Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio (12.2.2026 16:00)

On behalf of the Singles Awareness Day that falls anually on February 15, we are going to talk about the phenomenon of loneliness in Slovakia. Project Disconnect, implemented at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University aims to comprehensively explore loneliness and social isolation in Slovakia in an interdisciplinary manner. In this show, Patrícia Polakovičová talked to Jakub Januška, a researcher and doctor from the Psychiatric Clinic at the Slovak Medical University. Sharing their insights is also a representative from a crisis helpline IP-čko that deals with a wide range of mental health issues including loneliness, Simona Stopková, who is also the head of IP-čko Bratislava.