Given its focus, experience and partnership with practice, the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava has optimal conditions to become an education center for experts in nuclear energy. This was declared by Maximilián Strémy, the STU Rector, on the occasion of the visit of representatives of prestigious Imperial College London. The visit was organized by the Slovak Republic Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth.
Jonathan G. Tate and Michael J. Bluck, the leading representatives of Imperial College London in the field of nuclear energy visited the STU University Center in Bratislava, where they attended the presentations delivered by the representatives of the Slovak Republic Ministry of Education, STU, Comenius University and the Slovak Academy of Sciences on the issue of nuclear energy in the framework of education and research in Slovakia. The visit of the prestigious University representatives to Bratislava fastens on the previous year's meeting in London, which was coordinated by the Ministry of Education.
"Slovakia needs the long-term and systematical investment into the education of experts in strategic areas such as nuclear energy. More effective cooperation with Imperial College London and world experts is therefore crucial," said Tomáš Drucker, the Minister of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic.
The Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava has been educating engineers for nuclear power plants and institutions operating in the area for a long time. Its Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Faculty of Materials Science and Technology play the key role in the process. STU also intensively cooperates with Slovak Power Plants, the Nuclear Regulatory Authority, VUJE (Nuclear Power Plants Research Institute) and JAVYS (Nuclear and Decommissioning Company), playing thus active role in the related international education and research networks.
“It is our ambition to gradually build STU into a significant education and research center in the field of nuclear energy, based on purposefully developed partnerships and modern nuclear technologies as well as new opportunities in the field. Currently, we cooperate e.g. with Jari Hämäläinen of the Finnish LUT University, who has been engaged directly into the STU Management as a strategic advisor. We perceive Imperial College London as a promising strong partner and an opportunity for the future development of cooperation,” added Rector Maximilián Strémy.
In cooperation with the government, STU is ready to provide education for engineers for the needs of nuclear energy, which is considered as a key and promising source of emission-free electricity production for Slovak economy.
