UKF has won the eighteenth year of the competition The National Quality Award of the Slovak Republic 2017 in Category C (Public Sector Organizations). Based on the evaluation of the CAF self-assessment report and the CAF auditor's in-site assessment (July-September 2017), the assessors and the National Evaluation Commission decided to award this prestigious award to Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (UKF) at their meeting on 5th October 2017 in Bratislava.

The National Quality Award of the SR is proclaimed by the Office for Standardization, Metrology and Testing of the SR as a coordinator of state quality policy. This competition, as the only one in the Slovak Republic, offers to organizations of the business and public administration sectors unique opportunity to highlight their strengths, to evaluate them according to recognized European criteria, to confirm their excellence and declare innovative quality management approaches.

The prestigious prize will be accepted by rector of UKF in Nitra, Ľubomír Zelenický, and the CAF UKF guarantor and vice rector of UKF in Nitra, Marcela Verešová, on 20th November 2017 at the ceremony of the NCSRK 2017 competition in hotel Bôrik, Bratislava.