Ladies and gentlemen, the new Advisor to the State Secretary of the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic, JUDr. Sabolcs Hodosy, Dr.h.c., is Prof. Ing. Michal Cehlár, PhD., Dean of the Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnologies (FBERG) and Chairman of the Board of the Slovak Mining Chamber. He will be responsible for the areas of geothermal energy utilization within the Slovak Republic and for specific interventions in the Earth’s crust, with particular emphasis on the use of nuclear energy and the final disposal of heat-generating radioactive waste.