Vzdelávacie
Title: Increasing the Qualifications of the Employees of the Food Manufacturing Sector in the Areas of Occupational Health, Safety and Food Security
ID: Erasmus+ Programme, Key Action 2: Strategic Partnership Projects n° 2019-1-TR01-KA202-076021
Type: Erasmus+
Duration: : 2019-2021
Contact person: prof. Ing. Miroslava Kačániová, PhD.
Description
The aim of the project is to prepare training materials on occupational health and safety as well as on food safety issues and to share them on digital platforms. Planned intellectual outputs are training pragramme, e platform embedded short training videos including practises based on training programme.
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Title: Learning Landscapes
ID: 2020-1-SK01-KA203-078379
Type: Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic partnerships
Duration: 2020-2022
Contact person: Assoc prof. Attila Tóth, PhD.
Description:
To create an interdisciplinary European learning activity on local landscape challenges to foster European Citizenship, Creative Thinking and Democratic Leadership. We envision a new professional profile of agents for sustainable development that is both rooted in the local community and inspired by a European network.
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Title: Smart plants in the workplace and their impact on the work efficiency and stress reduction
ID: 21910216
Type: Visegrad Fund
Duration: 2019-2020
Contact person: Ing. Mária Bihuňová, PhD.
Description: The project is aimed at comparison of impact of plants on the work ability and minimalizing the work stress + other characteristics in the classrooms. There will be compared effectivity of the works and bad pressure between the classrooms without plants and the classrooms with plants. Therefore, it will be neccesary to arrange some classrooms with plants and then to compare the selected characteristics from the rooms with plants and without plants.
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Title: GAP - Green-Blue Infrastructure in Post-USSR Cities exploring legacies and connecting to V4 experience
Type: Visegrad+ Grants
Duration: 2020-2022
Contact person: Ing. Mária Bihuňová, PhD.
Description: The project topic is about the legacies (physical, institutional, academic) of the communist time city design concepts and practical approaches, where it was related to green & blue infrastructure. Project partners representing local communities, open society and academia of two EaP (Belarus and Ukraine) and all the V4 countries will explore the ways V4 countries coped with institutional and infrastructural legacies related to Green & Blue infrastructure in cities, analyse relevant knowledge production and governance situations in Belarus and Ukraine, come up with critical reflections and policy recommendations, and disseminate findings to a broad range of national and international stakeholder groups.
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Title: Resilient management of bioactive compounds from plants and organic wastes in Middle-Europe
ID: CIII-RS-1607-01-2122
Type: CEEPUS
Duration: 2021
Contact person: prof. Ing. Miroslava Kačániová, PhD.
Description
The network points to connect teachers and students from basic to applied sciences, including researchers in the field of the plant (crop) and seed science, postharvest sanitation and food safety and technology sector, ecology, biochemistry, physiology, analytical chemistry and pest science (entomology, plant pathology, phytopharmacy, weed science). This interdisciplinary and innovative network will provide a platform for sharing knowledge and experiences and carrying out an impact pathway (a bottom-up approach for achieving and attributing impact in complex systems) analysis. This team will develop a roadmap for addressing the bottleneck and constraints to increased bioactive compounds of plant and agro-waste origin. Specifically: Optimization of bioactive compounds (natural products) extraction, isolation, purification, identification, and characterization. Identification of new structures (e.g. secondary metabolites like phenolic compounds, alkaloids, saponins, or terpenes) and quantification of well-known ones from different plant sources, agro-food residues and waste. Assessment of biological activity and toxicity of selected extracts/compounds in vitro and in vivo. Ecological aspects of selected bioactive compounds and their influence on the environment. Bioassays with new natural products and their formulations. Moreover, the already tested botanicals will be re-evaluated for the control of harmful and beneficial invertebrates (mites, insects, nematodes, etc.) in storage and open field. Allelopathic effects of plant secondary metabolites and extracts from agro-food residues and waste and their bioactive compounds on different plant model systems. Identification of physiological and biochemical effects of extracts on crops' and weed' seeds, seedlings, and developed plants in storage. Laboratory conditions and open-field conditions. Effect of botanical and agro-food residues extracts on different microorganisms: plant pathogens (fungi, oomycetes, bacteria) and beneficial microorganisms. Evaluation of the role of intestinal bacteria of pests in insecticide resistance and establishing the main mechanism of this process. Insecticide resistance may depend on the reaction of isolated bacteria and the identification of key compounds. Characterization of metabolic activity after simulation processes and modulation of specific biomarkers (for example, organic acids) will be carried out, in conjunction with the identification of biotransformation of functional compounds and insecticide based on microbial activity. Utilization of agro- and food-industry residues and waste as a novel source of food, feed ingredients and fertilizers.
