ICETA 2022

Andrej is a Member of the Board of the Slovak National Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition and Secretary General of the National Digital Coalition. He is active within the Education, Research and Innovation Committee of the Slovak Association of Slovakia (ITAS), as a vocational Education and Training Specialist of the National Union of Employers (RUZ), as a Member of the Sectoral Councils for Information and Communication Technology of the Alliance of Sector Councils. It focuses on Education Development in Mathematics, Informatics, ICT vocational education and training, including an improvement of digital Skills and Cybersecurity.
He graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the Technical University in Bratislava in 1989 and the Faculty of National Economics of the University of Economics in Bratislava in 1999. He worked as a software consultant and a project manager in ICT sector and in business consulting. From 2010, he worked for 10 years at the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic, partly on ICT projects and also on projects focused on education.

Abstract of presentation: Developing digital Skills in lifelong Learning by 2030 – from Plans to Start

After five years of the Digital Coalition in Slovakia, it is worth evaluating what we wanted to achieve and how we have contributed to the development of digital skills in Slovakia. In particular, our role in the Digital Coalition was to promote cooperation among its Members, creating an Environment conducive to the development of digital Skills, including through communication with the state and regional administration. Except of number of sectoral and government Documents, Strategies and action Plans we run activities and projects to improve digital skills around us. This is a report of activities like IT Fitness Test 2022 V4 – the largest measurement of the digital skills in Slovakia (no progress possible without a Measurement of the digital Skills Status), participation in the Curricula Reform working group for mathematics and informatics, preparation of DigQ – Program for the Development of Informatics and Digital Culture in Regional Education, up to improving the digital skills of Seniors and vulnerable Groups in public Administration.

Dr. Pavol Bisták has been a university teacher and researcher at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava since 1992. He received MSc. degree in Technical Cybernetics and PhD. degree in Automation and Control in 1988 and 2013, respectively. His main research activities focus on nonlinear control systems and new technologies in education. In recent years, his field of interest includes the design of PID controllers, design of mechatronic systems and IoT. He is the author or co-author of more than 130 articles in journals, conference proceedings, textbooks or book chapters.

Abstract of presentation: Should We Forget the PID Control?

Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control represents the most used automatic control technology and the PI controller is the prevailing controller in practice. One will easily come across such statements in automatic control textbooks, but they also touch on other areas, such as artificial intelligence or signal processing. Even if hidden in the most diverse applications, PI and PID regulators can be discovered at every step of our lives. Despite this apparent dominance of PI and PID controllers, it can be shown that in reality everything can be significantly more complicated, even regulators that do not have any integrator are called integral and thus the current development of automatic control deserves more attention, precision and often substantial reassessments. This presentation is dedicated to a brief reminder of the contribution of the first pioneers in the field of automatic control, along with pointing out the roots of these misunderstandings and problems. It shows that their essence is the long-accepted equivalence of two different types of solutions, and just from the point of view of the latest research, the need for substantial corrections of several experienced approaches has been shown. And this is important not only with regard to a more correct interpretation of the past, but mainly with regard to future progress in the field of generalization and improvement of existing controllers. The delicacy of the situation is increased by the fact that a small inconsistency created a century ago can today affect a huge spectrum of solutions that have been developed in the meantime, not to mention the inertia of the relevant human factor itself.

Patrik Bours is Professor at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology at NTNU. He has an MSc and a PhD in Discrete Mathematics from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and has worked for 10 years as a senior policy member at the NLNCSA in the area of cryptology. Since 2005 he works at NTNU in the area of behavioural biometrics where he has specialized in keystroke dynamics and textual analysis. From 2009 to 2012 he has been the head of the Norwegian Information Security Laboratory and he is a member of the Norwegian Biometric Laboratory (NBL). He is Associate Editor for the IET Biometrics Journal and the Security and Privacy (SPY) journal and has served as a reviewer for many journals and conferences. He was the supervisor of 90+ students (BSc/MSc/PhD) and published over well over 125 journal- and conference papers and book chapters, and has an h-index of 31. He is the main inventor and scientific lead of the “Author input Behavioural Analysis (AiBA)” spin-off company that has a main focus on detection of sexual predators in private conversations on online social networks.

Abstract of presentation: Contract Cheat Detection using Biometric Keystroke Dynamics

New opportunities go hand in hand with new challenges. In education this is the case too. Traditional school exams are being phased out, not only due to the COVID pandemic, but also because of the realization that it is not the best form to test knowledge of students. School exams are changed directly into home exams (because of the pandemic), or into other forms, like report writing. One of the consequences of this is that there is less supervision on the student when they create the exam or report that is to be graded. Unfortunately, there is a rather significant fraction of students that abuses this lack of supervision, by trying to cheat. Cheating can take many forms, but for some forms, like plagiarism, there are tools that can check delivered student work. One form that is not so easy to check is contract cheating where a student pays a third party to take the exam or write the report.
In this presentation I will show that analysis of the behaviour of the writer can be extracted and compared to the profile of the student under evaluation. I will discuss various behavioural features that can be used and discuss briefly ways that students could try to avoid detected and how the detection-avoidance can be detected!

• Head of The Department of Didactic of Sciences Comenius University 1998 – 2001
• Member of National Council of the Slova k Republic - 2002-2006:
  • Head of Work SubCommittee of Information Society - National Council of the Slovak Republic
• The Head of Slovak Delegation of The Council of Europe – 2004-2006
• Vice-dean at University Comenius of Faculty of Natural Sciences – 2007- 2011
• The President of NGO – Association of Project InfoAge – 2010 – 2019
• Head of The Incubator of Inovatívne Teachers Microsoft -IIUM, Comenius University . – since 2014

Scientific work – Implementation of ICT in Education
Co-ordinator of international Project: I*EARN – 1997 – 99, Comenius I, II 1997-99, InTT – 2016 -2018
National Project Leader and Co-ordinator (last 5 years): VEGA 1/0265/17 Formatívne hodnotenie vo výucbe prírodných vied, matematiky a informatiky/Formative assessment in Science; Math and Informatic Education
garant aktivity E- Rozvojový projekt MŠVVaŠ SR c. 002UK-2-1/2018, Vzdelávanie pre informacnú spolocnost/ Education for Infomation Society; KEGA MŠVVaŠ SR c. 002UJS-4/2016 Web-Based aplikácie v transdisciplinárnom vzdelávaní budúcich ucitelov/Web-Based Applications in Transdisciplinary Training of Teacher Education
Research stay: Belgium , Israel, Canada, USA, Poland, UK, India

Abstract of presentation: Teacher with Digital Technology. The Past – The Present – The Future

Slovak school system has been experiencing big, permanent, and constantly coming changes accompanying the implementation of digital technologies into education since 1985. The article presents an overview and results of the education transformation with the support of digital technologies over the past 37 years. The changes were directed to the technical infrastructure, teacher training, the creation of digital content and in the recent years, also to the management and the assessment of the cognitive processes. In conclusion, we present ideas and reflections focused on the future educational transformation linked with the new phenomenon as virtualization, artificial intelligence, big data theory, etc.

