Project Description
The data of Slovakia’s municipalities, towns, and regions have been asleep—until now. The Smart Transformation and Innovation Consortium Slovakia (STICS) is waking them up. We are uniting 24 international partners from municipalities, academia, business, and the nonprofit sector and building an open ecosystem that will bring, test, scale, and implement innovations across local governments. Our motto is: “Short Project, Big Impact – STICS, join the progress.
Project News
The Faculty of Management of Comenius University joins the Slovak national exhibition at the prestigious Smart City Expo World Congress 2026 in Barcelona From 3 to 5 November 2026, Barcelona is hosting the Smart City Expo World Congress 2026, the world’s leading event dedicated to smart cities, sustainable development and urban innovation. Representatives of the Faculty of Management, Comenius University Bratislava (FM UK) are actively taking part in this prestigious international forum,...
From 19 to 22 October 2026, the Faculty of Management of Comenius University in Bratislava hosted the international workshop “Smart Green Campus Development, Living Labs and Resilient University Management.” The event was organised by Nataliia Yehorchenkova and Oleksii Yehorchenkov from the SPECTRA Centre of Excellence EU within the framework of the STICS project and brought together academics, university administrators and experts from Slovakia, Ukraine and Germany. The four-day programme...
On 30 September and 1 October 2026, the Nová Tržnica venue in Bratislava hosted the workshop City as a LEGO, organised within the STICS project and the Twin City Future Innovation Manufacturing Hub initiative. The event brought together technical education, urban data and creative problem-solving focused on specific challenges facing the city. The workshop involved students from four secondary technical schools who, under the professional guidance of teachers and doctoral students of the...
Spectra, the Centre of Excellence, and the STICS consortium took part in the international Lean Six Sigma conference, held from September 7 to September 10, 2026, at the Faculty of Management, Comenius University in Bratislava. The Lean Six Sigma 2026 conference brought experts, leaders, and innovators from around the world to Bratislava. Over the course of three days, participants gained practical insights they can apply immediately in their work. The program combined keynote...
SPECTRA Centre of Excellence EU participated in the World Planning Schools Congress 2026, held at Aalto University in Espoo and Helsinki, Finland, from 29 June to 3 July 2026. Organised under the theme “Peripheral Visions – Rethinking Planning,” the congress brought together planning scholars and practitioners from around the world to discuss contemporary challenges affecting cities and regions. The programme addressed topics including the climate crisis, geopolitical instability,...
Within the framework of the STICS project, Nataliia Yehorchenkova visited Mannheim Business School at the University of Mannheim, Germany. During the visit, she held a meeting with Yvonne Hall, Head of International Affairs at Mannheim Business School. The meeting provided an opportunity to present current activities of the STICS project and to discuss possible directions for future cooperation in the fields of sustainable university transformation, green campus development, international...
Nataliia Yehorchenkova and Oleksii Yehorchenkov, researchers of SPECTRA Centre of Excellence, participated in MIPRO 2026 in Opatija, Croatia, within the Project Management conference track organised in cooperation with PMI Croatia Chapter. During the conference, they presented their paper titled “EU Urban Transformation & Project Management: Policy Architecture, Digital Enablers and Portfolio Governance for Mission-Oriented Cities.” The presentation focused on the evolving EU policy...
On 4. 5. 2026, the STICS Smart Green Campus participatory event took place as the first creative meeting for the project of joint transformation of the campus of the Faculty of Management and the Faculty of Pharmacy of Comenius University. The aim of the event was to create a space for the active participation of all members of the academic community in the formation and implementation of the vision of the smart green campus and the smart community of the Faculty of Management and the...
On 21. 4. 2026, the SAPIE Forum 2026 & SME Expo event, which is one of the most important innovation and technology conferences in Slovakia, took place at the National Football Stadium in Bratislava. The event welcomed more than 450 participants and more than 30 exhibitors from the fields of innovation, entrepreneurship, academia and the public sector, including the Faculty of Management of Comenius University with the STICS project. The STICS project was presented during the event not only...
In the second March week the Norwegian University of Life Science in As, 25 km from Oslo hosted an important meeting of the Association of European Schools of Planning AESOP – the meeting of Heads of Schools. This event aimed to foster discussion on the core environmental and technological topics that shape research agendas and educational programs offered by planning schools in Europe. Particular attention was given to addressing the growing complexity of environmental and societal...
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