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Title: Biology, Biotechnology and Food Sciences
ID: CIII-SK-1018-05-1920
Type: CEEPUS
Duration: 2021
Contact person: prof. Ing. Miroslava Kačániová, PhD.
Description
We have collaborated with universities which are included in this project for several years. On the basis of this collaboration we decided to do the common project regards to the issues of biology, biotechnology and food sciences. This network offers new partnerships and good cooperation in the educational process as well as in science and research and accounts a support tool for enhancing interest of students in joint study programme as well. The network enables also lectures of visiting professors at partner institutions and increase of qualitative level of study. The CEEPUS project is for us all very good possibilities to do training and educational mobility for students. Students and teachers can improve their language skills and have new knowledge about culture in different European countries.
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Title: Landscape Management - Sustainable Land Use Perspectives in the Central European Region
ID: CIII-CZ-0311-11-1819
Type: CEEPUS
Duration: 2007 - 2021
Contact person: Ing. Mária Bihuňová, PhD.
Description
The interdisciplinary approach in landscape management led to our intention: to establish an active network by such partners who can represent and who has great knowledge in landscape architecture, spatial planning, horticulture, environmental science (mainly in soil, water and air systems). Therefore our main topics on which our network is built are the following: -Landscape architecture -Environmental protection - Landscape and spatial planning. Network partners will help and assist in activities (e.g. ECTS development) by providing their experiences. Our goal is (beside supporting student and teacher mobility) to reach also the young and experienced scientists, to organise professional excursions, international workshops and Summer Schools.
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OSTATNÉ PROJEKTY
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Title: Green Region Podzoborie
ID : BETHLEN GÁBOR ALAP ZZ 086010
Duration: 2016 - 2021
Contact person: Ing. Attila Tóth, PhD.
Description
"Green Region Podzoborie" is not only the name of the project, but also its strategical aim. The main objective is to accelerate a greener and sustainable development of the Podzoborie Microregion. A key tool for achieving this target is the implementation of the green infrastructure concept. Dr. Attila Tóth, Project Coordinator for Research and Development
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Výskumné
Title: The formulation of novel compositions and properties study of the polysaccharides based edible films and coatings with antimicrobial and antioxidant plant additives
ID: SK-BY-RD-9-014
Type: APVV Bilateral project Slovakia-Belarus
Duration: 2019-2021
Contact person: prof. Ing. Miroslava Kačániová, PhD.
Description: On January 16, 2018, the European Commission adopted a new European strategy for protecting the environment from waste from plastic materials as one of the elements of the transition to a more circular economy “A European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy”. It is intended to limit the use of plastic disposable items. In this regard, as one of the main solutions to the problem at the national level, it is proposed to switch to such plastic packaging, which is easily recycled. The European Union by 2030 should completely switch to the use of recyclable plastic packaging. It is intended to significantly limit the consumption of items that can become a source of microplastic (small pieces of not completely biodegradable plastics) in the environment. The Project has a fundamental character along with its real practical importance.
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Title: Science and Management of Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams (SMIRES)
ID: COST Action CA15113
Type: COST Action
Duration: 2016 - 2020
Contact person: Ing. Tatiana Kaletová, PhD.
Description: SMIRES aims to develop a multidisciplinary network of scientists and stakeholders experts on IRES from 27 countries to consolidate and expand the current understanding of IRES and translate it into science-based, sustainable management of IRES resources and biodiversity. Chair of the Action: Dr. Thibault Datry, National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture, France
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Title: Payments for Ecosystem Services (Forests for Water)
ID: CA15206
Type: COST Action
Duration: 2016 - 2020
Contact person: Ing. Attila Tóth, PhD.
Description: Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are flexible, incentive-based mechanisms that could play an important role in promoting land use change to deliver water quality targets. The PESFOR-W COST Action will consolidate learning from existing trees for water PES schemes in Europe and help standardize approaches to evaluating the environmental effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of tree based measures. It will also create a European network through which PES schemes can be facilitated, extended and improved, for example by incorporating other ecosystem services linking with aims of the wider forests-carbon policy nexus
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Title: Implementing nature based solutions for creating a resourceful circular city
ID: COST ACTION CA16208
Type: COST Action
Duration: 2017 - 2021
Contact person: prof. Ing. Viera Paganová, PhD. Ing. Attila Tóth, PhD.
Description: Vegetation is a central component of riparian landscapes, and provides multiple ecosystem services. In recent decades such importance stimulated a steadily growing number of investigations focussing on riparian vegetation. However scientific investigations in this field are proceeding as isolated initiatives that translate to common practices at a very slow rate and with limited input from the practitioners.This action aims to establish a baseline in the state of knowledge regarding riparian vegetation, coordinate research efforts, contribute to knowledge conversion from science to practitioners and to COST Inclusiveness Target Countries and to promote practitioners research interests in the scientific community.