Professor Nayden Chivarov is director of the National STEM Center from March 2022. He is also head of the "Cyber-Physical Systems" department at IICT-BAS. He completed his PhD in robotics at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. His research interests are in the field of educational and service robotics, mechatronics, Cyber-physical systems, Industry 4.0, IoT.
Currently, Prof. Chivarov is the coordinator of two projects under the ERASMUS + program: project No. 2020-1-BG01-KA202-079200 "Network of robotics clubs" and project No. KA220-VET-A56659C2 "Robo STEAM - Inclusive Technologies".
Prof. Chivarov is the supervisor of 5 doctoral students and a lecturer of service and educational robotics. He has numerous publications in the field of robotics and Cyber-physical systems, in specialized national and international publications, indexed and referenced in the world databases with scientific information Scopus and Web of Science. He is the inventor of utility model No. 2056 and patent No. 66853 B1 "Autonomous Personal Service Mobile Robot".

Abstract of presentation: Robo STEAM - Inclusive Technologies “ST(R)EAM IT”

Unlike the traditional digitization approach using stationary computers and cameras, the robots provide independent mobility, thus overcoming the physical barriers imposed by the need of social distancing, socioeconomic disadvantages or special needs. They combine the advantages of a computer system with the excitement of human-robot interaction which inspires the imagination of all students thus promoting by example the benefits of STEM. The robot will be used to provide all students involved with access to the treasures of the cultural heritage, under the supervision of their teachers and the professional researchers from the partner museums. It will show-case how the technology can be used to overcome limitation and imposed boundaries in order to provide high quality educational experience, inclusion and non-discrimination via innovation. Robots have great potential in being utilized as an educational technology they add brand new digital capacity to the educational system. They can be used as a powerful edutainment platform - combining the traditional and innovative didactic methods and the educational content in mathematics, physics, computers, electronics, mechanical engineering, and even artificial intelligence, with the experience of gamified learning. The project will develop, present and pilot a cost-effective educational innovation that has the potential to grow into a digital trend that will provide new digital capacity to the educational systems in EU. It has the potential to provide comparative advantage to the EU educational providers, not only in VET but in all educational spheres and levels.
The aim of the project is the ST(R)EAM IT platform - a robot-bases tele-vision interactive complex system with ergonomic human-robot interface that will provide students and teachers with remote access and life distance interaction with experts all over EU. This new digital capacity will be piloted by presenting museum exhibitions and artifacts, but it is not limited within the sphere of cultural heritage. It will provide students and teachers with life interactive access to any remote facility - cultural, industrial, educational, institutional, natural, etc, thus providing a powerful new tool for boosting the quality of the educational experience. The pilot will focus on cultural heritage because COVID-19 social distancing made it even more challenging to teach VET students to appreciate and care for the cultural and historical treasures - preserved and displayed in the museums all over Europe.

Dr. Martin Dzbor is a director of strategy and product development in DT IT Solutions Slovakia. In this role he has steered projects to develop and introduce new portfolio elements, incl. cloud-based infrastructures, knowledge-based support for service management or next-generation communication platforms (telepresence, VoIP). He is accountable for driving the portfolio, innovation and skill development in the largest consolidated T-Systems International’s nearshore location – in Slovakia. Prior to this position he was a Lead Researcher in the United Kingdom, driving research and development in the area of semantic and knowledge-based solutions and managing several integrated projects in a European context. Dr. Dzbor is also active in various consultancy roles at the regional and national levels in Slovakia, is a member of advisory council of the government of Slovakia for vocational education, and vice-chairs the ICT sectoral board focusing on the ICT strategies and their implication on the education and workforce skill development.

Abstract of presentation: Moving beyond dual education framework for ICT potentials development

For 10 years, Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia runs a unique programme of educating and developing potential candidates for a range of job positions in ICT. The development has been running as a dual vocational education programme. It is realized in cooperation with Secondary Vocational School for Electrotechnics in Kosice, and since conception over 200 students went through a 3-year old curriculum. The programme is tailored for the secondary school graduates and in the context of Slovak education it is considered as a higher professional form of education. Formally, standing at ISCED level 3b it is, in principle, equivalent to university-based bachelor studies. While the dual programme is steadily delivering value to our business, we are exploring the ways to move the educational concept beyond merely dual secondary level. In the contribution we argue the needs, benefits and specific ways forward in improving the mutual permeability of vocational education system especially in vertical dimensions. We share our vision of efficiently interconnecting the dual VET level with the „standard“ tertiary education levels. Why does this matter? We believe it might (1) increase the attractiveness of VET as a path for personal development, and (2) open up paths to further education to the graduates of the dual form of higher studies.

Gabriel has extensive operational experience in Customer Care and Service Delivery. Last 21 years he is managing teams located in multiple centers in a corporate environment in Europe, US, Canada, Latin America and, Asia Pacific responsible for data, voice, and security network engineering (design, implementation, and life cycle management) for AT&T’s largest Managed Services and Outsourcing customers. Gabriel has been asked to lead several high-profile, high-impact services launches efforts. As Slovakia Country General Manager, Gabriel leads a cross- functional management forum to assure clear and consistent implementation of local management practices within Shared Service Centers, proactively focusing on cost optimization initiatives, and interfacing with global "Shared Services" functions across AT&T worldwide.
Gabriel actively engages in business and academic community. Since 2014 Gabriel serves on the Board of Directors for American Chamber of Commerce in Slovakia and on January 2019 has been elected President of the American Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. In addition, Gabriel leads Business Service Center Forum which unites companies operating Shared Service Center or Business Process Operation in Slovakia. He also serves as President of the Board of Directors for Center for Artificial Intelligence – AIslovakIA. In November 2020 has been nominated to Technical University in Kosice Board of Trustees to support the strengthening of ties between the university and society.

