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APVV

The Slovak Research and Development Agency (Slovak acronym: APVV) is the only national grant agency established in order to support research and development in Slovakia by granting funds from the State Budget to implement the projects:

  • within research and development in individual fields of science and technology;
  • within the Agency’s programmes;
  • within bilateral or multilateral contracts on cooperation in research and technology and projects within the Slovak participation in international programmes of R&D and community programmes projects as well as EU initiatives in research and development, including preparation costs thereof.

Every year, the members of academic staff of the Faculty of Arts respond to the call announced by APVV and submit the project proposals.

Individual departments of the Faculty of Arts participate in the following projects:

Current APVV projects:

APVV-22-0301   History of Art in the Slovak State and Nazi Europe. Institutions and reception between centre and periphery, 2023 – 2027, investigator at UPJŠ: prof. PaedDr. Martin Pekár, PhD.

APVV-22-0261   The role of early diagnostic and therapeutic supportive tools for children with hearing disabilities and speech disorders, 2023 – 2027, investigator at UPJŠ: Ing. Eva Kiktová, PhD.

APVV-22-0458    A large-scale meta-scientific analysis of the state of Slovak studies and final theses in social sciences, 2023 – 2026,  investigator at UPJŠ: Mgr. Pavol Kačmár, PhD.

APVV-21-0198   Translation and aspects of reception of social science and humanities texts as cultural and literary transfer in the 20th century, 2022 – 2026, investigator at UPJŠ: Mgr. Ivana Kupková, PhD.

APVV-21-0485   Verba volant scripta manent. Spoken words fly away, written words remain. Karpathen Post – as a source of regional history, language and culture in the Spiš region at the turn of the 19th and 20th century, 2022 – 2025, principal investigator: prof. Dr. Jörg Meier

APVV-20-0334   “This is not true, but it could be”: Conspiracy theories and hoaxes in the modern development of Slovakia in the European context, 2021 – 2025, principal investigator: Dr. h. c. prof. PhDr. Marcela Gbúrová, CSc.,

APVV-20-0179   Interactive hypertext lexicon of literary studies with a corpus of key literary studies texts, 2021 – 2025, principal investigator: prof. PhDr. Marián Andričík, PhD.

APVV-20-0319   Behavioural aspects of COVID-19: Mapping the COVID-related behaviours and psychological, social, and economic consequences of the pandemic, 2021 – 2024, principal investigator: Mgr. Pavol Kačmár, PhD.

APVV-20-0583   Possible Worlds and Modalities: Current Philosophical Approach, 2021 – 2025, principal investigator: prof. PhDr. Eugen Andreanský, PhD.

APVV-19-0244   Methodological Procedures in Literary-Scholarship Research with an Impact on the Media Environment, 2020 – 2024,principal investigator: prof. PhDr. Ján Gbúr, CSc.

APVV-19-0003   Onomatopoeia – what’s in a name?, 2020 – 2024, principal investigator: prof. PaedDr. Lívia Körtvélyessy, PhD.

APVV-19-0284   Factors of selection and attainment of the long-term goals in the period of transition to adulthood, 2020 – 2024, principal investigator: doc. Ing. Mgr. Jozef Bavoľár, PhD.

APVV-19-0358   History of the Hlinka’s Slovak People’s Party in domestic and European dimensions (1905 – 1945), 2020 – 2024, principal investigator: Mgr. Zuzana Tokárová, PhD.

Implemented APVV projects:

APVV-17-0529    Postmetaphysical thinking in the context of current socio-political problems, 2018 – 2022, principal investigator: PhDr. Katarína Mayerová, PhD.

APVV-16-0035   Research into extralinguistic factors of word-formation and word-interpretation, 2017-2021, principal investigator: prof. PhDr. Pavel Štekauer, DrSc.

APVV-16-0383   Comprehensive memory portal and historic towns atlas of Slovakia (Bratislava and Košice), 2017-2021, principal investigator: doc. PaedDr. Martin Pekár, PhD.

VEGA

The Scientific Grant Agency (Slovak acronym: “VEGA”) of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences is an internal grant system, which provides a common, coordinated approach when selecting and assessing projects of basic research by universities and scientific institutions of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

Every year, the members of academic staff of the Faculty of Arts respond to the call announced by VEGA and submit the project proposals.

Individual departments of the Faculty of Arts participate in the following projects:

Current VEGA projects:

2/0174/24    DAV and davisti. Political thought of the davisti group in interwar period, 2024 – 2027, investigator at UPJŠ: Dr.h.c. prof. PhDr. Marcela Gbúrová, CSc.

