How to Keep University Active during COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from Slovakia Pavlíková, Martina Sirotkin, Alexander Králik, Roman Petrikovicová, Lucia García Martín, José COVID-19 Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (UKF) Erasmus+ International cooperation Research Teaching This article was published with the support of the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the contract No. APVV-17-0158. This paper was supported also by Scientific Grant Agency VEGA project No 1/0880/21 "Transformation of the Nitra Region in Changing Socioeconomic Conditions with Special Focus to the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemics". Conceptualization, M.P., A.S., R.K. and L.P.; methodology, M.P., A.S. and R.K.; validation, M.P., A.S. and L.P.; formal analysis, A.S.; investigation, M.P. and R.K.; resources, L.P. and J.G.M.; data curation, A.S., M.P. and R.K.; writing—original draft preparation, M.P., A.S., R.K., L.P. and J.G.M.; writing—review and editing, R.K.; visualization, L.P.; and supervision, A.S. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. The paper outlines the adverse consequences and challenges induced by COVID-19 pandemic for the whole world and for universities in particular. The example of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra illustrates the difficulties and challenges caused by the pandemic in relation to the two main activities arising from the university mission-teaching and research. It presents some particular aspects of the university activities adversely affected by COVID-19 and shares the measures to minimize the resulted damages. Furthermore, it demonstrates that, despite complications induced by COVID-19, teaching, research, and international cooperation have been successfully continued. 2021-10-26T07:10:57Z 2021-10-26T07:10:57Z 2021-09-16 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Pavlíková, M.; Sirotkin, A.; Králik, R.; Petrikoviˇcová, L.; Martin, J.G. How to Keep University Active during COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from Slovakia. Sustainability 2021, 13, 10350. [https://doi.org/10.3390/ su131810350] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/71100 10.3390/su131810350 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España MDPI