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doc. Mgr. Alexander Onufrák, PhD.   SK

Email:
alexander.onufrak@upjs.sk
Homepage:
https://www.upjs.sk/FF/zamestnanec/alexander.onufrak
Faculty:
FF UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice Faculty of Arts
Department:
KPO - Department of Political Science
Office:
P224
Phone:
+421 55 234 7104
ORCID ID:
0000-0001-6830-3487

Higher education and further qualification growth
Second degree of higher education:
University of Prešov in Prešov, Faculty of Arts, Institute of Political Sciences, 2009, Political Science
Third degree of higher education:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Arts, Department of Political Science, 2013, Theory of Politics
Associate professor:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Arts, Department of Political Science, 2021, Political Science

Research /art/ teacher profile

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Profile courses
KPO/POLID10-Political Ideologies (KPO/POLIDe/12) - Political Science (Full-Time form and Part-Time form), I. degree degree
Selected publications

309528:Vznik a vývoj britskej sociálnej politiky [textový dokument (print)] [The Origin and Development of British Social Policy] / Onufrák, Alexander [Autor, UPS15065, 100%] ; Lysý, Jozef [Recenzent] ; Horváth, Peter [Recenzent]. – 1. vyd. – Košice (Slovensko) : Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach. Celouniverzitné pracovisko UPJŠ. Vydavateľstvo ŠafárikPress UPJŠ, 2021. – 240 s. [tlačená forma] : text, tab., obr. – (Acta Facultatis Philosophicae Universitatis Šafarikianae ; Monografia 150). – [slovenčina]. – [OV 060, 070, 030, 020]. – ISBN 978-80-8152-998-6. – sign UPJS FSEP 011674. – SAF F 140672

163119:Štátotvorné úvahy Uhro-Rusínov na konci 1. svetovej vojny - príklon k Československej republike = State-Building, Considerations of Uhro-Rusins at the hid of World War I - Inclination towards the Czechoslovak Republic / Onufrák, Alexander [Autor, UPS15065, 100%]. – [slovenčina]. – [OV 030, 060, 070]. – DOI 10.14712/23363525.2019.21. – sign UPJS FSEP 010715. – WOS CC ; SCOPUS In: Historická sociologie [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] . – Praha (Česko) : Univerzita Karlova v Praze. Nakladatelství Karolinum. – ISSN 1804-0616. – ISSN (online) 2336-3525. – Roč. 11, č. 2 (2019), s. 141-155 [tlačená forma] [online] . – SJR: 0,299 ; CiteScore: 0,3 ; SNIP: 0,625 WoS

FSEP 013076: Regional Elections to the Council of the Košice Self-Governing Region in 2022 [elektronický zdroj] / Jana Šutajová, Alexander Onufrák. - DIGARCHUPJS.

In: Slovenská politologická revue : revue pre politický a občiansky život=Slovak Journal of Political Sciences. - ISSN 1335-9096. Roč. 24, č. 1 (2024), s. 81-115. Projekt: Audit slovenskej volebnej a referendovej legislatívy - VEGA 1/0474/24. 10.34135/sjps.240104 DOI;DOI;

[OV 060, 080]; [ŠO 6718]

[ŠUTAJOVÁ, Jana ( Autor, 50% ) - ONUFRÁK, Alexander ( Autor, 50% )]

FSEP 013135: Prezidentské voľby v Poľsku počas pandémie Covid-19 – poučenie pre Slovensko? Využívanie alternatívnych spôsobov hlasovania počas mimoriadnych situácií / = Polish presidential elections during the COVID-19 pandemic – Slovakia’s lesson learned? Using different voting modalities during emergencies Martina Hurčalová, Alexander Onufrák. - DIGARCHUPJS. In: Central European Journal of Politics. - ISSN 2464-479X. - Roč. 10, č. 2 (2024), s. 32-52. Projekt: Audit slovenskej volebnej a referendovej legislatívy - VEGA 1/0474/24. 10.21062/cejp.2025.04 DOI;DOI;

[OV 060, 070]; [ŠO 6718 6835]

[HURČALOVÁ, Martina ( Autor, 60% ) - ONUFRÁK, Alexander ( Autor, 40% )]

FSEP 012393: Volebné právo v kontexte ústavodarných procesov / Alexander Onufrák. - recenzované.

In: Ústava Slovenskej republiky a jej perspektívy : skvalitňovanie ústavného textu a zvyšovanie autority slovenskej ústavy - reálna možnosť, alebo naivná ilúzia (?) : zborník príspevkov z vedeckého seminára. - Košice : Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach, 2022. - ISBN 9788057401520. - S. 202-241 [2 AH]. Projekt: Ústavodarná činnosť Národnej rady Slovenskej republiky (právno-politologická analýza – hodnotenie – perspektívy) - VEGA 1/0399/20. 10.33542/USR-0160-5 DOI;

[OV 060, 070]; [ŠO 6718 6835]

Selected projects

The project registration number and the full name of the organisation that awarded the grant: KEGA č. 014UPJŠ-4/2025, Cultural and Educational Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic

Name of the project: Internationalisation, Innovation and Modernisation of a Modular Education in Political Science

Project implementation period: 1/2025-12/2027

Status in the project: Deputy project manager

Brief characteristics of the project: The main goal of the project is to internationalise, innovate and modernise the education in political science at the Faculty of Arts of UPJŠ and in order to adapt to the new forms of teaching- to at the same time complement the classical forms of teaching with new educational approaches. The aim of the project is to reform the teaching process (both the content itself and the ways of teaching) of the study programme in political science, which, through the module Theory of Politics and the newly created module International Relations within the Bachelor's and Master's degree programme, allows students to focus on a more narrowly defined area of political science research through the selection of classes within the module.