1/0226/24     Synchronic and diachronic aspects of terminology of grammar on a confrontational basis (lexicographical, lexicological and comparative research), 2024 – 2027, principal investigator: Mgr. Daniel Vojtek, PhD.

1/0240/24     Origins and Social Newtorks of Urban Elities in the Kingdom of Hungary at the End of the Middle Ages), 2024 – 2027, principal investigator: Mgr. Drahoslav Magdoško, PhD.

1/0145/23 If Achieving the Health-Related Goal Becomes Problematic – then what? Overcoming the Action Crisis as a Critical Phase in Goal Striving, 2023 – 2026, principal investigator: doc. Mgr. Monika Hricová, PhD.

1/0109/22   Strategies of Surviving the Holocaust and Urban Elites, 2022 – 2025, principal investigator: prof. PaedDr. Martin Pekár, PhD.

1/0682/22   Comparative Analysis and Interpretation of Selected Types of Folk Tales of Western Slavs in Cultural-anthropological Contexts, 2022 – 2024, principal investigator: PhDr. Lukáš Šutor, PhD.

1/0109/21   Poemata de se ipso of Gregory of Nazianzus, 2021 – 2024, principal investigator: doc. Mgr. Erika Brodňanská, PhD.

1/0853/21   Specifics of the transition to adulthood in the context of goals and selected personality variables and their impact on the subjective well-being of young adults, 2021 – 2024, principal investigator: doc. PhDr. Beáta Ráczová, PhD.

Implemented VEGA projects:

1/0467/21   The formability of subject and its non-traditional forms in creating the image of man in contemporary poetry, 2021 – 2023, principal investigator: doc. Marián Milčák, PhD.

1/0754/21   “Push – pull” social factors related to the degree of radicalization of adolescents in the context of social work, 2021 – 2023, principal investigator: doc. Mgr. Soňa Lovašová, PhD.

1/0344/21   Adaptive matrix tests in audiometry and perceptual phonetics, 2021 – 2023, principal investigator: Ing. Eva Kiktová, PhD.

1/0232/21   Connections between philosophy and science nowadays, 2021 – 2023, principal investigator: doc. PhDr. Štefan Jusko, PhD.

1/0321/21   Research of the Correlations between Political Consciousness Distortions and the Rise of Political Extremism in Secondary School Students of Košice self-governing region and Prešov self-governing region, 2021 – 2023, principal investigator: Dr. h. c. prof. PhDr. Marcela Gbúrová, CSc.

1/0130/21   A corpus-based cross linguistic comparison of deverbal nouns with international suffixes, 2021 – 2023, principal investigator: doc. Mgr. Renáta Panocová, PhD.

1/0447/20   Global and local in postmillennial Anglophone literatures, cultures and media, 2020 – 2022, principal investigator: doc. Mgr. Slávka Tomaščíková, PhD.

1/0371/20   Trends in the prevalence of adolescent risk behaviour. School based randomized control trial aimed at the prevention of adolescent substance use in the Slovak Republic, 2020 – 2022, principal investigator: prof. PhDr. Oľga Orosová, CSc.

1/0355/20   Mechanisms of auditory spatial and attention processing: experiments, oscillations, computational models and analytical methods, 2020 – 2022, principal investigator: Mgr. René Šebeňa, PhD.

1/0523/20   Problem behaviour of adolescents. Cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis of the protective and risk factors, 2020 – 2022, principal investigator: doc. Mgr. Mária Bačíková, PhD.

1/0257/20   The conception of woman heroin in medieval exegetic literature, 2020 – 2022, principal investigator: Mgr. Anabela Katreničová, Ph.D.

1/0316/19   Population Exchange between Czechoslovakia and Hungary – Facts and Historical Connections in the Slovak and European Politics, 2019 – 2022, principal investigator: prof. PhDr. Štefan Šutaj, DrSc.

1/0748/19   Decision-making characteristics and crisis in the process of achieving goals, 2019 – 2021, principal investigator: Ing. Mgr. Jozef Bavoľár, PhD.

1/0285/18   Risk behaviour of adolescents as clients of social work due to their loneliness, 2018 – 2020, principal investigator: prof. PhDr. Eva Žiaková, CSc.

1/0129/18   Open Society – Political Project of Modern World or Productive Metaphor in the Intellectual Tradition in Search of a Better Human and World?, 2018 – 2020, principal investigator: doc. PhDr. Daniel Dobiaš, PhD.

