Ručinská, S., Mitaľ, O., Fečko, M. 2025. Disinformation in Public Policy: The Case of Slovakia. In: Digital Transformation in European Public Services : Complexities, Challenges, and Good Practices. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. ISBN 9783031814242. S. 155-186 [2,05 AH]. 10.1007/978-3-031-81425-9_8 DOI;DOI; SCOPUS; 

Mitaľ, O., Fečko, M., Ručinská, S. 2025. Soft Factors Driving the Resilience of European Cities. In: Studia Europejskie – Studies in European Affairs. ISSN 1428-149X. Roč. 29, č. 3 (2025), s. 233-247. 10.33067/SE.3.2025.13 DOI;DOI; WOS;  

Fečko, M., Mitaľ, O., Ručinská, S. 2025. Communal Level Cybersecurity Incidents in the Slovak Republic. In: Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2025 Workshops. Cham : Springer Nature, 2026. ISBN 9783031976025. S. 39-53. Projekt: Cybersecurity Competence Center at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (KC KB UPJŠ) - Plán obnovy K17: Digitálne Slovensko (štát v mobile, kybernetická bezpečnosť, rýchly internet pre každého, digitálna ekonomika) 17R05–04-V01– 00007. 10.1007/978-3-031-97603-2_3 DOI;DOI; SCOPUS; WOS; 

Ručinská, S., Fečko, M., Mitaľ O. and M. Jesenko., 2023. Bottom-up response: the role of municipalities and cities in compensating and supporting central government’s role. In: Journal of Comparative Politics. ISSN 1338-1385. Vol. 16, No. 1. pp. 25-42. SCOPUS; WOS CC.

Ručinská, S., Fečko, M., Mitaľ O. 2025. Municipalities and cities in the center of the digital and green transition. In: Academia, Administration, Digitalization and Sustainability : Change and Transformation the EU Way. - Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2025. - ISBN 9783985420674. - S. 19-37 [1,36 AH].

Cybersecurity Competence Center at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice supported by the Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatisation of the Slovak Republic, Grant no: 17R05-04-V01-00007. Duration: 2025-2026. Position: project member.

KA220 Cooperation Partnerships: 2021-1-SK01-KA220-HED-000023505. Project name: Digital government for green municipalities and cities (DiGreen). Coordinator: Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Public Administration. Activities: DiGreen aims to provide professionals working in the municipality/city self-government public bodies and young citizens (students) with a framework to exchange knowledge and digital and green good practices. Duration: 2021-2024. Position: project leader, project member.

Strengthening the Resilience of Public Administration after COVID-19 with the Common Assessment Framework (CAF). Activities: Study focusing on the assessment of the public sector organisation’s resilience through the lens of the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) model, a quality management tool used across EU Member States and beyond to self-evaluate organisational operations and performance. Coordinator: OECD. Duration: 2022-2023.

EIT HEI INITIATIVE Innovation Capacity Building for Higher Education. Project name: InnoChange: Driving Change and Capacity Building Towards Innovative, Entrepreneurial Universities. Coordinator: Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. Activities: InnoChange aims to increase the entrepreneurial and innovation capacity and attitude of higher education institutions (HEIs). Duration: 2021-2023. Position: project member.

Erasmus+ Strategic partnership: 2018-1-SK01-KA203-046330. Project name: Paquality - Public Administration Education Quality Enhancement. Coordinator: NISPAcee. Duration: 2018-2021. Position: project leader, project member.