Funglass’s first ‘graduate’ We would like to happily announce that FunGlass has its first ‘graduate’ of one year training at a partner institution: Dr. Zuzana Neščáková just completed and returned back from her long term training that she underwent at The Institute of Biomaterials at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, one of the partner institutions. The [...]

FSU Jena success at 2018 Innovation Radar Prize of the European Commission The European Commission has awarded Europe's most promising digital innovations emerging from EU funded research and innovation projects. It is with pride that we would like to inform all colleagues, friends and alumni about success of Friedrich-Schiller-University JENA, one of FunGlass partner institutions, which [...]

From 4th to 7th December 2018, Peter Otrubcak, FunGlass Project manager, participated in the Training/Networking – “V4 Project management “ organized by the Slovak Liaison Office for Research and Development (SLORD) in Brussels, Belgium. Training was dedicated to Marketing communication, Regional innovation schema, WP preparation, HR excellence in research, Open data management and Good [...]

Morning cup of cocoa offered by Saint ‘Mikulas’ FunGlass stands not only for ‘functional’ but also for FUN – as a proof, this morning we got together for a morning cup of cocoa and a cake offered by ‘Saint Mikulas’ (pronounced like ‘Meekulash’). The customs related to the day of St Nicholas have [...]

2nd part of FunGlass school 2018 successfully completed Following-up on the 1st part of FunGlass school, we are gladly reporting that we successfully organized the 2nd half of this important FunGlass event! FunGlass school took place in premises of Hotel Most Slavy in Trencianske Teplice during November 28 - 30, 2018. Like in [...]

Reserachers´ career development at FunGlass Centre It is our pleasure to announce that our colleagues, Robert Klement, PhD. and Mária Chromčíková, PhD. were awarded titles of “Associate Professor” in the field of Anorganic technology and materials at the meeting of Scientific Board of Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín held on November 29, 2018. [...]

Prof. Boccaccini (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) in the list of Highly Cited Researchers 2018 Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the Institute of Biomaterials, at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and scientific board member of FunGlass, has been included in the prestigious Highly Cited Researchers 2018 ( hcr.clarivate.com) list, published by Clarivate Analytics. The list contains [...]

Dr. Wolfgang Wisniewski - visiting researcher at FunGlass This week we welcomed Dr. Wolfgang Wisniewski who will spend two weeks with FunGlass focusing on EBSD analysis. Dr. Wisniewski is a scientist who worked in the group of Prof. C. Rüssel based in Jena, Germany from 2010-2018. After receiving a diploma in engineering (materials [...]

2nd Annual Meeting of International Board It is with pleasure that we can report on 2nd annual meeting of International Board (IAB) held on November 8, 2018 in Trencin, Slovakia. The meeting was led by prof. Dušan Galusek, the Director of FunGlass, who described Centre´s research activities including information about ongoing research projects, publications, [...]

New colleague joining FunGlass It is our pleasure to announce that the administration department of FunGlass has expanded! As of November Ms. Monika Šandrejová joined us to become a member of EU Office team. Ms. Šandrejová will be responsible for financial management and dissemination activities within CeGlass project. Her most recent job experience [...]