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AI Regulation, Trust, and the Protection of Fundamental Rights: Discussion at SOFTECON 2026

Tue, 26 May 2026 22:47:00 +0200

At the SOFTECON 2026 conference, Associate Professor Matúš Mesarčík from the Institute of Information Technology Law and Intellectual Property Law at the Faculty of Law, Comenius University Bratislava, participated in a panel discussion focused on current issues related to artificial intelligence regulation, the implementation of AI in businesses, and the practical implications of the European AI Act for the corporate environment. The panel opened the topic of employee education in the field of AI and the need to build AI literacy across organizations. It was emphasized that the successful implementation of artificial intelligence is not only a technological issue, but also a matter of corporate culture, governance, and trust. The discussion also focused on modern approaches to AI governance, internal policies, and risk management in the use of generative AI. An important part of the discussion addressed the protection of fundamental rights and the assessment of the impact of AI systems on individuals and society. The panel also highlighted examples of European frameworks such as FRIA and HUDERIA, which focus on evaluating the impact of AI on human rights, democracy, and the principles of the rule of law. It was emphasized that the future competitiveness of companies will depend not only on the extent to which they adopt AI, but above all on their ability to build trustworthy, transparent, and responsible AI systems.

2nd Edition of the BIP AI & Law at Faculty of Informatics, University of Basque Country, Spain

Tue, 26 May 2026 22:44:00 +0200

From 20 to 24 April 2026, Marek Kordík, Matúš Mesarčík, Petra Dražová, and Lucia Rybanová participated in the on-site part of the second edition of the BIP AI & Law programme, held at the Faculty of Informatics of the University of the Basque Country in Spain. The programme brought together more than 50 students from universities within the ENLIGHT alliance with diverse academic backgrounds – particularly in technical, legal, and philosophical fields. Throughout the week, participants worked collaboratively on the analysis of artificial intelligence systems and their societal, legal, and ethical implications. The second edition of the programme was particularly distinguished by the participation of several guest speakers from various European Union Member States. The programme featured daily workshops, expert presentations, and concluding panel discussions focusing on topics such as innovation, technological sovereignty, and the regulation and control of artificial intelligence. Participation in the programme represented a valuable opportunity for international academic cooperation, exchange of knowledge, and interdisciplinary discussion on current challenges related to the development and use of artificial intelligence.

CU Faculty of Law, becomes part of the European Legal Design project supported under COST Action

Tue, 26 May 2026 22:52:00 +0200

We are pleased to announce that the COST Action proposal CA25133 European Legal Design Action (ELDA), in which the Institute of IT Law and IP is involved, has been selected for funding under the COST Open Call 2025-1. The main proposer of the project is Tallinn University of Technology. The Faculty of Law of Comenius University Bratislava participates in the project as a secondary proposer, through the Institute of Information Technology Law and Intellectual Property Law. The Faculty is represented in the proposal by doc. JUDr. Jozef Andraško, PhD., whose expertise is in the field of IT law. The project European Legal Design Action received full marks in the evaluation. In this highly competitive call, only 80 new COST Actions were approved, with an approximate success rate of 7%. ELDA focuses on reducing regulatory complexity through legal design, plain language, human-centred design, and the use of digital tools, including artificial intelligence. The project aims to make legal rules, regulatory documents, contracts, and related guidance clearer, more accessible, and easier to use in practice. At the same time, it creates an interdisciplinary European platform connecting law, design, linguistics, technology, public policy, and practice. The significance of the project is also underlined by the scale of its international consortium. According to the current proposal, the network includes 170 proposers from 37 countries. The consortium brings together experts in law, design, computer science, linguistics, economics and business, media and communication, as well as other disciplines. The strongly interdisciplinary nature of the project is also reflected in the composition of the network, where law is the dominant field, but computer and information sciences, economics, linguistics, and communication are also significantly represented. In addition to European partners, the secondary proposers include experts and institutions from several non-European countries. From Australia, the network includes the University of New South Wales and the University of Newcastle; from Canada, the University of Victoria, Carleton University, and York University – Osgoode Hall Law School; from New Zealand, Victoria University of Wellington; from South Korea, Hanyang University and Impactsquare; and from the United States, several experts and institutions are represented. The current proposal also lists partners from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and South Africa. European partners are also strongly represented. Finland has particularly significant participation including the University of Vaasa, University of Lapland, Aalto University, University of Helsinki, University of Turku, Tampere University, and other Finnish academic, professional, and business entities. From the Netherlands, the network includes, for example, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Leiden University, Delft University of Technology, and Maastricht University. From Germany, the Technical University of Munich is listed as a secondary proposer. Under Belgium, the list of secondary proposers includes a representative of the European Parliament – Economic Governance and EMU Scrutiny Unit. The participation of our Faculty in this COST Action represents an important opportunity to develop international scientific cooperation, exchange knowledge, and strengthen research in the areas of legal design, regulation, information technology, and innovative approaches to the creation and application of law. More information about the approved COST Actions is available on the COST website: https://www.cost.eu/80-new-cost-actions-oc20251/

Erasmus teaching mobility in May

Tue, 26 May 2026 16:05:00 +0200

In May, our colleague Lukáš Copuš from the Department of Management participated in an Erasmus teaching mobility programme. He taught students from the English programme, the Croatian programme, as well as a group of Erasmus students at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Rijeka. The lectures and seminars focused on organizational culture within courses taught by Prof. Danijela Sokolic.

