An intensive cooperation with practice is a must for any research university type higher institution. Such activity significantly enhances the education as well as the research as it reflects the current need of providing unique solutions of urgent technical issues, accelerates knowledge transfer, and last but not least brings financial means. It is also contributory in terms of meeting the Lisbon Strategy requirements. The cooperation is carried out not only by knowledable and respected university experts but by students, particularly doctoral students who can thus directly connect their research topics with industrial practice. The Faculty and practice cooperation can be of a diverse form: tasks from practice investigated on the basis of contract or order, research and innovation projects investigated together with partners from industrial practice, involvement of small and medium.sized companies into international projects, students´ practice or internship in national or foreign companies, support of small companies originating at the Faculty, etc.
Long-term strategic aim of STU MTF in the field of co-operation with practice
The utilisation of advanced scientific knowledge, engineering experience and practical technical skills in providing services to the subjects of industrial or social practice the STU MTF would like to contribute to innovations and hence to the life quality improvement. In addition, the Faculty would like to be an attractive and respected partner for industrial companies, public administration, and local government.
Strategic aims:
- Improvement of cooperation with industrial companies in the field of science, research nd education in the form of common projects or contractual research.
- Improvement of technologies transfer into practice and commercialisation or research results.
- Support of activities leading to Start-ups and Spin-offs at the Faculty premises.
- Increase of the number of research and engineering projects financed by economic and social practice in the form of entrepreneurial activities.
Key measures to achieve strategic aims:
- Upgrade and actively look for new contact for co-operation with relevant industrial partners.
- Upgrade and promote the offer of research workplaces expertise or Faculty high-tech laboratories.
- Build common research workplaces and laboratories together with companies and academic or research workplaces.
- Found the STU MTF Industrial Council and utilise its mission.
- Build own institutional support for transferring technologies into practice and the commercialisation of research results.
- Build own institutional support for Start-ups and Spin-offs at the Faculty premises.
- Propose and implement the incentives corresponding with the main Faculty activities for entrepreneurial activities.
- Upgrade and promote the offer of expertise and possibilities of the Faculty individual workplaces.
