On May 16^th, 2017, our colleague Klaudia Sugrova, organized Small Academy of Health Nutrition for Children in Nitra (May 16^th, 2017). More information here.

Our colleague, Klaudia Sugrova participated on Interdisciplinary Healthcare Innovations Conference IHCO 2017, which took place in Bratislava, March 15th, 2017. She delivered lecture on needs of professional training, counselling and health education in system of care for children suffering from diabetes mellitus.

Our colleagues, Jaroslava Kopcakova and Zuzana Boberova, attended on 8th of June a meeting in Bratislava “Let’s talk more – youth participation and interdepartmental cooperation”.

The aim of the working meeting was to set up effective interdepartmental cooperation in the development of state youth policy. The meeting featured a testing of proven working methods in a group consisting of sector experts, youth organizations and young people. The project builds on the work of the interdepartmental working group of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Slovak Republic for the state youth policy, its outcomes and recommendations will be used in the next work of the Youth Department of the Ministry of Education and Youth and the Youth Strategy of the Slovak Republic for 2014-2020.

On June 4-23,  Andrej Belak takes part in a regular study stay in our sister Health Sciences-Youth Department at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University in Groningen, partially supported by the Erasmus+ Teacher Mobility Programme.

Prof. Andrea Madarasova Geckova was invited to act as an external examiner for the PhD thesis of Ursula Kenny “Peer influences on adolescent body image” supervised by dr Colette Kelly and dr Michal Molcho at NUI Galway, Ireland (June 6^th, 2017).

Our colleague, Daniela Fiľakovská Bobáková, received her IIa scientific qualification degree this week. Congratulations on behalf of our CoHeReNt research team!

Our colleague from Slovak national HBSC team, Eliška Štefanová, MSc. presented findings from our qualitative study “We want to hear their voice!”  – Qualitative analysis of subjective attitudes of school children related to nutritional behavior as a part of HBSC research at the Student research conference in Ostrava, Czech Republic on 11th of May 2017 and won the first place! More information here.

Our team hosted assoc. prof. Dagmar Sigmundová from Palacký University in Olomouc, Faculty of Physical Culture since May 16th till May 19th 2017. We intensively collaborate on capacity building in the field of physical activity among adolescents.

Expertize of prof. Ivo Čermák in qualitative as well as quantitative research of traumatized adolescent girls was used during his visit  on 17.-20. of May at the Department of Health Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice in form of lecture and workshop on qualitative methodology relevant for ongoing Care4Youth project followed by several consultations on specific topics and prepared manuscripts.

Department of Health Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, PJ Šafárik university organized on 19. 5. 2017 invited lecture by prof. Ivo Čermák from Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic on the topic “Selected findings from the research of traumatized adolescent girls”.