Section 1 – Physical, Space, Earth, and Engineering Sciences

Earth and Space Sciences

• Doubly and multiply eclipsing systems
• Exoplanets transiting early-type stars
• Formation of young stars of T Tauri type and their planetary systems
• Interstellar particles in the Solar system's interplanetary medium
• Short-term color changes in comets at large heliocentric distances
• Solar activity cycles - empirical implications for the solar dynamo modelling

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• Big data in transport geography
• Exploring Ways towards Sustainable Agricultural Intensification Pathways in Europe
• Influence of state border on tourism development in selected regions
• Interaction of vegetation and river channel morphology identified from detailed 3D models
• Mapping the long-term landscape changes over large areas by combining the historical maps and the satellite data
• Mapping of land use intensity pattern in agricultural landscapes
• Modelling the hydro-geomorphic response to river engineering works
• Scenarios of future land use and ecosystem services in Europe
• Using optical and radar satellite images for dynamic analysis of bio-geomorphic interactions in river landscape

• Effect of different soil species on dew formation on standard grass surface
• Effect of microplastics on soil and vegetation
• Effect of organic materials to improve the hydro-physical properties of soils
• Effect of organic materials to improve the soil water regime
• Impact of streambed bottom aggradation on interaction with ground water
• Influence of green infrastructure on runoff regime of urbanized river basin.
• Influence of microplastics on heavy soils hydrophysical characteristics of the East Slovak lowland.
• Influence of microplastics on soil characteristics and plant growth
• Localisation of accidental point sources of pollution in watercourses based on-line monitoring data
• Lysimetric determination of the soil texture class effect on the daily evaporation process .
• Modelling of pollution spreading in surface waters
• Quantification of the influence of soil type on the evaporation process using lysimeters
• Spatial distribution of atmospheric precipitation and runoff modelling in mountain catchments of Slovakia during the rainfall-runoff events
• Using different approaches to estimate T-year volumes of the flood waves
• Water flow overgrowth by aquatic vegetation and impact of the vegetation on the flow conditions in a surface stream.

Mathematical and Physical Sciences

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• Classical to quantum crossover in mechanical resonators
• Effect of irradiation on protein-nanoparticle complexes
• Influence of oxygen content on the functionality of RMnO3 materials with perovskite structure
• Multiferroic magnetic oxides for bioapplications
• Multifunctional magnetic nanomaterials for diagnostics
• Nanocrystalline magnetic alloys based on 3-d metals prepared by unconventional thermal processing techniques
• Phase diagrams of RA1-xTixO3 (R = rare earth metal, A = Mn,Fe) substitutional systems
• Self-organization in nanocomposites based on liquid crystals
• Structural transitions in nanocomposites based on liquid crystals
• Studies of induced superconductivity in topological materials
• Study of a strangeness production in collisions of high-energy ions in ALICE experiment at LHC
• Study of structural changes of ferritin derivatives and amyloids after irradiation
• Synthesis and physicochemical characterization of nanomaterials based on iron oxides for medical applications
• The effect of various interaction partners on protein amyloid aggregation
• The study of the electronic properties of graphene onions with a reactive atom inside

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• Aggregation on lattices
• Algebraic properties of aggregation functions
• Algebraic structures motivated by many valued reasonings
• Algorithms for structural analysis of snarks
• Classes of penalty and other functions in the aggregation theory
• Derivation of the coordinate system of three laser triangulation sensors using a gauge
• Descriptional and computational complexity of formal languages
• Fractional differential equations
• Recurrent families of discrete probability distributions in collective risk models
• Relative entropies in quantum information theory

Engineering Sciences

• Carbonation of blended G-oil well cements under the simulated hydrothermal conditions
• Design of material properties using computer simulation tools for modeling of thermal-humidity and mechanical behavior, connected with application of laboratory measurements and test methods for determination of thermal, moisture and mechanical properties
• Effect of thermal boundary conditions on the mechanical and physical properties of biomass-containing cement composites.
• Influence of atmospheric aerosol on the intensity of diffuse daylight
• Moving Finite Element method for solution of boundary value problems in continuum mechanics
• Preparation and properties of geopolymeric cement composites based on aluminosilicate minerals and slag
• The Effect of chemical composition of concrete on its long-term performance in irradiated environment
• The Effect of chemical composition of concrete on its long-term performance in irradiated environment 2

