• Increase of the scholarships of the full-time PhD. students (almost twofold) in October 2004 (after negotiations with the Ministry of Education, Universities, Slovak Academy of Sciences and especially lobbing in the parliament)
• No taxation of doctoral scholarships from January 2004 to December 2004 (unfortunately, in January 2005 was the tax imposed again)
• Change of the legislative status of doctoral students in the amendment to the Act on Universities in November 2004. PhDs are now considered students of the third University degree. Before the change, the status was both workers and students which caused many troubles.
• Implementation of the amendment of the Act on Universities (non-taxation of PhD- scholarships): Institutions returned unlawfully levied taxes.
• Issuing of the ISIC cards also for PhD. students
• Membership in the EURODOC, the organization which associates PhD. students of different European countries (since 2003), moreover participation at the annual EURODOC conferences (since 2002)
• Participation at the European conferences that concern research and PhD. students- Brussels 2003, Liege 2004, Salzburg 2005
• Awarding of a grant from the European Social Fund for organizing the training of PhD. Students - first-time University teachers (together with the NGOs of "AKO" and "LDP")

PhD. students and young scientists in Slovakia have reached many interesting achievements - they have won international competitions and scholarships, moreover have got different awards etc. However, often just a small group of their friends and relatives knows that. That is why we keep attempting, on this webpage, informing about interesting and important outcomes that Slovak PhD. students have reached. We welcome any new information and interesting materials.

• Jan Bohacik - International Visiting Doctoral Student at the University of Tampere, Finland from August, 2007 do May, 2008 with a scholarship support of the Center For International Mobility (CIMO); Visiting PhD Student at the University of Porto, Portugal from February, 2009 to April, 2009 with LLP-ERASMUS scholarship and Visiting Research Student at the Osaka Prefecture University, Japan from May, 2009 to September, 2009 with a scholarship support of the National Scholarship Program of the Slovak Republic.

• Peter Richtárik - Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics (FMFI), Comenius Unviersity - the award of the rector of the Comenius University, Cornell graduate fellowship (2002)

• Helena Tužinská - 2001-02 Vienna - Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund, 2003 - London - mobility grant of the chancellor of the Comenius University

• Alexander Smirnov - Member of the research team "Origin of life" financed by the NASA Astrobiology Institute

• Bruno Hromý - fellowship at the Aalborg Universitet in Denmark, 2 years' governmental scholarship Monbukagokusho in Japan

• Peter Kaššák - lecture at the 11th Laser physics workshop
  6 months scholarship in Poland

• Ján Šebo - Successfully finished a project for the World Bank and got the positions of the project manager and the member of the solution team.

• Ivan Poliačik - Vontobel price for the best dissertation work in the financial area - 2nd place

• Boris Mattoš - fellowship in the German Bundestag (1999-2000), scholarship of the Swiss government: one year study stay at the University of Zurich (02/03)

• Michal Polák - Lakatos Scholarship 2002-2004

• Danica Klempová - Fulbright scholarship and scholarship for the study and research at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, which is a part UCLA Research Centre

• Soňa Štibraná - Open Society Foundation scholarship supporting the PhD. students,
  Tempus Phare scholarship at the University in Granada, Spain.

• Michal Sedlačko - author of the University textbook "Comparative Economic Systems"
  and introduced at his faculty a new course - Contemporary Global Issues

• Janka Kupčáková - two scholarships of the Swiss government for the study at the Institute of European Studies in Geneva.

• Marcel Polakovič - two scientific articles published in the International Journal of Theoretical Physics.

• Matúš Korba - since 2002 the Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations, Prague and also the establishing member of the Centre of Security Studies, Bratislava, 2000-2002 project coordinator of the research team Safer world in London, and of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (SFPA) in Bratislava, 1997-1999 project assistant in the Centre for European Security Studies in Groningen and at the Comenius University in Bratislava

• Michal Hönsch - scholarship at the University in Bonn in the program of Transatlantic Summer Academy 1999

• Gabriela Gregušová - two grants of the Jan Hus Educational Foundation for teaching of seminars at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Comenius University in Bratislava, membership in the Executive Council of the European political science Network 2002-2008, coordination of the project for the first-time university teachers, APVT grant

• Matúš Medo - participation in two International Olympic games in physic (silver and bronze medal - 1997 Kanada,1998 Island)

• Kamila Štullerová - 1999 Robert Bosh Junior Research Fellowship - IWM, Vienna
  2000/01 - Soros Fund Fellowship, CEU, Nationalism Studies Program 2001 - Outstanding MA Student Award, CEU 2001/2004 - Soros Fund Fellowship, CEU, Political Science Department, 2002/03 - J.W. Fulbright Scholarship, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA

• Stanislava Moysová - 4 months' scholarship at the Universite Catholique, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium

• Stanislav Boledovič - Grade 10 during the exchange program at the University of Groningen

• Vladimíra Čavojová - scholarship of the Slovak - American Cultural Society of the Midwest

• Aneta Antušová - scholarship for the exchange student program of the Indiana University of Pensylvania, USA, practice in the European parliament Brussels - Strasbourg, SFPA junior research fellow

• Jozef Košík - Two models of quantum random walk published in the Central European Science Journal, 2003

• Peter Pénzeš - in 2003 award of the Penta Group for excellent studying results, in 2004 award of the rector of the Comenius University for the excellent MA thesis

• Peter Caban - The University Award

• Bartolomej Rudaš - The Literary Fund Award for the final thesis

• Štefan Valovič - co-author of the articles Štubňa I, Valovič Š: "Thermal Expansion of Textured Electroceramics" published in the CC journal of "Industrial Ceramics",
  Smetanková G, Vozár L, Valovič Š, Karafa B: "Simple Apparatus for Measurement of the Thermal Transport Properties of Solid Materials by Dynamic Plane Source Method" published in the CC journal of "High Temperatures High Pressures".

