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Marian Šuplata

Marian Šuplata
Is the Head of Department for International Management and International Relations at the Faculty of Management, Comenius University Bratislava (FM CU). Graduated in Management Science (Bachelor, Master) and in International Economic Relations (PhD.) at FM UK. Spent almost a decade in five countries of Europe: Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal and the United Kingdom. During the accession negotiations of the Slovak Republic into the European Union he was a Diplomat in the Chief Negotiation´s Department with the EU at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia. His was formed also by Diplomatic Schools in Germany (Bonn/Berlin), Austria (Vienna) and the UK (Wilton Park). After the accession of Slovakia into the EU he was preparing the mandate of historically the first „Slovak“ EU Commissioner in the European Commission in Brussels. After, he accepted an invitation to join his Cabinet during two mandates of Presidents of the European Commission: first (Romano Prodi Commission), responsibility (together with Cabinet of the Finish EU Commissioner) for Enterprise and Information Society; second (José M. Barroso), responsibility for Education, Training, Culture, Youth, Sports, Multilingualism and Civil Society. In the top decision-making international environment composed of Community of 28 EU Member States he was meeting top leaders from business, economics, politics, sports, civil and intellectual society from all over the world.

In his scientific and pedagogic activities, he focuses on aspects of management and economics in the international environments. He emphasizes interconnection of interdisciplinary knowledge from the best quality sources with real managerial environment and executive practice. At the FM CU he teaches courses of International Organizations, International Trade, International Economic Relations, Internal Market and EU Policies, European Integration. Has rich experiences with teaching other courses related to Economics and Management in English, French and Slovak language, as well as practice with teaching top-managers in the program of Master of Business Administration.

He is an invited guest on various Universities – in Germany (Mannheim Universität), in France (Université Grenoble, Université Lorrain), in the United Kingdom (University of Bristol, University of Oxford), in Italy (European University Institute, Florence), in Poland (Jagellonian University in Krakow, Economic University in Krakow) and other. For years he has been invited participant to the European Economic Forum („Davos of the Central and Eastern Europe “), including 5000 participants from four continents, including leaders and top decision makers from the business, trade, diplomatic, political, civic, media and other areas of the international environment. He has been reviewer of numerous important scientific journals, author of numerous scientific and professional publications (published for example by Routledge, Taylor and Francis, Springer, Harmattan, Emerald, Wolters Kluver and other publishers) in Slovak, English, French and Polish languages. As the only author from Central and Eastern Europe he was invited to co-author publication on Leadership of the European Union (published by Taylor and Francis) – in collaboration with authors from three continents: USA (Harvard University, George Mason, New York), Canada (Victoria University), United Kingdom (Bristol), Sweden (Uppsala), the Netherlands (Maastricht/Utrecht), United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabí).

He passed exams and was awarded certificates from the following languages: English (University of Cambridge); French (Alliance Française/Institut Français), German (Goethe Institut, Berlin), Portuguese (Instituto de Línguas e Administraçao, Portugal), Spanish (European Commission, Brussels) and he is able to communicate in other languages.

Projects:

  • Diversification of the content and didactic form of education courses in Slovak language and in world languages, KEGA, by 31 December 2023. 002UMB-2/2016.
  • Creation and innovation of common study programs in foreign languages at UMB. 2017 – 2019.
  • KEGA 019UMB-4/216. „Innovative teaching of courses of economic theory in Slovak, English and French languages”. 2016 – 2018;
  • VEGA 1/0905/16. „The opportunities of implementation of progressive trends of management of human resources in the environment of past planned economies”; 2016 – 2018.
  • KEGA MŠ SR č. 032 UMB-4/2013. „Teaching of economics as a precondition of good quality University study and development of scientific activities in European region”. 2013 – 2015.