Condensed Matter Seminar - Peter Samuely (3.6.2026)

Richard.Hlubina@fmph.uniba.sk — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:52:00 +0200

Peter Samuely (Centre of Low Temperature Physics, Košice):
Ising superconductivity in bulk crystals based on NbSe2
Abstract:
Spin-valley locking allowing for in-plane upper critical magnetic fields vastly surpassing Pauli limit was first demonstrated in fully two-dimensional monolayers like of NbSe2 [1] with large spin-orbit coupling and broken inversion symmetry. Surprisingly, this Ising superconductivity can be present in layered bulk materials, too. We have clarified the underlying microscopic mechanism of Ising superconductivity in bulk, based on a reduced interlayer coupling between superconducting layers due to intercalation by insulating layers and restricted inversion symmetry in misfit compounds of (LaSe)1.14(NbSe2)m=1,2 [2,3]. As a further step we show that in some transition metal dichalcogenide polytypes Pauli paramagnetic limit is violated even without intercalation. By the specific heat measurements up to 35 T we evidence that in the pristine non-centrosymmetric bulk 4Ha-NbSe2 polytype the in-plane upper critical magnetic field exceeds the Pauli limit three times. Ab initio band structure calculations based on experimentally determined crystal structure confirm the spin-valley locking. The theoretical model provides the microscopic mechanism of the Ising protection based solely on broken inversion symmetry [4]. Moreover, the low temperature specific heat measurements in magnetic field applied at different angles with respect to the basal plane and low temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy are used to analyze unconventional superconducting order parameter and its interplay with charge density waves in bulk Ising superconductors [5]. [1] X. Xi et al., Nat. Phys. 12, 139 (2016).
[2] P. Samuely et al., Phys. Rev. B 104, 224507 (2021).
[3] T. Samuely et al., Phys. Rev. B 108, L220501 (2023).
[4] D. Volavka et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 016002 (2026).
[5] Samuely et al., to be published.

Condensed Matter Seminar - Oleh Turutanov (28.5.2026)

Roman.Martonak@fmph.uniba.sk — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:36:00 +0200

Oleh Turutanov, PhD.:
Stochastic Resonance in SQUIDs and everywhere Abstract:
It seems obvious that random noise always interferes with seeing, hearing, and measuring a weak information signal, and is the complete opposite of regularity and order. However, the discovery in 1981 of a completely counterintuitive phenomenon, the stochastic resonance (SR) effect, completely changed the attitude toward noise as an interference. It turned out that in a wide class of nonlinear systems, both natural and artificial, adding an optimal amount of noise increases their response to a weak regular stimulus, i.e., leads to ordering and amplification of the weak signal. This opens the possibility of increasing the sensitivity of various technical devices when measuring weak periodic signals against a noisy background. One such device is the superconducting quantum interferometer (SQUID), which is widely used in various fields—laboratories, medicine, geophysics, industry, and the military—as a sensitive sensor of weak magnetic fields. The report presents the essence of stochastic resonance and its manifestation in nature and technology using the example of bistable and threshold systems, as well as the results of numerical calculations and experiments on observing SR in an RF SQUID at liquid helium temperature, which under certain conditions have two or more metastable states.

Faculty students excelled at GENESIS 2 in Poland

Fri, 22 May 2026 13:54:00 +0200

In the academic year 2025/2026, students of the Faculty of Management, Comenius University in Bratislava participated in the international Blended Intensive Programme GENESIS 2: Global Entrepreneurs Network and Education for Strategy and Innovative Solutions 2, implemented in cooperation with the University of Gdańsk, ISAL Madeira and the Faculty of Management, Comenius University Bratislava. The virtual part of the programme took place from 9 March to 30 April 2026, and the physical mobility was held from 11 to 15 May 2026 in Poland, at the University of Gdańsk.

The Faculty of Management, Comenius University was represented by lecturers Mgr. Martin Krajčík, PhD. and Mgr. František Olšavský, PhD., as well as by students Matej Hruška, Ema Mažgutová, Aneta Sumková, Tadeáš Jakuš, Ema Nahálková, Peter Gendiar, Dária Hoľvová, Vladimír Leško, Diana Boďová and Samuel Sarnovský. The students worked in international teams together with students from the partner institution ISAL Madeira.

The programme focused on the development of entrepreneurial thinking, creativity, innovation, sustainability, tourism, international marketing, digital marketing planning and financial fundamentals for entrepreneurs. It included expert lectures, consultations, team-based project work and final project presentations before an international evaluation committee.

