Erasmus Program is also for teachers and staff exchanges

This week /15.07-19.07.2024/ we are hosting colleagues from a newly contracted university - Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, Portugal.
Paula Almeida -from the Faculty of Management, Maria Cartroga from their international department and Isabel Pitacas from the Faculty of Mathematics.

We met the ladies at the international week of the partner university in Klaipėda, Lithuania. We discussed the possibilities of cooperation within the BIP programme and the NSP grants.

At the beginning of July our International office was visited by colleagues from Poland from the State University of Applied Sciences in Jaroslaw."

Mss Lilia Trubeha Dudek - from the department of foreign languages
Mariusy Dudek – canceler
Piotr Maziarz - from the Student Internship Centre

We are currently finalising mobility exit documentation for 104 Incoming Erasmus students from all over Europe, and recognising the credits brought by 60 of our students returning from mobility. At the same time, we are preparing for the departure of approximately 105 of our FM UK students in the winter semester 2024 and preparing for the arrival of approximately 200 Erasmus Incomings.

Many of our colleagues and academics returned or travelled in June to many exotic destinations such as India, Uzbekistan, France, Italy.

Colleagues Vozár Ondrej, Daňo Andrej and Čirka Miroslav participated in the International Week in Vieste organized by Università di Foggia on 19-23.6.2024. 305 participants from 22 countries took part in the event. The programme was rich and the number of interesting lectures was complemented by two networking events where there was an opportunity to meet leaders, teachers and researchers from European universities. The host Università di Foggia introduced us not only to the activities of the university, but also to the architecture of Vieste, nature and aspects of cultural life.

We welcomed a colleague from Sicily, Concetta D'Agostino from the University of Messina, we all are invited to explore  their destiantion, more from theeir visit in images.

The first week of July will be dominated by the Summer School at FM, where we will welcome 5O students and colleagues from Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Israel, Turkey, Spain and Slovenia.

This month we sent our colleagues to exciting destinations in France, Spain, the Czech Republic, Poland and Lithuania and welcomed mobility from Hungary and Greece.

Assoc. Prof. Copuš from the Department of Management participated in two Erasmus mobilities in April. The first was at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland), where he taught in the course "Change Management and Organizational Culture". Together with the representatives of this university, they discussed the planned project through the International Visegrad Fund and determined the next steps towards its successful submission.

The second mobility occurred at Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania), where he participated in the international week with 100 other participants from 23 countries. In addition to participating in a rich professional program, he taught in the "Business Management" course at the School of Economics and Business.

The summer semester started not only with the welcome of new Incoming International Students, but also with visits of foreign mobilities - lecturers and staff from partner universities, sending our colleagues and students also in the framework of short BIP format mobilities. In March we welcomed:

Ceren Demir, Istanbul Gelisim University, Turkey

Kristina Hlavati Bertoncelj, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia

We are expecting colleagues from Romania and Latvia in the very near future.

On Friday we continue with the tradition of Friday coffee for international students "Coffee at IRO Offee" also with the participation and support of Beánia team members, who initiated many student events for new Incomings and created the missing body program on FM.

At FM CK we currently have 2 Incoming Interns from Turkey, Fatma Nur Kaya and Haliloğlu Buse, who take care of the Incoming Visitors and do the program for them outside the faculty, which is an extremely helpful, enriching and beneficial experience for the Incoming Visitors.

At the end of September, we welcomed Ms. Magdalena Marcewska, a young teacher and researcher from Warsaw, for a teacher mobility. She was introduced to the academic life at our Faculty by our Vice-Dean Ms. Vilčeková. The visit through the Erasmus+ programme has the potential to develop into mutual cooperation.

On 21 September, we welcomed Rıza Çelikbaş from Mehmet Akif University in Burdur, Turkey. On the morning of 26 September, Yunus Karataş and his wife Selda Karataş from Mehmet Akif University, Murat İpek and Burdan Mağden from Ordu University were with us in the office.

Later on, the same day, Beste Dinçer and Zeliha Can Ergün, who came with her family, visited our office.

