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Anna Podmanická, a gifted student from Gymnázium Jura Hronca, secured 4th place at the prestigious Regeneron ISEF 2025 finals in Ohio, USA. Her project on wastewater purification impressed the expert jury and earned her a special award from the King Abdulaziz & his Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity. The success of the Slovak AMAVET delegation at this competition was further highlighted by Adam Kovalčík’s overall victory.

Dušan Kováčik participated in the EDUC-WIDE Knowledge Exchange Scheme for Micro and nanotechnology workshop held at the Department of Microsystems, Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge in Norway. The workshop was aimed at exploring research collaboration opportunities with international research teams in the field of nanotechnology. Participants had the opportunity to visit the laboratories and learn about the instrumentation and technologies available at the department.

Dr. Zlata Kelar Tučeková accepted an invitation to join ScienceON - a science stream with experiments. The topic was plasma in physics. With the hosts and other guests ttopics such as nuclear fusion, low and high pressure plasmas, experiments and applications were discussed. Dr. Kelar Tučeková also spoke about the dielectric barrier discharge and its applications. The full stream can be viewed on the herohero platform.

We are thrilled to share that our bilateral research project PlasmaMix-BioMat, in collaboration with esteemed colleagues from Slovenia – led by Sebastian Dahle and his team – has been officially supported by both the GAČR and ARIS funding agencies! Our team leader, Zlata Kelar Tučeková, along with Michal Pazderka, is currently in Slovenia for an in-person kick-off meeting to launch this promising cooperation.

Sandra Ďurčányová is a doctoral student from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University. She is on a research stay at DPPT and CEPLANT center of SCI MUNI with the support of the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic. In Brno, she works with dr. Monika Stupavská. In her dissertation thesis, she researches plasma polymerization at atmospheric pressure. Using plasma, she deposits thin functional films made of hexamethyldisiloxane and investigates their properties.