The project registration number and the full name of the organisation that awarded the grant: VEGA 1/0645/25, Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and Slovak Academy of Sciences is an internal grant system for the Ministry of Education and Slovak Academy of Sciences

Name of the project: Instrumentalisation of Historical Events as a Subject of Recodification Schemes in Political and Propaganda Practice in Slovakia after 1989 (Selected Aspects of Ethnic Relations)

Project implementation period: 1/2025-12/2027

Status in the project: Co-researcher 

Brief characteristics of the project: The aim of the project is to carry out political science and historical research on the instrumentalisation of selected historical events with a focus on some aspects of ethnic relations in Slovakia. We will investigate their use as a tool of politics (governmental, party, regional) in political and propaganda practice in Slovakia after 1989. In particular, the researchers will examine the interpretation of historical events in the context of significant events in domestic (elections, changes of governments, ethnic political parties) and foreign politics (Slovakia's accession to the EU and NATO, the war in Ukraine). The research team will examine the way in which these historical events are instrumentalised, commemorated and used in politics (governmental, party, regional) and the role played by the interpretation of historical events and their commemoration (monuments and memorials, public rallies, political conflicts).

The project registration number and the full name of the organisation that awarded the grant: VEGA 1/0474/24, Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and Slovak Academy of Sciences is an internal grant system for the Ministry of Education and Slovak Academy of Sciences

Name of the project: Audit of Slovak Electoral and Referendum Legislation

Project implementation period: 1/2024-12/2026

Status in the project: Co-researcher 

Brief characteristics of the project: The key aim of the project is to subject the valid constitutional and legal regulation of elections and referendum, and especially the knowledge and experience from their application in electoral and referendum practice, to a comprehensive legal and political analysis and evaluation in terms of the goals that were followed during their approval, as well as their impact on functioning constitutional-political system.

The project registration number and the full name of the organisation that awarded the grant: VEGA 1/0399/20, Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and Slovak Academy of Sciences is an internal grant system for the Ministry of Education and Slovak Academy of Sciences

Name of the project: Constitutional activity of the National Council of the Slovak Republic (legal-political analysis - evaluation - perspectives)

Project implementation period: 01/2020-12/2022

Status in the project: Co-researcher 

Brief characteristics of the project: The key aim of the project is the constitutional and political analysis and evaluation of the existing constitutional activity of the National Council of the Slovak Republic (hereafter referred to as the „National Council“) in terms of its impact on the quality of the Constitution of the Slovak Republic, resp. the constitutional system of the Slovak Republic (also in international comparison), the authority and acceptance of the constitution in the state and society, as well as the cultivation of the constitutional – political system and the formation of political and legal culture. Based on the results of the analysis, the research team formulates ideas for improving and streamlining the constitutional work of the National Council, as well as strengthening the stability of the Constitution, including the form of concrete ideas de constitutione ferenda and de lege ferenda.

The project registration number and the full name of the organisation that awarded the grant: KEGA 014UPJŠ-4/2020, Cultural and Educational Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic

Name of the project: An Innovative Model of Education Leading to Active Citizenship as a Prevention of Student Political Extremism

Project implementation period: 01/2020-12/2022

Status in the project: Co-researcher

Brief characteristics of the project: The aim of the project is to create modern learning modules that provide secondary school students and university students important insights into the need to actively involvement in public life, also about the opportunities for civic and political participation of young people, and the risks of lack of knowledge of social and political processes, their misunderstanding or public concern in general. The aim of the project is, in particular, to activate students in the field of searching, validating and communicating information about political processes. The project objectives are guaranteed by the experience of the project solvers with the solution of secondary illiteracy of selected social groups of respondents and other defective phenomena in the political and public life of the Slovak population after 1989.

International mobilities and visits
Appalachian State University in Boone, Boone, North Carolina (USA), 23.03.2015–03.04.2015, project IRES
Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi, Afyonkarahisar (Turkey), 18.04.2016–21.04.2016, Erasmus+ Staff Mobility For Teaching
Ужгородський національний університет, Ужгород (Україна), 23.04.2017–29.04.2017, Erasmus+ Staff Mobility For Teaching
National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Faculty of Political Science, Bucharest (Romania), 06.05.2019–12.05.2019, Erasmus+ Staff Mobility For Teaching
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Law, Thessaloniki (Greece), 03.07.2019–11.07.2019, Erasmus+ Staff Mobility For Training
Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi, Afyonkarahisar (Turkey), 23.05.2022–27.05.2022, Erasmus+ Staff Mobility For Training
Neapolis University Pafos, School of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Pafos (Cyprus), 10.10.2022–14.10.2022, Erasmus+ Staff Mobility For Teaching
Mendel University, Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, Brno (Czech Republic), 02.05.2023–05.05.2023, Erasmus+ Staff Mobility For Teaching (combined mobility)
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Faculty of Political Sciences and Journalism, Lublin (Poland), 08.04.2024–12.04.2024, Erasmus+ Staff Mobility For Teaching (kombinovaná mobilita)
The Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Faculty of Arts, Ústí nad Labem (Czechia), 03.03.2025–07.03.2025, Erasmus+ Staff Mobility For Teaching
Organisational activities
Member of the expert committee of the Regional Round of Human Rights Olympiad in the Prešov Region in 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020 - Human Rights Olympiad in the Prešov Region, Prešov, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020
Member of the committee of the doctoral studies for political sciences at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava - Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, from 01.12.2022

Additional information

Awards
Award of Rector of University of Prešov in Prešov in 2009 for the study results
Hobbies
numismatics, travelling, tourism, motoring, film

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