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Development of scientific cooperation with the economic diaspora

Ing. Mária Širaňová, MA., PhD., Mgr. Tomáš Miklošovič, PhD.

Members of project
Ing. Mária Širaňová, MA., PhD., Mgr. Tomáš Miklošovič, PhD.

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• Characteristics

• Duration of the project: 01/2025 - 06/2026
  ID number: 10I02-03-V01-00022

• The aim of the project is to strengthen and subsequently develop mutual relations with academic economists working abroad. Through the project activities, the likelihood of their return home and the use of their knowledge for the modernisation of Slovakia will be increased. The project also aims to support the organisation of events in Slovakia, inviting the Slovak scientific diaspora living abroad to these events. One of the sub-objectives of the project is to bridge the existence of a certain information asymmetry on the part of Slovak researchers working abroad, especially if they have not had contact with the Institute of Economic Research of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (IER SAS) or if they have had contact with the IER SAS for a relatively longer period of time. Such a reduction of information asymmetry is an important element of the possibility of deepening future research cooperation, which will not only result from joint research in the form of articles or projects, but will also potentially result in the decision of a Slovak researcher abroad to move his/her workplace back to Slovakia. The specific sub-objective of the project is also to establish and maintain contacts, especially with PhD students and young researchers working at foreign universities, whose mobility is usually higher, and who need to be especially motivated to return to Slovakia in view of the problem of brain drain in this specific group observed in the last decade. The project partner is the Slovak Economic Association (SEA), which is a voluntary scientific and professional association of economists working as a civic association. The aim of the Society is to contribute to the development and popularisation of economic science by supporting basic and applied research. SEA also supports the improvement of economic education in Slovakia with a special emphasis on the education of young talents. Membership in the Association is open to scientific economists, practitioners, doctoral students and students, as well as the professional public.