SK
EN
Zelená ekonomika a podnikanie
The aim of the Bachelor's degree programme Green Economy and Entrepreneurship is to provide students with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to address the challenges associated with sustainable development, green economy and entrepreneurship. The programme is designed to enable students to link economic, social and environmental aspects, thereby encouraging the development of innovative solutions and strategies in different areas of business and the public sector. Students will gain an in-depth understanding of the principles of green economy, environmental policy and management, as well as the economic tools that promote sustainability. They will be able to analyse environmental problems and their economic consequences and design effective solutions to mitigate them. The program focuses on developing creative and critical thinking skills that will enable students to effectively solve complex problems. Students will learn analytical tools to quantify the impacts of business activities on the environment and society, while gaining skills in the use of modern technology. Practical skills acquired during the course include preparing and managing environmental projects, developing sustainability marketing strategies and building business plans with an emphasis on green innovation. The programme also emphasises teamwork and collaboration with stakeholders, including the public and private sectors. Graduates will be able to apply sustainability principles in a variety of areas, from business strategies to public policy, and effectively communicate their findings and proposals. They will be prepared to cope with dynamic changes in the labour market that require a combination of professional knowledge and adaptability. The programme prepares graduates for careers as environmental and sustainability managers, green business specialists, waste management experts and sustainability project managers. In addition, they will acquire competences that will enable them to start their own business based on the principles of the green economy. Graduates will be prepared to identify opportunities for sustainable development in different sectors of the economy and be able to contribute to the implementation of green strategies and policies at regional and global level. The programme reflects the current needs of the labour market while providing the tools to build innovative solutions that respond to today's environmental and societal challenges.
The aim of education in the Bachelor's Degree Programme in Green Economics and Entrepreneurship is to acquire relevant professional knowledge in economics and management issues, to learn and apply relevant methods in the subject area, to acquire the ability to conceptually solve elementary and advanced problems in the field in the dynamic development of knowledge and to present the results. The objectives of the study programme are the link between the needs of the labour market, practice and prospective employers of graduates; the qualifications and the direction of the faculty. The aim of the Bachelor's degree programme "Green Economy and Entrepreneurship" is to provide students with detailed knowledge and practical skills in the field of sustainable development, green economy and entrepreneurship. Students will acquire the ability to identify and solve environmental and social problems in the context of economic sustainability. The objectives of the programme reflect the current needs of the labour market and the perspectives of sustainable business development. The graduate of the Bachelor's degree programme in Green Economy and Entrepreneurship possesses professional and methodological knowledge, skills and competences in the field of economics and management, which create a prerequisite for his/her sectoral specialization and are linked to the specific requirements of practice and the labour market.
The graduate of the Bachelor's degree programme in Green Economy and Entrepreneurship
On the domestic and European labour market, the graduate finds employment in positions in several sectors of the economy, local government, state administration, administration, self-employment. The graduate of the bachelor's study programme in green economy and entrepreneurship possesses professional and methodological knowledge, skills and competences in the field of economics and management, which create a prerequisite for his/her sectoral specialization. These are:
KNOWLEDGE
- characterize basic economic principles and patterns in the context of sustainable development;
- describe legal standards, guidelines and laws relevant to green economy and business;
- specify the principles and technologies of renewable energy;
- acquire theoretical, general and methodological knowledge of environmental economics and policy;
- specify the development of economic and environmental analyses and tools for their implementation;
- characterise the business environment of the Slovak Republic and the EU with an emphasis on green policies and opportunities;
- define the basic concepts of circular economy and their application in business practice;
- understand the principles of circular economy and their relevance for sustainable business;
- assess the financial situation and sustainability of a business;
- characterise the impacts of environmental changes on business and business processes;
- apply the principles of microeconomics taking into account environmental factors;
- use informatics and geographic information systems in data analysis and visualization;
- design and implement marketing strategies oriented towards sustainability and social responsibility;
- integrate the principles of sustainable development into business strategies and operational activities;
- explain the principles of environmental accounting and its application in practice;
- characterise the process of creating organisational structures and their impact on environmental objectives;
- characterise different management styles and their application in environmental management;
- analyse the relationships between economic, social and environmental aspects of business decisions;
- understand the business environment in the context of the implementation of environmental strategies in the Slovak Republic and the EU;
- design and evaluate strategic decisions in terms of their impact on environmental and social sustainability;
- characterize the basic tools of green economy;
- design innovations in business processes aimed at reducing environmental impacts;
- explain the concepts of sustainable management and their application in corporate strategies;
- create environmental projects and assess their economic efficiency;
- use statistical methods to analyze economic and environmental data.