• Stanislava Vrablová - in 2000 the award of the Penta Group for excellent studying results which has being awarded to the best students of economics and law, in 2002 - 1st price in the competition for the best papers "Positive features of the Civil code amendment", Allen & Overy and ELSA Slovakia

• Dagmar Kusá - Teaching fellowship (Boston University), Outstanding teaching Fellow Award, Global Supplementary Support Grant (Open Society Institute)
  Travel Grants (Boston University, Council of European Studies, University of Wales)

• Branislav Gálik - 2nd place at the X. International scientists conference in Nitra, 2004 - the price of the dean of the Faculty of Agrobiology and Food, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

• Želmíra Haňová - 3 months' fellowship in Köln am Rein in Germany - practice in Deutz AG

• Daniel Klimovský - in 2003 the award of the rector Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Košice for excellent studying results and also the Volksbank Grand Prix for education

• Dušan Štrauss - Slovak government scholarship in the RUDN Moscow

• Oľga Kožíková - first award in the research competition - section Engineer pedagogic and psychology, moreover the paper got the price of the Slovak Organisation for Literary Sciences

• Peter Rusnák - Scholarship at the Moscow state University

• Miroslav Báťka - Slovenský Plynarenský Priemysel (Slovak Gas Industry Company) award in the competition EUROWARDS 2003 - Young Business Idea

• Ivana Spalovská - practice in the National Institute of Agro biological Sciences
  2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602, Japan, Department of Developmental Biology, Laboratory of Insect Growth Regulation

• Maroš Servátka - University of Arizona, Tucson, Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Grant 2004,
  Department of Economics Travel Grant 2004,
  Economic Science Laboratory Research Grant 2004, 2005,
  CEU Budapest Workshop on Behavioral Economics Grant 2003, 2004
  William I. Green PR Scholarship, 2003 Second Year Paper Conference 2nd Prize Winner, 2003
  Doctoral scholarship of higher business school and international finance 2001-2003
  George W. Coleman Fellowship 2002, 2003
  Graduate Tuition Scholarship 2001-2005
  Graduate Registration Scholarship 2001-2002, 2005
  Graduate College Fellowship 2001

• Juraj Kronek - the award for a paper in macromolecular chemistry from the Institution of Polymers SAS, Young researcher of the year 2001 award

• Ľudmila Chudová - the best paper award focused on European Union

• Martin Plesch has been training for several years the Slovak national team of high school students of physics at the International Young Physicist Tournament. In 2001 the Slovak team won the 1st place at the international competition. In previous years the team was awarded several other prices (2nd and 3rd places)

• Viera Jančušová - studies at the prestigeous University department in Australia -Department of International Relations Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies Australian National University Canberra.

• Juraj Majzlan -scholarship in the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University.

• Jaroslav Mosnáček - two publications in CC journals, Slovak patent

• Martin Pál - studies at the Dept of Computer Science, Cornell University, USA.

• Richard Kollar - studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A.

• Peter Uhlík - The 1999 Martin Vivaldi Award, The Clay Minerals Society Travel Grant; published 2 papers in the journal "Clay Minerals"; labelled as "Perfect young worker", at the Comenius University (this category is appraised by 20 - 25 % increase of the salary).

• Michaela Gaspar-Gabriš - studies at the Westminster University, international business law.

• Michal Jurčík - member of the Slovak council - International institute for applied system analyses (AISA), 2001 representative of the Slovak Republic at the Marshall plan 50th Commemoration, 1997

• Juraj Marušiak - Uniwersytet Warszawski, Studia Wschodnie, stipend at the Uniwersytet Warszawski, Studia Wschodnie, Stypendium Fulbrighta, Stypendium Lane´a Kirklanda, grant Research Support Scheme 1997 - 2000 Slovak Policy in the Second Half of 50´s.

• Martin Danko - studies at the Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies of Polish academy of Scienes v Lodzi.

• Tomáš Strážay - Graduate Faculty, New School University, New York, USA, scholarship Graduate School for Social Research, Warsaw

• Juraj Buzalka - studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK,

• Valer Zetocha - State University of New York at Stony Brook.

• Martin Takáč - awards of the Literary fund for the paper "Fiixed Point Classification Method for Qualitative Simulation". Accepted contribution and participation and the EPIA-97 conference - Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

• Andrej Mošať - ETHZ Zurich, Swiss, TU Wien; Conferences - Bordeaux - Composite materials; Copenhagen - Sustainable development; Uppsala - Nuclear physics.

• Martin Niepel - studies at the Princeton University, USA, The rector of the Comenius University award 1997 and 1999; Graduate fellowship, 1999/2000 Princeton University.

• Marek Krošlák -studies at the best technical university in Europe, after he has finished STU CHTF. His group has been awarded an industrial grant

• Matej Sapák - 2002 Harvard University Scholarship - honorary result; 2001 John Harvard Scholarship & Detur Prize; International Young Physicist Tournament 2000 - semi-final (team); IYPT 1999 - semi-final (team); World Schools Debating Championship 2000 - pre quarter-final (team).