Events and Opportunities

Dear Potential Scholars:

On behalf of the Friends of Slovakia (FOS), a US based non-profit organization devoted to promoting good relations between Slovakia and the United States, we are writing to inform you of an opportunity that we hope you will bring to the attention of your students and friends.  Every summer since 2004, FOS has provided support for Slovak students to participate in the summer programs of the Fund for American Studies (TFAS) in Washington, DC.  The 2018 FOS Slovak Scholars program is scheduled to take place from 2 June-27 July. 

The European Central Bank is launching a new traineeship for traineeships in the Directorate Risk Management. ECB is looking for candidates that have a bachelor’s degree or higher in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics or a related discipline. In addition, the candidates should have a good command of at least one programming language (e.g. VBA, SQL, MATLAB, Python, Stata or R);s . Candidates must have completed their first cycle of education, evidenced by a full degree or equivalent, at the closing date for the application.

Dear Student,

We would like to inform you that the International Business School Americas has currently 70% scholarships available (leaving the cost to students at around US$ 1,350 in tuition fees) to programs in São Paulo, hosted in partnership with UNIP - Universidade Paulista, the largest university in Brazil. Every year International Business School-Americas hosts over 1,500 students as they travel to partner Universities’ campuses to study and experience international business with like-minded colleagues from around the globe.

The short-term, intensive business certificate programs are taught entirely in English. All of them are run during the holidays, in January, July and August.

It is our pleasure to invite you to the Joint International Week 2018 at The University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, and at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Austria, which will take place from 16 to 20 April 2018. This event aims to bring together staff from both universities and partner institutions in order to strengthen international networks and exchange ideas. We look forward to meeting you in Bratislava and Vienna! 

The University of Padova (Italy) and the University of Sydney (Australia) have the pleasure to invite you to the “Food & Health” Winter School which will be held in Padova, Italy from January 29 to February 10, 2018.

Lectures will be provided by professors from the University of Padova and the University of Sydney, as well as by FAO and Italian Anti-Adulteration and Health Unit experts. 

The Winter School program focusses on the most relevant aspects of food quality and human nutrition, in order to understand how they are related and how they affect human health, through dietary habits. The focus is on the interaction between food, nutrition, and human health, in order to bridge the gap between different disciplines. 

Dear students,

The European Central Bank is launching a new traineeship in the Market Infrastructure Development Division. ECB is looking for candidates that have a bachelor’s degree in economics, finance, business administration, law or a related discipline.  Candidates will also bring to the role, a basic knowledge of financial market infrastructure (payment systems, central securities depositories, securities settlement services and central counterparties), of the role of collateral and collateral management arrangements and payment instruments, and of financial markets/products would be an asset. 

Dear students and colleagues,

in autumn 2017, in the framework of services provided by EURAXESS Service Centres Slovakia (www.euraxess.sk), it will be organised a series of informal networking events for international PhD students, researchers and university teachers who currently study, conduct research or teach at universities or research organisations in Slovakia. These events will take place in several Slovak university towns (Bratislava, Nitra, Košice, Banská Bystrica, Žilina). Participation in the events is FREE OF CHARGE for international PhD students, researchers and university teachers and their family members.

The European Central Bank is launching a new traineeship campaign in the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) Secretariat with closing date for applications on 20 Jun 2017. We are looking for candidates that have that have finished their Bachelor or Master  degree in economics, law, econometrics, banking, statistics, finance or other relevant discipline, enrolled in such postgraduate studies. For the PhD at least two years of enrolment in a PhD programme (in one of the aforementioned fields), which must have been completed at the time of application.