Jana Liptáková
Jana Liptáková
jana.liptakova@spectator.sk

Jana Liptáková has been with The Slovak Spectator since 2004. After three years of serving as a part-time contributor and freelancer for the culture section, Ms. Liptáková joined The Slovak Spectator full-time as a culture writer and photographer in April 2007. Before joining the Spectator, Ms. Liptáková worked with the TASR newswire and later Slovakia’s first private newswire, SITA, for more than 15 years. Ms. Liptakova covers culture and business and she is the newspaper’s photographer.Ms Liptáková graduated with a Masters of Sciences degree (awarded for extended study) from the Technical University in Trnava, majoring in materials science and technology.

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For the approximately 10,000 battery-powered electric cars currently driving on Slovak roads, there are 1,808 public charging stations available at 740 locations across Slovakia.

The challenges of driving by e-car from Bratislava to Košice

Cross-country journeys can involve multiple extended stops.

Hiking in the High Tatras during winter has its charm.

High Tatras are not only for skiers in the winter

Beauties of winter tourism or from one mountain hut to another one.

Eva Ohraďanová attending a session of the Košice Self-Governing Region about the Valaliky Industrial Park and the potential for involving private schools.

Private school pioneers call for teaching overhaul

Children need to be taught differently to navigate today’s world, teachers say.

The marketplace in Bratislava's Nové Mesto borough, designed by Ivan Matušík, is a national cultural monument.

Paris has Centre Pompidou, Bratislava has New Market Hall

Both buildings are constructed in a high-tech style, the one in Bratislava awaiting a new life.

French musician Jean-Michel Jarre will be one of headliners of the Starmus festival.

Technology is neutral – we should not be afraid of it, says Jean-Michel Jarre

Starmus festival will change Bratislava into an artistic Davos, the musician says.

Language schools are teaching students to work with AI chatbots and translation apps.

Human interaction, not AI, key to mastering foreign languages

Use of translation apps and chatbots should be encouraged, but limits recognised, say teachers.

The exhibition of students's worsk in Nová Tržnica market hall

The biggest brownfield in Bratislava awaits new usage

The biggest challenge of developing the former industrial premises of Istrochem is environmental burdens.

There si a plenty of possibilities where to take a sauna in Bratislava

Frosty weather lures people to saunas. Where to visit saunas in Bratislava

Bratislava sauna options range from outdoor saunas in a shipping container or a wooden barrel up to luxurious saunas, for example in a former dungeon.

Tomáš Horňák, director of Hoval in Slovakia, presenting the project for his company’s new plant.

Energy crisis fuels heat pump investments in Slovakia

Existing producers are extending their premises, new ones setting up production.

Robert Šimončič, general director of the Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency (SARIO)

Better branding will help Slovakia get investors’ attention, said state investment agency’s head

Projects with high added value make up for 70 percent of all investment projects.

The Slovak plant will create with the Ghent plant in western Europe (Belgium) and the Torslanda Plant in northern Europe (Sweden) the European triangle.

Volvo gears up to produce e-cars in Slovakia from 2026

The €1.2-billion investment should help the local car industry shift towards full electrification.

Slovak technology startup EcoButt has a solution for cigarette butts - it produces asphalt mixtures out of them.
Production in JLR plant in Nitra

Slovakia's automotive shifts to electrification

All Slovakia’s car plants should be making fully electric cars within a few years.

In teh Small Carpathians's forests

Where to go off during holidays in Bratislava (not just for introverts)

Plenty of routes in the Small Carpathians and walks along the Danube.

Mochovce nuclear power plant.

Slovakia has clear plan to remain "nuclear energy powerhouse"

Slovakia eyes small modular reactors, plus another large plant.

Ľubomír Očenáš, owner of Lukamasiv company, holding the award for 2023.

Ikea supplier named Slovakia's top family business

A bakery and a bicycle brand received FéliX Business Awards in the past.

The view from the Lanfranconi Bridge.

Where do Bratislava pedestrians go?

Photographer Anton Sládek in his book Pawn in the Chessboard of Bratislava focused his camera on people in the city.

Erika Matwij

Unprepared generations: The problems of family businesses in Slovakia

Expert Erika Matwij discusses the benefits and pitfalls of keeping a firm in the family.

Gutmann representatives announcing the extension of their bank’s presence in Slovakia, at the premises of auction house Soga.

Austrian private bank expands services in Slovakia

Gutmann announces “next step” amid growing demand for exclusive banking.

The Robert Fico government wants to impose a special tax on sugar-sweetened beverages.

Questions raised over sugar tax plans

Health experts welcome proposed levy but others see budget boost behind move.

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