Beste Dinçer explained her experience here and her trip in her own words as follows: Dear Comenius University Community, I want to express my gratitude for the experience I've had here in Bratislava at Comenius University. My time here has been nothing short of extraordinary, I believe the beautiful city of Bratislava has become a second home to me, filled with rich history, vibrant culture, and warm, welcoming people. I've had the privilege of exploring its charming streets, tasting its delicious cuisine, and immersing myself in its unique atmosphere. I also want to extend my deepest appreciation to the International Office staff, especially Erika and Romana. Their unwavering support, guidance, and hospitality have made my journey here exceptionally smooth and enjoyable. From helping me navigate administrative procedures to providing valuable insights into life in Bratislava. I am grateful for the diverse and inclusive environment that the university fosters. As I prepare to depart from this wonderful city and university, I want to thank each and every member of the Comenius University community for making my time here so memorable. I will carry the knowledge, experiences, and friendships I've gained here with me throughout my life. Thank you, Bratislava, and thank you, Comenius University, for an incredible chapter in my academic journey.

prof. Ing. Ľubica Bajzíková, PhD. attending mobility in Croatia at Juraj Dobrila University of Pula

Prof. Ing. Ľubica Bajzíková, PhD. – at mobility in Czechia - Škoda Auto University, Mladá Boleslav CZ

This week began with the "Day of International Visits" of academics and employees of partner universities from Turkey, Romania and Poland, together we welcomerd about 18 colleagues in a very friendly atmosphere, thez also met with  Vice Dean Dr. Lucia Vilčeková.

Guests also in photos:
Ayhan Koc, Yasin Bilir, MEHMET KOKOGLU from University of Erciyes
Gabriella Maczkó from University of Szeged
Hakan ACAR  from Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University
Ali Yilmaz, UTKU ERGUL, Ahmet DUMAN  from Bursa Uludag University
İbrahim Hakkı Solmaz, Ali Akyar from Ardahan University
Kalender Özcan Atılgan atilgan  from Mersin University
Pantilimon Ioana from National University Of Political Science and Public Administration
Szymanek Damian from University of Economic Humanities in Bielsko - Biala
Cornelia Ududec, Carmen Gabriela Sirbu from Danubius University
Tuncer Kachan from Siirt University

Today, 02.05.2023, students of the Babylon Study Association of International Business Communication from the Netherlands visited our Faculty of Management in the number of 40 visitors.
They were welcomed by Vice Dean Dr. Vilčeková and attended a lecture of  International Marketing presented by Prof Cagáňová.

In May, Assoc. Prof. Copuš from the Department of Management attended the Erasmus teaching mobility at the University of Niccolò Cusano (Rome, Italy). It was hosted by Prof. Valeri, who visited and taught at FMCU in March.

Vincent Fromentin – from Universite of Lorraine
Teaches - Analyse de donnees quantitatives approfondie

Prague University of Economics and Business - Faculty of Management

She was teaching our students Multivariate Statistical Methods

University of Basque Country – our Enlight partner
Mr. Jonathan Lavilla de Lera – from Faculty of Education , teaches at  Faculty of Art – Ancient Greek Philosophical Terminology

Giresun University
3 guests from IT Department:
Fatih Topcu, Derya Erdogan, Kenan Ergun

Mangirdas Morkunas from Vilnius University (STA Mobility)
Nuran ÖZTÜRK from Trabzon University, Turkey (STT Mobility)

Selcuk Soyleriz from Giresun University Turkey

Carlos Francisco Da Cunha Picado from Universidade de Aveiro

Mr Francisco Picado was very thankful after his visit at Comenius, expresed by his own words:
“I must thank Comenius University and to Mr. Olšavský for giving me the opportunity to teach abroad and, in particular,  I´ve to thank you for taking up your classroom space in order to do so and I expect the students stay satisfied. I would also like to thank you the way in which you welcomed me, and I hope to be able to retribute when your academics visit Portugal. It was a long and tiring but excellent day visiting Bratislava. The old town area is truly fascinating and it's easy to lose hours there without noticing time passing. Also your cheese is  amazing”

March started with the visit of prof. Algirdas Giedraitis from Lithuania Business University of Applied Sciences in Klaipeda, Lithuania.
The main content of the mobility was a lecture for students on the topics of organizational culture in Lithuania.
In the following days, we will welcome guests from Italy, Cyprus and Turkey.

