In 2022, the staff of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) achieved several significant successes. Chairman of the SAV, Pavol Šajgalík said it is difficult to choose only a few successes. "For me, a significant success is the completion of almost 30 years of efforts by the Center for Plant Biology and Biodiversity of the Slovak Republic, which was originally called the Botanical Institute. They have finished publishing a series of books called Plant Communities of Slovakia, so we finally have the entire flora of Slovakia covered," noted Šajgalík. They ended the series of books with Vegetation of forests and shrubs. According to the president of the academy, the publications have been published since 1995. "It is very closely related to the environment, climate change, so to some extent we are ready for change," he added.
The SAV Institute of Informatics has moved forward and is successfully engaged in the transcription of human speech according to Šajgalík. "This year, it is closely cooperating with the Ministry of Justice, where it sold them 450 licenses for this transcription. At the beginning, it looked like a banal problem of basic research, whether it even works, and they have been successfully doing business in this area for several years," he explained.
According to Šajgalík, the topic of the Roma issue, which is addressed by several SAV institutes, is also important. The chairman appreciates the publication of a publication called Roma on Luník IX on the grounds of the Social and Psychological Sciences Center of the Slovak Republic, which maps the area before the settlement was built there, then, when it was built there, what problems and tensions it brought between the majority and minority part of the population. "I see this as a significant contribution to the problems that are troubling us at this time," he concluded.
(TASR)
