Bez nadpisu

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Faculty of Science, P. J. Šafárik University,
Košice, Slovakia
2003
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Mission
High level education in line with European
standards
High quality multidisciplinary research
Service to the society
Priorities
Quality comparable with EU higher education
institutions
International dimension in education and science
Autonomy and academic standards
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Structure of the Faculty
BIOLOGY CHEMISTRY GEOGRAPHY INFORMATICS MATHE
MATICS PHYSICS SOCIAL SCIENCES
INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY and ECOLOGY
Departments Animal Physiology
Botany

Cell Biology

Genetics
Zoology and Ecology
Laboratory Molecular Biology
Diagnostics Division Didactics of Biology


INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY
Departments Biochemistry
Inorganic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Physical and Analytical
Chemistry Division Didactics of Chemistry
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BIOLOGY CHEMISTRY GEOGRAPHY INFORMATICS MATHE
MATICS PHYSICS SOCIAL SCIENCES

INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY
INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS
INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS

Departments Geometry and
Algebra Mathematical
Analysis

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BIOLOGY CHEMISTRY GEOGRAPHY INFORMATICS
MATHEMATICS PHYSICS SOCIAL SCIENCES
INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS
Departments Biophysics
Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics
Physics of Condensed Matter
Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics
Division Didactics of Physics
INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Department Philosophy, Pedagogy
and Psychology Detached unit
in Rožnava
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Education
Higher education consisting of three
main cycles (3-5-8(9))
Credit system since 1998/99 in line with the
European credit accumulation and transfer system
(ECTS)
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Education
Bachelors and Magisters (equivalent to MSc.)
degree programmes in
BIOLOGY - animal and human physiology
- botany - cell and
molecular biology
- genetics
- plant
physiology
- zoology
CHEMISTRY - biochemistry
- inorganic chemistry - organic chemistry
- physical and
analytical chemistry

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Education
ENVIRONMENTAL ECOLOGY - chemistry in environment
- ecology of animals - ecology of
plants
INFORMATICS - computer systems and
networks -
information and knowledge systems
(Bc. only)
- information technologies for healthy
and socially disabled
MATHEMATICS -
mathematical management - financial and
insurance mathematics
PHYSICS - astronomy and
astrophysics - biophysics
- nuclear physics
- physical engineering of materials
-
condensed matter physics
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Education
Joint (two-subject) Mgr. degree programmes for
secondary school teachers preparation are
offered in combination of biology, chemistry,
geography, informatics, mathematics and physics



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Education
PhD programmes in
Analytical Chemistry
Biochemistry
Biophysics

Discrete Mathematics
Genetics

Inorganic Chemistry
Nuclear and subnuclear
Physics Organic
Chemistry
Physics of condensed matter and
Acoustics Physiology of animals
Programme and
information systems Theory of
teaching in Mathematics
Theory of teaching in Physics



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Education
Increasing number of students


Undergraduate Postgraduate

1 1997/98 2 1998/99 3 1999/00
4 2000/01 5 2001/02 6 2002/03
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Education
Mobility of students



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Education
Mobility of teachers



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Education
SOCRATES/ERASMUS
co-operation



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Research
Teaching and research are twin components of the
Faculty mission, forming the cornestone upon
which all other activities are founded.
Research topics
BIOLOGY Cell factory as a source of biomedicine
Biodiversity of plants and animals ECOLOGY
Carcinogenesis and cancer therapy
CHEMISTRY New compounds with biological activity
New materials and methods for research and
industry Structure and properties of new
compounds
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Research
INFORMATICS Fuzzy techniques
Neural networks
Logical programming
MATHEMATICS Graph theory, cycles and colourings
Algebraic structures
Differential equations
Topology and thin sets

PHYSICS New materials
Magnetism at low and ultra-low
temperatures
Biomedicine - mechanism of action
PEDAGOGY Creative teaching
Prevention of drug dependence
PSYCHOLOGY Theory of teaching of natural science
Socio-economic inequalities in health
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Research
Research projects

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Research
Scientific outputs

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Research
Cited references

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Service to the society
Faculty of Science provides several kinds of
study programmes, courses and certificate
programmes for the university graduates, which
comprise

• possibility for teachers to extend their teaching
  abilities studying other subject

• achievement of the pedagogical qualification

• educational programmes and short-term courses for
  public institutions and enterprises

• other forms of enhancement of qualification

• educational activities in the framework of
  INFOVEK

• e-learning - implementation of information and
  communication technologies

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Service to the society
Links between the Faculty of Science and industry

• Oriented research for

US STEEL SLOVAKOFARMA CHEMKO
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Faculty staff
Total number of employees 350
Number of teachers and researchers
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Faculty staff
Full-time Professors and Associate Professors
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Strengthening faculty/university management
Specific feature of the Institutional development
plan is

• implementation of information technologies

• adoption of the university structure that fit
  better with the university dimension of higher
  education

• professionalism of the faculty/university
  management

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Budget
Faculty budget (2.2 mil. EUR)
Governmental money for education Governmental
money for research National grants and other
sources Foreign funds
Faculty budget (2.3 mil. EUR)
Faculty budget (2.9 mil. EUR)
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Budget

mil. EUR


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