Elizabeth University of Health and Social Work - Signatory of Magna Charta Universitarum Bologniese, Member EUA - European University Association, Member SUSW - International Society of Universities in Social Work. Elizabeth University was incorporated as a non-profit organization in Bratislava on October 7, 2002 in accordance with Act No. 213/1997 of the Legal Code as amended. Elizabeth University has By-laws, Articles of Incorporation and is Registered as a non-profit organization providing generally beneficial services such as education, training, research, scientific and technical services, information services in the field of nursing and social work, provision of social help and humanitarian care. The primary objective of the non-profit organization is operation of the School of Health and Social Work of St. The long term objective is the “…education of medical employees especially in the field of public health care and social work, nursing, physiotherapy, laboratory examination methods for domestic, state and church, as well as foreign catholic facilities and state and church social work facilities and missions abroad”. Article III of the By-laws further states that the organization: “…is active in the spirit of the Christian humanism with the Orientation on the basic principles of the Christian healthcare Ethics and disseminates the message of St. Elizabeth, the native of Bratislava, to serve the sick and poor irrespective of the race, nationality and religious orientation. Apart from this it also assumes the task to ensure the education, scientific upbringing and scientific research, as well as practical activities of the students of the above mentioned school in all three levels of the higher education and to guide the students of this school for higher education to the principles of the Christian ethics and humanism focusing on protection of life from its conception until dignified natural death, thus meeting the message of St. Elizabeth, the native of Bratislava, great personality of the European healthcare and social work. The By-laws of the School of Health and Social Work of St. Elizabeth is an inseparable part of these By-laws”.
