doc. Ing. Peter Sika, PhD.

Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years

Acientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education. Science, research and sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences No. 1/0226/23 "Socio-economic challenges and opportunities related to aging policy to ensure sustainable economic growth and innovation". Type of participation: project leader. Solution period: 2023-2026. Abstract: Population aging is already one of the biggest challenges for all EU countries and hurts all spheres of society. That is why the European Commission, in its Green Paper on Aging 2021, also calls for a debate on new opportunities and opportunities for an aging European society. The projected growth in the number of elderly people and the decline in the economically active is perceived not only as an economic but also a social threat. We are unlikely to be able to reverse this undesirable process, so it is necessary to shift the negative perception of the aging process as a burden on public finances to the perception of aging as an opportunity for sustainable economic growth. In our project, we set ourselves the goal of identifying innovative socio-economic challenges and opportunities related to the aging population and proposing a framework of systemic measures to ensure economic growth and innovation using the potential of a growing group of silver generation in the Slovak Republic.

Acientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education. Science, research and sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences No. 1/0251/19 "Households housing investments and the possibility of their alternative use as additional income at the time of receipt of the pension benefit". Type of participation: project leader. Solution period: 2019-2022. Abstract: Existing ongoing pension systems funding puts increasing demands on productive populations and taxpayers and is also a burden on government budgets. The priority area within the public policies of the EU member states is to ensure sustainable and adequate old-age pensions, which, in the current situation, the underdevelopment of financial resources is not easy. For this reason, we sought to identify alternative ways of financing the saturation of the needs of retirement people through investment wealth in real estate that could be incorporated into the reformed pension system. Within the framework of the project, we will address: the current efficiency of pension systems in selected countries. We will set out approaches to their quantification with a link to the standard of living of retirees. We will propose alternative ways of financing the seniors' living needs and, based on empirical data, we will verify the effectiveness of the model.

Acientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education. Science, research and sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences No. 1/0037/20 "New challenges and solutions for employment growth in changing socio-economic conditions". Type of participation: researcher. Solution period: 2020-2023. Abstract: The project is focused on the assessment and scientific processing of significant changes in the labor market, new requirements for the workforce in the process of emerging robotics, ongoing demographic changes, new trends in labor migration and other important phenomena. Research and proposals for measures, mechanisms, recommendations for further employment growth, support for the employability of the most vulnerable groups with an emphasis on young people, recommendations for balancing regional disparities in the labor market, quantification of the impact of the tax burden on employment.