1/0002/17   Derivational networks in European languages. Cross-linguistic research., 2017 – 2019, principal investigator: doc. PaedDr. Lívia Kortvélyessy, PhD.

1/0061/17   Slovacia orientalis litterata. Latin literature of authors associated with Eastern Slovakia., 2017 – 2019, principal investigator: doc. PhDr. František Šimon, CSc.

1/0407/17   Slovak Poetry in English Book Translations., 2017 – 2020, principal investigator: doc. PhDr. Marián Andričík, PhD.

1/0254/17   Strategies of Surviving the Holocaust and Urban Elites, 2017 – 2020, principal investigator: doc. PaedDr. Martin Pekár, PhD.

1/0623/17   An analysis of social and personal characteristics of adolescents in relation to indicators of risk behaviour in the context of family processes, 2017 – 2019, principal investigator: Mgr. Mária Bačíková, PhD.

KEGA

The Cultural and Educational Grant Agency (Slovak acronym: “KEGA”) of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic is an internal grant system which is aimed at funding projects of applied research in the fields of education, teaching and creative and performing arts, which are initiated by investigators from public universities or the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic. 

Every year, the members of academic staff of the Faculty of Arts respond to the call announced by KEGA and submit the project proposals.

Individual departments of the Faculty of Arts participate in the following projects:

Current KEGA projects:

018UPJŠ-4/2024     PhotoVoice as an innovative method of advocacy for the social needs of people with hearing disability,  2024 – 2025, principal investigator: doc. PhDr. Katarína Šiňanská, PhD.

013UPJŠ-4/2023 Implemantation of Simulation Strategies Developing the Teacher Students Reflexive Competencies into Attendance and Distance Forms of Practical Professional Training, 2023 – 2025, principal investigator: doc. PaedDr. Renáta Orosová, PhD.

Implemented KEGA projects:

023UPJŠ-4/2021   New Approaches in Educational Psychology in Psychologist Education, 2021 – 2023, principal investigator: prof. PhDr. Margita Mesárošová, CSc.

014UPJŠ-4/2021   Translation and reception of rhythmical poetry as a generational problem, 2021 – 2023, principal investigator: prof. PhDr. Marián Andričík, PhD.

021PU-4/2021   Alternative and a Community Media – Object of Critical Analysis, 2021 – 2023, principal investigator at UPJŠ: doc. Mgr. Ján Sabol, PhD., ArtD.

079UK-4/2021   Development of teaching statistical methods and open science practices in the social science, 2021 – 2023, principal investigator at UPJŠ: Mgr. Pavol Kačmár, PhD.

009UPJŠ-4/2020   Cursus Latinus – University textbooks for students of Latin, 2020 – 2022, principal investigator: Mgr. Jana Balegová, PhD.

014UPJŠ-4/2020   An Innovative Model of Education Leading to Active Citizenship as a Prevention of Student Political Extremism, 2020 – 2022, principal investigator: Mgr. Gabriel Eštok, PhD.

008UPJŠ-4/2019   Prevention of oncological diseases through the optics of social work, 2019 – 2020, principal investigator: Mgr. Lucia Tóthová, PhD.  

013UPJŠ-4/2018   Innovative teaching of ancient history at universities. University textbook History of Late Antiquity (Chapters II.), 2018 – 2020, principal investigator: PaedDr. Marta Sendeková, PhD.

004UPJŠ-4/2018   G. W. Leibniz – early and mature period of his philosophy, 2018 – 2020, principal investigator: Mgr. Martin Škára, PhD.

010UPJŠ-4/2017   Latin language for students of the Faculty of Arts, 2017 – 2019, principal investigator: Mgr. Jana Balegová, PhD.

016UPJŠ-4/2017   Fidelity of the universal drug prevention program “Unplugged” in the context of Slovak primary schools., 2017 – 2019, principal investigator: PhDr. Anna Janovská, PhD.

008UPJŠ-4/2017   Science without borders (Interdisciplinary Inspirations of Contemporary Literary Theory and Linguistics in Higher Education practices), 2017 – 2019, principal investigator:  prof. PhDr. Ján Gbúr, CSc.

022UPJŠ-4/2017   Language and Literature in Contemporary Socio-Cultural and Medial Context., 2017 – 2019, principal investigator: Mgr. Markéta Andričíková, PhD.

001UPJŠ-4/2017   Higher Education for Sustainability (Values frameworks, Competences and Tools for the implementation of Sustainability in Education Practise), 2017 – 2018, principal investigator: PhDr. Andrea Klimková, PhD.


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