In March, we also send our colleagues to Valenecia, Spain at - University of Valencia and to Brno - to MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO

As part of Erasmus mobility, FMUK was visited by prof. Marco Valeri from Niccolo' Cusano University, Rome, Italy. His program consisted of teaching in two courses - Managerial Ethics and Organizational Cultures (European Features) and several working meetings regarding possible cooperation in a project and scientific activities with faculty representatives - deans doc. Holienka and Dr. Vilčeková, heads of departments doc. Šuplata and doc. Copuš and with prof. Lašáková from the Center for Business Ethics. As part of the cooperation so far, prof. Valeri will host doc. Copuš in June at his university with a lecture.

Prof. Elwira Gross-Gołacka from the University of Social Sciences (Warsaw, Poland) visited the Faculty of Management as part of the Erasmus+ mobility. The main content of the mobility was a lecture for students of the Human Resource Management trajectory entitled Diversity Management in Organization: Cultural Approach. Together with the vice-dean for international relations Dr. Vilčeková, head of the Department of Management doc. Copuš and Mgr. Černeková from the department for international relations then discussed the possibilities of further cooperation between the universities.

Monika Zahradníková and Hana Boubalová - Jihočeská university in České Budejovice, CZ

Khrystyna Dibolo – Krakow University, Poland

The second week of May 09-13.05. was carried on FM, among other things, in the spirit of many Incoming mobilies, the first being colleagues from Poland Hanna Górska-Warsewicz and Mr. Debski.

University of Social Sciences, Faculty of Management - Lodz, Poland

Mrs. Hanna Górska-Warsewicz - Associate professor from

University of Social Sciences, Faculty of Management – Lodz, Poland

Gave presentation to our students in topic: Hospitality and Tourism Management.

By her own words:

“It was an honor for me to be at Comenius University in the Faculty of Management. I paid attention to the research being conducted within the broad structure of the department which includes 7 chairs. I was curious to read the journals published by the faculty in the field of management and marketing.

Bratislava is a beautiful city and its development is evident year by year, which also highlights its historical heritage. I hope that I will be able to come back to the university again, maybe for one of the conferences or for collaborative research. “

Mr. Maciej Dębski - Managing Director of the Campus in Warsaw from University of Social Sciences, Faculty of Management - Lodz, Poland

By his own words: “Thanks a lot for everything. It was ok, and I must add that Ms. Ilayda Sarigul is very nice and open person. “

Mr. Cihan Cengiz from Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Strategy Development Department – Burdur, Turkey

for Staff Mobility Training.

Associate Professor from Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Faculty of Social and Economics Studies – Labem, Czechia

Gave presentation to our students in topic: Multinational companies and their foreign direct investment.

Sylvie Blaschke Kotíková by her own words:

I spent one week in May in Bratislava. From my Department of Economics and Management of the Faculty of Social and Economic Studies at the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in north Bohemia, it is quite a long way. It was my first stay in Bratislava. The first impression is important. And now, after a few days in Blava, I have to say, that I am looking forward to the next opportunity to visit Comenius University Bratislava again. I have always said that people make an impression. I enjoy the time with colleagues from the Faculty of Management of the Comenius University Bratislava. Great communication with your International office, interesting talk with the head of the Department of Marketing and with dr. František Olšavský. I had the opportunity to have a lecture on his subject about International trade, multinational companies and foreign direct investment. I was so surprised by how I enjoyed the lecture with the students, how open were with the discussion and they showed me how well educated are in my subject – International trade. I hope, to see you soon, Comenius University Bratislava…and taste the Bratislava rolls too

Mr. Juan Carlos Roca Pulido - from University of Huelva, Faculty of Business Sciences and Tourism – Huelva, Spain

Gave presentation to our students in topic: Visual Basic for Applications

DENİZ ÜNAL ADIGÜZEL – a few years ago she completed her master's degree in FM CU as an international full-time student, she is currently working at Pamukkale University in Turkey.

This week she hosted us in the frame Erasmus STA mobility, she gave a lecture on Consumer Behaviour Theories, Cuteness Marketing.

Touching was the meeting after years with her favourite teacher Prof. Peter Štarchoň.

