From 2013 to 2015, the Faculty of Law at UPJŠ via Law Clinics Department participated in one of the most significant activities within the whole-University project named “Innovation for Knowledge Society (IRES)”, grant scheme obtained from the structural funds, OP Education. Within the framework of the university project, the Law Clinics Department implemented their project “Innovation of bachelor’s and master’s study programmes in the field of study of Law at the Faculty of Law at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University”. Implementation of this project significantly contributed to the institutionalization of clinical legal education at the Faculty of Law UPJŠ and furtherance of the activities pursued by the Law Clinics Department. On account of this project, the Law Clinics Department organized several multiday communication seminars and professional work- shops for its students in clinical courses.
In 2014 the Faculty of Law at UPJŠ via Law Clinics Department cooperated as a partner faculty/university in the project of the Visegrad fund “Legal Clinics Summer School and Networking (LCSSN) project”. Within the project, 5 students of the Law Clinics Department at the Faculty of Law UPJŠ attended the international Legal Clinics Winter School at the University of Pécs in Hungary together with assoc. prof. JUDr. Radomír Jakab, PhD. on behalf of the academic staff of the Law Clinics Department. Joint cooperation within the project generated essential methodological and professional resources for the Law Clinics teachers for the future.
In 2016, the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sports of the Slovak Republic provided funding to the Law Clinics Department for the project titled “Development of legal education at Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice” owing to which, inter alia, a new university online educational portal “Students for students” was created, where law students under the supervision of legal practitioners provide legal advice to students of other disciplines/faculties at UPJŠ in Košice. This project also allowed for the introduction of the law course of Legal Ethics for the students of the 2nd year of bachelor’s study which has remained in the study programme of the Faculty of Law at UPJŠ since then.
From the very moment of its existence, the Law Clinics Department has initiated cooperation with many non-academic establishments. One such is the Prison and Court Guard Service of the Slovak Republic. During the 15-year duration cooperation between the Faculty of Law UPJŠ and the Prison and Court Guard Service of the Slovak Republic in Košice and in Košice-Šaca, by means of the clinical course Street Law Clinic, law students of the Faculty have catered for the education of prisoners. Based on the merits and achievements in developing relations at the interdepartmental level within the implementation of clinical legal education within the Street Law Clinic in prisons in Košice and Košice-Šaca under the aegis of the Faculty of Law at UPJŠ, in 2017, JUDr. Daniela Lamačková, PhD., the member of the Law Clinics Department was awarded the Medal of Honour Class 1 by the General Director of the Prison and Court Guard Service of the Slovak Republic. Two years later, in 2019, JUDr. Daniela Lamačková, PhD. and JUDr. Bc. Dominika Marčoková Becková, PhD. and also the Faculty of Law at UPJŠ were honoured for their cooperation and implementation of this clinical legal programme with the award of the Memorial medal of the Košice-Šaca Prison.
