BRATISLAVA
Bratislava is the capital of the Slovak Republic - it is a city with a long history dating back to pre-Roman times. It was an important city of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, known as Pressburg or Pozsony. For more than two centuries, it was the coronation city and the seat of the Hungarian Parliament. It is currently the center of the most dynamically developing region of Central Europe today. Bratislava often referred to as a beauty on the Danube, due to its location on the river and at the foot of the Little Carpathians. Bratislava currently has about 450,000 inhabitants and is one of the youngest capitals in the world. It is located in south western Slovakia, on the border with Austria and Hungary. It is therefore characteristic that it is open to Europe and the world, as evidenced by the increasing number of foreign visitors from various countries. They attracted by the cosiness of the relatively small historical core of the city and the pulsating social life spilling over into new business and cultural parts.
SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (STU)
Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU) is educational and scientific institution. The ambition of the university is to contribute to extending knowledge through its acquisition from science and to foster its dissemination via education as well as its application in direct co-operation with industry and practice. STU is a modern research and higher education institution. It continues a legacy of the 260-year-old Mining Academy in Banská Štiavnica, where the foundations of vocational and practical learning were established. STU offers education in technical fields and involves students in research in natural sciences, computer sciences, construction, architecture, materials technologies, chemistry and food technologies. At international level, STU has closed hundreds of collaboration agreements with foreign universities, faculties and research institutes. https://www.stuba.sk/english.html?page_id=132
FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
Faculty of Architecture and Design STU (FAD STU) carries out research at an international level in the field of Architecture and Urban Design, Industrial and Product Design, Sustainable architecture and urban development and Landscape Architecture. It is the largest and oldest school of architecture in Slovakia; the beginnings of architecture education date back to the academic year 1946/1947. The Faculty of Architecture and Design today is a creative and competitive institution with open-minded staff and successfully exploits international cooperation possibilities in research and education. Especially through the Erasmus Plus mobility program. https://www.fa.stuba.sk/english.html?page_id=771
DEPARTMENT OF URBAN DESIGN AND PLANNING
The institute covers pedagogical and research activities focused on the issue of settlement and landscape structures with emphasis on current trends and requirements of sustainable development with interdisciplinary overlap. The institute covers the issues of research and design of urban settlements, zones, public spaces, urban economy, urban and spatial planning, urban marceting and management, landscape and garden architecture. https://www.fa.stuba.sk/english/institutes-and-workplaces/institute-of-urban-design-and-planning.html?page_id=1062
The members of the Danubian_SMCs teams are:
Ľubica Vitková, professor, project responsable
Katarína Smatanová, associate professor
Andrea Šeligová, PhD, researcher
Miroslava Kamenská, PhD. student
Jozef Lavička, project manager