RELATED SKILLS
- analyze business indicators;
- evaluate economic performance;
- apply mathematical operations and statistical operations;
- apply legislation in relevant areas;
- apply basic principles of marketing;
- design concepts for environmental advertising campaigns and promotions;
- analyze environmental challenges and propose innovative solutions to address them;
- implement green strategies and initiatives in business practice;
- develop a business plan and evaluate its sustainability;
- apply circular economy principles to optimise business processes;
- process and interpret data using statistical and environmental information systems;
- quantify environmental impacts and evaluate their economic efficiency;
- design and manage environmental projects from planning to implementation;
- implement environmental accounting tools in business practice;
- communicate and collaborate effectively with experts from different sectors on green initiatives;
- conduct case studies to identify opportunities for green business;
- develop marketing strategies with a focus on social responsibility and sustainable development;
- use modern technologies to process big data in environmental management;
- apply legislative frameworks related to environmental protection in business;
- identify and analyse climate risks and propose adaptation measures;
- propose solutions to eliminate selected environmental and economic problems at regional level;
- quantify aspects of sustainable development using indicators;
- apply principles of circular economy in the development of business strategies;
- design and implement marketing strategies focused on sustainability and social responsibility;
- use geographic information systems (GIS) to visualize and analyze environmental data;
- analyze and compare the effectiveness of various economic instruments of environmental policy;
- prepare environmental projects;
- implement activities to reduce the environmental impact of business activities;
- process data using statistical methods and decision-making tools;
- communicate effectively with stakeholders in the implementation of environmental strategies;
- propose innovations and optimizations in the field of energy efficiency and renewable resources;
- manage and coordinate teams in the preparation and implementation of environmental projects;
- optimize business and production processes for environmental efficiency;
- interpret complex environmental and economic data for strategic decision making;
- evaluate the social and environmental impacts of business activities
- communicate and present ideas and solutions to stakeholders with an emphasis on sustainability.
COMPETENCY
- integrate sustainability principles into corporate strategies and operations;
- critically analyze environmental and economic problems and propose solutions;
- co-manage and coordinate teams in the implementation of environmental projects;
- independently plan and implement green business activities;
- communicate effectively with stakeholders, including public institutions, the business sector, and non-profit organizations;
- flexibility and adaptability in dealing with complex tasks in a dynamic environment;
- use modern technologies to support decision making;
- analyze and quantify the environmental and economic impacts of business activities;
- apply legislative and regulatory frameworks in the context of sustainable development;
- take a proactive approach to innovation and improvements in business processes;
- develop and implement corporate social responsibility strategies;
- lead professional discussions on sustainable development and green business;
- effectively manage renewable energy sources within corporate activities;
- responsibility for the evaluation and optimization of processes with regard to environmental and economic indicators;
- prepare and present strategic proposals and decisions in the field of environmental management;
- develop an interdisciplinary approach in analysing the relationship between the economy and the environment;
- identify market opportunities for sustainable business and implement them in practice;
- responsibility for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of environmental measures and strategies;
- coordinate cross-sectoral initiatives to promote sustainable development;
- lead expert teams in the implementation of innovative projects aimed at reducing environmental impacts
Always up-to-date news about university University of Presov in Presov on your email.
We will send you all the information about important events and deadlines.
