Vice-Rector Balaban Stayed at the Slovak University of Technology

Vice-Rector for International and Inter-University Cooperation of the University of Banja Luka Prof. Milica Balaban, PhD, stayed from 3 to 7 October 2022 at the Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava.

During the visit, organized through the international credit exchange project between the Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava and our Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Vice-Rector Balaban also met with the vice-rectors of this Slovak higher education institution.

During the meeting with Vice-Rector for Foreign Relations and Public Relations Prof. Lubica Vitkova, PhD, and Vice-Rector for Informatics and Sport Prof. Štefan Stanko, PhD, satisfaction with the ten-year cooperation was expressed, and potential expansion of cooperation to other research groups of both universities was discussed.

This meeting, held in the premises of the Slovak University of Technology, was also attended by Prof. Ivan Španik, PhD and Andrea Machynakova, PhD, from the Institute of Analytical Chemistry, who together with colleagues from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics of the University of Banja Luka and Prof. Milica Balaban, PhD, participate in the implementation of the project.

The project refers to the improvement of analytical methods for the determination of pesticides in water through the synthesis of new and modification of existing polymer materials that are used as sorbents for these polluting substances.  

As part of this visit, Prof. Balaban gave a lecture on her previous research within this project.