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The Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (in the future, referred to as "STU") is a modern educational and scientific institution. Since its foundation in the year 1937, more than 159.000 students have graduated. On average, 13.000 students study at the STU every year. At present, the STU consists of seven faculties based in Bratislava and Trnava. All the faculties provide a study in accredited study programs within the complex system of a bachelor, master, and Ph.D. Study. Faculties realize credit system compatible with the European credit transfer system enabling joint mobility of students within European Union member countries and a larger European space. In the area of scientific and research activities, the STU successfully joints European Union programs. STU is a public university and offers education mainly in technical, technological, technical-economical, technical-information, and technical-artistic fields of study using modern education, laboratories, and practical training. It is aimed at the study branches with stable opportunities for students' employment in the labor market. STU offers education in foreign languages, primarily in the following areas: civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chemistry and food technology, architecture. International cooperation is a significant area based on interactive contact with educational and scientific-research institutions of countries worldwide. First of all, it is focused on the solution of the joint projects within the EU framework and other international programs, mobility of students, teaching staff, and researchers. STU system of education is connected with the prestigious partner universities in international programs, especially Erasmus+. Today, one of the main tasks of STU is the active policy in the area of foreign students' recruitment. The number of international students at individual STU faculties has been raised several times during the past years. STU creates for the student's high-quality conditions for the study and for active use of free time. STU also fulfills its mission in further education through the preparation, organization, and assuring of further education prepared at the University's particular faculties and by the Institute of Life-Long Education of STU. The Study and Information Centres (libraries) are parts of the faculties of STU. These centers can create information, bibliographic, and documentary activity using the superior and scientific book stock for the students and university employees the right conditions for successful studies and scientific work. Apart from the faculty libraries, students can study in other libraries of Bratislava and Trnava. The University has its own university artistic ensemble Technik with three parts: a chamber orchestra, a choir, and a folklore dance group. The members of the ensemble are mostly the students of the University. STU was the first University in the Slovak Republic, where a Careers Advisory Centre (CKP) was created as a part of the Department of Education and Student Care by a decree of the STU Management Board in 2005. The mission of the CKP is mainly to provide information on job vacancies, part-time jobs, and student-oriented products to mediate contacts between students, future university graduates, and employers to monitor the requirements of the jobs market in order to better adapt the preparation of students to the requirements of employers during the recruitment process to organize work meetings between the representatives of institutions and companies and students and relevant university staff to organize presentation meetings and discussion forums with institution representatives and students to carry out a controlled promotion of professional demand on the university web page and via informational and promotional materials. The Slovak University of Technology offers university education in engineering disciplines. Our education system is based on scientific research and artistic, engineering, and other creative activities. Our faculties, departments, institutes, and experts cooperate directly with industrial companies and social organizations, actively participating in international cooperation. The Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava strives to be an internationally recognized and essential, research-oriented technical university. It seeks to provide high quality, internationally comparable education to a broad spectrum of students from the young generation in promising fields, based on independent and critical thinking, entrepreneurship, and creativity, with a view to practical application and success in life, and taking into account the human aspects of education and technological progress. The University aims to contribute to the economic and social development of the region. As a research-oriented technical university, STU's mission is to achieve through scientific research, apply and disseminate new knowledge through engineering and other creative work, and educate and enlighten the young generation in the spirit of humanism principles and benevolence. Thus, STU develops harmony, knowledge, wisdom, goodness, and creativity in a person and contributes to the development of education, science, culture, and health for the good of society as a whole and, in so doing, contributes to the development of a knowledge-based society. View full university

The Slovak University of Agriculture operates since 1952 in the ancient city of Nitra, sometimes also called the Mecca of Slovak agriculture. Right from the beginning, the university was destined to be a center of agricultural education, research, and development in Slovakia in the priority area of human activity - sufficient production of safe and wholesome food in harmony with environmental protection, the conservation of biological diversity and sustainable development. The scientific and educational performance and historical traditions of the institution are recognized at home and abroad. Achieving comprehensive accreditation in 2009, SUA ranked among higher education institutions of university type. In 2010, as the first university in Slovakia, SUA was awarded the prestigious ECTS Label by the European Commission to implement and implement the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System for student mobilities. The name Green university has become a part of the identity of our university. At its six faculties, SUA offers a wide range of study possibilities in agriculture and biology, economy, and technical sciences. This paves the way for graduates in various areas of the economy. The content structure of higher education and scientific research at our university covers the functions of the agro-food sector, in terms of sustainability of production and quality of food (technology and biotechnologies) but also eco-environmental terms (agro-ecology) and social status of society (economics, renewal and rural development, country culture, agro-design). The range of research activities indicates the university's adaptability to new directions. Three active Centres of Excellence operate in the USA. The Faculty of Agrobiology and Food Resources manages the Centre for Protection, and Use of Agricultural Biodiversity (ECOVA), the Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering runs the Centre for Integrated River Basin Management in Changing Environmental Conditions. The Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences operates the Centre for White and Green Biotechnology. Excellent Centres at HLEF and FBFS cooperate with research institutes, which are the project's main partners. The USA provides training in 88 accredited study programs, including three in English