Conditions for admission to study in the 1st cycle of studies (Bachelor's degree):
The basic condition for admission to the study is the acquisition of a complete secondary education or a complete secondary vocational education, including the matriculation examination.
The admission procedure for the Bachelor's degree is held without an entrance examination, i.e. applicants for the Bachelor's degree will be admitted in the admission procedure without taking an entrance examination. All applicants applying to study at FMEO PU are ranked in order of admission to the respective study programme to which they have applied (there is always only one rank for each given study programme) and will be admitted on the basis of their results on the matriculation certificate and the position in the order of admission assigned on that basis, within the limits set by the teaching capacity of the faculty. The applicant's overall position in the final ranking is calculated based on a set algorithm, which is published on the Faculty's website (https://www.unipo.sk/fakulta-manazmentu/informacie/uchadzaci/).
Priority (outside the evaluation by the algorithm) will be given to allapplicants who:
- have been enrolled by default and have achieved an arithmetic average of less than 1.5 marks on the matriculation certificate at any secondary school;
- were enrolled in and took the optional SCIO test (see www.scio.cz for more information) "General Study Prerequisites" (or Municipal Study Prerequisites) and achieved a percentile of more than 50, inclusive.
Required documents:
1. A duly and fully completed electronic application form submitted through MAIS (https://www.unipo.sk/cvtpu/hlavne-sekcie/MAIS/intro/) or paper application form delivered to the faculty address by the deadline, including the attachments mentioned in the following points. When submitting an electronic application via MAIS, the application must also be printed, hand-signed and mailed to the faculty's address.
2. Officially certified photocopy of the certificate of matriculation examination, which must be sent by post or delivered in person to the FMEO PU.
- Candidates who will take the matriculation exam in school. 2024/2025, immediately after the matriculation examination shall mail or personally deliver to the address of FMEO PU an officially certified copy of the matriculation certificate with grades.
- Applicants who graduated from secondary school outside the territory of the Slovak Republic are obliged to deliver translated and certified documents on the attainment of full secondary education with a matriculation diploma or full secondary vocational education with a matriculation diploma and at the same time Decision on recognition of the equivalence of documents on education for the purpose of continuation of studies (the so-called "Decision on recognition of the equivalence of documents on education for the purpose of continuation of studies" (the so-called "Decision on recognition of the equivalence of documents on education for the purpose of continuation of studies"). (information from the Department of Education regarding the recognition of educational documents is available at https://www.russ-po.sk/949-sk/nostrifikacie-uznanie-dokladov-o-vzdelani/).
3. Structured CV (possible to upload as an attachment to the e-application form).
4. Proof of payment of the admission fee (uploadable as attachments to the e-application form).
In case the applicant fails to deliver all the above mentioned documents related to admission, he/she will be eliminated from the admission process.
If the applicant for the Bachelor's study does not present such a matriculation certificate, on which one of the passed subjects is Slovak language (this is especially the case for foreign applicants), he/she is required to undergo a LANGUAGE ABILITY ASSESSMENT at the faculty to study the Bachelor's study programme in Slovak language.
Certification of linguistic competence to study a study programme in the Slovak language cannot be replaced by any certificates in the Slovak language. The dates for the verification of linguistic competence to study a Bachelor's degree programme in the Slovak language are set out in the introduction to this document. If an applicant does not attend the language proficiency test or fails the language proficiency test for the study programme in the Slovak language, he/she will be eliminated from the admission list.
An applicant who fails to present a standard school leaving certificate, i.e. Such a certificate, which contains specific grades for individual subjects and at the same time the name of the secondary school attended (especially for foreign applicants), is obliged to take the DIFFERENCE TEST, which fulfils the role of a test of general study prerequisites, which is carried out from a selected part of the basic curriculum of the Slovak grammar school, namely from the part of the subject Civic Education - Basics of Economics and Economics. All topics of the differential test of the above mentioned selected part of the basic curriculum from the above mentioned subject will be published on the faculty's website in the section Education/Information for applicants (https://www.unipo.sk/fakulta-manazmentu/informacie/uchadzaci/). If an applicant has passed the differentials test and the matriculation certificate submitted by the deadline contains the matriculation marks, the matriculation certificate submitted by the applicant will be taken into account for the purpose of ranking for admission. The dates of the differentials test are given in the introduction to this document.
