Current Grant Projects
RUNNING PROJECTS
1/ VEGA and KEGA (National scientific schemes)
VEGA 1/0061/26 (2026 – 2028) Estetika umenia v storočí digitálnych technológií,
rozšírenej reality a umelej inteligencie. Leader: prof. KopčákováKEGA 023PU-4/2026 (2026 – 2028) Modelovanie profesijných sietí pre študijný
program estetika: medzi akademickou prípravou a praxou. Leader: doc. Migašová
2/ COST SCHEME (International)
Action: CA22149
Members: prof. Kopčáková, doc. Kvokačka, doc. Migašová are involved in the international COST project:
The main aim of the Action is to systematize, conceptualize and epistemically upgrade theoretical and empirical knowledge about the influence of past practices of deliberation on contemporary decision-making. With this emphasis, the Action is placed at the very heart of the topical debates about the potential role of deliberative democracy in stabilizing the social and political spheres and in coping with modern challenges; concerning, in particular, the consequences of the climate crisis. This Action will thus push to the forefront of the research focus the human ability to prevent conflicts through deliberation and to decide on development challenges in dialogue. The Action will create an interdisciplinary platform to discuss existing empirical and theoretical approaches to these topic, initiate new synergies between different research fields and disciplines and formulate set of toolkits and policy guidelines, which will enable decision-makers and other stakeholders to design and implement policies of sustainable development with a view on the specifics of embedded decision-making on the local, national and transnational level of governance.
3/ ERASMUS KA171 Mobility scheme
ERASMUS+ KA171: 2023-1-SK01-KA171-HED-000137942; International Credit Mobility PU, (2023-2026)
Cooperation: Faculty of humanities and natural sciences, Departement of ecology. Kenyatta University (KU), Nairobi, Keňa.
FINISHED PROJECTS
2022 - 2025
Team-leader: prof. S. Kopčáková
2022 – 2024: projekt VEGA (č. 1/0065/22) Medzi minulosťou a súčasnosťou estetiky na Slovensku – kritické čítanie a kritické edície v kontextoch historickej pamäti a aktualizácie poznania
Team-leader: doc. E. Kušnírová
2022 - 2024: project KEGA: Innovation of teaching humanities with an emphasis on creative and experiential methods.
Team - leader: doc. Z. Slušná
2021 – 2023: projekt VEGA (č. 1/0704/21) Monitorovanie revitalizácie aktérov kultúrneho a kreatívneho priemyslu po epidémii COVID-19
2019-2021
Music and dramatic art within 19th and 20th century aesthetic theory and aesthetic education in Slovakia, VEGA no. 1/0051/19:
Leader of the project:
Assoc. Prof. Slávka Kopčáková, PhD.
The project summary:
The project’s basic research is focused on aesthetic thinking and its application in aesthetic education in territory of Slovakia from the beginning of 19th century until the present emphasising the use of music and dramatic arts within the researched conceptions of aesthetic education. The research is aimed at searching archives (libraries and historical resources, archives). The main purpose of the project is interdisciplinary research with emphasis on the theoretic activities of Tobias Gottfried Schröer. The result of the project will be a complex treatise of the personality including a critical edition of the main works of the author. The second area of the project represents research on the influences of domestic tradition on fundamental activities related to aesthetic education in Slovakia in the 20th century, while reflections on the present state connected to the fate of aesthetic education makes up the most important area of the research activities of the wider team (collective volume).
2018-2020
Compendium Aestheticae: textbook edition for the aesthetics study programme
Team Leader: Mgr. Jana Migašová, PhD.
Team leader assistant: Mgr. Adrián Kvokačka, PhD.
Short project description
The project focuses on the preparation and realisation of such research and publication activities, which aim to fulfil the gap in existing-available, modern and up-to-date university textbooks and thus representing theoretical thinking and pedagogic orientation within the disciplines of aesthetics study programme core. The absence of such textbooks, particularly publications reflecting thinking and practice of “Presov” school is significant, since the level of inter-disciplinarity and complementarity of aesthetical and art-theoretic disciplines, typical for Presov aesthetical milieu, is significant for its discourse openness towards the plurality of approaches in the search for inter-disciplinarity asa non-violent and prolifering conformity. Contrary to the other institutions dealing with aesthetics as a study programme, the institute proposing the project focuses on supporting the coexistence of various disciplines: disciplines interrelated with the history of aesthetics (theory of aesthetics, systematic aesthetic, etc.), as well as disciplines of history, theory and aesthetics of music, theatre and fine arts. It is obvious, that scientific-research and pedagogic orientation of the workplace is comprehensive. The project proposed is thus motivated not only by the absence of textbooks, but also by the ambition to utilise the experience and autonomy of the research team into conceptual effort in the form of future edition of the textbooks of Presov aesthetic school.
