathely” award for her four decades of service in public education in Vas County. The award recognizes her decades of dedicated pedagogical and professional work, through which she has contributed to raising educational standards, promoting values, and supporting the teaching community.
Éva Marianna Gerölyné Kölkedi, an educational expert, master teacher, and deputy director, has worked for 41 years in educational and professional services in Szombathely and Vas County. She began her professional career in 1985 at the Vas County Pedagogical Institute, and in 2006—when the institute’s responsibilities were transferred to higher education in Szombathely—she joined the ELTE Savaria Regional Pedagogical Service and Research Center and its predecessor institutions. From 2016 to 2021, she served as head of the Professional Service Unit at ELTE SRPSZKK, and from 2021 until her retirement in 2026, she was the institution’s deputy director. She is a member of the Hungarian Librarians’ Association and the Association of Library Teachers. She has worked in nearly all areas of educational and professional services; her main activities included the development, accreditation, and organization of continuing education for teachers, talent development, educational outreach, and professional consulting for school libraries.
In order to maintain high standards in her work, she has continuously pursued further education and holds the following qualifications: librarian and elementary school teacher specializing in history, a master’s degree in education, public education administrator, regional education administration specialist, and mentor teacher. She has edited numerous collections of essays on educational topics and has also authored independent professional publications. She has always performed her work as an educational expert and administrator to a high standard and with great dedication, regularly assisting her colleagues in their work, and consistently supporting the activities and professional development of preschool teachers, elementary school teachers, and high school teachers in Szombathely and Vas County. Through this work, she has contributed indirectly—and directly through the academic competitions and talent development programs she has directed—to the development of children and students and the shaping of their personalities. Over the past decades, she has also taken on important leadership roles in numerous domestic and international public education projects and initiatives.