• Crystal optics for high resolution X-ray imaging
• Development and characterization of pn heterojunction based on ultra-wide-bandgap semiconductors
• Energy harvesters based on advanced materials for MEMS sensor applications
• Growth and properties of III-N quantum structures for fast electronic
• InAl(Ga)N/GaN RF transistors for next generation of mixed-signal electronics
• Influence of technology on the material properties of wide bandgap semiconductors and self-heating of related devices
• Manufacture and properties of MgB2 superconducting joints aimed for coils in persistent mode
• Multi-physics modelling of superconducting power and magnet applications
• Preparation and study of semiconductor detectors of ionizing radiation based on GaAs and SiC materials
• Study of thermo - electro - mechanical properties of diamond/GaN heterostructures for high power applications

• Differentiation of Vibration Signal from the Experimental Research of Rock-tool Interaction for Effective Control of Rotary Drilling Process
• Functional Materials for the Removal and Catalytic Oxidation of Organic Pollutants from Wastewaters
• Heavy Metals and Organic Pollutants in Solid Phase Aerosols and Atmospheric Deposition

• Adaptive monitoring with artificial intelligence
• Application of artificial intelligence methods in the design of (smart) robotic devices
• Artificial Intelligence Methods in Cyber Security
• Automatic detection of Alzheimer’s disease by patient speech analysis
• Automatic detection of Parkinson’s disease by patient speech analysis
• Automatic detection of symptoms of the neurodegenerative diseases of the brain by patient speech analysis
• Automatic measurement of stress in human voice
• Automatic multi-modal adaptation of personal robotic assistant to user’s personality
• Collaborative learning with sensitive data protection
• Computer games for automatic collection of expressive speech data
• Computer modeling of flows in motorway tunnel in fire conditions
• Computer modelling of smoke propagation during road tunnel fire
• Computer modelling of vegetation fire
• Deep neural networks for applications in image processing and computer vision
• Distributed large data processing
• Efficient realization of fire simulation on high performance computers
• Emotions in communication with robotic system
• High-end expressive speech synthesis in Slovak
• Intelligent methods for multispectral data analysis
• Modelling and Control of Discrete-Event Systems by Means of Petri Nets
• New methods for development, deployment and orchestration of cloud services
• New Methods for Large-scale Real-time Collection, Aggregation and Processing of Geo-mapped Data
• Security aspects of cyber-physical systems
• Sequence modelling with context-aware attention
• Smart elements and devices
• The cyber-physical modeling of mechatronics systems
• The influence of alignment

• Concentrated solar power in powder metallurgy of titanium and Ti composites
• Development of a new biomedical composite with TNTZ matrix and biodegradable component (Zn, Mg, Ca) with low modulus of elasticity and increased surface bioactivity
• Changes in the interface microstructure of copper-based composite materials with a carbon skeleton prepared by gas pressure infiltration
• Influence of hydrogen on deformation behavior and fracture of complex concentrated alloys
• Influence of hydrogen on deformation behavior and fracture of complex concentrated alloys
• The concept of diboride superlattices with improved fracture toughness

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• Causal analysis of complex time series
• Computational methods of modeling and evaluation of measurement uncertainties
• Detection and analysis of stress impacts on the human physiology and psychology during scanning in the low field MRI equipment
• Development of a platform for measurement of biological response of weak low-frequency electromagnetic fields (EMF)
• Development of new magnetometric method for diagnostics of the diseases related to iron metabolism on animal and cell models
• Measurement and Analysis of Multilead ECG Signals in Disorders of Excitation Propagation in the Heart
• Measurement of geometrical quantities in 3D objects by application of X-ray microtomography
• Measuring methods and systems for noninvasive diagnostics of the cardiovascular system
• Methods and algorithms for exact probability distribution of the selected estimators and test statistics in linear mixed models and their applications
• Multivariate causal analysis
• Probabilistic and statistical methods for the inverse problem in electrocardiography solution

