On 19 February 2019 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ireland to the Slovak Republic H.E. Hildegard Ó Riain visited the University of Economics in Bratislava and launched 25th edition of Diplomacy in Practice lecture series. The main topic in the spring term is the current economic and political situation in Europe. Ambassador Ó Riain discussed Ireland’s economic diplomacy, Brexit and Ireland’s migration policy. In her lecture, she stressed importance of the upcoming European Parliament elections also with regard to increasing the participation in the elections. In discussion, the Ambassador answered the questions by students which focused on internal politics of Ireland and EU funds.

Thursday, 14 February 2019 saw a meeting of HERMES Strategic Alliance for Dual Degrees hosted by the University of Economics in Bratislava. The meeting was attended by representatives of following universities: EM Strassbourg, University in Tübingen, University of Alcala, Universita' Ca' Foscari Venezia, TU Dresden, University of Pavia and University of Hohenheim Strategic objectives of the organization were discussed on the meeting.

Kick-off meeting with presence of representatives from project partners European regulatory institutions and other distinguished guests officially started FIN-TECH - FINancial Supervision and TECHnological Compliance training programme.

Volleyball players of Slavia EU Bratislava triumphed in the Slovak Cup 2018/2019 in women's volleyball and after two years break, they again sit on the throne. In Sunday´s final in Humenné they won with their hometown rivals from Strabag VC Bratislava - last year's champions, after a dramatic fight 3: 2 (22, 20, -14, -26, 12). They won the fourteenth triumph in the national cup competition (1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019).

On November 15-16, 2018, the University of Economics in Bratislava (EUBA) hosted the international scientific conference “Digitalization and Smart Green (R)evolution” dedicated to the celebration of 65th anniversary of the Faculty of National Economy as well as the successful implementation of the H2020 Twinning project EDGE – Environmental Diplomacy and Geopolitics. The conference brought together more than 200 scholars, practitioners as well as policymakers and was accompanied by the launch of the State of Environmental Migration 2018 – the joint volume of papers published by the University of Liege.