Aktuality

At their meeting on Wednesday (6 March 2024), the Government of the Slovak Republic approved the document called “Focus of Slovak Bilateral Development Cooperation for 2024”. This year's activities of Slovak development cooperation will focus on humanitarian and development projects, education, sending volunteers and support through subsidy grants. The Government has allocated EUR 21.7 million for implementation of the approved concept.

State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Rastislav Chovanec, received the Ambassador of the Netherlands to Slovakia Gabriella Sancisi on 23 January 2024. The meeting confirmed the mutual interest in further strengthening cooperation, particularly in the fields of energy, the use of nuclear power, smart solutions and construction.

State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Rastislav Chovanec received representatives of Slovak non-government development organizations, associated in the Ambrela platform, in Bratislava on 8 December 2023.

State Secretary of the Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Ministry Rastislav Chovanec opened the SlovakAid Development Summit in Bratislava on 9 November 2023.

On 4 and 5 September 2023, the State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Ingrid Brocková, attended an informal meeting of the Development Segment of the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Cádiz, Spain.

State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Ingrid Brocková, and Carsten Staur, Permanent Chair of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD/DAC), co-chaired the traditional "Tidewater" format in Bratislava on 28-29 June 2023. The discussions, attended by more than 30 senior representatives of the Committee, covered reforms of financial institutions, achieving the 2030 Agenda's Sustainable Development Goals, and scaling up the delivery of development assistance at times of military conflict and other crises.

State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Ingrid Brocková, and Carsten Staur, Chair of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD’s DAC), addressed a joint meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Committee on European Affairs of the National Council of the Slovak Republic in Bratislava on 25 April 2023.

On 16 March 2023, the 14th annual Slovak Volunteer Awards took place at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic in Bratislava, Slovakia, under the title Srdce na dlani (Heart-in-Hand) Award 2022. Ján Jaňák, who spent several months last year working at a vocational training centre in the village of Kybakadde in Uganda, received the award for SlovakAid Volunteer.

State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Ingrid Brocková attended an Informal Meeting of EU development ministers of the Foreign Affairs Council in Stockholm on 8 and 9 March 2023. The meeting was organised by the European External Action Service together with the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU.

On 28th February 2023, the closing event of the SlovakAid project “Strengthening good governance by promoting transparency, digitisation and social inclusion in southern Moldova" took place in Comrat.