Dean Ivan Kotuliak

Dean of the prestigious Slovak IT faculty stays. A lot of his staff is leaving

Rector submitted the proposal to remove him from function, academic senate supported dean.

14. jul 2020
Branislav Gröhling

UPDATED: Education Minister’s thesis raises plagiarism questions too

Branislav Gröhling insists his thesis is in accordance with then-valid conditions. His university supported him.

14. jul 2020
Defence Minister Jaroslav Naď presenting conclusions of the investigation.

Fighter jet crash investigation is over: A series of wrong decisions behind the fall

A MiG-29 crashed during training near Nitra in September 2019.

14. jul 2020
The office designed by IT company WebSupport won the Office as the DNA of the Company category.

Coronavirus redesigns office space

The pandemic is bringing about fundamental changes in the way people work.

14. jul 2020
Čachtice Castle

Home of the Bloody Countess (from our archive)

Erzsébet Báthory was a barbaric torturer who drained virgin girls of their blood and then bathed in it.

14. jul 2020
Mosquitoes can be annoying.

Bratislava combats mosquitoes

Instead of health-harming chemical sprays it is administering BTI, destroying larvae before they reach the adult stage.

13. jul 2020
Illustrative stock photo

Flight connection to Croatia, new measures against spread of the coronavirus discussed (news digest)

Read an overview of news from Slovakia on Monday, July 13, 2020. UPDATED at 19:21: Slovakia will put the UK on the list of less risky countries.

13. jul 2020
Split
13. jul 2020
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.

EU approved Slovakia's scheme to give away €80 million for coronavirus-related projects

The state aid scheme is meant to test projects linked with COVID-19.

13. jul 2020
Police counting how many people cross Slovak borders on July 10.
13. jul 2020
German Ambasdsador to Slovakia Joachim Bleicker.

Pandemic has shown us how important it is to keep borders open in the long run

Slovakia will be expected to come up with innovative and sustainable projects financed from the EU recovery fund, says the German Ambassador to Slovakia as Germany takes over the EU Council presidency.

13. jul 2020
Watson Assistant for Citizens automates responses to frequently asked questions about COVID-19 on topics such as symptoms, testing and protective measures.

How artificial intelligence arrives to health care

Ján Dudek from the Institute of Health Policy offers an analysis of AI in health care and how Slovakia could benefit from this trend.

13. jul 2020
A Czech Airlines plane lands at Košice airport on June 15, 2020.
13. jul 2020
People queuing in front of the Foreigners' Police in Bratislava.

Much remains foreign to the Foreigners' Police

The reaction of the Foreigners’ Police to the ombudswoman's report shows some old frameworks of thinking remain in place.

13. jul 2020

Discover the story of the Trnava walls in a GPS game

Find the key and learn more about Trnava's history.

13. jul 2020
Slovakia remains off the UK's travel corridors list.

UK’s step to exempt Slovakia from travel corridors said to be driven by politics

Poland and the Czech Republic were put on the UK’s travel corridor list despite having more COVID-19 cases.

13. jul 2020
Pohoda in the Air, an online edition of Slovakia's largest music festival, Pohoda, was streamed from Trenčín airport between July 9 and 12, 2020.
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Congolese 'garbage' music and California sunset at Pohoda '20

The festival’s online edition, Pohoda in the Air, streamed 31 gigs.

13. jul 2020
Illustrative stock photo

Online can partly replace on-site events

It was interesting to see how rapidly users switch to the online environment.

13. jul 2020
Speaker of Parliament Boris Kollár holds a press briefing on June 23, 2020, in Bratislava, explaining his plagiarism.

Selling (out) the future

The behaviour on display in the latest plagiarism scandal is mirrored by that of some educational institutions too.

12. jul 2020

The art of the sand castle is taken to extremes in Bojnice

At Sand Kingdom you can see nine beautiful Slovak castles all in one place.

12. jul 2020
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