Public Policy

We are delighted that you have chosen to study at the Institute of Public Policy, and for the next two years my colleagues and I will be working with you to teach you how to make better decisions about public finances, about the rights and responsibilities of people living in Slovakia, and even to make better decisions about many aspects of your personal life. Among the teachers at the Institute, you will find many outstanding scholars, and we are also joined by practitioners who work in the public sector, the media, or the non-governmental sector, and who think every day about how to improve life in our country. With a vibrant and active community of PhD students, senior students, and our alumni, you will certainly enjoy joining in the discussions we organise at the Institute. Our programme is also unique in that many of the lectures are given by practitioners such as Lívia Vašáková, who works as an economic advisor at the EC Representation in Slovakia, Matej Šucha, who works as an expert in the field of behavioural sciences, Vincent Bujňák, who works on lawmaking in the office of the Member of the National Assembly of the Slovak Republic, and many others.

The lectures are given by experts in the field of behavioural sciences.

Our institute runs a Public Policy Book Club, where we discuss a selected book together with experts. The meetings are very fruitful; the books discussed correlate with the topics covered by the students in each course. You can also get involved in writing our quarterly magazine Public Policy News, in which we report on various events, academic conferences, or lectures, and publish interviews with students who have participated in foreign residencies or internships.

Absolvent 2. degree (Master) in public policy will be proficient in the theory and methodology of public policy, analytical methods of working with the agenda of government organizations, will be able to solve independent research tasks and apply creative approaches in the preparation of departmental as well as interdepartmental policies, will be able to participate in the continuous development of cross-cutting and sectoral policies and propose changes and legislative adjustments, will be able to independently analyse the status and results of policy implementation and will be able to communicate in domestic and international fora in policy advocacy in line with European standards. The graduate will acquire the technical language, concepts, facts and theories related to the study of the process of public policy making and implementation, how to apply them in the design of new policies in order to demonstrate an understanding of the context and implications of the problem and of alternative solutions when designing a solution, will learn to compare the functioning of policies in an international framework, especially in the EU, and will be able to design procedures and tools to solve particular practical policy problems. At the same time, the graduate will be able to manage and organise working groups, co-create organisational relationships in the development of public policy at European, national and local level, analyse needs, design, develop, implement, monitor and evaluate policies, conduct empirical research and interpret its results, and apply research recommendations in practice.

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