to grant a joint degree or double diploma. The USA has the right to award degrees in 38 bachelors, 31 masters, and 22 doctoral degree programs. It also offers other forms of lifelong learning. Annually, SUA resolves about 250 research, educational and other projects. During its existence, the university has educated more than 60 thousand graduates. The number of students studying at 56 departments of our university has stabilized at 10-thousand in recent years. The majority of the bachelor degree graduates continue at master's degree study and the best of them at the doctoral one. The USA is a member of several international organizations: VUA (Visegrad University Association), where SUA is the founding university, EUA – European University Association, DRC – Danube Rectors' Conference, ASECU - Association of Economic Universities of South and Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Region, IAU - International Association of Universities, ICA - Interuniversity Consortium for Agricultural and Related Sciences in Europe, GCHERA - Global Consortium of Higher Education and Research for Agriculture. Our university is an institution that eliminates the barriers caused by the health problems of people with disabilities. As a result of these activities, there is an improvement in the university premises' overall accessibility and comfort and access to information technologies, respectively, information for the visually and hearing impaired. A humane approach to solving the everyday concerns of disabled students is a matter, of course. The university provides education in the field of agriculture and related research areas such as Agrobiology, Food resources, sustainable agriculture, Agricultural production, biotechnology, food technology, Engineering of agricultural machinery and equipment, Computerization and automation of agricultural equipment, Operation of energy facilities on agricultural production, Gardening, and landscape design, Economics and Management, International trade in agricultural commodities, Marketing, Development of rural tourism, Project management for rural development, Lifelong learning, etc. Our mission is: To build an institution widely recognized, at a regional, national, and international level, as a world leader in research and teaching. To research all academic departments, which contributes to the extension of human knowledge and understanding. Our teaching and research programs equip our graduates with the necessary education and skills to make a significant contribution to the economy and society as a whole. To recruit students and staff with outstanding potential and provide the best support and facilities to foster teaching, learning, and research of the highest quality. To serve our local and regional communities by providing excellent and innovative teaching, research, training, cultural, enterprise, and employment opportunities. To exploit opportunities for collaboration and partnership with other higher educational institutions, educational institutions, and commercial partners. To strengthen and diversify our industrial and business liaison activities, innovation, exploitation, and entrepreneurialism, thereby supporting economic growth and regeneration. To continue our tradition of making high quality and challenging University education available to those capable of benefiting from it. View full university

The Slovak Medical University in Bratislava (SMU) is an educational institution proudly keeping the education of healthcare workers in specialized studies and continuous lifelong education in Slovakia. The Faculty of Health is part of and inspired by the Slovak Medical University's mission and goals in Bratislava. The Faculty of Health has the ambition to provide quality education to students of Nursing, Physiotherapy, and Urgent Medical Care. In the long term, the Faculty aims to offer education in all desired health care areas as demanded by future health care practice. The Faculty's mission is to raise professionals with the required health care education, who will not only be theoretically and practically empowered, but also will uphold the moral and ethical values of civic responsibility, democracy, humanism, and tolerance develop scientific knowledge in the areas subject to study, especially Nursing, Midwifery, Physiotherapy, and Urgent Medical Care prepare graduates to take an active and professional part in health care in all its forms, in order for them to protect and promote civic health in regions and communities accept directives of the European Union in the undergraduate study for health care workers earning their essential qualification, so that they may receive an education compatible with the education of health care workers in Europe, and that they may attend student exchanges. In order to meet these goals, the Faculty will cooperate with other faculties of similar focus and mission, both at home and abroad. The University's mission is to ensure high-quality education and scientific knowledge in health development, promotion, and protection and prevention, diagnostic methods, treatment, and nursing to protect and promote health as one of the ultimate human values. The University intends to fulfill its mission by developing higher education in study programs of all three tiers, specialization studies, and continuous education in all medical, pharmaceutical, dental, and paramedical (health) studies and conducting research in both medical and pharmaceutical sciences. Implementing up-to-date knowledge in medical sciences is an indivisible part of the University mission. The University offers education to students preparing for different occupations as healthcare professionals in accredited study programs of pre-graduate (Bc., Mgr. and MUDr.) and postgraduate (PhD., specialized and certification study) through a creative research approach in health care science to improve health and quality of life. The University offers the advantage of specialized training facilities, university clinics, university pharmacies, specific facilities, teaching sites, public health authorities, and another ambulatory, institutional and pharmaceutical healthcare facilities accredited by the University, to provide research, scientific and educational opportunities in order to fulfill the mission of the University. The Slovak Medical University in Bratislava is the only University in Slovakia that provides monothematic education for healthcare professions in all three degrees of higher education, and at the same time, the only institution that has guaranteed complex education of healthcare workers in Slovakia under various names since 1953. The Slovak Medical University is a public institution of higher education acting under the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic, with the following four faculties: Faculty of Medicine Faculty of Public Health Faculty of Nursing and Professional Health Studies Faculty of Health The Slovak Medical University is a non-political institution, acting within the Magna Charta Universitatum global university charter, recognizing democracy, humanism, and tolerance. It leads students towards adherence to the Hippocratic Oath, protection of life, and health from conception until dignified natural death. To provide postgraduate education to physicians, pharmacists, and other health workers with higher education following UEMS recommendations and relevant EU directives. To participate in continuous medical education. The University has expanded its activities to form an institution of high academic and scientific standing in Slovakia and internationally. The University encourages international cooperation and fosters relations with other European universities and scientific institutions. View full university