Abstract of presentation: AIslovakIA: Artificial Intelligence in Slovak republic

The need for AI is an essential component of various national and European strategies, and the competitive edge is also present in the number of businesses in Slovakia. There are several AI activities in Slovakia, reaching for education, public administration, territorial development and science, economy, and even healthcare. However, the competitiveness and excellence of Slovakia in the field of AI on the international level requires substantial attention and resources to achieve goals such as the training of more specialists in the field, establishment of more innovative businesses, and modernization of industrial systems and infrastructures. The vision of the platform is to create a space for active cooperation of the academic community with representatives of employers, government officials, representatives of international institutions, or with individuals with the aim of fully developing the potential of artificial intelligence not only in Slovakia.

Marcela Havrilova currently works as a director for education at Microsoft Czech Republic and Slovakia. She is responsible for business activities and the fulfillment of the company's strategy in the field of education, as well as the support and implementation of projects aimed at the digital transformation of schools. She works actively as a member of several working groups, presents at many conferences. He has been working in the field of education and education his whole professional life. He also deals with personal and professional development of leaders, developing their potential and issues of organizational transformation. Its goal is to bring new projects aimed at the effective use of new technologies in education, to participate in the fulfillment of the goals of the educational system and to help build the company's strategy in the area of supporting IT education among young people. He also deals with the issue of digital transformation, the topic of upskilling employees, well-being in the hybrid world of work.

Abstract of presentation: Transformation of Higher Education

High Education needs to adapt to the changing environment. Students’ & labour market needs have changed, along with the mode of operation of the entire world. The speed of technological change and innovation has gave a boost to and furhter need for research. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) can’t stay the same either. Meanwhile, technology offers unprecedented opportunities to reimagine purpose, operating models and service quality. It is time for transformation in higher education. The Education Transformation Framework of Microsoft can be applied to higher education in Slovakia. It provides a tangible vision of a smart university and a useful tool to help high education design their digital transformation in a holistic way.

Professor Mikuláš Huba received the MSc. and PhD. Degrees in Technical Cybernetics from Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava in 1974 and 1982, respectively. Since 1989 he was a Senior Lecture and Head of the Control Theory Group of the Institute of Control and Industrial Informatics and from 2008 Full Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. From 1996 to 2008 he worked as the Head of the university Distance Education Centre. Since 2008 he was also active in research at the FernUniversität Hagen, Germany, where he continued in 2010-2011 as the Mercator visiting professor. In the period 2015-2019 he was director of the Institute of Automotive Mechatronics, whereby he was also leading the Department of E-mobility, Drives and Automation. He is author and co-author of more than 400 papers in journals and proceedings of international conferences and 20 monographs on Constrained, Nonlinear and Remote Control and about e-Learning. He has organized 11 international conferences Virtual University and several other IFAC and IEEE events, whereby in IFAC he was a vice-chair of TC 9.4 Control Education technical committee. In organization of numerous international conferences he has also been involved as a reviewer, IPC member, or jury member of e-learning competitions.

Abstract of presentation: Should We Forget the PID Control?

Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control represents the most used automatic control technology and the PI controller is the prevailing controller in practice. One will easily come across such statements in automatic control textbooks, but they also touch on other areas, such as artificial intelligence or signal processing. Even if hidden in the most diverse applications, PI and PID regulators can be discovered at every step of our lives. Despite this apparent dominance of PI and PID controllers, it can be shown that in reality everything can be significantly more complicated, even regulators that do not have any integrator are called integral and thus the current development of automatic control deserves more attention, precision and often substantial reassessments. This presentation is dedicated to a brief reminder of the contribution of the first pioneers in the field of automatic control, along with pointing out the roots of these misunderstandings and problems. It shows that their essence is the long-accepted equivalence of two different types of solutions, and just from the point of view of the latest research, the need for substantial corrections of several experienced approaches has been shown. And this is important not only with regard to a more correct interpretation of the past, but mainly with regard to future progress in the field of generalization and improvement of existing controllers. The delicacy of the situation is increased by the fact that a small inconsistency created a century ago can today affect a huge spectrum of solutions that have been developed in the meantime, not to mention the inertia of the relevant human factor itself.

Veronika Hubeňáková: works at the P.J. Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Science, Institute of Mathematics, where she teaches introductory courses in mathematics and in didactics of mathematics. Her PhD. studies in the Theory of mathematics education were focused on formative assessment practices of mathematics teachers. Since then, her research is focused on teacher knowledge and practices. Lately, she coordinated courses for school digital coordinators. Moreover, her team established a Club of school digital coordinators, a place for sharing examples of good practices and new know-how to support the digital transformation of schools.

Abstract of presentation: Digital transformation of education with the support of the national project IT Academy

One of the IT Academy national project aims was to support the digital transformation of schools. Digital transformation is an inevitable condition for innovation of the educational system, as well as the needs of the digital society. The paper presents training and support of the newly established role - the school digital coordinator. The training and subsequent support contents were developed, and conducted, to sustain the role of digital coordinators at their schools.

During fifty year of his career, Jozef Hvorecky taught at 18 universities in 12 countries of all continents. Now, he is a researcher at Vysoká škola technická a ekonomická in Ceské Budejovice, and a professor at Ostravská univerzita in Ostrava (both Czech Republic).
As the author and coauthor, he has published 26 books and textbooks and more than 150 papers in journals and conference proceedings. He is keen of new educational technologies. He has taught online courses since 2002, mostly for the University of Liverpool, UK, Recently, he offers a series of webinars for teachers and educators at various educational topics: Critical Thinking, Knowledge Management, Humor in Education and similar. His is the author of books on popular science.
He is a member of Za živé univerzity – a initiative group trying to revitalize Slovak academic life, to enhance academic honesty and to facilitate its critical view on itself.

Abstract of presentation: Virtual Reality Environment as a University Online Education Platform

The recent COVID-19 epidemics resulted into much more extensive online education at all universities. The growing power of Information and Communication Technologies allowed considering educational approaches unimaginable recently. The return to the previous stage is many university educators’ desire. At the same time, no one can exclude similar emergency situations in the future. The universities and their educators have to be better prepared for them.
In this paper, we outline a solution: the creation of a “mirror” image of a real campus in a Virtual Reality Environment. The quotation marks indicate the fact that the VRE should replicate the not only study programs but imitate the university climate, too. Its design and development is undergoing; the first pilot projects had run and are now evaluated. The paper analyses the key advantages it offers and drawbacks it may bring.