Section 2 – Life, Chemical, Medical, and Environmental Sciences

Medical Sciences

• Activation of the endogenous mechanism in ischemic tolerance
• Development of novel diagnostic and predictive immunophenotyping tool for hematological malignancies
• Differential diagnosis of Rickettsial diseases
• Disclosure of the molecular mechanism of spontaneous tumor regression: Development of a novel prognostic tool
• Host cell interaction with Coxiella burnetii: identification and utilization of novel therapeutic and diagnostic targets
• Identification of genes regulating apocrine secretion
• Identification of genes regulating apocrine secretion
• Identification of molecular markers for early identification of pancreatic cancer
• Identification of molecular markers for early identification of pancreatic cancer
• Pharmacologically induced modulation of inflammatory reaction and oxidative stress in acute phase after traumatic spinal cord injury
• Regulation of preadipocyte differentiation and adipocyte metabolism by oxidative stress in rat and human tissue culture
• Regulation of preadipocyte differentiation and adipocyte metabolism by oxidative stress in rat and human tissue culture
• Study of possibilities of functional recovery of injured neural pathways in laboratory rat
• Targeted manipulation of viral glycoprotein properties to restore immunity
• Targeted manipulation of viral glycoprotein properties to restore immunity
• Targeted manipulation of viral glycoprotein properties to restore immunity
• The development of translationally relevant regenerative and reparative strategies after spinal cord trauma
• The role of the alternative renin-angiotensin system components in obesity and the development of metabolic disorders
• The role of the alternative renin-angiotensin system components in obesity and the development of metabolic disorders
• The role of the immune system in the myeloma microenviroment
• The role of the immune system in the myeloma microenviroment
• The role of the tumor microenvironment in histological subtypes of B cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma
• The role of the tumor microenvironment in histological subtypes of B cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma

• Impact of age and comorbidities on selected cardioprotective interventions against ischemia-reperfusion injury of the heart
• Molecular mechanisms involved in effects of selected antioxidants on cardiovascular system in aged individuals and in presence of comorbidities
• Neurobiological processes of semantic memory retrieval
• Preclinical evaluation of cemtirestat, a potent aldose reductase inhibitor with antioxidant properties, in the prevention of the development of civilization diseases
• Role of stress in regulation of iron metabolism
• Study of cellular mechanisms involved in endogenous myocardial antiischemic protection initiated by natural adaptive stimuli under normal and pathological conditions.
• Targeted suppression of pro-fibrotic signaling pathways in various pathophysiological situations in the heart.
• The Anti-Arthritic Effects of Niosome-Loaded with Natural Anti-Inflammatory Compounds on Experimental Arthritis in Rats.
• The potential of molecular hydrogen in the prevention and treatment of selected cardiovascular diseases
• Toxicology of novel molecular sensors and NO donors and their application in cellular models

• Activity of cortical circuits in early stages of Alzheimer's disease
• Activity of cortical circuits in early stages of Alzheimer's disease
• Elucidating the role of meningeal Lyve-1 positive macrophages in physiology and pathobiology
• Elucidating the role of meningeal Lyve1+ macrophages in physiology and pathobiology
• Influence of high fat diet in neurodegenerative disease progression
• Influence of high fat diet in progression of neurodegenerative tauopathy
• Novel receptor-mediated delivery system for brain therapeutics
• Protein amyloid formation and its structural aspects.
• Structural base of the innate immune response mediated by lactoferrin
• Structural investigation of intrinsically disordered tau protein with emphasis on its C-terminus
• Structural pathways that regulate activation of plasminogen by transferrins
• The role of glial tau pathology in tauopathies
• The role of glial tau pathology in tauopathies
• The role of meningeal lymphatics in brain disorders
• The role of meningeal lymphatics in neurodegenerative disorders
• The roles of lipids in modulation of tau neurodegeneration

