Slovak Investment Holding Offers AKI SR Members Support in Financing Resilience

19. januára 2026

New legislative amendments in the area of critical infrastructure in the form of the Critical Infrastructure Act, which came into effect on January 1, 2025, bring new requirements for critical entities regarding risk management, ensuring essential services, and increasing the resilience of critical infrastructure.

In practice, fulfilling these obligations often requires significant investments and increased operational costs, which have a direct impact on the functioning of entities operating in critical infrastructure sectors. The question of availability of suitable financial instruments therefore becomes one of the key topics to which the Critical Infrastructure Association of the Slovak Republic pays extraordinarily great attention for the benefit of its members.

In this context, a working meeting of AKI SR with the General Director and Chairman of the Board of Slovak Investment Holding, Peter Fröhlich, took place on January 15, 2026, during which possibilities for support and financing of projects aimed at ensuring essential services and increasing the resilience of critical entities were discussed. Peter Dittrich, Vice Chairman of the Board, Miloš Ješko, Member of the Board, and Juraj Jusko, Director for Direct Investments, also participated in the meeting on behalf of Slovak Investment Holding. AKI SR was represented at the meeting by President Tibor Straka, General Director of Decent Cybersecurity s.r.o. Matej Michalko, Board Member of 3IPK, a.s. Juraj Zámečník, and Executive Director of AKI SR Stella Bulejková.

The negotiations confirmed that there is significant scope for critical infrastructure to utilize the financial instruments that Slovak Investment Holding provides. These instruments can be effectively used particularly for investments in cybersecurity, infrastructure modernization, projects focused on crisis preparedness, business continuity, and innovative solutions.

Slovak Investment Holding has a wide portfolio of support instruments, which include preferential loans, convertible loans, guarantees, equity financing, as well as combined financial instruments linking public and private sources. Particularly attractive are instruments where, in justified cases, it is possible to achieve forgiveness of up to 30% of the principal or a combination of repayable and partially non-repayable forms of support.

At the meeting, Slovak Investment Holding and AKI SR agreed on closer, regular, and long-term cooperation. The goal of this cooperation will be better information for AKI SR members, identification of suitable projects, and professional support in their preparation and implementation. The negotiations confirmed that there is a common language between both institutions, mutual interest, and clearly defined benefits that can in practice bring significant support to AKI SR members in managing current and future challenges. 

AKI SR considers the availability of financial resources as a key prerequisite for ensuring essential services and systematically increasing the resilience of its members. For this reason, it will continue negotiations with banking and financial institutions with the aim of identifying additional possibilities for preferential financing and practical assistance for its members.

Industry as a Critical Sector: The Final Article in AKI SR’s Series on Critical Sectors

3. augusta 2026
Industry is one of the sectors where the importance of critical infrastructure becomes very tangible. Not in abstract definitions, but in the state’s ability to maintain the availability of medicines, the continuity of metallurgical production, supplies of key chemical substances, functioning supply chains, and technological self-sufficiency at times when standard market mechanisms may not be enough. 

Priemysel ako kritický sektor: posledný článok zo série AKI SR o kritických sektoroch

3. augusta 2026
Priemysel patrí medzi sektory, pri ktorých sa význam kritickej infraštruktúry ukazuje veľmi konkrétne. Nie v abstraktných definíciách, ale v schopnosti štátu udržať dostupnosť liekov, kontinuitu hutníckej výroby, dodávky kľúčových chemických látok, funkčné dodávateľské reťazce a technologickú sebestačnosť v časoch, keď štandardné trhové mechanizmy nemusia stačiť. 

We Talk a Lot About Technology in Critical Infrastructure. We Talk Too Little About People.

31. júla 2026
A commentary by the President of the Critical Infrastructure Association of the Slovak Republic 

O technológiách v kritickej infraštruktúre hovoríme veľa. O ľuďoch málo.

31. júla 2026
Komentár prezidenta Asociácie kritickej infraštruktúry Slovenskej republiky

10th Critical Infrastructure Sector: Production, Processing and Distribution of Food

28. júla 2026
In the morning, we open the refrigerator. In a shop, we reach for bread, milk, meat, pasta or fruit. In a cafeteria, a child receives lunch; a hospital patient receives a special diet; and a senior in a social services facility receives a warm meal. Most of us do not think about it. Food simply “is”.

10. sektor kritickej infraštruktúry: Výroba, spracovanie a distribúcia potravín

28. júla 2026
Ráno otvoríme chladničku. V obchode siahneme po pečive, mlieku, mäse, cestovinách alebo ovocí. V jedálni dostane obed dieťa, pacient v nemocnici diétnu stravu a senior v zariadení sociálnych služieb teplé jedlo. Väčšina z nás nad tým nepremýšľa. Potraviny jednoducho „sú“.

Electricity Demand Management: The Unassuming Pillar Behind a Reliable Power Supply

23. júla 2026
In this series, the Critical Infrastructure Association of the Slovak Republic (AKI SR) is gradually introducing the individual essential services listed in Annex No. 1 of the Critical Infrastructure Act – in other words, those activities without which the economic and social life of the state would quite literally grind to a halt. After the previous instalments, this time we turn to a service that most people have never heard named, yet rely on every second of the day: electricity demand management.

Riadenie odberu elektriny: nenápadný pilier, na ktorom stojí spoľahlivá dodávka elektriny

23. júla 2026
Asociácia kritickej infraštruktúry SR v tejto sérii postupne predstavuje jednotlivé základné služby uvedené v prílohe č. 1 zákona o kritickej infraštruktúre – teda tie činnosti, bez ktorých by sa hospodársky a spoločenský život štátu doslova zastavil. Po predchádzajúcich dieloch sa tentoraz pozrieme na službu, ktorú väčšina ľudí nikdy nepočula pomenovať, ale spolieha sa na ňu každú sekundu dňa: riadenie odberu elektriny. 

AKI SR Creates Space for Cooperation Between the Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic and Its Member Company Foss Fibre Optics

20. júla 2026
The Critical Infrastructure Association of the Slovak Republic (AKI SR) continues to connect state institutions with domestic technology companies that develop innovative solutions contributing to greater resilience of critical infrastructure. One such example is AKI SR member company Foss Fibre Optics, s.r.o., a Slovak manufacturer of cutting-edge optical technologies used to protect strategic facilities, secure critical communications networks, and monitor infrastructure.

AKI SR vytvorila priestor pre spoluprácu medzi Ministerstvom obrany SR a svojou členskou spoločnosťou Foss Fibre Optics

20. júla 2026
Asociácia kritickej infraštruktúry Slovenskej republiky pokračuje v prepájaní štátnych inštitúcií s domácimi technologickými spoločnosťami, ktoré vyvíjajú inovatívne riešenia prispievajúce k zvyšovaniu odolnosti kritickej infraštruktúry. Jedným z príkladov je členská spoločnosť AKI SR – Foss Fibre Optics, s.r.o, slovenský výrobca špičkových optických technológií, ktorých využitie nachádza uplatnenie pri ochrane strategických objektov, zabezpečení kritických komunikačných sietí a monitorovaní infraštruktúry.