Katarína Orságová Department of Economics Faculty of Economics Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica Slovak Republic e-mail: [email protected] __________________________________________________________________________ Katarína Orságová is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics of Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, former researcher of VÚPOP Bratislava, Regional workplace Banská Bystrica, specialist for soil science and Editor of the Agricultural Journal, former member of Department of soil and soil protection of SAAS (Slovak academy of agricultural sciences); in the past she also acted as its secretary. Nowadays, she deals with the issue of tourism, environment and geography. Qualification and Education 2010 – present – Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics of Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica 2002-2008 - Assistant Professor in SUA, Faculty of Agrobiology and Food Resources 2005 – PhD. - Slovak University of Agriculture (SUA), Faculty of Engineering (FEn), Nitra - Natural sciences 1999-2000 (8 months) – Researcher of FAT - Research Institute in Switzerland in Tänikon (Professional internship -Environment and soil protection) 1996 – Ing. (MA) - Slovak University of Agriculture (SUA),Faculty of Agrobiology and Food Resources - Petrology, soil protection and its properties Employment|Service 2010 – present – Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics of Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica 2008-2010 – Researcher VÚPOP Bratislava, Regional workplace Banská Bystrica, specialist for soil science 2002-2008 - Assistant Professor in SUA, Faculty of Agrobiology and Food Resources 2000-2002 – Redactor of professional journal with agricultural topic Research Interests tourism environment geography and geographical information system Recent Publications Perceptions of Global Topics among Students of Economics and Environmental Study Programs in Slovakia/ Zuzana Gallayová, Igor Gallay, Paulína Stachová, Ľuba Kubišová, Katarína Orságová, Mária Bihúňová.2018. In. European Journal of Transformation Studies. 2018. Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 59-77 ISSN 22980997. Fiscal Decentralization and Waste Management in Slovakia. / Katarína Orságová, Mária Horehájová. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference Fiscal Dialog 2017 - Fiscal decentralization and effectiveness of regional and local authorities in the EU. 2018. Publisher: College of Regional Development and Banking Institute – AMBIS. ISBN: 978-80-7265-233-4 pp. 96-107 Evaluation of the agroecosystem potential in the development of region Gemer. / Katarína Orságová , Jarmila Makovníková, Boris Pálka. 2016. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference supported by the CRP OECD „SUSTAINABILITY OF RURAL AREAS IN PRACTICE“Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovakia, 3-4 December 2015. SPU Nitra. 2016, s. 636-444. ISBN 978-80-552- 1574-7 L´augmentation du taux de recyclage des déchets au service de l´effecacité économique des entreprises européennes / Jana Marasová, Katarína Orságová. In Management & Gouvernance : enterprises-territoires-sociétés. - Grenoble Cedex : Le Réseau des Pays du Groupe de Vysegrad, 2014. - ISSN 2104-2438. - Nr. 12 (Juillet-Décembre) (2014), pp. 69-76. Long-term tillage system effects under moist cool conditions in Switzerland./Thomas Anken, Peter Weisskopf, Urs Zihlmann, Urs Forrer, Jan Jansa, Katarina Perháčová (Orságová). 2004. In: Soil & Tillage Research 78, 2004, , s. 171-183, ISSN: 0167-1987 Research Funding (Selected Projects) 2016-2018 - co-creator of the Vega project "Options for the Implementation of Progressive Trends in Human Resources Management in the Environment of Formerly Planned Economies". 2015-2017 – Projects focusing on the issue of global education - "Global Education for the 21st Century" (SAMRS / RV / 1/10) and "Active and Practical Academics" projects (SAMRS 2016 / RV / 1/2). 2010-2011 - Technical projects under the Rural Development Programme Axis 2 – Adaptation "web portal soil SSCRI" provide a comprehensive geospatial information and education under cross compliance and the Rural Development Programme. Within this programme, she was lecturer of the trainings “1. Adaptation "web portal soil SSCRI" provide a comprehensive geospatial information and education under cross compliance and the Rural Development Programme” and 2. “Providing web digital geographic company workbook / book parcels and application to manage the company in accordance with the objectives of the common agricultural policy. 2008-2010 – Projects with the issue of geographical information system - “Building the Single positioning the data base as a fundamental base of an integrated geographic information system in the agricultural sector“ and “International scientific and scientific-technical projects - Assessment and strategic development of geodata in accordance with INSPIRE - services to European soil data (GS-Soil)”. .