The recent winner of the ESET Science Award in the main category Outstanding Scientist in Slovakia spoke with Marianna Onuferová about the labour market, migration, and the quality of higher education.

In its October issue, Forbes Slovakia published profiles of the ESET Science Award 2025 finalists, showing how their research and personal stories help to strengthen trust in science. Among the featured finalists is CELSI’s co-founder and Scientific Director Martin Kahanec.

In a special episode of Jednoducho veda by .týždeň, all finalists of the ESET Science Award 2025 in the main category – Outstanding Scientist in Slovakia – were introduced and discussed their research.

Martin Kahanec published an opinion piece in SME Daily on why Slovaks often lack healthy pride in their country and how this undermines faith in its future.

How to consolidate responsibly and without chaos? CELSI Scientific Director Martin Kahanec for Denník Pravda on the risks and opportunities of abolishing and merging government offices.

The government plans to reduce the deficit by €2.7 billion, with most of the burden falling on workers through lower net wages and on local governments through budget constraints. According to experts, will the proposed measures ensure the long-term sustainability of public finances, and how might they affect economic growth?

On this issue, Pravda also interviewed CELSI researcher Martin Guzi, who focuses on the economics of happiness and, within CELSI, has long been devoted to concepts of decent pay for work.

Martin Kahanec, Scientific Director and Founder of CELSI, published an article in Denník N on the anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising about which events, and in what way, society should commemorate.

The reasons why people in Slovakia tend to have shorter working lives were explained to SME daily by Martin Kahanec, Scientific Director and Founder of the Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI).

Journalist Denisa Žilová invited former dean of European University in Vienna and Scientific Director of CELSI Professor Martin Kahanec to comment on the Higher Education Act for the Rádiožurnál news program on Radio Slovakia.