New colleague joining FunGlass It is our pleasure to announce that the administration department of FunGlass has expanded! As of November Ms. Monika Šandrejová joined us to become a member of EU Office team. Ms. Šandrejová will be responsible for financial management and dissemination activities within CeGlass project. Her most recent job experience [...]

Interview with Professor Dušan Galusek for The Slovak Spectator The director of FunGlass Centre Prof. Dušan Galusek gave the interview for The Slovak Spectator- the only one Slovak English-language newspaper. Read about the Slovak glass scientists, their success in EU schemes... the whole article will be published on November 12th https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20951211/slovak-glass-scientist-succeeded-in-eu-schemes.html [...]

Corrosion of dental materials at FunGlass Dr. Helen Reveron from Mateis, INSA Lyon, France, visited FunGlass on October 22-24, in the frame of a joint bilateral project APVV project SK-FR-2017-0008 focused on corrosion and low temperature degradation of zirconia based dental materials. During the meeting with the FunGlass project leader, prof. Galusek, researcher [...]

Art and science overlapping On October 22, the FunGlass centre was visited by Mr. Patrik Illo, a renowned Slovak glass designer and the head of the Department of glass design of the VSVU in Bratislava. He was accompanied by Ms. Aleksandra Stencel, a glass designer from Poland. Together with the centre director, and [...]

FunGlass researcher at MS&T 18, Columbus OH, USA FunGlass researcher Dr. Jozef Kraxner took part at conference Materials Science & Technology 2018, combined with ACerS 120th Annual Meeting hold on October 14th – 18th in Columbus, Ohio. MS&T is the most comprehensive forum for materials science and engineering technologies. Attendees learn from materials [...]

Success for Dr. Ivana Petríková in Competition of Young Scientists On October 18th there was held the Competition of Young Scientists at Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. Our researcher Dr. Ivana Petríková and PhD. student Ola Nowicka took part at this contest and they both successfully presented [...]

FunGlass researchers start their training period in the Erlangen Institute of Biomaterials This brief article is to bring ‘regards’ from current team of 4 senior researchers undertaking their training period in the Erlangen Institute of Biomaterials: Dr. Martin Michálek, Head of Department of Biomaterials along with his team members Dr. Jozef Prachar, Dr. [...]

Widening day in Brussels At the Widening day organized by the REA in Brussels on October 16, the FunGlass centre has been represented by its director, prof. Galusek. The day was filled with exceptionally useful meetings, related to exchange of experience with implementation and management of Teaming projects, discussions with leaders and project [...]

On 1st-3rd October 2018, Peter Otrubcak, FunGlass Project manager participated in the MSCA Conference and in workshops „MSCA and their innovation potential“ and „Strengthening Human Capital and Skills Development- Exchanges“ focused on the involvement of the private sector in the MSCA and how the future Staff Exchange programme can foster enhanced cross-sectoral, international and [...]