Students of the Faculty of Management, Comenius University Bratislava achieved excellent results during the programme. The final project presentations were of a high professional standard and demonstrated a strong level of preparation, analytical thinking, creativity, attentiveness and practical orientation. The projects were realistic and, in many cases, showed potential for application in a real-world environment. The international jury appreciated the quality of teamwork, the students’ ability to connect expert knowledge with practical challenges, and their professional approach to presenting the results.

The positive evaluation of the programme is also confirmed by anonymous student feedback. Out of 16 respondents from ISAL and FM CU, 14 were satisfied or very satisfied with the overall quality of the event, and all respondents stated that they would recommend the programme to future participants. The organisation of the event was rated as good or excellent in all responses. In their comments, students particularly highlighted international cooperation, new contacts, practical experience and the opportunity to step outside their comfort zone.

Selected statements from the anonymous student feedback

“The programme gave me new experiences and friendships, and at the same time taught me more about tourism and sustainability.”

“This BIP is worth it because it brings new contacts, useful knowledge and allows participants to step outside their comfort zone in a pleasant and manageable way.”

“It was a practical, transformative and highly useful experience for the future.”

“I would definitely recommend the project.”

A significant outcome of this activity is also the deepening of cooperation with the Polish partner university. On the basis of the implemented cooperation, a mobility agreement with the University of Gdańsk was concluded, and further opportunities for cooperation were discussed in the areas of student and staff mobility, scientific and research activities, publication outputs, exchange of expert information and preparation of joint research project proposals. This cooperation creates an important basis for closer academic integration and further internationalisation of the educational and scientific activities of the Faculty of Management, Comenius University Bratislava.

H. Kováčiková gave lectures for judges in Budapest

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:11:00 +0200

Assoc. Prof. Hana Kováčiková, PhD., member of the Institute of European Law at the Faculty of Law, Comenius University Bratislava, participated as an invited speaker in the training of the European Law Advisors’ Network (ELAN) held on 20–22 May 2026 in Budapest. She delivered a lecture on private enforcement of competition law to judges from all levels of the Hungarian judiciary. The lecture received highly positive feedback and confirmed the strong international engagement of the experts of the Institute of European Law.

Grant do USA pre vysokoškolských pedagógov, výskumníkov a odborníkov

Thu, 21 May 2026 15:58:00 +0200

Nový cyklus podávania prihlášok

na Fulbright Slovak Scholar Program 2027/2028

Grant pre vysokoškolských učiteľov, výskumných pracovníkov, odborníkov a umelcov

3- až 6-mesačný grant umožňuje realizovať výskum alebo prednášať na ktorejkoľvek akreditovanej vysokej škole alebo výskumnej inštitúcii v USA. Prihlášku si môžete podať vo všetkých vedeckých disciplínach okrem klinickej medicíny.

Uzávierka podávania prihlášok na akademický rok 2027/2028 je 15. októbra 2026 (23:59 hod.)

Pre koho je grant určený?

pre občanov Slovenskej republiky
pre uchádzačov s ukončeným doktorandským štúdiom (PhD.) alebo s preukázateľnou odbornou praxou v danej oblasti
pre uchádzačov s jasne definovaným zámerom, ktorému sa plánujú v USA venovať (výskum, prednášanie)

Čo grant pokrýva?

mesačné štipendium na pokrytie životných nákladov
spiatočnú letenku
základné zdravotné krytie počas pobytu v USA
príspevok na sprevádzajúcich rodinných príslušníkov
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Adventure Weekend Hiking Trip for Slovak and International Students

milos.hrabovsky@uniba.sk — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:35:00 +0200

The International and Welcome Centre team of Comenius University invites Slovak and international students to join the first shared adventure hiking trip through the hidden gems of Slovakia, taking place from June 12 to 14, 2026. Over the course of three days, participants will have the opportunity to experience Slovak nature through the eyes of local hikers, discover new places, and enjoy an international atmosphere alongside students from different countries. As international students will also participate in the event, communication will be conducted in English.

Trip Program

Friday, June 12 – Departure by train to Žilina, followed by a transfer to Strečno Castle, where participants will take part in a guided tour. Overnight accommodation will be provided at the mountain lodge Klačianska Magura.
Saturday – A ridge hike with several stops at scenic viewpoints and ascents to both lower and higher peaks. The second night will be spent at Camping Belá in four-bed cabins.
Sunday – The final day’s program will be adapted to participants’ preferences. Those interested may leave early in the morning, while others can join the final group hike.

The hike will be physically demanding; therefore, organizers recommend that participants carefully consider their fitness level and hiking experience. Participants will walk approximately 10–15 km per day and carry their personal belongings in backpacks throughout the trip. Proper hiking shoes and suitable spare clothing are essential. The estimated cost of the weekend trip is approximately €50–60 per person, including transportation, accommodation, and meals. The number of places is limited. Registration is available via the: registration form Applications are open until May 24, 2026. Participants will be informed about their placement on May 25, 2026.