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Title: European network to advance carotenoid research and applications in agro-food and health (EUROCAROTEN)
ID: COST Action CA15136
Type: COST Action
Duration: 2015 - 2020
Contact person: prof. Ing. Magdaléna Valšíková – Frey, PhD. Assoc prof Ivana Mezeyová, PhD.
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Title: Knowledge conversion for enhancing management of European riparian ecosystems and services
ID: COST ACTION CA16208
Duration: 2017 - 2021
Contact person: prof. Ing. Viera Paganová, PhD.
Description: Vegetation is a central component of riparian landscapes, and provides multiple ecosystem services. In recent decades such importance stimulated a steadily growing number of investigations focussing on riparian vegetation. However scientific investigations in this field are proceeding as isolated initiatives that translate to common practices at a very slow rate and with limited input from the practitioners.This action aims to establish a baseline in the state of knowledge regarding riparian vegetation, coordinate research efforts, contribute to knowledge conversion from science to practitioners and to COST Inclusiveness Target Countries and to promote practitioners research interests in the scientific community.
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Title: Inter University Sustainable Development Research Programme
Type: International Research Cooperation
Duration: 2015 - 2020
Contact person: doc. Ing. Ľuboš Jurík, PhD.
Description: The Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme will consolidate and further develop the available know-how and profile on sustainable development among its member universities across the world, A working programme (2015-2020) for the Inter-University SD Research Programme has been prepared. It will be coordinated by Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), but each member university is autonomous in respect of their individual activities, funding and operations.Operationally, the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme will develop projects which may be submitted for funding to national and international agencies and funding bodies. It will also provide a key support between the member universities, in a way never seen before.
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VISEGRAD FUND
Title: Smart plants in the workplace and their impact on the work efficiency and stress reduction
ID: 21910216
Type: Visegrad Fund
Duration: 2019-2020
Contact person: Ing. Mária Bihuňová, PhD.
Description: The project is aimed at comparison of impact of plants on the work ability and minimalizing the work stress + other characteristics in the classrooms. There will be compared effectivity of the works and bad pressure between the classrooms without plants and the classrooms with plants. Therefore, it will be neccesary to arrange some classrooms with plants and then to compare the selected characteristics from the rooms with plants and without plants.
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BILATERAL COOPERATION
Title: Challenges for forest management in eastern Austria: Will we be able to control wind erosion under climate change?
ID: KR18AC0K14642
Type: Bilateral cooperation
Duration: 2019-2022
Contact person: Assoc prof. Ing. Lenka Lackoová, PhD.
Description: The project is designed to increase the current knowledge about the extent and severity of wind erosion and the current situation of wind erosion control measures (shelterbelts) in eastern Austria. Future developments of wind erosion risk and the potential need to adapt wind erosion control due to climate change will also be addressed. A combination of (1) field investigations (e.g. transect measurements), (2) wind tunnel experiments, (3) modelling, and (4) practical implementation (planting of a prototype shelterbelt) will be used.
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Title: The formulation of novel compositions and properties study of the polysaccharides based edible films and coatings with antimicrobial and antioxidant plant additives
ID: SK-BY-RD-19-0014
Type: Bilateral cooperation
Duration: 2019-2022
Contact person: prof. Ing. Miroslava Kačániová, PhD.
Description: On January 16, 2018, the European Commission adopted a new European strategy for protecting the environment from waste from plastic materials as one of the elements of the transition to a more circular economy “A European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy”. It is intended to limit the use of plastic disposable items. In this regard, as one of the main solutions to the problem at the national level, it is proposed to switch to such plastic packaging, which is easily recycled. The European Union by 2030 should completely switch to the use of recyclable plastic packaging. It is intended to significantly limit the consumption of items that can become a source of microplastic (small pieces of not completely biodegradable plastics) in the environment. The Project has a fundamental character along with its real practical importance. New data on rheological properties of casting solutions based on starch, other edible polymers and plant additives will be obtained. Taking into account that these solutions are typical colloidal systems (suspensions or emulsions depending on the aggregate state of the additives), new dependencies will be founded and explained. The compatibility of the polymer components in the presence of additions will be under study when casting solutions based on the blend of two polymers will be used for films preparation. The interdisciplinary character of the Project is important as well. New compositions for edible films with antimicrobial and antioxidant properties will be designed and the correlation between the amount of plant additive and special properties of the film will be recognized. The research instruments will consist of the rheological properties measurement, determination of thixotropy, assessment of physical and mechanical properties of the films, testing of their antimicrobial and antioxidant activity.
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