On October 17, 2025, our faculty will host the regional round of the AMAVET Science and Technology Festival, a competition showcasing scientific and technical projects by elementary and secondary school students.

The expert committee of the ESET Science Awards has nominated our colleague Assoc. Prof. RNDr. Adriana Zeleňáková, DrSc., from the Institute of Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (UPJŠ), as the finalists in the category “Exceptional Personality of University Education” for 2025. Adriana Zeleňáková’s scientific research takes place in the … Continued

Our PhD student, Soňa Brestovičová, from the Department of Microbiology, Institute of Biology and Ecology of Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice was awarded at the Interactive Conference of Young Scientists 2025 for her outstanding contribution in the Microbiology section. In her research, entitled Molecular mechanisms of adaptation to hypersaline environments in … Continued

Connecting science and business: OWASmooth and UPJŠ sign Memorandum of Understanding OWASmooth s. r. o. – a deep-tech startup founded by UPJŠ graduates – and Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice have joined forces and signed a Memorandum of Understanding. This step is a symbolic return of the founders of the startup to their … Continued

Seminar for doctoral students, which will take place on September 18, 2025, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in the Historical Auditorium of P. J. Šafárik University.

The Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, expresses its full support for the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) and for all scientists in Slovakia. We distance ourselves from the aggressive, disparaging, and false statements directed at the teams entrusted with the analysis of Covid-19 vaccines; such statements go beyond the limits of … Continued

Priv.-Doz. Souvik Kusari, Dr. rer. nat., university professor at the Department of Genetics, Institute of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University in Košice, has made a significant impact with a groundbreaking review titled “Unlocking the Metabolic Potential of Endophytic Fungi Through Epigenetics: A Paradigm Shift for Natural Product Discovery and Plant-Microbe Interactions.” … Continued

The research team, whose members are researchers from the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the Faculty of Science Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, the Department of Chemistry of the University of Ostrava in Czech Republic and the Dalian University of Technology in China, took part in a research stay at the SOLARIS synchrotron centre in Krakow.

Representative of Karazin University in Kharkiv visited our faculty, opening new opportunities for collaboration in the field of geography.

From 1 July to 10 July 2025, the AI2SEP project will hold a Summer School entitled ‘AI for a Greener Planet’. The aim of the Summer School is to disseminate the results of the AI2SEP project among students of Ukrainian universities, to stimulate their interest in selected topics in the field of artificial intelligence and … Continued

School of Biophotonics is regularly organized at two-year intervals by the Department of Biophysics of Institute of Physics PF UPJŠ in cooperation with Center for Interdisciplinary Biosciences TIP UPJŠ. The school is intended primarily for PhD students in natural sciences, with the primary aim of improving the theoretical and practical knowledge of students in the … Continued

A regular Study Visit within the AI2SEP project – Developing Talents in Artificial Intelligence to Solve Disruptive Environmental Problems – took place on May 5-9, 2025. This time, the host was the Vilnius University. During the working meeting Such a working meeting is also an opportunity to learn more about the history of the city … Continued