Dean's Foreword

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

 

I am honoured that I, the Dean, have been invited to introduce you to the Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, as one of the seven Faculties of the Slovak Technical University, Bratislava.
The Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology holds the unique position within the system of Slovak University Education. It is the only Faculty, which provides tertiary education based on excellence in chemical-engineering and science-theoretical fundamentals, educating engineers for all sectors within the chemical and food industries.

The faculty has a broad-based and comprehensive program in place, which provides for education of high-quality professionals, not only for the chemistry and food industry, but also within the specific areas such as preservation of cultural heritage, environmental protection and nutrition and health protection. The attractiveness also means the possibility to participate in interdisciplinary projects where chemistry overlaps with physical, biological and medical sciences. Professional and scientificresearch institutes and departments of the faculty orientation allow such education and training of students,which facilitate their rapid adaptation to the manufacturing process and practice requirements. That is why our graduates have wide possibilities of employing both at home and abroad. Their minimal unemployment has also evidenced the need for our graduates, and the faculty helps the best students early in their career.

The Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology has successfully co-operated in the scientific-research and educational projects with many foreign universities and research institutions. It has contributed to solving the framework EU projects, NATO research tasks, international projects of bilateral cooperation. The Faculty has also been successful in dealing with domestic research projects by VEGA and APVV agencies and the state research and development programmes.

The FCHPT STU has worked intensively with industry, for which it addresses a number of specific tasks. This activity allows the Faculty to confront the focus of scientific research with the needs of industry and update the educational process in accordance with the practical requirements. The Slovak Chemical Library forms part of the Faculty. The Library has been the top nationwide establishmentand provides for unique chemically-oriented information to the general professional public. The Faculty has also been involved in publishing professional journal literature, for example, the Chemical Papers and Acta Chimica Slovaca.

The scope and quality of science activity maintains the Faculty at the level comparable with the results of other leading research and educational worldwide centres. The evaluation results by the Accreditation Commission of the SR, or those by ARRA, the academic ranking and rating agency, prove that our faculty has not only been the long-term best engineering faculty in Slovakia, but it has also been rated among the best departments of all the universities in Slovakia, which prove this claim. The very good results appear to be attributable to mainly traditionally good performances in science and the success of doctoral study. This fact confirms the success of the grant, the organization of and participation in international conferences, but also a membership of our staff in renowned international professional organizations. The Faculty has had long term co-operation with the partner institutions abroad, which reflects in the increasing mobility of students and teachers.

 

Ladies and gentlemen, Dear colleagues and students, I believe that teachers, researchers and the Faculty staff will do their best to further credit the Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology even more reinforced. We want to be an integral part of the European university environmentand a sought-after partner for open collaboration. For more than 70 years, the FCHPT has tried its best not only in education and research, but also to raise pride in their school or workplace. Our ambition is not only to
study and learn, but above all to fulfil the main mission of the university: Find the truth and spread the good in terms of humanistic traditions of university education.