Human and social sciences department of the Armed Forces Academy organized an international scientific conference „Organizational culture in Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic“ on October 23 – 24, 2008, at which the European Association for Security in Krakow cooperated with the Academy for Health and Security Measures in Kiev to define and mathematically analyse elements of the organizational culture concentrating on particularities of the Armed and Rescue Forces of the Slovak Republic, identify the standard of organizational culture of the Slovak Armed Forces after the full professionalization and finally discuss the options of further improvement of Armed Forces‘ organizational culture as an important motivational factor of professionalism standard enhancement and role of the military education in this process.

    Rector of the Armed Forces Academy, Brig. Gen. Assoc. Prof. Dipl. Eng. Miroslav Kelemen, Ph.D. gave an opening speech in which he expressed his confidence that „engagement of scientific potential in joint projects will help to find new ways of achieving the goals and improving the quality of military personnel’s education and training particularly in area of security and defence“. In a speech given to the participants the president of European Association for Security, Assoc. Prof. Leszek Korzeniowski stressed the importance of continuity of activities focused on security issues and recognized the Armed Forces Academy to be a centre of Slovak Republic’s security development.

    Conference was attended by 52 experts from Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, representatives from Slovak MoD and General Staff of the Armed Forces cooperating with public universities in Slovakia and also participants from hosting Armed Forces Academy.

    Scientific board defined the following points of future effort to resolve the security issues at the end of the conference: to pay more attention to the definition of a military organisational culture, to analyse its social aspects and influence on achieving the goals of the armed forces and to identify it as a system and product with effect on individuals and communities.