Gabriel Juhas is a full professor of Applied Computer Science at Institute of Computer Science and Mathematics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava. Gabriel Juhás was the dean and the vice dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Slovak University of Technology (FEI STU). He was also the garant of the study program Applied Computer Science at FEI STU. He worked at several universities in Germany, namely at Technical University Berlin, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, where he received his habilitation in 2005. Previously, he was also visiting PhD student at BRICS, University of Aarhus in Denmark. His main research interest in theory are Petri nets and other models of computations. In application area he focuses on business process management, process-driven programming and low-code languages. He is co-author of an open-source low-code language Petriflow and co-author of Netgrif low-code application development platform.

Abstract of presentation: Low-code platforms and languages: the future of software development

Low-code as a term in software development was mentioned by Forrester in 2014 to denote development platforms, that make application development more accessible to broader community of developers by simplifying the application development process. To simplify development, low code platforms apply several different principles, that have even much older roots, such as visual programming, model driven development with different types of diagrams, process and workflow modelling and management. As a result low-code platforms offer some kind of application builders or creators that allows to drag and drop diagrams and forms to develop the final application, which is then running within a platform engine, often as a service in cloud. The aim of the low code development platforms is on one hand to solve the problem with shortage of human resources in IT by making application development more accessible and on other hand to make application development faster. The hope of both low-code development platforms producers and enterprises as their consumers is to make digital transformation and automation much more accessible and effective. According to Gartner, the share of new applications developed by organizations using low-code platforms should reach 70% of all new applications developed by organizations in 2025, compared to less than 25% in 2020. If the Gartner prediction will come true, then low-code will be the future of software development. One of the biggest drawbacks of low code development platforms is that they either hide the (parts of) code from developers of generate the code in lower level languages, that are not accessible for low-code developers. To remove the drawback, one need to define a low-code programming language that will be used to store the source code of the final application generated by the application builder of the platform. Then the platform application engine should serve as an interpreter (as a virtual machine) of the low-code programming language. Although most of today low-code platforms do not work with a low-code language, there are some pioneers. For example, in 2021 Microsoft released an open-source low-code language, called PowerFx, for its low-code development platform Power Apps, originally released during 2016, Zoho low-code platform uses their own proprietary language called Deluge, Netgrif low-code platform uses open-source low-code language Petriflow. In this paper, we discuss the paradigms that low-code programming languages should implement, such as abstraction from tiers in multi-tier architecture. We also discuss our experience how to teach low-code principles.

Doc. Mgr. art. Ing. Richard Kitta, ArtD. (*1979, Kosice, Slovakia) is the Vice-dean for Arts, Science and Research Activities and the head of the CORE Lab at Faculty of Arts, at the Technical University of Kosice. He is a multimedia and digital artist, curator, editor and culture activist with a focus on media art field and creative interdisciplinary strategies. He is a founder of DIG gallery (since 2012) and Kotolna art space (since 2014) and co-founder of ENTER multigenre art magazine (2010-2020). He stands behind the MAO (Media Art Office) project and festival platforms as Creative Playgrounds or EMA (Eco Media Art). With his activities he contributed significantly to the gain of a prestigious title Kosice – UNESCO Creative city of Media arts in 2017

Abstract of presentation: Ubiquitous Art: Hybrid Aspects of Technology-Oriented Art (Part 1)

Art subgenres defined as media art, new media or intermedia, as well as types of computer digital art, including complex artistic environments or projects, represent today a universal platform that offers a natural space for interdisciplinary and hybrid artistic overlaps. This situation is the result of several variables entering into the creative process of artists, designers, architects or creative collectives. Likewise, in artistic education or creative co-education, an increased level of responsiveness is shown to be necessary, which is conditioned not only by the technological background, but also by the readiness of educators and educational teams to solve advanced concepts and tasks both on a theoretical and practical level.
Ongoing research in natural sciences has its irreplaceable place in arts. It is more than realistic that we will witness an even greater intertwining of the software and technological world with the original natural environment. In the coming years, subgenres of media art based on art and science will initiate the creation of new creative concepts, for example with significant use of AI, and simultaneously expand the concept of media aesthetics or technology-oriented art.

Professor Martin Klimo received his diploma in telecommunication engineering from the University of Transport and Communication Žilina in 1973. Since 1990 he worked as an Associate Professor, and in 2003 he was appointed a full professor of Applied Informatics. His research interests include communication theory, queuing theory, machine learning and fuzzy logic implementation by nanotechnology. He focuses on packet networks performance and security, pattern recognition, memristor-based fuzzy computing and explainable artificial intelligence.
Ref. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Martin_Klimo

Abstract of presentation: Can People Understand Neural Network Decisions?

First, let's ask whether people need to understand neural network decisions. Certainly, this is the case when a human is responsible for the decision and the neural network is only in an advisory role. And we think that one cannot be responsible for a decision without knowing how and why it was made in a given situation. If one is to understand the mechanism of decision-making by the neural network, we need to explain how the correct decisions arise in humans. The scientific method of correct decision-making is based on the epistemological triangle. In it, one first acquires knowledge about the problem at hand and then, by thinking based on logical axioms, constructs a model of reality. From this model, he concludes and compares them with the real consequence of the decision. Neural networks in their early days tried to build a model directly by mining from data. However, this approach has just raised the question of the explainability of the decisions reached by neural networks. Therefore, today we mimic knowledge creation by extracting features from data and inferring decisions from the features thus obtained. Then, understanding the features also leads to understanding the decisions produced by the neural network. Therefore, we consider allowing the user to experiment with the features and observing their influence on the neural network's decision to be a key process in understanding neural networks. The presentation will support this approach with an example of a neural network for a handwritten digit recognition task.

Ivan Kotuliak is dean of the Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies. He is a full professor in Applied Informatics at Slovak University of Technology. He is also Slovak representative for Information for All programme Slovak commision of UNESCO and Slovak expert within European Blockchain Forum (EC).
His research activities lastly focus on Blockchain and its application into public and also private activities to enhance governance. Previous orientation and successful research projects included network performance, including NGN architecture, wireless and mobile networking, VoIP systems and Future Internet. He has been author and co-author of more than sixty scientific papers and leads and participates on several international and national research projects.

Abstract of presentation: Readiness of the Slovak road infrastructure for deploying Intelligent vehicles

In recent years, new vehicles in Europe are required to be equipped with many intelligent ADAS systems, such as Traffic Signs Recognition, Lane Keeping Assist or Intelligent Speed Assist. However, for these technologies to work properly, it is not only a matter of the technology inside the car, but also a matter of the quality of the road infrastructure. In this pilot project, in cooperation with the Ministry of Transportation and Construction of the Slovak Republic we are evaluating the readiness of different road types in Slovakia in terms of deploying modern and intelligent vehicles to our roads, as this will be also crucial for the future deployment of Level3 and Level4 automated vehicles.

