Internal Members of the Scientific Board

Assoc. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Peter DRÁBIK, PhD., MSc. - Chairman

Assoc. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Róbert REHÁK, PhD. - Vice-Chairman

Prof. Dipl. Ing. Ferdinand DAŇO, PhD.

Prof. Dipl. Ing. Soňa FERENČÍKOVÁ, PhD.

Prof. Dipl. Ing. Eva HANULÁKOVÁ, PhD.

Prof. Dipl. Ing. Zuzana KITTOVÁ, PhD., M.B.L.-HSG

Prof. Dipl. Ing. Viera KUBIČKOVÁ, PhD.

Assoc. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Zuzana FRANCOVÁ, PhD.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ing. Malgorzata A. JAROSSOVÁ

Assoc. Prof. Mgr. Elena KAŠŤÁKOVÁ, PhD.

Assoc. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Paulína KRNÁČOVÁ, PhD.

Assoc. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Jozef ORGONÁŠ, PhD.

Assoc. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Paula PUŠKÁROVÁ, DiS. art., PhD.

Assoc. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Tomáš VÝROST, PhD.

External Members of the Scientific Board

PhDr. Štefan BUGÁR, PhD., MBA - director, Hotel Kaštieľ Mojmírovce

Assoc. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Miroslav KARLÍČEK, Ph.D. - head of the Department of Marketing, Faculty of Business Administration, Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic

Assoc. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Pavol KONŠTIAK, PhD. - CEO, KON-RAD, spo. s r. o.

Prof. Dipl. Ing. Peter KRIŠTOFÍK, Ph.D. - dean of faculty, Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica

Prof. Dipl. Ing. Ivan NOVÝ, CSc. - professor, Department of Managerial Psychology and Sociology, Faculty of Business Administration, Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic

Dipl. Ing. Alexander ROZIN, PhD. - executive director, INCHEBA, a. s.

Assoc. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Josef TAUŠER, Ph.D. - dean of faculty, Faculty of International Relations, Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic

The education of higher-skilled professionals for trade has had a 75-year tradition in Slovakia. Its beginnings are linked to the emergence of the former High business school in Bratislava in 1940, which, in a sense, could be regarded as the predecessor of the current Faculty of Commerce of the University of Economics in Bratislava.

The organization of education and the profile of a tertiary educated economist with a commercial focus has been gradually evolved in line with the development of socio-economic conditions and needs. The current form has been progressively set up in the process of existing developments, which can be divided into several major stages.

At the High business school in Bratislava (school years 1940/1941 to 1949/1950), the education of higher skilled professionals with a commercial focus was provided from the content and organizational perspective by the institutes which were established for that purpose. They were: Institute of Trade and Transport Economics, Institute of Technology and Commodity Science; and the Institute of Enterprise Economy.

In 1949, the High business school in Bratislava was transformed into a College of Economic sciences. Its main task was to develop a general economic theory as well as a sectoral economic theory, including the theory of trade, in addition to the teaching of qualified sectoral industry experts. Accordingly, at the High school of Economic Sciences, which was not affiliated to faculties at that time, a study specialization in trade and the Department of the trade economy were established.

In the formation of the Trade and Department of trade economics leading experts in economic practices have significantly been involved who later went into the pedagogical process. The most significant names were JUDr. Dalibor Hanes, Ing. Viliam Čerňanský and Ing. Filip Hronský who have gradually become the heads of the department. The emergence of the Department of Trade Economics has laid down the foundation on the broader development of trade-scientific disciplines. The basic teaching subjects included in this period: the economics of trade, the economy of transport, the commodity science, the organization and engineering of trade, analyses of economic activity. The first graduates of the study specialization “Business” completed their studies in 1952.

By the Government Decree No. 58/53 Zb. the High School of Economic Sciences was renamed for the University of Economics in 1953, with three faculties including the Faculty of Internal Trade and Finance. The Department of Economics of Trade, Department of Finance and Department of Accounting records have been included in this Faculty. Ing. Filip Hronský was entrusted to establish this Faculty and its first dean became prof. Ing. Jozef Rosa.

With the emergence of the Faculty of Internal Trade and Finance in 1953, the study field Internal Trade Economics was established and the name of the department was the Department of the Internal trade Economics in 1955.

The profiling of the graduate in the internal trade economics was based on the concept of a broader focus of the graduate profile, which preferred that the students of all study fields at the University of Economics gained knowledge from all sectors.

Since its establishment in 1969, the Dean of the Faculty of Commerce has been performing:

Faculty of Commerce of the University of Economics in Bratislava (hereinafter referred to as the Faculty of Commerce) is an educational and research institution that provides education in the field of business science disciplines. The Faculty has had a long and firm place among other higher education institutions in Slovakia which offer economics education. The Faculty of Commerce, in its internal character, is a flexibly interconnected, complex institution, not only by its study programs based on international comparisons, quality vocational and personnel background, its own publishing, expert translations and practical case studies; material-technical security, but also by its prestige in economic practice and in international relations, which are based on the criteria which have been laid down for this field by the Accreditation Committee of the Government of the Slovak Republic. The Faculty educates specialists for national and international commercial and industrial organizations, consulting companies, national and public institutions and the third sector.

The mission of the Faculty of Commerce of the University of Economics in Bratislava, which is part of the European higher education area and the common European research area is to develop a harmonious personalities, knowledge, wisdom, welfare and creativity and based on the creative scientific research in the field of economics, humanities and follow-up social sciences to contribute to the development of education and science for the well-being of society and knowledge-based society.

The Faculty of Commerce efforts to be a modern academic institution that responds to the needs of the education market, develops scientific and research activities, is opened to change, faithful to its values and devoted to its mission. The Faculty of Commerce carries out activities through which it is perceived as:

• value creator and protector,
• academic institution where personalities develop comprehensively,
• educational institution where a high level of education is achieved,
• scientific research institution where new knowledge in business science disciplines is developed,
• equal partner for academia and business practice in a global environment.

The strategic goal of the Faculty of Commerce is to become a modern faculty respected in the international environment.

Faculty priorities:

• to develop and implement strong study programs in English,
• to internationalize study, science and research,
• to specialize study programs for the current labor market needs,
• to carry out final state exams with an emphasis on the quality of the thesis defense,
• to establish a project center to support implementation of international scientific projects;
• to strengthen the autonomy of the departments as key components of the Faculty in the field of education, science and research,
• to fulfill international accreditation standards,
• to systematize cooperation with business practice for the needs of education and applied research;
• to support and improve publication activities;
• to create and implement an objective and motivating system of remuneration of human resources,
• to increase students ' awareness and to build their loyalty to the Faculty of Commerce,
• to perceive students as multipliers of a good reputation of the Faculty of Commerce,
• to implement and participate in the "face to face" campaigns focused on study applicants.

The strategic objective, priorities and tasks can be found at The Long-term Intention of the Faculty of Commerce of the University of Economics in Bratislava for the period 2019 – 2023.