Ing. Lenka Pčolinská, PhD.

	Email:	lenka.pcolinska@upjs.sk
	Homepage:	https://www.upjs.sk/FVS/zamestnanec/lenka.pcolinska
	Faculty:	FVS UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice Faculty of Public Administration
	Department:	KEaRVS - Department of Economics and Management of Public Administration
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	Phone:	+421 55 234 5141 voip:5141
	Faculty:	FVS UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice Faculty of Public Administration
	Department:	KEaRVS - Department of Economics and Management of Public Administration
	Office:	PA4M04
	Phone:	+421 55 234 5141 voip:5141
	ORCID ID:	0000-0002-5856-6141

Ing. Lenka Pčolinská, PhD. works as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Public Administration at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice. In her scientific research, she focuses on the field of social economy and social entrepreneurship, and their impact on local and regional development, including the role of municipalities and towns. She is the author of the textbook Social Economy and Social Entrepreneurship.

Higher education and further qualification growth

First degree of higher education:

University of Economics, Faculty of Business Administration in Košice, 2004, Business economics

Second degree of higher education:

University of Economics, Faculty of Business Administration in Košice, 2006, Economics and management of business

Third degree of higher education:

University of Economics, Faculty of Business Administration in Košice, 2009, Economics and management of business

Research /art/ teacher profile

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Selected publications
Pčolinská, L., & Koreňová, D. (2024). Simplification and optimisation of the procedure of applying for the Registered Social Enterprise Status by Process Modelling. DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism, 16(2), 101-127. doi: 10.32725/det.2024.022
Pčolinská, L. (2025). Current aspects and development of social entrepreneurship in Slovakia. In K. Szajowska (Ed.), Socio-economic challenges for Poland in the 21st century (pp. 316–327). Michalineum Publishing House.
Pčolinská, L. 2020. Promoting social economy in emergent EU countries: Potential of the social economy in Slovakia. Wyzwania spoleczne i gospodarcze wspólczesnego swiata II. - Sanok : Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa im. Jana Grodka w Sanoku. ISBN 9788361802426. s. 107-124
Pčolinská, L. 2021. Sociálna ekonomika a sociálne podnikanie. 1. vyd. - Košice : ŠafárikPress UPJŠ. ISBN 978-80-574-0076-9
Pčolinská, L. (2020). Reflection on the relation between long-term unemployment and solutions of the social economy. Case of the EU 28 countries. In: Wyzwania spoleczne i gospodarcze wspólczesnego swiata II. - Sanok : Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa im. Jana Grodka w Sanoku, 2020. - ISBN 9788361802426. - S. 125-135.
Akoko, M. R. – Monono, E. N. – Pčolinská, L. 2019. Urbanization and Food Security in Buea: An Appraisal of Household Food Security Situation and Resilience in Bolifamba-Buea Cameroon. In: International Journal of Modern Anthropology. ISSN 1737-8176. Roč. 2, č. 12. s. 173-187
Selected projects
VVGS-2023-2757 Towards socio-economic innovations and principles of social and solidarity-based economy through leadership - project leader
VVGS 2021-1989 Social economy - social enterprises and their importance for the development of self-government - project leader
VVGS 2019-1018 Dynamics of social economy development in Slovakia and its use in self-government - project leader
Young Science I-13-113-00 - The influence of the social economy, its importance and possibilities of development in the conditions of the Slovak Republic - project leader
VEGA no. 1/0153/18 Evaluation of regional self-government performance in the context of its impact on economic and social factors of regional development in the Slovak Republic - co-researcher
International mobilities and visits
European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, november 2018, Erasmus+ (internship)
Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland, March 2018, Erasmus+ (teaching)
European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, November 2017, Erasmus+ (internship)
Summer school of Economy of Communion, Paris, France, 2014, Summer School
Scientific Summer School of Economy of Communion, Nieuwkuijk, Netherlands, 2017, Summer School
International Republican Institute, Robert Schuman Institute, Bucharest, Romania, 2014, „Citycraft Bucharest training“ - political marketing training
National University of Public Service, Institute for Strategic Studies, Budapest, Hungary, 28 - 29 November 2019, Different perspectives - common interests - College of Visegrad+ Workshop
7th CIRIEC International Research Conference on Social Economy, Bucharest, Romania, June 2019, International Research Conference
Uczelnia Państwowa im. Jana Grodka v Sanoku, Sanok, Poland, november 2019, Global Entrepreneurship week
University of Oxford, Oxford, Great Britain, 12 - 16 September 2022, Oxford Economics Summer School
Organisational activities
Membership in the bodies of the Faculty of Public Administration, UPJŠ - Member of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Public Administration UPJŠ (Secretary of the AS FVS since 2018), 2017
Membership in international scientific networks - CIRIEC International Scientific Network, 2020-2022
Membership in editorial boards of scientific and professional journals - Przegląd Prawa Administracyjnego (ang. Administrative Law Review) - Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie, Poľsko, from 2018
Member of the Council of University education - Council of the University education, from 2023
Coordinator for the students with specific needs at UPJŠ, from 2023

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Projects

VVGS-2023-2757 Towards socio-economic innovations and principles of social and solidarity-based economy through leadership - project leader VVGS 2021-1989 Social economy - social enterprises and their importance for the development of self-government - project leader VVGS 2019-1018 Dynamics of social economy development in Slovakia and its use in self-government - project leader VEGA no. 1/0153/18 Evaluation of regional self-government performance in the context of its impact on economic and social factors of regional development in the Slovak Republic - co-researcher VEGA no. 1/0367/17 Economic, legislative and institutional preconditions and perspectives of development of social and solidarity economy in V4 countries in connection with support of social inclusion - co-researcher Young Science I-13-113-00 - The influence of the social economy, its importance and possibilities of development in the conditions of the Slovak Republic - project leader

International collaboration

Ing. Lenka Pčolinská, PhD. collaborates with the international network CIRIEC International Scientific Network, which is dedicated to the development of the social economy and is based in Liège, Belgium. In this field, she also cooperates with several domestic universities (University of Economics in Bratislava, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica) and foreign universities (University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Technical University in Liberec – both in the Czech Republic; John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, and Jan Grodek State University in Sanok – all in Poland, among others).

Interesting links

https://unibook.upjs.sk/sk/fakulta-verejnej-spravy/999-socialna-ekonomika-a-socialne-podnikanie.html https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lenka-Pcolinska?ev=hdr_xprf

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