

| Email: | silvia.rucinska@upjs.sk | |
| Homepage: | https://bit.ly/SilviaRucinska-PersonalPage | |
| Faculty:  | FVS UPJŠ
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                              											Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice Faculty of Public Administration | |
| Department: | KVPaTVS   
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                              									Department of Public Policy and Theory of Public Administration | |
| Office: | PA3M18 | |
| Phone: | +421 55 234 5152,1164 | |
|  ORCID ID: | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8576-0874 | 
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                                    		                                              Overview of the responsibility for
                                    the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part
                                    at the university in the current academic year
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                                    														   Study programme: European Public administration, study field: political sciences, 1st degree degree  | 
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                                    														   Study programme: European Public administration, study field: political sciences, 2nd degree degree  | 
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                                    														   Study programme: Public Administration, study field: political science, 3rd degree degree  | 
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                                    		                                            Profile courses
                                    
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| KVPaTVS/VET-d/22 - General economic theory (+KVPaTVS/VET-e/22) -  Public Administration, bachelor degree | 
| KVPaTVS/E-GOV-IS-d/22 - E-government -  Information Systems in Public Administration, bachelor degree | 
| KVPaTVS/HPEU-d/22 (+ KVPaTVS/AJ-HPEU-d/22) - Economic policy in the European Union -  European Public Administration, European Public Administration in english and deutch
                                    language, Bachelor degree | 
| KVPaTVS/MEV-d/22 - International economic relations (KVPaTVS/MEV-e/22) -  Public Administration, Master degree | 
| KVPaTVS/MEV-EVS/22 - International economic relations -  European Public Administration, Master degree | 
| KVPaTVS/MMRVS/22 - Modern Management Methods in Public Administration (+ KVPaTVS/MMRVS-e/22) -  Public Administration, PhD. degree | 
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                                    													Selected publications
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| Ručinská, S., Fečko, M. and Mitaľ O., 2023. Strengthening the Resilience of Public Administrations after COVID- 19 with the Common Assessment Framework: Case Study of the Ministry of Environment of the SLOVAK REPUBLIC. In OECD (2023), "More resilient public administrations after COVID-19: Lessons from using the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) 2020", OECD Public Governance Policy Papers, No. 29, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/8d10bb06-en 
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| 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. | 
| Mitaľ O., Ručinská, S., Lukačínová, M. and M. Fečko., 2023. Building Collaboration for a Smart and Green Regional Ecosystem: Insights from the Slovak Republic. et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2023 Workshops. ICCSA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14105. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37108-0_38 | 
| Ručinská, S., Fečko, M., 2019. Strategische Steuerung in der Stadt Hlohovec und der Gemeinde Ratkovce (Slowakei). In: Weiß, J. (eds) Strategisches Management und wirkungsorientierte Steuerung in Kommunen. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27359-0_10 | 
| Ručinská, S., Fečko, M. and Mitaľ O., 2022. The role of public authorities in responding disinformation. In: Proceedings of the Central and Eastern European eDem and eGov Days. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. ISBN 9781450397667. pp. 12-17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3551504.3552297 SCOPUS. | 
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                                    													Selected projects
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| 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. 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 member | 
| Erasmus+ Strategic partnership: 2015-1-DE01-KS203-002156. Project name: „Kompetenzaufbau fur eine wikungsorientierte Steuerung in kleinen und mittleren Kommunen“ (KoWiSt). Coordinator: Hochschule Harz – Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Germany. Duration: 2015-2018. Position: project leader, project member. | 
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                                    													International mobilities and visits
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| Hochschule Bremen | University of Applied Sciences Bremen,  Werderstraße 73, Bremen, Germany, 30.08.2023 – 31.08.2023, Erasmus+ Staff Mobility For Training | 
| Tel-Hai Academic College, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities,  Upper Galilee, 1220800 Israel, 14.08.2023 – 18.08.2023, Erasmus+ Staff Mobility For Training | 
| Budapest University of Technology and Economics,  1117 Budapest, Magyar tudósok körútja 2, 01. 05. 2019 - 03. 05. 2019, Erasmus+ Staff Mobility For Training | 
| Universite de Nice Sophia Antipolis,  Research stay. Focus: competition policy, regional development, knowledge transfer,
                                    management, 09/2005, scholarship VW-Stiftung | 
| Universität Bayreuth, Spolková republika Nemecko,  Research stay. Focus: Process management, competition policy, regional development,
                                    trade policy and anti-dumping, 07/2005, scholarship VW-Stiftung | 
| Institut für Weltwirtschaft und internationales Management der Universität Bremen,
                                    Germany,  Max von Laue-Straße 1, Bremen 28359, 07/2003 – 12/2003, scholarship DAAD for PhD. students and young researchers | 
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                                    	                                            	Organisational activities
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| Member of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Public Administration UPJŠ -  Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Public Administration, 2001 - 2009 | 
| Chairman of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Public Administration UPJŠ -  Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Public Administration, 2006 - 2009 | 
| Member of the UPJŠ Academic Senate -  Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, 2002 - 2009 | 
| Member of the Scientific Board of the UPJŠ Faculty of Public Administration -  Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Public Administration, since 2006 | 
| Member of the Scientific Board of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice -  Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, since 2015 | 
| Member of the Horizon Working group of the strategic configuration of the Horizon
                                    Europe Programme Committee on mission adaptation to Climate change, since 2022 | 
| Member of the Slovak Academic Association for International Cooperation (SAAIC), 2012 – 2022 | 
| American Economic Association, Nashville, 2009 – 2012 | 
| Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde, Berlin, 2010 - 2022 | 
| Member of the Evaluation Commission „Evaluation of self-government measures”, Centrum
                                    pre hospodársky rozvoj (INEKO), 2007 – 2011 | 
