One of the priorities of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (UKF) is internationalization and involvement in international academic structures. On July 21, 2022, a General Framework Cooperation Agreement was signed between the university and the European Institute of Cultural Routes in Luxembourg. This university network focuses on supporting the academic research into cultural routes and related issues. It also represents a platform for the exchange and mobility of students and members of academia.

UKF is the only Slovak university that has successfully passed the approval process. In this process, the activities of two institutes at the Faculty of Arts at UKF were evaluated: Institute for Research of Constantine and Methodius's Cultural Heritage and Institute of Culture and Tourism Management, Culturology and Ethnology, and the evaluation also included the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Regional Development of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Informatics and the Department of Tourism at the Faculty of Central European Studies. The UKF's membership in the association European Cultural Route of St. Cyril and Methodius also played an important role. Thus, our university became part of the university network, whose members include the University of Barcelona, University of Birmingham or University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

The synergistic effect of the membership of the UKF in both institutions is also supported by the UKF's partnership in the Horizon 2020 SPOT project, which, based on the example of the city of Nitra, is devoted to cultural tourism in the context of Europeanization.

 

Text: prof. PhDr. Peter Ivanič, PhD. – Institute for Research of Constantine and Methodius's Cultural Heritage, Faculty of Arts, RNDr. Hilda Kramáreková, PhD. – Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Regional Development, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Informatics