Prof. Dr. habil. Levente Adalbert Kovács, Rector
Obuda University, Full professor electrical engineer, biomedical engineer

SCIENTIFIC DEGREES
2000 MSc in electrical engineering, "Politehnica" University of Timişoara, Faculty of Control Engineering and Computer Science, specialization: Automation and Industrial Informatics.
2001 Postgradual training in Industrial Control, "Politehnica" University of Timişoara, Automation and Industrial Informatics.
2011 MSc in Biomedical Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics.
2008 PhD, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Electric Engineering Doctoral School. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Zoltán Benyó.
PhD thesis title: New principles and adequate control methods for insulin dosage in case of diabetes.
2013 habilitation, Obuda University, title: Model-based control algorithms for optimal therapy of high-impact diseases.

TEACHING ACTIVITY (2000-present)
2019 – Obuda University (OE), rector / president. 2016 – Obuda University (OE), full professor.
2018 – 2019 Obuda University (OE), vice rector for education.
2013 – 2018 OE John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, vice dean for education. 2012 – 2016 Obuda University (OE), associate professor.
2011 – 2012 Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), associate professor. 2008 – 2011 Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), senior lecturer.
2005 – 2008 Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), teacher assistant. 2000 – 2006 "Politehnica" University of Timişoara (TME), teacher assistant.
2006 – 2007 "Politehnica" University of Timişoara (TME), invited lecturer.
2001 – 2004 Partium Christian University of Oradea (PKE), part time teacher assistant.

SPECIALTY

• Physiological Modeling and Control
• Modern Robust Control Theory
• Cyber-Medical Systems
• Biomedical Engineering

RESEARCH SUPERVISORY OVERVIEW

• Research and development of cybermedical systems (2016-)
• Development of a Hungarian artificial pancreas algorithm (2010-)
• Development and biostatical evaluation of new control methods for optimal control of cancer (2011-)
• Control of peristaltic pumps in hemodialysis machines (2013-2015)
• Development of classical and modern control algorithms for effective telesurgical applications (2011-2104)
• Development of robust blood glucose control for ICU (2010-2012)
• Patient motion compensation in surgical robotics (2010-2012)
• Electromagnetic noise and error measurement, calibration and tool integration in surgical robotics (2010-2012)
• Development of robust control algorithms for insulin injection in case of type 1 diabetes mellitus (2007-2010)
• Development of new methods for the risk estimation of obese population (2007-2010)
• Design of NFC based mobile applications (2006-2009)
• Human factor in controlled vehicle systems (2004-2008)
• Medical information system for diagnosing and monitoring diabetes mellitus in children (2003- 2004)
• Medical information system for diagnosing hearing disorder in children (2003-2005)
• Temperature control with industrial DeltaV system (2002-2004)
• Control of the Three Tank System (2001-2002)

PROJECTS INVOLVED

• TKP2021-NKTA-36 project „Innovative and digital development and evaluation of cybermedical technologies” (2022-2025), subproject leader, 480 000 000 Ft.
• 2019-1.3.1-KK-2019-00007 project „Creating an innovation service center for diagnostic, therapeutic and research-based cybermedical systems development” (2020-2024), coordinator, 1 899 297 017 Ft.
• EFOP 3.4.3-16-2016-00023 project „University institutional development for quality and accessibility increase in higher education” (2018-2020), scientific coordinator.
• Excellence Thematic Program 2020 – National Challenges project, “The social and economic benefits of innovation: digitalization and the health industry” subproject (2019-2021), researcher.

Doctor Honoris Causa

• "Politehnica" University of Timişoara, Romania, 2022. 05. 26.
• Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia, 2022. 06. 28.

Abstract of presentation: New developments in the Hungarian Higher Education Innovation System

Hungary’s Research, Development and Innovation Strategy for the 2021 – 2030 proposed the ambitious goal to reach the GDP-proportionate R&D expenditures (GERD) of 3%, by which Hungary should become among the five most competitive countries in the European Union. In order to reach the mentioned goal the idea is to support of knowledge production (e.g. new generations of researchers, promotion of corporate RDI, boosting of scientific excellence etc.), to facilitate of knowledge flow (e.g. promotion of open innovation and open access, boosting of RDI cooperation between companies etc.) and to promote of the use of knowledge (e.g. management of intellectual works, development of start-up ecosystem, boosting of research institutes etc.).
The universities, as the key players of reserch, development and innovation centers went through a paradigm shift, in the innovation ecosystem of Hungary. The government created the facility to make a model change in their working process and similar to the US universities, through a board of trustees became enterpreneur universities, much more opened to own investments, to the market-guided R&D, to innovation-oriented business.
Obuda University changed its model in August 2021 oriented to the above mentioned ideas. The presentation gives a short summary of the first year results, possibilities and future plans of it.

Dr. Sergey Kutsevlyak has more than 31 years’ experience in technical areas such as production and sales of medical equipment, design and construction of medical facilities, development and integration of medical information systems, telemedicine solutions and equipment.
Dr. Kutsevlyak have created concept of informatization and performed complete document-flow system at Sate Service of Ukraine on Drugs and Precursors Control in 2015-17, then implemented several IT solutions at State Service of Ukraine on Medicines and Drugs Control.
During years of activity in Ukraine, Dr. Kutsevlyak directly participated in development of more than 1000 medical facilities all over the country, from small private clinic to 550 beds surgery hospital or 240 beds oncology center, establishing strong reputation and fruitful relations with PHC providers and specialists and other key stakeholders in the healthcare sector.
Wide range of interests gives ongoing development of private sector partnerships to grow MedStar’s portfolio and offerings: with “Medical Service Consulting” and “Suchasna Turbota” clinics for new medical services development, JSK “Pharmak” for pilot project of QR-coding and tracing of medicines in Ukraine, Uniqa Insurance Group for telemedicine solutions promotion in Austria.
MedStar Solutions provides medical information and telemedicine systems using most advanced model of implementation, offering to customer use of complete cloud-based IT infrastructure with cybersecurity protection and state certification. As result – quick growth of users in RIMS MEDSTAR system from 300 to more than 10 000 doctors at 20 regions of Ukraine during 2022. New telemedicine project will be quickly scaled-up with this implementation model and experience from pilot places to country-size.
Experienced in providing technical expertise on projects including construction of medical facilities, purchase and distribution of medical equipment (X-ray machines, specialized PACS software and hardware for medical images storage, ambulance cars etc.).
Has fostered during 2003 - 12 strong partnerships with Brazil across business, healthcare, and tourism sectors, with achievements including an office of honorary consul of Brazil in Kharkiv and the importation of more than 4,000 units of medical equipment that are successfully operating in 350 medical institutions in Ukraine.

