On Monday 15 May 2023 the BAS Department FF UPJŠ had a unique opportunity to welcome His Excellency Nigel M. Baker, the Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the Northern Ireland to Slovakia in its premises. Accompanied by Ms Monika Holečková, Senior Communication and Political Officer, they spent a valuable time with the staff members and doctoral students of the BAS … Continued

The first weeks of May 2023 were at the BAS FF UPJŠ dedicated to the intensification of international cooperation. Long-term co-worker and friend of the BAS Department, Prof. Dr. Salvador Valera, University of Granada, Spain, spent intensive time with our students of Corpus Linguistics. He generously shared his expertise in this field not only in his lecture but also in several … Continued

Martin Hudák, B.A., a student of the MA study programme the English Language for European Institutions and Economy, represented the BAS Department, the Faculty of Arts, the UPJŠ and Slovakia at ‘The Shadow Report Conference on the Macroregional Strategy of the Danube Region’ held in Vienna in April 2023, after participating in other projects of … Continued

On the 4th of May 2023, the students of the Deparment of British and American Studies FF UPJŠ had the privilege of attending a discussion on the topic of artificial intelligence organized by the European Parliament. The debate was incredibly high-level. The audience was deeply immersed in this complex topic, and  enriched by the experience. We mostly discussed AI’s unbelievable raw power … Continued

Alumni Club, Club of Teachers of English, ELSE Club, Discussion Club 15.05.2023 – 17.05.2023

The 13th Annual Meeting of Young Historians Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice Application deadline: 30 June 2023

The Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the SR will provide 300 scholarships for foreign applicants to study at Slovak universities in the academic year 2023/2024.

Meeting of the International Project IMPRESA at the Faculty of Arts, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice Following project meetings in Hamburg, Warsaw and Lisbon, the fourth planned meeting of the international consortium of the IMPRESA research project took place in Košice, from 21 to 23 March 2023. The IMPRESA project – Implementing methamphetamine prevention … Continued

On Monday, March 6, 2023, the fifth year and eighth semester students received their certificates from the course Skills for Success – from University to Workplace, which is administered as a compulsory elective subject by the Department of British and American Studies FF UPJŠ in cooperation with partner companies associated with the BSCF American Chamber of Commerce in Slovakia. Students … Continued

On 16 February 2023, the Department of British and American Studies FF UPJŠ hosted another year of the Regional Round of the English Language Olympiad for pupils of basic and secondary schools of the Košice Self-Governing Region who successfully passed district rounds of this competition. Competitors, more than 90 this year, competed in 8 categories … Continued

This year’s Open House programme at the FF UPJŠ was at the Department of British and American Studies opened by a very interesting lecture by Mgr. Barbara Tricoire – Head of the Directorate General Translation Office at the Representation of the European Commission in Bratislava – on the topic “Translation for EU institutions: career opportunities and required skills”.Not only potential future … Continued

On Thursday 9 February 2023, the regional round of the Human Rights Olympiad was held at the BAS FF UPJŠ after a long pandemic break. Almost 40 high school students from the entire Košice Region arrived to prove their knowledge of human-rights topics.While waiting for the results of the first, written test, students and teachers had the option to … Continued