2017-2019
150 years of „the end of art“ in reflections and analysis of philosophical, aesthetic and art theories
Team Leader: Prof. PhDr. J. Sošková, CSc.
Team leader assistant: Mgr. L. Makky, PhD.
Short project description
Analysis, critique, comments, corrections ... philosophical, aesthetic and fineart of reflecting the "end of art" during
the 19th and 20th century, including nowadays. Handling of the concept of the "end of art" in the philosophical, aesthetic and fine art theories and its consequences for examining the state of art in the 21st century (the consequences of the end of art theory in the philosophical view on the art of the past two centuries; consequences in the aesthetic theories of art in pursuit of development, the consequences of the state of science in art and art history in view of the importance and meaning of artistic creation; consequences in defining the aesthetic and philosophical definition of local art culture in society ...). Philosophical and aesthetic reflection of art after the "the end of art" (the status of the work, the status of the author, changes of perception, changes of assessment, transformation of artistic production and identification of the originality of the work ...)
2015 - 2017
VEGA 1/0137/15
Music and Aesthetic Thought in Slovakia. To problems of origination, development and formation in the 19th and 20th century
Team Leader: Kopčáková Slávka, Doc. PaedDr. PhD.
Team leader assistant: Beličová Renáta, Doc. PhDr. PhD.
The essence of the project is basic research from the point of view of music and aesthetic thought development. The aim of the research is to determine historical milestones in the development of music aesthetics in our territory in the 19th and 20th century. The explorative approach takes in account two contexts. The first consists of selected musical and theoretical treatises and works of Slovak scholars, musicians, aestheticians, in which works the issues of aesthetics in the area of music where reflected (The Presov Philosophical School, The Protestant Lyceum in Bratislava, Jan Levoslav Bella). The second context includes research of the roots of the current music and aesthetical thoughts in Slovakia and their image in theoretical reflection (Jozef Kresanek, Peter Faltin etc.). The result of the project is a monograph compiling basic developmental lines and figures that most influenced the development of systematic musicology and its sub-discipline, music aesthetics in Slovakia.
2015 – 2017
VEGA grant scheme
Alternative theatre in contemporary reason
Team Leader: PhDr. Miron Pukan, PhD.
Team leader assistant: Mgr. Eva Kušnírová, PhD.
The presented project concentrates its research on mapping the current state of the Slovak alternative theatrical culture on breakthrough of millennium - zooming in on its first decade of millennium, which is perceived as a series of metamorphoses of mentioned phenomenon in the development after 1989 to the present days. The members of the research team will strive to analyse formation of the current Slovak alternative theatrical groups, which in the particular project, unlike the previous, will enrich the reflection and response artists, creators, theatrologists, as well as a broader understanding of science disciplines, and experts from area of culturology and anthropology of theatre. They will focus on the transformation processes that affected alternative theatre in twenty five years. Unlike the previous projects, the ambition of researchers will be analysing of mentioned issue in international context both in post-communist countries and also in Western European culture.
2010-2011
KEGA 272-031PU-4/2010
Multiplication of expression and aesthetic experience on the base of interdisciplinary interconnection of contemporary music, art and literature
Team Leader: Kopčáková Slávka, Doc. PaedDr. PhD.
Team leader assistant: Dušenková Eva, Doc. PhDr. PhD.
Project focuses on reconnaissance of possibilities in searching of interconnections of music with other kinds of art in educational processes among university training of future aesthetic education and music education teachers. The aims of project are to be fulfilled through the implementation of projects based on the reception and creative carrying out actions based on participation of all constituents of art creation as well as aesthetic experience creation. Other aims: producing of outcomes useful as methodical, didactic, and motivational materials for primary and secondary education as well as for university studies; creating of books and study materials for students of study programs at university, mainly aesthetic, aesthetic education, music education teachers, and also for educational practise and postgraduate forms of teachers training.
2010 – 2011
VEGA scheme
Alternative theatre (AT) in Slovakia after 1989
Team Leader: PhDr. Miron Pukan, PhD.
Team leader assistant: Mgr. Eva Kušnírová, PhD.
Present project focuses on mapping movements and curves in the Slovak alternative theatrical culture predominantly after 1989 within a context overlapping this date. Research team members will try to elucidate activities of alternative theatre companies in the following areas: company organizational statutes, dramaturgy, originality of artistic expressions in relation to the changed historic and political situation after 1989, typology of alternative theatre production, overlaps of alternative culture into the national theatre culture in Slovakia. Systemic and complex mapping of theatre culture area in Slovakia since 1989 up to now. Research results will be incorporated into a discussed period complex of theatre culture in Slovakia. Apart from an outline of historic and poetology metamorphoses of alternative art in the past quarter of the century, register of art groups that preferred the mentioned theatre type will be included.