EDUCATION

• PhD, Epidemiology, Kharkiv Medical Academy for Post-graduate Education, 2005.
• Master’s in public management, Healthcare Management, Ukraine Academy of Public Administration, Kyiv, 2002.
• MD, Kharkiv Medical Institute, Ukraine, 1989.

COUNTRIES OF WORK EXPERIENCE
Austria, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Kazakhstan, Italy, Spain, and Ukraine.

EXPERIENCE

CEO
SK-Telemed GmbH, Vienna Austria (2016 - Present)
Acts as modern telehealth solutions visioner and inventor, helping local governments in many countries to establish sufficient telemedicine and connected continuous care infrastructure and workflow.
Registered since 2018 with ISO 13 485, telehealth system IDIS2GO is exporting to more than 15 countries, creating distribution partnerships and collaborations with medical service providers.

General Director (2013 - Present)
MedStar Solutions, LLC, Kharkiv and Kyiv, Ukraine
Provides executive leadership for a leading professional IT company specializing in digital health care solutions with innovative products to improve the quality of health services and patient care.

• Provides leadership for pioneering company that offers a full range of includes a full range of services for the development, implementation, and support of web-based software for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, the development and sale of medical equipment, and the development of cloud services.
• Leads MedStar as an official partner of healthcare reform in Ukraine, with more than 4,000 PHC providers and specialists and 3 million patients currently using five IT products of the company.
• Has developed the first cloud medical system in Ukraine with a state security certificate for the protection of personal and medical data, and has developed and implemented multiple modern IT products for health care automation including a medical information system, a telemedicine portal, a mobile application for online patient recording and reception, a remote diagnostics system, an electronic prescription system, and a digital storage and exchange service for medical images.
• Oversees implementation of MedStar’s products and services across Ukraine, having managed more than 1,200 projects in the healthcare sector since 2009 and works in partnership with more than 1,000 medical institutions in all regions of the country.
• Serves as representative on the eHealth Reform Working Group and for the Association of Medical Software Manufacturers in Ukraine.

Abstract of presentation: Multidiscipline impact of telemedicine innovations

Telemedicine solutions development and implementation involves several scientific disciplines:

• Biomedical engineering
• Informatics
• AI and AR
• Hospital and Public Health Management
• GDPR and Medical Etics Law
• Marketing
• And more...

It means - every University which provides education on these specializations can (should) open "Telehealth" topic and start research, education and collabortation with existing companies and professionals. We will give several proposals for such collaboration for firther discussion during Conference

Prof. Jan Kyselovic, PharmD, PhD., joined the Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University Bratislava in 1987 after his study at Faculty of Pharmacy. After his PhD study of Pharmacology in Medical Faculty and postdoc stay at Department of Pharmacology, Medical Faculty, Ottawa University, Canada he started work at Faculty of Pharmacy. During the years 1996-2002 he worked as a visiting scientist at Department of Pharmacology, Medical Faculty, Catholic University Brussels, Belgium. Currently he holds position as full professor at Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy at the Bratislava University and professor of pharmacy, University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy, Kosice. He is emeritus dean of Faculty Pharmacy and the chair in Department of Pharmacology. From 2017 he is head of Clinical Research Unit, 5th Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine. From 2020 he is General Director of Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information.
He has been supervisor theses of 8 for the BSc, 146 for the MSc, 48 theses for the award PharmD, 2 for the RND and 9 PhD student. He leads a team working on extrapolation of experimental and clinical pharmacology and molecular medicine. His innovations in this field led to the receipt of the more than 6 international and 14 domestic grants.
Professor Kyselovic has authored/co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed full articles, 2 books co-author, 1 book co-editor and 4 textbooks.
He is member at three scientific boards of: Comenius University Bratislava, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic, Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy University, Kosice, Slovakia. He was also member of faculty scientific boards of Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical Faculty, Bratislava and Brno. He has also served on a number Grant Review Boards and has been member of Editorial Board for journals related to pharmacy and pharmacology (Clinical Osteology, Folia Medica, Czech and Slovak Pharmacy, Farmaceutický obzor, Lekárnik, Bedeker Zdravia, Medicínsky Monitor).

Abstract of presentation: Implementation of the National Strategy for Open Science 2021 – 2028 in Education and Research

Resolution No. 317/2021 adopted the National Strategy for Open Science of the Slovak Republic 2021 – 2028 on June 9, 2021 as a government strategic document that determines the further direction of the development of open science in the Slovak Republic. Two-year Action Plans are prepared as realisation steps for implementation of Open science in academic sphere. The Action plans incorporate of the individual principles of open science in the Slovak Republic. There are great reserves in the perception and practice of open science (open access publishing, sharing of research data, production of open educational resources, citizen science and others) within the Slovak academic and scientific community. It is necessary to support the implementation of the National Strategy of Open Science in order to match the development and application of open science in Slovakia in accordance with other member countries of the European Union, where this practice is a common standard.
A key path for education and research is to make available top foreign information and knowledge in the field of R&D by ensuring access to electronic information resources for the Slovak academic and scientific community. Scientific databases and personalized information services directly support the development of excellent science and participate in strengthening the competitiveness of Slovakia by removing information and knowledge barriers between research and development on the one hand and society and the economy (SMEs and large enterprises) on the other. The use of electronic information resources has a positive impact on the entire range of educational and scientific processes, such as the submission and implementation of student scientific works, research projects, and the internationalization of education, science and research, and the publication of scientific outputs.

Mário Lelovský (57) is a leading professional in the area of Digital skills and Digital transformation in Slovakia.
From 2014 was acting as a president and actually as a 1st Vicepresident of IT Association of Slovakia.
As of 2018 holds the position of 1st Vice President of the National Union of Employers of Slovakia and heads the Education committee and Digital economy committee.
He co-founded Slovak National Digital Coalition for Digital Skills and Jobs and performs the position of Chairman of the Executive board.
He is a co-founder of the platform “AISlovakAI”, the national platform for AI research and development in Slovakia (2019).
Graduated in Informatics (Slovak Technical University in Bratislava 1988). Entitled Doctor Honoris Causa (University of Economics and Management in Bratislava 2019).
CEO of Media Control company from 2004 acts as a leader in the construction of smart homes building construction sector using fully integrated control, energy, and security systems and develops telemedicine solutions in Slovakia.
In 2022 was elected as a member of DigitalEurope Executive Board.

