The Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Žilina (UNIZA) is proud to announce that Prof. Ing. Ján Čelko, CSc. has received the prestigious Science and Technology Promotion Award 2026 in recognition of his long-standing professional contributions and active engagement in promoting scientific and technological knowledge.

The award ceremony took place on 22 October 2026 in Bratislava as part of the fifth Conference on Science and Technology in Slovakia. The event was organised by the Union of Slovak Scientific and Technical Societies in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic, under the auspices of the President of the Slovak Republic, Peter Pellegrini.

The conference focused on Slovakia’s cooperation within major European research infrastructures. The expert programme highlighted the involvement of Slovak researchers in CERN, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser Facility (European XFEL).

This prestigious award is a significant recognition of Prof. Čelko’s long-standing work and an achievement that makes our Faculty proud.

We warmly congratulate Prof. Ján Čelko on this well-deserved recognition and wish him good health, happiness, continued inspiration and many more successes in his work.