Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice belongs to established institutions of education and science not only in Slovakia but also in Europe. The University has five faculties which prepare physicians and dentists, experts in natural sciences, mathematics and informatics, teachers, lawyers, specialists for public administration and specialists for psychology, philosophy and theory of communication. The Department of Health Psychology and Research Methodology (DHP&RM) is a theoretical department at the Faculty of Medicine. It engages not only in research and development activities in the field of health psychology and social epidemiology, but also in knowledge transfer into practice. The DHP&RM staff consists of researchers, as well as expert practitioners with various levels of qualification and professional experience from a range of different fields (social psychology, health psychology, medical anthropology, economy, public health, and social work). This multidisciplinary nature of the DHP&RM research team enables transfer of findings and experience across fields and generations, contributes to establishment of more flexible research capacities, improvement of human potential and serves as an assurance of a long-term sustainability of the DHP&RM.