On 11 October 2007, the Academic Ceremony was held on the premises of the Slovak University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava, The ceremony was attended by Mr Tibor Mikuš, the Chair of the Trnava Self-governing region, Mr Štefan Bošnák, the Mayor of Trnava, Dr.h.c. Dr. Ing. Piet Joehnk from Forschungszentrum, Dresden, Mr Rolf Pfrengle from Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstofforschung in Dresden, as well as other honourable guests from Slovakia and abroad, representatives of the University, industry and the Faculty staff.
The Ceremony was opened by Prof. Ing. Vladimír Báleš, DrSc., Rector of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava.
The addresses of individual honourable guests were followed by the opening of the TEM (Transmission Electron Microscopy) Laboratory, a unique workplace of European importance.
In the next part of the Ceremony programme, prof. Ing. Vladimír Báleš, DrSc, the STU Rector, opened two lecture halls newly refurbished with a financial support of part-time students and Forschungszentrum Dresden – Rossendorf, and unveiled the panels commemorating Štefan Banič and Jozef Garaj, two outstanding personalities to whom the lecture halls are dedicated.
The Academic Ceremony then culminated in the entrance hall of the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Paulinska st. with the unveiling of the Personalities Gallery and bronze artistic reliefs in honour of six outstanding representatives of the Slovak science and technology of recent and distant past. The author of the works is Katarína Žgančíková, a student of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava.
The 70th Anniversary of the Slovak University of Technology establishment was the occasion for prof. Ing. Vladimír Báleš, DrSc, the University Rector, to award important foreign and Slovak partners of the University, as well as the Faculty employees. List of awarded (11.10.2007)
The Academic Ceremony, which promoted the new image of the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology, was accomplished by the scientific poster display and followed by a reception.