The language proficiency test and the differentials test may be taken only once during the entire admission procedure for the academic year 2025/2026 (even in the case of applications for several programmes of study) and only on one of the five dates listed in the introductory sections of this text
.
Related Notes:
All those candidates are also required to attend the language proficiency test exclusively on only one of the above five dates (14.04.2025, 05.05.2025, 23.05.2025, 05.06.2025, 16.06.2025, 05.06.2025, 16.06.2025.2025), who are still studying at that time and only in the course of the year 2025 will be finishing their studies at such a secondary school, which will not issue them (does not issue) a matriculation certificate after the completion of their studies, where one of the grades is a mark from the Slovak language.
For these applicants, verification of language proficiency on one of the above mentioned dates at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Business may temporally precede the date of their graduation (but the Faculty does not plan any other dates for verification of language proficiency in 2025).
Analogically, this applies to the obligation to take the differential test at the same time and on the same dates for those candidates who will be completing their studies at a secondary school that will not issue them a matriculation certificate with grades and/or the name of the secondary school after the completion of their studies.
Invitation to the language proficiency test and the differential test together shall be sent by the faculty to the candidate at least 14 days before the date of the procedure.
Final Information:
The application form must be submitted completely filled in including attachments by the specified deadline and in case of electronic application, the application form should also be printed, signed and delivered or sent to the address of FMEO PU. Applicants are strongly advised to include their own e-mail address and telephone number in the application form. In case the applicant fails to deliver all the required documents related to admission, he/she will be eliminated from the admission process. Applicants must pay the administrative fee for the admission procedure by bank transfer or postal money order, and proof of payment of the fee must be attached to the application form.
The decision on the results of the admission procedure will be made in writing within 30 days after verification of the fulfilment of the conditions (including legislative ones) for admission to the study.
Admission to the study is decided by the dean of the faculty on the proposal of the admission committee. The members of the admissions committee are appointed by the dean of the faculty.
A candidate who has received a decision of non-admission may submit an application for a review of this decision. The application shall be submitted to the Dean of the Faculty within eight days from the date of receipt of the non-admission decision.
Under Section 58(9) of Act No. 131/2002 Coll. on Higher Education and on Amendments and Additions to Certain Acts, the faculty has the right to request information from admitted applicants as to whether they will be enrolled for studies. In view of the above, an applicant who receives an admission decision is obliged to inform the faculty within 7 days of receipt of the admission decision whether he/she will enrol in the study. If the applicant does not express interest in the study or does not provide the information within the time specified by law, his/her right to enrol in the study programme in question shall be terminated.
Further information regarding the admission of applicants to the Bachelor's degree programme will be published on the Faculty's website (https://www.unipo.sk/fakulta-manazmentu-ekonomiky-a-obchodu), which
Additional information
A candidate may submit multiple applications to the faculty for study, i.e. for several study programmes, or for both forms of study (full-time and part-time). The application form must be duly and completely completed and accompanied by the required annexes. Applicants must pay the administrative fee for the admission procedure by bank transfer or postal money order, and proof of payment of the fee must be attached to the application form.
Note: When applying for several study programmes at FMEO PU, it is necessary to pay the fee for each application.
The application form in hard copy must be signed by the applicant in his/her own handwriting.
Conditions for international students
In the event that a candidate for Bachelor's studies does not prove such a matriculation certificate in which one of the subjects passed is Slovak language (this is especially the case for foreign applicants), he/she is required to undergo LANGUAGE ABILITY ASSESSMENT to study a Bachelor's study programme in Slovak language at the faculty.