Biological and Chemical Sciences

• Effect of novel antidepressant drugs administration during the gestation on offspring brain on cellular and molecular levels.
• Genetic control of lipid droplet biogenesis in yeast
• Lipid droplets as protective organelles in eukaryotic cells
• Molecular mechanisms involved in regulation of the ryanodine receptor from the rat brain under physiological and pathophysiological conditions
• Molecular mechanisms participating in early embryo cell responses to the factors of environment
• Neutral lipid homestasis and the biogenesis of lipid droplets (dBIX_CBV)
• Neutral lipid homestasis and the biogenesis of lipid droplets (FCHPT)
• Pharmacological manipulation of neurogenesis and its effect on behavior
• Phosphatidylglycerol and its role in the inflammatory response
• Smart deep brain simulation as (SDBS) as a treatment strategy in brain disorders
• The potential role of valproic acid in attenuation of inflammation
• The role of phosphatidylglycerol in alleviating the inflammatory response
• The role of protein-protein interactions in regulation of the cardiac ryanodine receptor
• The use of organic forms of trace elements in nutrition and their effect on selected physiological processes of animals
• Yeasts as a tool for production of punicic acid (dBIX_CBV)
• Yeasts as a tool for production of punicic acid (dGEN_CBV)
• Yeasts as a tool for production of punicic acid (dMIB_CBV-19)
• Yeasts as a tool for production of punicic acid (FCHPT)

• Auxiliary xylanolytic enzymes
• Auxiliary xylanolytic enzymes
• Development of biochips for biotechnological and medical applications
• Diagnostics of tumour diseases by glycan analysis
• Diagnostics of tumour diseases by glycan analysis
• Enzymes required for plant hemicellulose utilization
• Enzymes required for plant hemicellulose utilization
• Hemicellulolytic enzymes of Schizophyllum commune
• Hemicellulolytic enzymes of Schizophyllum commune
• Immobilization and co-immobilization of viable whole-cell biocatalysts with enzyme cascades for production of chemical specialties
• Mannanolytic acetyl esterases
• Mannanolytic acetyl esterases
• Monitoring of biomarkers of selected diseases and biological processes with a focus on glycan analysis
• Multiscale methods for the analysis of protein structure and dynamics
• Synthesis of biologically active indolizidine derivatives
• Targeted syntheses of natural compounds and their analogues

• Composite materials based on layered hydrosilicates and cationic polymers
• Composites of hydrogels with layered silicates and dyes with photosensitizing and antimicrobial properties
• Corrosion and weathering of tableware glass
• Development and characterisation of new ceramic biomaterials
• Development and implementation of efficient relativistic methods for the prediction of electron spectra
• Development of functionally graded biomaterials based on nitride ceramics
• Development of new advanced ceramics with the improved high temperature properties
• Fluoride melts with potential applications in electrochemical aluminum production.
• Influence of grain boundary chemical composition of nitride ceramics on the mechanical properties
• Interface of Fluoride Melt/Solid Phase: Reactions and Structure of (Oxo)-(Fluoro)-Aluminates for Electronic Applications
• Lanthanide doped thermoelectric materials based on delafossite
• New joining methods for advanced ceramic materials
• New kinds of glassceramics materials in Al2O3-RE2O3 and Al2O3-RE2O3-ZrO2 systems with interesting optical and mechanical properties
• Physico-chemical analysis of light lanthanides molten systems
• Preparation and characterization of microspheres based on Si3N4 suitable for 3D printing process
• Preparation of ceramic anodes for sodium-ion batteries
• Ternary fluorides for modern applications

• In silico study of evolution of amylolytic enzymes – families, subfamilies and clans vs sequences, structures and specificities
• Mechanisms of cell division during Bacillus subtilis sporulation
• Study of bacteriophage replication and selected phage replication proteins.
• Unravelling novel molecular interactions in immune responses with focus on covid-19

• Functional analysis of neuropeptides and their receptors in ticks
• Juvenile hormone biosynthesis in tse tse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae)
• Obesity research in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
• The influence of developmental conditions on physiology of the model organism Drosophila

