Ceremonial Opening of the 2020/2021 Academic Year
Ceremonial Opening of the 2020/2021 Academic Year 21 september 2020 ONLINE
14. September 2020
Summer semester of the Academic year – actual information
Following the recommendation of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, and reflecting on the specificities and requirements of the teaching process of our university, the management of UPJŠ in Košice has decided about the start of the teaching process of the winter semester of the academic year 2020/2021. At … Continued
26. August 2020
Encouraging placement of UPJŠ in the QS 2021 ranking
This year’s QS World University Rankings evaluating the reputation of universities in academia and among employers, the number of citations in leading Scopus and Elsevier databases, the number of students per academic staff, the share of foreign guests and students, also evaluated Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice for the first time. As a part … Continued
15. June 2020
UPJŠ has taken an important step to increase the success of researchers in European project schemes
In 2016, the European Research Council (ERC) launched an initiative called “Fellowships to Visit the ERC Grantee“. It aims to encourage the participation and increase the success of researchers from those EU countries that are significantly under-represented in ERC calls. The ERC has recommended that national and / or regional authorities and organizations set up … Continued
3. June 2020
COVID-19 Multi-Country Student Well-being Study
A consortium of universities from 25 countries including the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice, represented by the Department of Educational Psychology and Psychology of Health at the Faculty of Arts, is currently carrying out data collection among university students as part the COVID-19 Multi-Country Student Well-being Study. The coordinating institution of this study … Continued
6. May 2020
The development of epidemics can be estimated on the basis of data and mathematics
It is very important to know not only the current situation, but also to have forecasts of the evolution of the situation in different scenarios for decision making of crisis crew, which make the crucial decisions necessary to manage epidemics and pandemics. Modelling the spread of infectious diseases is currently a very actual topic. Different … Continued
2. April 2020
Does coronavirus also affect our mental health?
In the context of the current situation regarding the spread of the new COVID-19 coronavirus, we have daily reports of new cases confirmed, deaths, measures taken or empty shelves in stores. It is not easy to keep calm, as proven by many examples of irrational reactions and human behavior. In times of pandemics, we are … Continued
2. April 2020
