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TEMPUSEnvironmental Governance for Environmental Curricula EC Tempus Joint Project 511390-TEMPUS-1-2010-1-SK-TEMPUS-JPCR

ANNEX 2 to the EnGo Coordination Group Meeting, June 23, 2011

The project is funded by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA)

Comenius University in Bratislava

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Landscape Ecology

How does our University help to alumni?

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I. Website for I. Website for UKB UKB alumnialumni

TEMPUS 511390 – Environmental Governance for Environmental Curricula

On the official website of Comenius University in Bratislava are published job advertisements for UKB alumni.


I. Website for I. Website for UKB UKB alumni alumni

On the official website of Comenius University in Bratislava there is also a questionnaire for alumni, where they can express their opinion about the study at UKB.


I. Website for I. Website for UKB UKB alumni alumni Useful for our alumni are also information about the study, science, services and important links:STUDY – life-education, electronic education, rigorous processSCIENCE – PhD. study, research projects and grants, prominent scientist institutionsSERVICES – bid of jobs and careerIMPORTANT LINKS – libraries, universities in Slovakia, chosen foreign universities and culture in Bratislava


II. Job´s advertisements and careerII. Job´s advertisements and career


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•Job advertisements on the webpage of faculty


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• Link for Europe portal with job offers www.eures.sk

• Information about Europe union countries

• Job offers in EU for Slovak citizens

• Requirements of employing in EU countries

• Education offer


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• Website of Central Office Labour, Social Affairs and Family www.upsvar.sk


• Advertisements with „employment market“ events


III. Transfer of scientist knowledge to practiceIII. Transfer of scientist knowledge to practice

• In this field is Slovakia in the beginning • First institution, which are specialized on transmition of scientist knowledge to practice

were established in 2009 and 2010• It is a part of implementation projects, which are financed from European regional

development fund• In present are realizing tenths of these projects at Slovak Universities and scientist

institutions, especially in Bratislava region, but also in other parts of Slovakia

National scaleNational scale• Support of transfer scientist knowledge to practice is solving also in national scale• The name of this national project is National infrastructure for technology transfer support

in Slovakia – NITT SK• Project is realizing from June 2010 by Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical

Information• The aim of this project is transmition of technologies and knowledge to economic and

social practice


Project: Support center for transfer of technologies at Comenius University in Bratislava Operating program: Research and progressPriority ax 4: Support of research and progress in Bratislava regionAction 4.2: Transfer of scientist technologies and knowledge to practice in Bratislava region

Transfer of scientist knowledge to practice at Transfer of scientist knowledge to practice at Comenius University in BratislavaComenius University in Bratislava


IV. Popularization of science and technologies IV. Popularization of science and technologies •every year it is organized in Slovakia „A week of research and technologies“•Its aim is :

improving of research and technologies perceptionpopularizating research and technologies and their presentationarouse interest of young people in study of research and technology specializationinforming public about science and technologies knowledgeinforming public about necessity to encourage science and technology


V. Employers interest about alumniV. Employers interest about alumni

specialization interest

informatics 72,75%

building industry 45,12%

economics 38,46%

social sciences 32,04%

technics 27,89%

engineering 27,71%

philosophy 27,47%

natural sciences 26,88%

artistic 24,91%

sport 23,66%

health 21,89%

pedagogy 20,81%

law 19,10%

divinity 17,47%www.profesia.sk

• Academic Ranking and Rating Agency (ARRA) is an independent Slovak civil association established in 2004 by former student leaders and personalities from the academic field with the objective of assessing the quality of Slovak higher education institutions.

• ARRA together with webportal profesia.sk elaborated reports about employers interest about alumni.

• As you can see from the table, the most applying alumni are from informatics faculties and from building industry and economics.

• On the other hand, there are faculties as pedagogy, law and divinity.

• There is a lot of students, who want to study at Law faculties, but there is not enough work opportunities for them.


• The mission of ARRA is to stimulate positive changes in Slovak higher education.• There was no other ranking like this one until 2005, when ARRA realized the first

ranking of Slovak Universities.

VI. Ranking of Slovak UniversitiesVI. Ranking of Slovak Universities by ARRA by ARRA

• In its beginnings, dr. Don Thornhill and dr. Lewis Purser, World Bank experts, assisted in creating the original methodology used thereafter with certain improvements for annual evaluation of universities.

• After their departure, ARRA continued its international collaboration and, in 2009, was at the birth of a global organisation of ranking agencies, the IREG Observatory (International Ranking Expert Group Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence) as its founding member.

• Co-founder of ARRA, Prof. Ferdinand Devínsky, was elected a member of the Executive Committee of the IREG Observatory.


• In the course of its existence, ARRA prepared and published six reports assessing Slovak higher education institutions (HEI).

• ARRA is also engaged in other activities with common denominator - the quality of HEI in Slovakia.

• Throughout past years, projects were implemented such as identification of Slovak scientists comparable to world’s renowned scholars, a study mapping the interest of employers in HEI graduates, a comparison of the scientific performance of Czech and Slovak HEI, etc.

• Several seminars and conferences on ranking and trends of quality assessment were organized in Slovakia.

VI. Ranking of Slovak UniversitiesVI. Ranking of Slovak Universities by ARRA by ARRA


Last ranking of Slovak Universities by ARRA on Last ranking of Slovak Universities by ARRA on 20102010

Average values of higher education institutions’ quality indicators in the period 2005 – 2010 and their changes between 2009 and 2010 (www.arra.sk, 2011)


• It was the sixth ranking of Slovak Universities.• In each faculty group, an “improver” of the year can be found, i.e., a faculty

with the greatest positive change. • FTVŠ UK leads with a growth of +12.8 points a year in the PEDAGOG group,

closely followed by SvF ŽU with a growth of +12.7 points a year in the TECH group, the FILOZOF group is dominated by FHV UMB (+11.6 points), the MED group by LF UK (+11.2 points), and the PRIR group by PRIF UPJŠ (+9.5 points).

• Other groups, too, included faculties with significant increases of ranking indicator averages:EF UMB (+10.4 points) in the EKONOM group and FSEV UK (+10.3 points) in the OTHER SPOL group.

• Conversely, a negative record is held by FPEDAS ŽU (-16.0 points) which is the greatest individual change in average ranking indicators for the last year, and FMEV EU (-10.9 points) followed by other faculties of the Faculty of Economy with decreases in average indicators under assessment for the last year.

Last ranking of Slovak Universities by ARRA on Last ranking of Slovak Universities by ARRA on 20102010

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study of research

support of research

research projects

transmition of technologies

national project

week of research

bratislava regionaction