• : Synthesis of novel polymer types with catechol motifs for modification of implantable materials.
• 3D printable physically cross-linked copolymer hydrogels based on renewable resources.
• Amphiphilic polymers based on 2-oxazolines as antiviral drug delivery systems.
• Analysis of microplastics
• Antimicrobial and other modifications of surfaces.
• Conjugated systems for electronic equipments
• Functional biodegradable polyesters
• Functional polyamides from renewable monomers.
• Furan derivatives and their applications
• Implantable polymeric devices using non-covalent and covalent click chemistry with self-healing characteristics for cell encapsulation
• Implantable polymeric devices using non-covalent and covalent click chemistry with self-healing characteristics for cell encapsulation
• Investigation of radical polymerizations by chromatographic and spectroscopic methods
• Microplastics – identification and analysis.
• Nanoindentation analysis of modified polymer surfaces
• PhotoATRP in heterogeneous aqueous media – unique method for preparation of polymeric nanoparticles and microparticles..
• Photochemical processes in advanced macromolecular systems
• Polyamides from renewable monomers.
• Polymer composites for 3D printing
• Polymeric composites with modified nanofillers
• Preparation and characterization of polymeric materials based on termoplastic starch
• Preparation of nanomaterials from renewable sources based on furan monomers.
• Preparation of polymers from renewable sources based on furan monomers.
• Processing of the plastic waste by alternative spinning technologies and verification of the product utilization possibilities.
• Protection of surfaces covered by poly(2-oxazoline)
• Protection of surfaces covered by poly(2-oxazoline)
• Protection of surfaces covered by poly(2-oxazoline).
• Synthesis and functionalization of polyesters.
• Synthesis and characterization of polymer nanocomposites.
• Synthesis of functional polymers and polymeric materials using modern polymerization techniques.
• Synthesis of hybrid polymers for mRNA delivery into deep brain structures.
• Synthesis of hybrid polymers for mRNA delivery into deep brain structures.
• Synthesis of macroinitiators and other building blocks for advanced polymer systems.
• Synthesis of novel polymer types with catechol motifs for fabrication of hydrogels modification of implantable materials.
• Title: Surfactants based on cationic poly(2-oxazolines) for the modification of layered silicates

Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences

• Acoustic and foraging ecology of forest bats in Carpathians
• Biogeography and ecology of Orthoptera in Carpathians
• Influence of stress factors on survival and vitality of beech natural seedling
• Interactions between fungi and their beetle vectors on pine trees
• Interactions between spruce stand health and spatial dynamic of bark beetle infestation spreading with the use of remote sensing data
• Interactions in the spruce - bark beetle system using UAV obtained hyperspectral and thermal data
• Preservation of Slovak oak forest ecosystems under progressive climate change
• Stem diameter variations of forest trees, their seasonal dynamics at different growth stages in relation to physiology, climate and weather variability
• Survival and vitality of beech natural seedling in current climatic conditions

• Diversity of Agricultural Landscape and its Ecosystem Services
• Functional diversity of forest communities and its relation to the physical and chemical properties of soils
• The Landscape-ecological Assessment of Vegetation Change in Agricultural Landscape
• The Role of Habitats for Assessment of Biocultural Landscape Value
• Use of LiDAR based images for mapping of historical agricultural terraces
• Use of LiDAR based images for mapping the anthropogenic relief forms in selected case study area
• Use of LiDAR based images for mapping the erosion in forest stands
• Vegetation phenology assessment using combination of terrestrial and remote sensing observations

• Carbon sequestration and storage in natural and managed habitats

Section 3 – Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts, and Culture

Historical Sciences

• Burial ritual of the Lusatian culture in Slovakia and neighbouring cultural-geographic regions on the both sides of the Carpathian Arc during the Bronze Age
• Early medieval barrow mounds in the Middle Danube region
• Early medieval hoard finds from Slovakia
• Medieval ceramics (11th-15th century) in north-eastern Slovakia
• Militaria and battle tactics during the Urnfield Culture Period in the northern part of the Carpathian Basin
• Settlement in Liptovská Sielnica-Liptovská Mara II/Rybníky as the part of Late La Tène settlement structure in the Western Carpathians
• Spiš Region as the contact zone of the Urnfield cultures during the Late and Final Bronze Age in Western Carpathians
• System protection and reconstruction of iron artifacts in archaeology
• The development of the elites of the younger Roman Period mainly on the example of the princely tombs of Krakovany-Stráže
• The environment of Ponitrie and Požitavie regions and its changes in the Middle Ages based on the archaeobotanical finds

