Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

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Science
and Research
The scientific and research activity of the SUA has a tradition and stable place in the Slovak
scientific community. It is a part of the intellectual background of the agricultural sector where
it maintains an exclusive position among Slovak universities, but it has also emphasized its
position in other sectors in recent years, namely the means of knowledge of causa-
tion and regularities in nature and society, and also the application of the new technologies
and modernization of teaching.
SUA is referred to as the “Green University” because of projects funded by national grant
agencies, projects of international scientific technical cooperation with partner institutions
in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Russia, France, China, South Africa, Syria,
etc. as well as challenges of the EU framework programmes. Research activity at the SUA has
a long tradition and reputation in the European educational space. It is particularly related
to the understanding of biological, technical, economic and social phenomena and patterns,
ensuring a better use of plants and farm animals, production of safe food and other needs of
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our population. It respects the formation and development of countryside and environment,
considering the transformation processes in the society and rural development, regarding the
reasonable exploitation of natural resources and protection of cultural heritage.
On experimental workplaces the students have possibility to study the regulatory mechanisms
of primary processes of creating biomass, energy and agricultural plants. Modern molecular
and biotechnological methods in agriculture are developed specifically on these workplaces.
The complex issues of maintaining agricultural biodiversity in changing environmental
conditions and potential impacts of climate change on the agriculture are being solved.
Some university departments have acquired the status of centers of excellence. Their modern
infrastructure is co-financed by the EU structural funds mechanisms. There is created a space
for the new research design and it enables to produce the high quality outputs from research
projects.
University laboratories are open to young researchers as well as for students, enabling them
to create their own scientific work.
office of Science, Research and Doctoral Studies
e-mail: vicesci@uniag.sk
tel.: +421 – 37 – 6415 509
Honorar
Doctor
of SUA i
Honorary Doctors of the SUA in Nitra
University honors outstanding personalities
of the academic world, awarding them
with the title of doctor honoris causa.
1995 Dr. Jacques Diouf - FAO
1996 Academician Ján Hovorka - SK
Academician Emil Špaldon - SK
Prof. Edward Runge - USA
1999 Prof. Dr. Viktor A. Dragavcev- RU
Prof. Dr. John Kozak - USA
2000 Prof. Dr. Manfred H. Olbertz - DE
Prof. Ing. Miroslav Grznár, DrSc. - SK
2001 Academician Ján Plesník - SK
Prof. Ing. Jan Hron, DrSc. - CZ
Catherine A. Bertini - FAO
Prof. Joachim Elterich, PhD. - DE
2002 Prof. Ing. Karel Vinohradský, CSc. - CZ
RNDr. Jozef Kollár - SK
2004 Prof. Ing. Stanislav Procházka, DrSc. - CZ
2005 Akad. arch. Ing. Ladislav Švihel - SK
Prof. Dr. Sándor Magda, DrSc. - HU
2006 Prof. Ing. František Střeleček, CSc. - CZ
2007 Prof. Dr. József Molnár - HU
Prof. Ing. Karel Pokorný, CSc. - CZ
2008 Prof. Ing. Ignác Hoza, CSc. - CZ
Prof. Dr. Richard Godwin, FREng. - UK
2009 Prof. Ing. Jaroslav Hlušek, CSc. - CZ
Prof. Dr. Hab. Janusz Żmija - PL
Prof. Dr. László Villányi - HU