Important Grants and Projects

SLOVAK AGENCY FOR SCIENCE AND RESEARCH

The Faculty takes part in other grant projects supported by the Agency for Science and Research within the General Call, namely the following ones:

 

1. The New Legislation of Administrative Punishment, APVV-20-0436

Responsible solver: doc. JUDr. Matej Horvat, PhD.

Research Department: 50503 - Administrative Law 

Implementation: 2021-2025

The subject matter of the proposed research project is the preparation of a legislative proposal on a new legal framework of administrative punishment, which will be able to respond the requirements set by international documents, as well as to the current needs of national application practice. The project is divided into four phases. In the first phase, we will assess the various types of administrative offenses in order to define the base for the new legislation. In the second phase, we will set the basic criteria of the new legislation. Within this phase, it will be resolved whether the new legislation will be in one law or in several laws with regard to individual types of administrative offenses. In the third - main - phase, we will create the draft of the new legislation itself. In the fourth final phase, we will present a new comprehensive legislative proposal. In all phases, we plan to publish partial outputs in close cooperation with the Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic and subject them to strict review. We will use mainly scientific conferences and formal and informal meetings with the professionals in the field.

 

2. Financing of local self-governments - potential of functional microregions, APVV-22-0482

Responsible solver: doc. JUDr. Ing. Matej Kačaljak, PhD.

Research Department: 050504 - Business and financial law

Implementation: 2023-2025

After nearly 20 years since the decentralization of public administration, there is a growing call for its evaluation and systematic adjustment of some of its problematic aspects. The Ministry of Finance, the government, the Supreme Audit Office, as well as associations of local governments, signal the need to redefine the distribution of competencies among various levels of public administration, including a reevaluation of the transfer of specific state administration competencies to local self-government units. The municipalization of certain settlements, especially cities and adjacent municipalities, brings the potential for significant cost savings through economies of scale and an overall increase in the efficiency of services provided to residents. Furthermore, technological advancements have made the concept of proximity in service availability less relevant. Additionally, the era of the climate crisis and advanced globalization requires public administration to strengthen its strategic and planned approach to addressing issues that often transcend the administrative boundaries of municipalities. Therefore, the concept of functional urban regions is gaining traction in literature and practice worldwide, as the root causes of these problems largely lie in daily flows between settlements and the fragmentation of territorial management. The aforementioned fragmentation exacerbates the underdeveloped model of local self-government financing, which consistently leads to practical complications and political tensions. The presented applied research

  

3. Legal and technical aspects of cybersecurity situational awareness, APVV-23-0137

Responsible solver: doc. JUDr. Jozef Andraško, PhD.

Research Department: 50599 - Other disciplines related to legal sciences 

Implementation: 2024-2027

Situational awareness of cybersecurity, which includes the collection, storage, analysis and sharing of security data, as well as their prediction, brings with it many legal, but also technical challenges that need to be explored in mutual synergy. A sufficient level of situational awareness of cybersecurity helps economic entities to prevent cyber threats from becoming incidents and allows to better limit the impact of incidents and recover from them more effectively. Situational awareness of cybersecurity is an essential aspect for the correct application of existing and upcoming regulation in the field of cybersecurity. The research team, composed of experts from selected areas of law and technical fields, aims to analyse the current legal regulation regarding situational awareness of cybersecurity with regard to the collection, storage and sharing of security data, as well as the analysis of the legal regulation regarding to cybersecurity situational awareness with regard to the use of individual machine learning methods for security data analysis and situational awareness prediction. The unique output of the project will be recommendations for regulated entities in terms of cybersecurity legislation, following the current and upcoming legislation. Other unique outputs of the project include the creation of a technical way of collecting security data with regard to legal aspects, the design and implementation of machine learning methods for the identification of relevant and important security data with regard to the proposed legislation (especially personal data protection and liability of artificial intelligence), as also the design and implementation of machine learning methods for the prediction of situational awareness with regard to the proposed legal regulation (especially personal data protection and the responsibility of artificial intelligence

  

4. Selfdetermination of intersex, transgender and nonbinary persons, APVV-23-0252

Responsible solver: prof. Mgr. Ľubomír Batka, Dr. theol.

