On Thursday, the 5th of December 2013, a new telescope of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice was put into service in the Astronomical Observatory on the Kolonica Saddle. The observation pavilion of the Faculty of Science is located in the Vihorlat Observatory in Humenné and is situated on the Kolonica Saddle in the … Continued

On Thursday, the 5th of December 2013, the Commemorative Tablet for body donors to the Department of Anatomy of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice was unveiled, and the event was attended by the representatives of the University and the Faculty of Medicine, employees of the Faculty’s Department of Anatomy, as well as students. … Continued

On Thursday, the 5th of December 2013, a Christmas concert of the string orchestra – Musica Iuvenalis under the supervision of Igor Dohovič, was held in the St. Angela Merici Chapel, in which the University Library provides information services for students and teachers of the Faculty of Science. It provided the UPJŠ employees with not … Continued

The 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics will be awarded on the 10th of December to the Belgian physicist Francois Englert and the British physicist Peter Higgs, for the theoretical examination of the mechanism, which helped the understanding of the origin of sub-atomic particles’ mass. The physicists became the big favorites for this prize last year, … Continued

A seminar dedicated to the transfer of technologies and practical application of research results will take place on 3rd of December 2013, at 2:00 PM at the Historic Aula of UPJŠ situated on Šrobárova 2. The seminar is organized by the Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (SCSTI) and Department for the Transfer of … Continued

Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, together with the Slovak Organization for Research and Development Activities (SOVVA) and co-organizing universities have prepared the Slovak Information Days to introduce the individual challenge topics of Horizon 2020, a new EU framework programme for research and innovation. Košice Information day will take place … Continued

Professor Frederick Sanger, aged 95, one of the most significant contemporary scientists, double Nobel Prize Laureate for the discovery of the structure of insulin and the method of nucleic acid sequencing, died on 19th of November 2013 in Great Britain. He had been awarded his first Nobel Prize in 1958 for his work on determining … Continued

  Our university was among the 64 exhibitors, which presented themselves during the three days period from 19TH TO 21ST OF NOVEMBER 2013 on the occasion OF 7TH ANNUAL TRADE FAIR PRO EDUCO & PRO JOB FOCUSED ON EDUCATION AND CAREER, WHICH TOOK PLACE IN SPOLOČENSKÝ PAVILÓN KOŠICE. The target audience of this trade fair, … Continued

On 16 September 2013 the ceremonial opening of the academic year 2013/2014 at UPJŠ took place in the Auditorium of the Faculty of Medicine of UPJŠ in Košice on Trieda SNP 1 in the presence of the Rector of UPJŠ prof. MUDr. Ladislav Mirossay, DrSc., the Vice-Rectors and the President of Academic Senate of UPJŠ … Continued

The Mayor of the city of Košice, Mr. Richard Raši, expressed his gratitute to Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice for creating the exposition of the interactive entertainment centre STEELPARK – KREATÍVNA FABRIKA in Kasárne/Kulturpark in the framework of the project Košice – the European Capital of Culture 2013. The Board of UPJŠ in Košice … Continued

The Rector of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, prof. MUDr. Ladislav Mirossay, DrSc. is very pleased by the approval of the project Medical University Science Park in Košice (MEDIPARK) the realization of which is planned for the end of June 2015. It concerns the construction of biomedical university science park as a high-quality national … Continued

The UPJŠ Faculty of Science in collaboration with the Civil Association PRÍRODOVEDEC (The Scientist) and the Košice IT Valley have decided to organize for your children a daily IT camp focusing on programming this year as well, in July.