DISCUSSION: In what country do we want our children to live?
Is Slovakia doomed to be the periphery of Europe, or can we positively surprise? In what country do we want the next generation to live in? What should Slovakia look like in the EU in five, ten or twenty years? What should be our main goals? Is there a general consensus here, or does the idea of it differ fundamentally?
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Vladimír Šucha
European University Institute
From 2002 to 2004, he served as the Head of the European Commission Representation in the Slovak Republic. Starting in 2012, he took on the role of Director of the Joint Research Centre, which is the European Commission's scientific and knowledge service. Prior to that, he spent six years as a Director at the European Commission's Directorate-Ge…
Pavol Šajgalík
Slovak Academy Of Science
Prof. RNDr. Pavol Šajgalík, DrSc., has been the chairman of the Slovak Academy of Sciences since 2015. His scientific focus is the research and development of non-oxide and oxide high-performance ceramics. The main interest of his research is the relationships between the microstructure and mechanical properties of these materials. He was presid…
Svetlana Síthová
state secretary, Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport SR
Mgr. Svetlana Síthová (1987) is a special pedagogue who has long been dedicated to children with special educational needs. She has extensive practical experience, which she gained in the center for children and families, in a special kindergarten and primary school, as well as in a practical school.
Svetlana Síthová also taught at the Facult…
Michaela Kršková
Government Office of the SR
Michaela Kršková is the first director for innovations of the Slovak government. As Director General of the Research, Development and Innovation Section at the Office of the Government, she is responsible for inter-ministerial coordination of innovation policy and implementation of the reform and investment component 9 of the Recovery Plan, whic…
Jozef Masarik
Comenius University Bratislava
He has been the Vice-Rector of Charles University since February 2019. Before taking up the post of Vice-Rector, he was the Vice-Dean and later the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, UK. He has been the chairman of the Bureau of the Agency for the Promotion of Research and Development for eight years. He is an active sc…