• Assisted aging – design for all and modern technologies as an opportunity?
• Assisted aging – design for all and modern technologies as an opportunity?
• Constitution of a cultural region (with an emphasis on elements of traditional folk culture as part of the cultural heritage)
• Icons of the postmodern society of contemporary Slovakia (case: clothing of pre-industrial farmers' communities)
• Living heritage and the roles of individual players in the field of its safeguarding (community of bearers, institutions at various levels - from the community to UNESCO)
• Living heritage and the roles of individual players in the field of its safeguarding (community of bearers, institutions at various levels - from the community to UNESCO)
• Social and cultural aspects of ethnic health inequalities: the case of health status of Roma in Slovakia
• Social and cultural contexts of spreading of contemporary legends, rumours and conspiracy theories.
• Social and cultural contexts of spreading of contemporary legends, rumours and conspiracy theories.
• The process of "eventisation" in the festive culture in Slovakia

• A Selected Aspect or Phenomenon of History of Crime and Punishment in the Early Modern Period
• Aristocratic society in Hungary in the 18th century on the example of the family Balassa
• Commemoration strategies on the territories attached to Hungarian Kingdom 1938 – 1945
• Continuities and discontinuities of social practices in 1980s – 1990s
• Corridor traffic on the Slovak-Hungarian border after the First Vienna Award
• Forms of the serf’s resistance to noble and ecclesiastical landlords in the Kingdom of Hungary in the period from the Theresian land register to the abolition of serfdom in 1848
• German cooperative system in Slovakia 1918 – 1945 (Deutsches Genossenschaftswesen in der Slowakei 1918 – 1945)
• History of the Kremnica mint in the social and political context of the interwar Czechoslovakia 1918 – 1939 (relations with the founder and municipality)
• Popular culture in the period of transformation in Slovakia
• Practices, methods and tools of political communication of elites with lower classes in Slovakia after the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic (1918 - 1923)
• Scientists in the power structures of Czechoslovakia during the late socialism and early post-communist transformation (1980s – 1993)
• Selected Aspect of Early Modern Urban History (Municipal Self-government, Economic, Social or Cultural phenomena)
• Sport and the Society in Slovakia from the End of the 19th century till 1945
• The nobility of Šariš county in the 13th 14th centuries
• The Persecution of Jewish Pharmacists in Slovakia (1938 – 1945)
• The representation of France and French People in Central Europe in the First Half of the 20th Century
• The reprezentation of Hungarians and Magyars in the Slovak nationalist discourse in the Kingdom of Hungary during the period of Dual Monarchy (1867 – 1918)
• Turism and sport in the town of Kremnica in the context of the regime changes between 1918 – 1945

Humanities and Social Sciences

• Cognitive and affective predictors of unwarranted beliefs and their impact on sustainable living
• Effect of information intervention on reducing the sharing of fake news and epistemically suspect beliefs
• Psychological sources of optimal adaptation to retirement transition
• Quality of life of cancer patients - investigation of manifestations of late toxicity due to different types of treatment at the level of cognitive functions
• Social and psychological consequences of endorsement of epistemically suspect beliefs

• Framing intergroup relations in political discourse: consequences for social identities and collective behavior

• Application of the regional cohesion policy in the conditions of Slovakia
• Spatial dimension of external macroeconomic imbalances and their predictability
• The Impact of Nord Stream 1 and 2 on Energy Security of EU
• The Present and the Future of the Crypto and Digital Currencies
• The Reform of the International Monetary System
• The Role of Central Banks in Responding to the Risks Posed by the Climate Change

