How is Slovakia approaching the concept of Smart Cities?
On November 27, 2017, the conference Innovation for a Better Life – Smart Cities & Internet of Things was held in Bratislava. The event, organised by the Slovak Innovation and Energy Agency (SIEA), was devoted to new opportunities in implementing intelligent solutions in Slovak cities and was primarily intended for representatives of municipalities as well as for representatives of... Continue reading→
Value of Mobility presented at RelStat-2017 Conference
On 18-21 October 2017, the 17th international conference on Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication (RelStat-2017), organised by the Latvian Transport and Communication Institute (TSI), was held in Riga. The conference aimed at providing an international forum for scientists and professionals in academia, industry, and government to address recent research results and to present and discuss their... Continue reading→
ERAdiate welcomes new staff members
Following the departure of ERA Chair holder Dr. Karl Ernst Ambrosch, UNIZA appointed Prof. Tatiana Kováčiková as ERA Chair holder as from 1 October 2017. The ERAdiate team would like to warmly thank Dr. Ambrosch for the commitment and contribution to the project since 2015, and wishes Prof. Kováčiková every success in her new role.... Continue reading→
Preliminary position of Slovakia on the design of the 9th EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation
ERAdiate contributed (via Prof. Kováčiková) to the Preliminary position of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic on the design of the 9th EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. The document is available HERE.
Prof. Tatiana Kováčiková appointed as ERA Chair holder
Following the departure of ERA Chair holder Dr. Karl Ernst Ambrosch, UNIZA appointed Prof. Tatiana Kováčiková as ERA Chair holder as from 1 October 2017. The ERAdiate team would like to thank Dr. Ambrosch for the commitment and contribution to the project since 2015, and wish Prof. Kováčiková every success in her new role. Continue reading→
Dr. Karl Ernst Ambrosch re-elected as Chairman of Committee K220
On 8 September 2017, the Austrian mirror group to CEN TC278 Intelligent Transport Systems (Committee K220) re-elected Dr Karl Ernst Ambrosch as the Chairman of the Committee. Dr Ambrosch will therefore continue to represent Austria in European ITS Standardization for another three-year period.
Join the European Researchers’ Night tonight!
The festival of science – European Researchers’ Night is a yearly organized event throughout Europe and even wider. This event brings together a large public of people and researchers on the last Friday of September and it takes place simultaneously in about 250 cities. The main aim of this festival of science is above all... Continue reading→
UNIZA Grants Week (19-21 September, Žilina)
The UNIZA Grants Week will take place in Žilina from 19 to 21 September 2017. It will provide comprehensive information and advice on how to find the most relevant European and Slovak funding programmes and how to write professional and competitive grant proposals. Registrations are closed. Read more on: UNIZA Grants Week
UNIZA PhD student among the winners of European Transport Innovation Challenge 2017
With his project Emergency Vehicles Coordination using V2X Communication, Tibor Petrov, PhD student at UNIZA, was selected as one of the 12 award winners from more than 110 applications submitted from across Europe to propose innovative solutions for decarbonising EU transport. The idea of Tibor Petrov’s project is to utilize vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication to allow... Continue reading→
ERAdiate contributes to WIRE2017
This year, the Technical University of Košice (Slovakia) will host the 8th edition of the European Commission’s Week of Innovative Regions in Europe (WIRE) from 28th to 30th June 2017. This conference is supported by the Directorate-General Research & Innovation, Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation Programme and is related to the 2017 Slovak EU Presidency.... Continue reading→