Univerzita Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici

UMB is a comprehensive regional university in central Slovakia, offering a wide range of study programmes at various academic levels. With a focus on teacher education, UMB aims to produce innovative, competent and flexible educators by constantly innovating teaching and learning processes, especially in the field of new educational technologies.

UMB is a Central European leader in community-based learning (CBL), actively promoting this strategy and participating in networks related to CBL research. Located in central Slovakia and on the eastern border of the EU and the Schengen area, UMB offers a unique Slovak perspective on coexistence with national and ethnic minorities, striving for an inclusive society.

With a focus on internationalisation, UMB offers modern philological degrees and advocates a policy of multilingual language education at the national level. The University has extensive mobility cooperation with nearly 300 academic partners in the EU and partner countries. UMB has been recognised for hosting the highest number of incoming researchers in Slovakia under the Erasmus+ programme.

Since 2007, UMB has played a pioneering role in the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, being the most active French-speaking Slovak university in promoting multilingualism as a European added value. UMB also manages language training for foreign scholarship holders from the Slovak government and hosts a cultural and educational centre for the diaspora (MesLab).