Abstract of presentation: Employers and Academia must communicate!

How can close cooperation between Employers and Academia improve Education systems and particularly outcomes. After success of employer's involvement in secondary education was proven the next step is tertiary education and necessity to help students to become graduates useful for society and successful in their life with high expectations.

PaedDr. Alena Minns, PhD., is a project manager of the National project "Sector-driven innovations to an efficient labour market in the Slovak Republic" (Sektorovo riadenými inováciami k efektívnemu trhu práce v SR). NP SRI responds to developments and changes in the Slovak labour market, monitors the needs of 24 sectors influenced by innovation, digitalization, new technologies and global challenges in the political, economic, and global context. It identifies future key competences of the human resources and the sector-specific requirements for necessary skills and competencies of the human resources.
The topics of Alena's professional interest are issues of lifelong learning, formal education, non-formal education of youth. She participated in several expert working groups, international and national projects in the field of formal and non-formal education and research and grant schemes.

Abstract of presentation: Human Resources Development Strategy in Information and Communication Technology sector

Our contribution presents the key outputs of the National project "Sector-driven innovations to an efficient labour market in the Slovak Republic" (further only “the NP SRI”), which is implemented by Trexima Bratislava.
Important outputs of the NP SRI are 24 "Human resources development strategies" for each sector of the economy of the Slovak Republic. The main benefit of these strategies, additionally to the analysis of human resources and description of the current state of each sector, is a list of measures whose implementation will ensure an optimal structure of the workforce over the horizon 2030. This is in line with expected labour market developments, innovations, new technologies and requirements arising from Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0.
Our contribution describes selected measures that have resulted from the overall analysis of Information and Communication Technology sector and further steps which were taken to support its implementation. Measures adverse several crucial issues e. g.: shortages of skilled workers in several sectors; transferring the needs of the labour market into lifelong learning; necessity to implement new knowledge and skills resulting from innovation and technological change into fields of education or study programmes for all levels of education.

Ludovit Molnár is a professor emeritus at the Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Slovak University of Technology. After the graduation Ludovít Molnár started professional carrier in a field of Computer Science, as one of the pioneers in Slovakia in this field. In early 70 – ties Ludovít Molnár was participating on a Computer science curricula development for University education, which later passed through IEE (Institute of Electrical Engineers in London) international accreditation as one of the first in CEEC. In research Ludovít Molnár has been working in a field program system construction, artificial intelligence and knowledge based programming. He was a head of several projects for industry. Ludovít Molnár has participated also on several international projects for European Commission and UNESCO. At the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia he has been working in different positions at department - Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, faculty - Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, and university itself - head of the Department, dean of the Faculty, president of the Academic senate of the University, rector of the University. He is the co-founder and the first dean of the Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies.

Abstract of presentation: ICT literacy in the context of some anniversaries

This year marks several anniversaries related to ICT literacy. 20 years of the ICETA conference, 10 years of the project "Aj Ty v IT – You too in IT" focused on the education and work of women in IT, but also 60 years of education in Computer literacy in our country. Literacy is inherently linked to the content intent of the ICETA conference. In the paper, we focus on a general level of literacy, as well as ICT literacy in terms of evolutionary and innovative changes. Special attention is paid to the situation in our country, where we began with computer literacy education already in the academic year 1962/1963. The experience from the previous period is also presented, which could serve as a "best practice" in ICT literacy implementation now and in the next period.
The role and place of ICT literacy in the digital economy, its implementation in our country and in the surrounding countries is also presented and discussed. The EU Digital Economy and Society Index - the DESI - which summarizes the relevant indicators of Europe's digital performance is used.
A connection of ICT literacy with innovation is discussed. We compare the situation in our country with the surrounding countries through the European Innovation Scoreboard 2021 We focus on new technologies, mainly Artificial Intelligence (AI), as we not only have a long tradition with AI, which is almost identical to the tradition of computer literacy education, but also both, good and bad experiences. In conclusion, we draw attention to the lessons learned from past experiences.

Mulesa O.Yu. – Dr.Sc., Doctor of Technical Sciences (Doctor of Engineering Sciences), Associate Professor, Professor of Department of Software Systems, Uzhhorod National University. Experience of scientific and pedagogical activity - 15 years. Education: Master of Applied Mathematics, Specialist of Law, Master of Education in "Secondary Education. Math" Doctoral dissertation "Information technology of forecasting and customer-oriented optimization of the staff of health care institutions" in the specialty 05.13.06 - Information technology, defended on May 12, 2021 at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Scientific results have been published in 120 scientific papers, 30 of which are indexed by the international scientometric database Scopus. Member of the council for the defense of doctoral dissertations (Lviv Polytechnic National University). Scientific interests: IT, Data Science, AI, Decision Making, Fuzzy Systems, Security

Abstract of presentation: Decision-making modeling in educational process organization under the conditions of crisis situations forecasting.

The research deals with the problem of decision-making processes, related to the optimization of educational process. The case of shortening the length of academic semesters due to an increase in the weekly workload is considered. The mathematical model was built for the most effective use of existing audiences. It is possible to develop options for management decisions regarding the combined (face-to-face and distance learning with the use of electronic learning tools) as forms of education

Petr Rozehnal is an academic staff member of VŠB - TU Ostrava, Faculty of Economics. He has finished his PhD. in program Information management at VŠB-TUO, Faculty of Economics. He has 20 plus years of teaching and research experience. The main field of research is IT/Business alignment, IT governance and management, application of information technologies. He is the co-author of a monograph, 14 publications on WOS, several chapters in books, articles and conference papers. He has participated in several scientific and pedagogical projects. He participate in Academic Advocate program organized by ISACA where he is a member representing VŠB-TUO.

Abstract of presentation: Virtual Reality Environment as a University Online Education Platform

The recent COVID-19 epidemics resulted into much more extensive online education at all universities. The growing power of Information and Communication Technologies allowed considering educational approaches unimaginable recently. The return to the previous stage is many university educators’ desire. At the same time, no one can exclude similar emergency situations in the future. The universities and their educators have to be better prepared for them.
In this paper, we outline a solution: the creation of a “mirror” image of a real campus in a Virtual Reality Environment. The quotation marks indicate the fact that the VRE should replicate the not only study programs but imitate the university climate, too. Its design and development is undergoing; the first pilot projects had run and are now evaluated. The paper analyses the key advantages it offers and drawbacks it may bring.

