Technical University of Kosice

Technical University of Kosice, Faculty of Economics
The Technical University of Kosice (http://www.tuke.sk) has nine faculties with about 16,000 students, providing education on bachelor, master and PhD level in a wide range of technical but also non-technical study branches. Tuition is tightly coupled with research activities in corresponding research areas.
The Faculty of Economics (http://www.tuke.sk/ekf/en/index.php) has more than 800 full time and part time Bc, MSc and PhD students. The Faculty’s staff members carry out research in several areas, e.g.: socio-economics analysis of ICT applications, good practice processing; e-Government, e-Participation, e-Business, e-Procurement, e-Banking, knowledge management, knowledge economy, and Information society development. Main areas of expertise: socio-economic analyses, ontology-based knowledge modelling, knowledge systems, semantic technologies, knowledge management, data and text mining, web technologies, design and analysis of eGovernment and eBusiness applications, information society and knowledge economy devolopment – trends, benchmarks, indexes etc.
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, the Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence (http://www.tuke.sk/kkui/kkui-a.html) has a strong record in applied research in the area of knowledge management, knowledge technologies, ontology-based knowledge modelling, web technologies, e-government, data and text mining etc.

Staff of the Faculties has participated in the following EU R&D projects:
• Contract No. 217098 „Secure Process-oriented Integrative Service Infrastructure for Networked Enterprises (SPIKE)”, FP7, STREP, 2008-2010.
• IST-2005-034891 „Networked Embedded System Middleware for Heterogeneous Physical Devices in a Distributed Architecture (HYDRA)“, FP6, IP, 2006-2010.
• Contract No. 27020, “Access to e-Government Services Employing Semantic Technologies (Access-eGov)”, IST FP6, 2006-2009, Project Co-ordinator.
• Contract No. 26476, “Small Enterprises Accessing the Electronic Market of the Enlarged Europe by a Smart Service Infrastructure (SEAMLESS)", FP5, STREP, 2006-2009.
• Contract No. 27083, "Finance, Logistic and Production Integration Domain by Web-based Interaction Network (FLUID-WIN)", FP5, STREP, 2006-2009.
• Contract No. 27219, “The Democracy Network (DEMO_net)”, IST FP6, NoE, 2006-2009.
• Contract No. 027128, “Semantic-enabled Agile Knowledge-based e-Government (SAKE)”, IST FP6, STREP, 2006-2009.
• Contract No. 014634, “North Hungary and Košice Bilateral Regional Innovation Strategy Project (NORRIS)”, FP6.
• Contract No 517476, “Interoperability Initiative for a European e-Health Area (I2-Health)”, eTEN, SA, 2005-2007.
• IST-1999-20364 “Web Technologies Supporting Direct Participation in Democratic Processes (Webocracy)“, FP5, STREP, 2000-2003, Project Co-ordinator.
• IST-1999-29088 „Providing Innovative Service Models and Assessment (PRISMA)“.
• IST-2000-26224 “Best eEurope Practices (BEEP)”.
• HPSE-CT-2001-00065 „EU Integration and the Prospects for Catch-Up Development in CEECs. The Determinants of the Productivity Gap (Productivity Gap)", FP5.
• Esprit Project 29065 “Web in Support of Knowledge Management in Company (KnowWeb)”, FP4.
• Esprit Project 29015 “Enriching Representations of Work to Support Organisational Learning (ENRICH)”, FP4 Project.
• Copernicus CIPA CT94 0149 "Environment for Configuration Design (ENCODE)"

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