Research Department: 050508 - Theory of state history and law 

Implementation: 2024-2027

Human rights and medical-ethical principles applied in the care of intersex, transgender and non-binary people have developed over time, but not separately from each other. Approaches to these persons in the field of law, ethics and medicine are increasingly based on principles such as respect for autonomy, strengthening of (legal) self-determination, preservation of bodily integrity (non-maleficence) and consideration of the best interest (beneficence). It is a fact that non-binary people currently remain mostly on the margins of professional and political discourse. Project elaborates the forms of the principle of self-determination on a subjective and objective level and points out the conditions of a legal transition separate from the medical transition and considers adjustments facilitating the anchoring of the legal status of intersex and non-binary people in the legal order of the Slovak Republic. From the point of view of legal theory, the project touches on the issue of legal uncertainty and the balancing of individual rights of public interest. The results of the project will present proposals de lege ferenda of relevant legal regulations related to the principle of self-determination in the provision of health care to intersex and transgender people and arguments regarding the possibilities of possible legal regulation of the status of nonbinary persons. Outputs from the project will serve as orientation for law enforcement authorities in their decisionmaking activities, for politicians in social discourse when considering arguments for or against changes in the current regulation, as well as for education in the field of ethics.

 

5. Legal and Technical Challenges of Smart Mobility to Increase Road Traffic, APVV-23-0519

Responsible solver: doc. JUDr. Marek Kordík, PhD. , LL.M.

Research Department: 50599 - Other disciplines related to legal sciences

Implementation: 2024-2027

Smart mobility represents a complex type of mobility and management of transport systems, which should function in smarter, more efficient, more ecological and environmentally sustainable ways by using information and communication technologies and other innovations. One of the main goals of intelligent mobility is to find and apply solutions that will reduce negative impacts associated with traffic accidents. Elements of smart mobility such as automated vehicles, data governance regarding automated vehicles and conventional vehicles, specifically access to their data, functionalities, and resources can increase road traffic safety. The research team, composed of experts from selected areas of law and technical fields, aims to analyse the current legal regulation regarding access to data, functions, and resources of automated vehicles and conventional vehicles. Other unique output is the analysis of the legal regulation regarding to retrieving event data recorder (EDR) and the data storage system for automated driving (DSSAD) as well as analysis of the scope and applicability of data stored in EDR and DSSAD for the purposes of investigating offenses and crimes. Other unique outputs of the project include technical analysis of technical options regarding retrieving EDR and DSSAD and accessing stored data in EDR and DSSAD, as well as preparation of legal and technical recommendations for law enforcement authorities, especially Police Force authorities regarding retrieving EDR and DSSAD, as well as scope and applicability of data stored data in EDR and DSSAD for the purposes of investigating offences and crimes. A significant outcome of this project is a prediction model to detect a potential traffic accidents on a selected road section.

 

6. Optimizing the sanctioning mechanism in the area of environmental protection and increasing its efficiency , APVV-23-0645

Responsible solver: doc. JUDr. Radovan Blažek, PhD.

Research Department: 050509 - Criminal law

Implementation: 2024-2028

The aim of the project is the analysis of the current legal provision in the scope of sanctions for illegal actions in the field of the environmental protection. The aim is also to analyse the scope of illegal conducts belongig to the field of the environmental sanctions or criminal sanctions and evaluation of the proportionality of administrative and criminal responsibility in particular cases. The aim of the project is also to adapt the Slovak legislation on the requirements of European law. The outcome will be also the proposal of more effective procedures and solutions in the field of detection, uncovering, and evidence procedure in th process of investigationof of illegal actions in the field of the environment in order to achieve higher efficiency in detecting this type of illegal activity and in order to increase the success in punishing already detected illegal actions. The goal will also to achieve a higher rate of use of cross-border cooperation in the European area under Slovak conditions.

 

 

Cooperating projects: 

 

1.  A Paradigmatic Shift in the Understanding of War and Armed Conflicts from Theological-historical and Legal Perspective, APVV-23-0509 - together with the Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Comenius University Bratislava

Responsible solver UK: JUDr. Lukáš Mareček, PhD.