Certification of linguistic competence to study the study programme in the Slovak language cannot be replaced by any certificates in the Slovak language. The dates for the verification of linguistic competence to study a Bachelor's degree programme in the Slovak language are given below. If an applicant does not attend the language proficiency test or fails the language proficiency test for the study programme in the Slovak language, he/she will be eliminated from the admission list.
An applicant who fails to present a standard school leaving certificate, i.e. Such a certificate, which contains specific grades for individual subjects and at the same time the name of the secondary school attended (especially for foreign applicants), is obliged to take the DIFFERENCE TEST, which fulfils the role of a test of general study prerequisites, which is carried out from a selected part of the basic curriculum of the Slovak grammar school, namely from the part of the subject Civic Education - Basics of Economics and Economics. All topics of the differential test of the above mentioned selected part of the basic curriculum from the above mentioned subject will be published on the faculty's website in the section Education/Information for applicants (https://www.unipo.sk/fakulta-manazmentu/informacie/uchadzaci/). If an applicant has passed the differentials test and the matriculation certificate submitted by the deadline contains the matriculation marks, the matriculation certificate submitted by the applicant will be taken into account for the purpose of ranking for admission. The dates of the differentials test are given in the introduction to this document.
The language proficiency test and the differentials test may be taken only once during the entire admission procedure for the academic year 2025/2026 (even in the case of applications for several programmes of study) and only on one of the five dates listed in the introductory sections of this text
.
Related Notes:
All those candidates are also required to attend the language proficiency test exclusively on only one of the five dates mentioned above,14.04.2025, 05.05.2025, 23.05.2025, 05.06.2025, 16.06.2025, 16.06.2025, 16.06.2025.2025, who are still studying at that time and only during the year 2025 will be finishing their studies at such secondary school, which will not issue them (does not issue) a matriculation certificate after the completion of their studies, where one of the grades is a mark from the Slovak language.
For these applicants, verification of language proficiency on one of the above mentioned dates at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Business may temporally precede the date of their graduation (but the Faculty does not plan any other dates for verification of language proficiency in 2025).
Analogically, this applies to the obligation to take the differential test at the same time and on the same dates for those candidates who will be completing their studies at a secondary school that will not issue them a matriculation certificate with grades and/or the name of the secondary school after the completion of their studies.
Invitation to the language proficiency test and the differential test together shall be sent by the faculty to the applicant at least 14 days before the date of the examination.
Without entrance examinations
yes
Conditions of admission without the entrance exam
Coordinator for students with specific needs
Applicants with specific needs are advised to contact the Coordinator for Students with Specific Needs before applying (more information on the Faculty's website under Education/Students with Specific Needs: https://www.unipo.sk/fakulta-manazmentu-ekonomiky-a-obchodu/specifickymi-potrebami/)
without entrance exam
-
Apply the application for study
30.04.2025
-
Send certificate to
20.06.2025
Always up-to-date news about university University of Presov in Presov on your email.
We will send you all the information about important events and deadlines.
60
Additions
- CV (paper form)
- (paper form)
- (paper form)
Annual tuition fees
Standard length of study: cost free
Study longer than the standard length of study program, parallel studies: 1000 €
The fee for admission procedure
application form: 30 €
E-application form: 30 €
Billing information
Account number: 7000199613/8180
IBAN - SK89 8180 0000 0070 0019 9613
SWIFT - SPSRSKBA
Variable symbol: indicate the applicant's birth number (without slash)
(The name and surname of the applicant must be indicated in the message to the recipient or in the note)
Address of the payee:
University of Prešov
Faculty of Management, Economics and Business
Konštantínova 16
080 01 Prešov
*************************
Applications should be sent to:
University of Prešov
Faculty of Management, Economics and Business
Konštantínova 16
080 01 Prešov
Always up-to-date news about university University of Presov in Presov on your email.
We will send you all the information about important events and deadlines.
0911 154 882
0910 288 664
037 / 6414881
037 / 6414890
(7.30 - 15.30 h.)
Responsibility for content: Mgr. Marcela STRÍŠOVÁ – marcela.strisova@unipo.sk
Last update: 13.03.2025 06:17