We are pleased to report that our long-term collaborator Prof. Daria K. Ivanova (Department of Paleontology, Stratigraphy and Sedimentology, Geological Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) worked at our institute in Banská Bystrica for four months in 2021 in the framework of the National Scholarship Programme for the Supports of Mobility of University Students, PhD Students, University Teachers, Researchers and Artists. She focuses in her work on benthic foraminifers in thin sections, and collaborated with Adam Tomašových on the project „Composition of Hettangian benthic foraminifera associations in the Northern Calcareous Alps: implications for recovery after the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction event”.