Research Department: 060304 - Catholic theology

Implementation: 2024-2028

 

The problem of war is vast in its historical breadth and controversial in its nature. The project's research focus is on the paradigmatic shift in the perception of war and armed conflict. This change directly affects modern international legal sources and the magisterium of contemporary popes, which in turn redirects theological studies on war. The given focus of the project converges with a just war tradition rooted in moral and legal realism and with a history of over 1500 years, which has evolved into what today would be called a legitimate defence theory. The main aim of the project is both to clarify, identify and describe aspects of the paradigmatic change in the perception of war in the sources of theological and legal scholarship in order to gain a synthetic knowledge of the paradigm shift and to define the correlation of value judgments about war and armed conflict in both disciplines, where quite often theological-moral and legal principles intersect. VV 2023 Základný výskum APVV-23-0509 Akronym: PARAZMEVOJ 25.11.2023 23:49 Strana/Page: 2 The research will be developed against the background of an interdisciplinary intersection in which the historical significance of the paradigm shift in the perception of war and the current contribution to the promotion of international and domestic academic debate on war will be assessed, with consideration also of the ripple effect of this shift into the lay environment. Selected theological and legal sources will be examined for the purpose of clarifying and updating objective theological and legal principles for minimizing to eliminating wars with an emphasis on building a just peace. Methodologically, the research will be carried out by analysing, interpreting and comparing texts and ideological sources on war and by using each of the disciplines' respective tools. The specific aim of the project is the development of more effective evaluative theological-legal principles in the assessment of modern forms of warfare and to contribute to the dissemination of knowledge in schools and academic army environment with the help of effective didactic tools.

  

GRANTS OF MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

The Faculty of Law CU also participates in scientific and research projects of the Scientific Grant Agency of Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of SR and Slovak Academy of Sciences (VEGA) and projects targeted at applied research in the area of education system and creative culture of the Cultural and Educational Grant Agency of Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of SR (KEGA). Currently, the Faculty participates in the following projects:

VEGA

 

1. The crisis of confidence and its Roman canonical solutions

Responsible solver: prof. JUDr. Mgr. Vojtech Vladár, PhD.

Implementation: 2022-2024

 

2. Cognitive aspects of social and moral emotions

Responsible solver: prof. Mgr. et Mgr. Andrej Démuth, PhD.

Implementation: 2022-2025

 

3. The rule of law as a value protected in the European supranational area

Responsible solver: prof. JUDr. Ján Svák, DrSc.

Implementation: 2022-2024

  

4. Financial innovations as a determinant of current and anticipated regulation on the financial market (challenges and risks)

Responsible solver: prof. JUDr. Ľubomír Čunderlík, PhD.

Implementation: 2023-2025

 

5. Legal and ethical aspects of disciplinary liability in the rule of law

Responsible solver: prof. JUDr. Mgr. Martina Gajdošová, PhD.

Implementation: 2023-2026

 

6. International legal protection of environmental rights – quo vadis?

Responsible solver: doc. Mgr. Liudmyla Golovko, PhD.

Implementation: 2023-2026

 

7. Compensation for damage in economic competition and public procurement - limits and challenges of effective enforcement of the European Union law

Responsible solver: doc. JUDr. Ing. Ondrej Blažo, PhD.

Implementation: 2023-2025

 

8. The principles of the rule of law in criminal law

Responsible solver: doc. JUDr. Ondrej Laciak, PhD.

Implementation: 2024-2026

 

9. Women in Crisis

Responsible solver: doc. JUDr. Lenka Freel, PhD.

Implementation: 2024-2026

 

10. Constitutional political crises caused by the loss of the Parliament´s confidence to the Goverment and possbilities of their solutions

Responsible solver: doc. JUDr. Marek Domin, PhD.

Implementation: 2024-2025

 

11. Private law guarantees of legal protection for disadvantaged individuals – vulnerable adults, in exercising their legal personality

Responsible solver: prof. JUDr. Alexandra Löwy, PhD., LL.M

Implementation: 2024-2026

 

12. Religious and secular values in Slovak law

Responsible solver: doc. JUDr. Martin Turčan, PhD.

