Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

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University
Campus
The university creates favourable conditions for studies. The infrastructure is constantly improved
by the renovation and development of laboratories and classrooms, equipped with
modern technologies.
The Center of Information and Communication technology
The center provides operation and development of information and communication technologies
on SUA. It implements the conceptual intentions of SUA development in the information
and communication technologies, information systems and information security.
The center‘s mission is to ensure the registration, operation and service of hardware and
software computers, to realize production and maintenance of multimedia didactic applications.
It also prepares the computer network conception in SUA, provides its enlargement,
operation, Internet connection and offers net services. Establishment and operation
of regional node of nationwide computer network SANET and SANET2 is another feature of
the center.
The Slovak Agricultural Library
More than 520 thousands of library units concerning agriculture and its related fields have
been gathered in the Slovak Agricultural Library. The library also collects documents from
majority of scientific areas. Around 10 thousand of users have access to more than 200 thousand
loans. The access to documents is simplified by an automated lending system, which
also provides the access to online magazines and books for the university.
SUA Editorial Center
Focuses on the issue of scientific and technical literature for the Slovak University of Agriculture
in Nitra, concerning mostly educational literature (study books, scripts, memoirs)
and other printed matter (anniversary volumes, authors and mercantile for university departments).
Scientific journals such as Acta fytotechnica et zootechnica, Acta oeconomica
et informatica, Acta technologica agriculturae, Acta horticulturae et regiotecturae, Acta
regionalia et environmentalica and Agrochemistry, are graphically and editorially processed
by SUA Editorial Centre. The shop of study literature concerning sales of periodical and nonperiodical
literature, particularly from its own production, is a part of the editorial center.
Agricultural Expert Institute of SUA
Its function is to provide implementation of expertise in three areas: 1. Environmental pro-
tection, branch: air purity, clean water, industrial and municipal waste, meteorology, an estimate
of damage to the environment, nature and landscape conservation; 2. Agriculture,
branch: estimated value of agricultural land, crop production (general and special), animal
production (general and special), processing of agricultural products (PAP) - pomiculture,
PAP - viniculture, PAP - beekeeping, horticulture, estimated value of agricultural land; 3. Water
management, branch: fishery and aquaculture, hydromelioration.
The SUA University Farm, Ltd., Kolíňany
It offers the best conditions for practical training and for checking the results of scientific
work. It has an area of more than 2270 hectares. All the spectrum of agricultural production
is comprised in its plant and animal sample production. Through its production and economic
results, the SUA University Farm demonstrates its high level of farming. It is equipped
with modern technology in crop production using elements of precision agriculture and progressive
technologies in animal husbandry. It provides resources for dealing with bachelor‘s,
master‘s and doctorial thesis by means of information base of socio-economic information
and consulting activity.
The Botanical Garden
It serves as an educational and research facility. It is an area of 28 hectares. Its collections
include numerous species and cultivated tropical, subtropical and temperate plants. A part
of the garden is also a pomological collection with hundreds of fruit varieties, sample book
of ampelography and vegetable sample book. The botanical garden cooperates with 350
botanical gardens and arboretums around the world in free exchange of seed material.
The University Vivarium
The University Vivarium gathers more than twenty different exotic animals. Some of them
were smuggled or kept illegally and the public authorities of the Slovak Republic have
placed them there temporarily. Employees of the vivarium dedicate also a lot of attention
to the environmental education of their visitors, above all kindergarten and basic school
pupils, who come to the vivarium in hundreds every year.
Student Dormitories
The Slovak University of Agriculture offers its students housing in student dormitories
Mladosť, Hospodárska, Pribina, Antona Bernoláka and Poľnohospodár with the capacity
of 2587 beds. There are TV rooms, computer labs, study rooms, kitchens, laundry rooms
and cafeterias with refreshments available for students. For sport activities, there are sport
grounds available in the dormitories and table tennis facilities. University students can dine
in two school canteens located in the dormitories Mladosť and A. Bernoláka.