• "Nature" and "Natural" in the so-called New Materialism
• Absurd in Contemporary Philosophy: Absence of Meaning, Hopelessness, Tragicalness
• Being, World and Home in the Globalization Process
• Creative dimension of phenomena of otherness
• Creativity vs Rationality
• Democracy adjourned: uncertainty as a characteristic of society in an environmental crisis
• Fact and Value
• Formal analysis of fictional discourse
• Formal analysis of impossible objects)
• From Phenomenology to Hermeneutics
• History of the Environmentaal Thinking in the Central Europe
• Implications of the anthropocene concept for philosophical antropology
• Institutional guarantees of freedom as a political value
• Jacques Rancière and the question of the existence of political philosophy
• Moral aspects of the free market in terms of environmental philosophy
• Normative systems and ontology of the social world
• On the issue of human dignity as foundation of human rights
• Phenomenological method in the analysis of work of art
• Philosophical background of the ecological civilization concept
• Possibilities of phenomenology in anthropology
• Problem of grasping of hyperintensional language phenomena
• Quality of life - ethical issues and approaches
• Situation of human being in H. Plessner's philosophical anthropology
• Stoic Theory of Deduction
• Stoics: Modality and Essentialism
• The evolution of J. Lovelock´s thinking: From Gaia theory through sustainable retreat concept up to novacene
• The origin and the development of the climate justice concept
• The Problem of „Truth-Relation” from a Pragmatic and an Anthropological Point of View - J.Habermas and E.Tugendhat
• The problem of justification the universality of human rights
• The Problem of Nihilism in the 19th Century
• The Role of Genius in Philosophy
• The Role of Imagination in the Creation of Virtual Reality
• The understanding of nature and the state of nature in J.-J. Rousseau´s thinking
• Thousand plateau: the ethos of multiplicity and its environmental risks
• Towards the Notion of Philosophical noematics
• Transparent Hyperintensional Logic: theoretical development and application
• Transparent Intensional Logic: theoretical development and application
• Virtual reality: for and against
• Which ethics and which rules of etiquette in the new technologies era?
• Work of art in phenomenological analysis of E. Husserl

• Key figures of the 20th-century Slovak politics
• Partisanship in the context of post-1989 political development
• Past, present, future of selected elements of the political system in Slovakia
• Political philosophy as compared with political programmatics and political practice
• Social thought as a cofactor in politics (individuals, institutions)
• Sub-regional cooperation in Europe - tradition and current trends

Arts and Culture

• Aesthetic Profiling of Slovak Opera Theatre - Personalities and Poetics
• The influence of the European avant-garde on the work of Jan Jamnicky

• In the academic year 2021/2022 Institute omit the topic of doctoral studies.

• Arab World in the Slovak Mass Media: Discourse Analysis
• Arabic Periodical Press at the Beginning of the 20th Century in the Region of Greater Syria
• Colonialism in the African Sahel
• Economic History of Selected Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Oil Curse
• Egypt and the Peace Process after the October War from Arab Perspective (1973-1979).
• Historical Trauma in Modern Arabic Literature
• The Crisis and the War in the Gulf. Inter-Arab and International Aspects of the Conflict. (1989-1991).
• The struggle for the Turkish national state and the emergence of the Republic of Turkey in historical writings
• Theory of Governance and Political Power in Classical and Contemporary Islamic Societies

• Concepts of the Marxists Literary Theory in Slovak Literature of the 1930s
• Genres of Autobiography in Slovak literature of the 19th Century
• Lyrical Poetry of Hviezdoslav from Turn of the 19th and 20th Century
• Lyrical Prose of Štefan Krčméry
• Metaphors of Life in Slovak Literature of the first half of the 20th Century
• Postmodernism in the Slovak Fiction of 1990s
• Prose after 1918 and Topoi of the Eastern Border
• Traveller's or/and Oriental Inspirations and Topics in the Modern Slovak Literature

• Bioethics and biopolitics interpretation platform for posthumanism
• English women authors of the 17th-18th century: case studies
• Interdisciplinary aspects of metaphor research in literary studies
• Means of studying interdiscourses in literary studies
• Myth in literature and the arts – theoretical reflections
• Representing USA in contemporary Anglophone migrant writing
• The narrative worlds of László Krasznahorkai
• Tradition and modernity in African Anglophone fiction of 20th-21st century: case studies
• Twentieth century alternative literary scenes (“Internal emigration” as a symptom of Modernism in Central European literature)
• Works of Imre Kertész in the Central European reception environment

• From the Issue of Linguistic Slavistic Research
• On the issue of research of narratives from the Polish-Slovak border. Ethnolinguistic research discourses in the Goral dialect environment
• Term Ruthenia in the context of medieval Kingdom of Hungary