Implementation: 2024-2026

 

13. Current issues of parental maintenance obligation towards children

Responsible solver: doc. Mgr. Lenka Dufalová, PhD.

Implementation: 2024-2026

 

GRANTS OF THE COMENIUS UNIVERSITY

On the initiative of the Rector of the CU supported by the Academic Senate of the CU and Scientific Board of the CU, the CU awards the Grants of Comenius University to foster scientific, pedagogical and cultural projects of young teachers, research associates and internal Ph.D. students (all of them have to be less than 30 years old). Annually, a number of projects from the Faculty of Law of the CU is either supported or incorporated into the group of participants from other faculties.

 

Excellent grants

 

 1.  Name of the project: Criminal law and criminological aspects of the

     limits of sanctioning without imprisonment

     Number of the project:  UK/3114/2024

     Responsible solver: Mgr. Maximilián Kiko

 

2.  Name of the project: European Economic Area - advantages and

     disadvantages of incomplete integration

     Number of the project:  UK/3268/2024

     Responsible solver: Mgr. Igor Sloboda

 

Grants of UC 2024 

 

1. Name of the project: Využitie trestného práva v boji       

    s dezinformáciami

    Number of the project: UK/1164 /2024

    Responsible solver: Mgr. Marek Adamkovič

 

2. Name of the project: Zvieratá a ich miesto v medzinárodnom práve

    Number of the project: UK/1164 /2024

    Responsible solver: Mgr. Petra Paľuchová

 

 

RECOVERY AND RESILENCE PLAN

The Faculty of Law of the CU in Bratislava participates on the following grant projects funded by the EU NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan of the Slovak Republic:

 

1. Scholarships for Excellent Researchers Threatened by the Military Conflict in Ukraine
Name of the researcher: doc. Mgr. Liudmyla Golovko, PhD.
Funded by the EU NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Slovakia under the project No. 09I03-03-V01-00122
Implementation: 04/2022 – 03/2025

2. Scholarships for Excellent Researchers Threatened by the Military Conflict in Ukraine
Name of the researcher: prof. Mgr. Yuliia Vashchenko, PhD.
Funded by the EU NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Slovakia under the project No. 09I03-03-V01-00150
Implementation: 04/2022 – 03/2025

3. Capital booster for schemes to support research and development
The goal of the project is the procurement of research infrastructure that will be used during the implementation of the APVV project No. APVV-22-0482 and to carry out further independent research and development.
Funded by the EU NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan of the Slovak Republic within the project No. 09I03-03-V06-00073
Implementation: 08/2024 – 07/2025

Other projects from the Recovery and Resilience Plan, in which the Faculty participates as a partner, are in the evaluation process.

INTERNATIONAL GRANTS

The Faculty of Law at Comenius University in Bratislava is a successful applicant and partner of several international grants, among which are the calls for proposals financed by the European Union such as Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Activities, Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV)

Erasmus +  Jean Monnet

Activities Within the Jean Monnet Activities program, 4 grant tasks are currently being solved:

1. Jean Monnet Chair - Solidarity as a value of the European Union

Implementation: 2024-2027

2. Jean Monnet Module - Disaster Risk Management in EU Law

Implementation: 2024-2027

3. Jean Monnet Module - Common Agricultural Policy for Students of Law

Implementation: 2024-2027

4. Jean Monnet Module - European Union Tax and Corporate Law

Implementation: 2024-2027

 

Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values ​​(CERV)

In the CERV grant program, the Faculty of Law of the Comenius University in Bratislava is currently participating in the implementation of the project entitled: Activation of young Generation in the times of climate policy backlash in Central Europe (AGIT) - (in cooperation with the consortium led by - Związek Stowarzyszeń Polska Zielona Sieć with registered office – Warszawa, Republic of Poland)

Implementation: 2022-2024

 

Activities Connected with International Grant Acquisition

The Faculty of Law at Comenius University in Bratislava, together with relevant partners, monitors the calls for proposals published by the European Commission for projects and programs e.g. Horizon Europe, Justice, Internal Security Fund, CERV a Erasmus+