The university’s 6th Internationalised Spring School for PhD Students took place in Liptovský Ján on June 10-1 University 3, 2019. Thanks to the support of the development project of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic “Internationalization, Interdisciplinarity and Innovation of Higher Education at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice” and thanks to the support from the university’s internal sources 54 PhD students of the university and 11 international and national lecturers attended the event.
As part of the professional program the participating PhD students presented the actual results of their scientific work. At the same time, two lectures by foreign experts and 9 plenary lectures by important scientific experts from our university were delivered. The participants had the opportunity to attend workshops on the topics “Citizen Science, Political Science Discourse and Teamwork”, “Pursuing Happiness” and “Academic CV”. The program of the event also included a panel discussion with the senior management of the university – with the Rector of the university: prof. RNDr. Pavol Sovák, CSc., and with the Vice-Rectors: Assoc. Prof. Ing. Silvia Ručinská, PhD., Prof. Ing. Mária Mareková, CSc., Prof. MUDr. Pavol Jarčuška, PhD., and Prof. RNDr. Peter Fedoročko, CSc.
The aim of the Internationalised Spring School for PhD Students was to deepen the aspect of interdisciplinarity, mutual information sharing and raising the level of education of PhD students taking into account the international trends. The participants evaluated this year‘s spring school as successful, similarly to the previous years, since it served as an impulse to establish new working networks leading to the emergence of young interdisciplinary teams, and it also provided a platform for the exchange of experience between the PhD students involved.