Said by her words:

"This is my 3rd visit to Bratislava and every time I leave very happy. I would like to thank all the friends at Comenius University for their close attention and nice welcome. Dear Erika, Dear Teacher Starchon and İlayda, I hope our paths cross again soon. Stay with love..."

Mr. Recep Tekeli from Adnan Menderes University - Aydin, Turkey

Is a Professor of Public Finance at Department of Public Finance at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Aydin Adnan Menderes.
He teaches Public Budgeting and Budget Policy, Mathematics for Economist at the graduate level. Also, Intergovernmental relations at the graduate level.
His research areas involve issues in local government finance, public economics and budget policy.
He  gained from  visit to Faculty of Management at the university of Comenius. Enjoyed to teach the topics of Mathematics for Economics which he teaches first year students at the Department of Public Finance in Turkey.
By his own words:
“During my visit first thing that took my attention was the wash basin in the classroom. Lecturers wash off the hands after using the board. Students drink tap water. Well, I think it was quite remarkable thing that I will never forget
The staff was very friendly and helpful through my visit.
Special thanks go to Erika Cernekova for everything she did.”

Mr. Mangirdas Morkūnas - Doctor of Business Administration from

Vilnius University - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration gave presentation to our students in topic: Sales Promotion and Point of Purchase Communication. He rated our students as very bright, Bratislava as a beautifully blossomed city full of nice people and prized a pleasant atmosphere on our faculty and organization of our International Office, which we highly appreciate.

Said by his words:

"Bratislava appear to me as a city of very kind and polite people, who are not jostling even in a public transportation. A modern approach here diffuses with respect to the tradition creating a unique and very welcoming relaxing atmosphere. Beer here costs cheaper then coffee and Slovaks do not eat fresh vegetables as a side dish :)”

Emel Yarimoglu

from Yasar University in Izmir- Faculty of Business, Turkey,

is an associate professor of Marketing. She teaches several courses of marketing such as services marketing, retailing management, marketing research, international marketing, brand management and so on. She has many publications in SSCI and Scopus indexed top tier journals.

Emel gave presentation to our students in topic: Creating Marketing Strategy and Building Customer Relationship. She was interesting in our Summer School which we plan to organize in summer a would like to be part of any BIP Erasmus project /more about BIP in next texts/ in future. She would like to find more options to cooperate with us under support of NSP grant.

Claudia Afonso has a Law degree from University of Coimbra and a Master´s degree in Tax Law from University of Minho. She is the legal advisor and data protection officer at Polytechnic Institute of Bragança. She has coordinated the implementation of General Data Protection Regulation in IPB and support´s the Cybersecurity Competence Centre in legal advisoring, research and intellectual property aspects.

Tiago Pedrosa is a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Minho, Aveiro and Porto, and a Bachelor in informatics engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança. He is adjunct professor, researcher and consultant in the field of cybersecurity and information security at the informatics and communications department of School of Technology and Management of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança.

He is also Chief Information Security Officer, Coordinator of the Cybersecurity Competence Centre, Coordinator of the Computer Security Incident Response Team, Director of the Short Cycle Course in Cybersecurity and integrated member at Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics (CeDRI). He develops research in the area of applied cybersecurity and information security, integrates projects, makes technology transfer and consultancy. He has several published scientific works, he supervises several masters, bachelor and internships.

They were at several meetings related with current and future projects on cybersecurity, data protection and cybercrime.

During the days of the visit, a class of Polytechnic Institute of Bragança's Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) in Cybersecurity toke place in Comenius University in Bratislava and was streamed for all the other remote students enrolled on the BIP. This is a subject offered by the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, together with Comenius University in Bratislava and the University of Léon in Spain, with students from several countries. The subject works in remotely classes, with tasks and projects, and complemented with an intensive week in Portugal in the end of the semester.

BIP- Blended Intensive Programme

a new and more flexible mobility format combining physical mobility with a virtual part

Basic rules:

• min. 3 HEIs from the three programme countries
• physical mobility min.5 to 30 days, mandatory virtual element
• min. number of mobility learners 15
• participants from third countries not associated with the Programme shall not be included in this number, as are the domestic participants and
• the BIP allowance is intended for the organisation of the BIP
• mobility participants receive a grant from their broadcasts. schools with rates for short-term mobility
• domestic participants are not eligible for a grant