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With the 9th HUMAN FORUM Banska Bystrica again becomes the center of human rights and democracy discourse in Slovakia
This year’s Human Forum welcomed more than 200 guests, including the the president of the Slovak republic Zuzana Čaputová, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia Rastislav Káčer, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Uzra Zeya, and many more. This year’s HUMAN FORUM was in many ways special, as for…
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Joining forces with leading universities to research 21st century challenges of democracy
Matej Bel University (UMB) with its Institute for Democracy has been awarded the largest international research grant in the history of the university, which will see UMB joining forces with leading universities to explore 21st century challenges of democracy. The BRRIDGE project, led by Professor Kamila Borseková from UMB’s Faculty of Economics and Dr. Jozef…
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Strengthening research capacities in the field of democracy and policy
Today the Institute for Democracy held a project pre-meeting with various researchers across different departments of Matej Bel University, that are involved in a new project that is being coordinated by two of our directors Kamila Borseková (Associate Professor of Public Policy and Regional Development) and Jozef Michal Mintal (Assistant Professor of Political Science and…