Graduated from Bánki Donát Polytechnic, Budapest in 1971, received the Master Degree in Mathematics from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, the Ph.D. in Robotics from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1987, while the Doctor of Science degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2004. He received his first Doctor Honoris Causa degree from the Technical University of Košice, Slovakia and the second one from “Polytechnica” University of Timisoara, Romania.
He served as the Rector of Budapest Tech from August 1, 2003 for a period of four years, and was reelected for five years in 2007. He is active as a full university professor.
He is a Fellow of IEEE, Senior Administrative Committee member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, member of Board of Governors of IEEE SMC Society, Chair of IEEE Hungary Section, Vice-President of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering. He is the treasurer of IFSA (International Fuzzy System Association), he had been the President of Hungarian Fuzzy Association for ten years.
He serves as an associate editor of some scientific journals, including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, member of editorial board of Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence, member of various national and international scientific committees. He is the founder of the IEEE International Conference Series on Intelligent Engineering Systems (INES) and IEEE International Conference on Computational Cybernetics (ICCC), and some international symposia. He has served as General Chairman and Program Chairman of numerous scientific international conferences. His present areas of research activity are Computational Cybernetics, Robotics with special emphasis on Robot Control, Soft Computing, Computed-aided Process Planning, Fuzzy Control and Fuzzy Sets. He has published books, more than 450 papers in books, various scientific journals and international conference proceedings. He received more than 550 citations for his publications.

Abstract of presentation: New developments in the Hungarian Higher Education Innovation System

Hungary’s Research, Development and Innovation Strategy for the 2021 – 2030 proposed the ambitious goal to reach the GDP-proportionate R&D expenditures (GERD) of 3%, by which Hungary should become among the five most competitive countries in the European Union. In order to reach the mentioned goal the idea is to support of knowledge production (e.g. new generations of researchers, promotion of corporate RDI, boosting of scientific excellence etc.), to facilitate of knowledge flow (e.g. promotion of open innovation and open access, boosting of RDI cooperation between companies etc.) and to promote of the use of knowledge (e.g. management of intellectual works, development of start-up ecosystem, boosting of research institutes etc.).
The universities, as the key players of reserch, development and innovation centers went through a paradigm shift, in the innovation ecosystem of Hungary. The government created the facility to make a model change in their working process and similar to the US universities, through a board of trustees became enterpreneur universities, much more opened to own investments, to the market-guided R&D, to innovation-oriented business.
Obuda University changed its model in August 2021 oriented to the above mentioned ideas. The presentation gives a short summary of the first year results, possibilities and future plans of it.

During his academic tenure, Peter co-founded the Center for North American Studies at the University of Economics in Bratislava and until 2016 served as the Center´s manager. He has been a passionate supporter of the business-academic cooperation as has been building bridges between universities/high schools and private corporations/NGOs since the beginning of his career. Currently, Peter serves as the senior policy manager at the American Chamber of Commerce in teh Slovak Republic and leads trainings on communication, soft skills, business etiquette and career counseling.

Abstract of presentation: Business-Academic Cooperation as a Key to Develop Skills of the Future

As computer technologies have created new employment opportunities for workers with noncognitive (soft) skills, industry heads, leaders in various sectors and public officials seek ways for their employees how to remain competitive. According to the OECD Future of Education and Skills 2030 conceptual learning framework, social and emotional skills can be equally – and in some cases even more – as important as cognitive skills in becoming a responsible citizen and adaptable worker. Business-academic cooperation has gained on critical importance over the last decade as the demands of the labor market and the skills needed for workers to succeed changed unprecedentedly. Join us in navigating through various ways of developing effective working relationships and critical skills of the future.

Prof. Dr Lubica Stuchlíková graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU) in 1990, received her PhD degree in 1996 and was appointed associate professor in 2006. She works as a teacher at the Institute of Electronics and Photonics. Since 2016 as a full professor. Her fields of interest are the electrical characterization of semiconductor structures, devices and materials since 1990 and computer-aided engineering education, retraining, and lifelong learning since 2000.
Her priority is education, training of new electrical engineers and popularization of science and technology for children and youth. She implements student centricity approach.
In 2004 she established the educational portal „eLearn central“ as a co-author. Original interactive animations, educational and popularization e-learning courses, modules and educational games in virtual reality have been created for the portal “eLearn central” by “eLearn central team”.

Abstract of presentation: Academy Phoenix: Will universities reborn in Industry 5.0 era, or will they lie down in ashes?

Industry 5.0 had been envisioned as a new era of the industry that goes beyond simple efficiency and productivity. Instead of trivial economic benefits, it puts human society on a pedestal. The human and society are once again prioritised instead of material wealth. Cyberspace and physical space are merged to find a solution to social problems. The life-quality improvement, ageing society, climate change and sustainable development are new challenges that require a novel approach. People must stop working for the industry, but on the contrary, the industry must start working for people.
There was always an idea conflict between the universities and the industry. Even though the Industry is asking to train people for today, the universities are teaching for tomorrow to be ready for the future. This is not enough anymore. Fulfilling the Industry 5.0 vision requires Universities 5.0. Excellent science needs to meet the needs of society. University research should be the pathfinder, while the industry is the accelerator of change. University students need a limitless global education, merging nations on the way to new knowledge and breakthrough discoveries. The industry should not be the only recipient of university graduates but the direct participant of the education and supporter of the technology transfer.
This paper discusses the challenges and solutions in cooperation between technical universities and employers in the context of the Industry 5.0 trend. It also tries to answer the question of what are the limits of academic freedom in university education when dealing with the demands of Industry 5.0.

Assoc. prof. Dušan Šveda, PhD.works at the P.J. Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Science, Institute of Mathematics, where he teaches didactical subjects, Mathemathical Analysis and Geometry. He has obtained his PhD degree at the Comenius University in Bratislava in program Theory of mathematics education. Later he was habilitated at the Constantine the philosopher University in Nitra. His research is especially devoted to modern methods in teaching mathematics using ICT. Currently he works at the UPJŠ in Košice as a director of Lifelong Learning Centre and Projects Support.

Abstract of presentation: Digital transformation of education with the support of the national project IT Academy

One of the IT Academy national project aims was to support the digital transformation of schools. Digital transformation is an inevitable condition for innovation of the educational system, as well as the needs of the digital society. The paper presents training and support of the newly established role - the school digital coordinator. The training and subsequent support contents were developed, and conducted, to sustain the role of digital coordinators at their schools.