Students from almost twenty countries will study in the winter semester of the academic year 2022/2023 at the University of Economics in Bratislava as part of an exchange stay. The most represented group consists of students coming from partner universities in Spain, France, Italy, and Portugal. Students from Canada, Finland, Denmark, South Korea, Turkey, and Uzbekistan also took advantage of the opportunity to study at the University of Economics in Bratislava.

Summer months at the university are used by our colleagues not only to enjoy their summer vacations, have rest and recharge their batteries before the new academic year starts but also to work on their research activities they have been pursuing for many years. These activities are also perceived abroad and our colleagues can thus compare themselves to researchers from all over the world.

Throughout the summer semester of the academic year 2021/2022, the International Mobility Department organized three Snack&Chat events where all incoming exchange students enjoyed the opportunity to meet EUBA’s management and mingle with students from all over the world. The three fruitful events held on March 24, May 5, and May 19 respectively, were very valuable and well received by our students.

During ten weeks between April 4 and June 10 2022, the Economic University in Bratislava, in collaboration with the language school iCan, provided an online and face-to-face Slovak language course comprising 180 lessons to more than 100 Ukrainian students. The students achieved the A2 level in Slovak, which gives them the ability to understand common topics in school and in personal life. On June 10, 2022 the students received their course completion certificates.

Within the framework of the MIT — Slovakia Seed Fund (MISTI Global funds for Slovakia), created in 2019 by the Ministry of Investment, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (hereinafter MIT), researchers and PhD students from the Department of Economic Policy from the Faculty of National Economics of the University of Economics in Bratislava (hereinafter referred to as EUBA), as one of the first research teams in the Slovak Republic, managed to successfully obtain funding for a project called: “Implications of automation for the labor market in the United States and the European Union” (hereinafter referred to as the Project) between 1 May 2022 and 31 January 2024.

On 18.05.2022 the Rector of the University of Economics in Bratislava, Ferdinand DAŇO, welcomed a delegation from the University of Sopron (SOE). The members of the university delegation were Attila FÁBIÁN, the Rector of SOE, Zsuzsanna SZÉLES, the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Zoltán SZABÓ, the Director of the Department of International relations. Boris MATTOŠ, the Vice-Rector for International Relations, and Rudolf KUCHARČÍK, the Dean of the Faculty of International Relations took part in the meeting on behalf of the University of Economics in Bratislava.

The prefect of Trnava, Jozef Viskupič, and the rector of the University of Economics in Bratislava, Ferdinand Daňo, signed a memorandum of cooperation on Monday, May 9, 2022. Institutions are interested in effectively linking education with practice, promoting science and research, and contributing to solving societal challenges. Both parties also agreed to cooperate in preparing legislative and strategic materials and the mutual use of expertise.