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University Technology Incubator of STU has started its life

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Maria Buciova
  on  January 21, 2006
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Incubators are one of support activities for newly established small enterprises. At the end of November the newest incubator, a University Technology Incubator of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU), has started its activities. The incubator was established and financed within the grant scheme INTEG Phare CBC Austria Slovakia.

In the newly reconstructed premises of STU at Pionierska street fifteen start-ups will find here their seat with high quality communication infrastructure as well as further legal, economy, marketing, financial and other special services by starting their businesses. The start-ups will seat in the Incubator for three years. Within this time they should fully start their activities and be able to survive at the market.

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Introduction of the Slovak IST NCP

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Maria Buciova
  on  January 17, 2006
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My name is Maria Buciova. I received a master’s degree in economics at Faculty of Commerce, University of Economy in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2003 I started to work at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. I work at the Rector’s office, Department of Science & Technology in the position of EU Programmes Manager.

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU) was founded in 1937. Since its foundation it has been graduated over 75 000 Master degree full-time students, over 10,000 Master degree part-time or distance students and more than 5000 Bachelors. Today STU is the largest research based university of technology in Slovakia.

STU provides higher education mainly in technology in wide spectrum of branches, e.g. Information technologies, Electrical engineering and electronics, Machine engineering, Chemistry, Biotechnology, Food technology, Civil engineering, Architecture, Materials and process technology. STU has more than 17 600 Slovak and international students at all levels and forms of study. Students are studying at 7 faculties of the STU, out of which 6 are located in Bratislava and one faculty is in Trnava.

The mission of the university is to provide university training based on research activities. All study programs are supported by basic research. The main focus for development in research is in perspective fields, formulated by Scientific council of the university: Information society technologies, Sustainable sources and development with sub areas: energy and environment, nanotechnologies, nanosciences and new materials and production processes, Biotechnologies and biocompatibility, Life, health, food, and Security, reliability, and quality. Over 350 research and academic projects have been running last year, from which more than 100 were international. The university research is provided by more than 1000 researchers.

In May 2004 I became an IST NCP. I am responsible for information dissemination. Actually in the priority Information Society Technologies there is a new call open. It is the last call aimed at project proposals in these strategic objectives: Advanced Robotics, Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) for the Ageing Society, Search Engines for audio-visual content, Accompanying actions in support of participation in Community, ICT research, International Co-operation. More information you can find here.

I participated in a Phare project of establishment of University technology incubator.