Mission and trends
The mission of CAEV is to improve the position of FaME in the field of scientific research and its application to practice, to strengthen the prestige, internationalization, and research-project cooperation of FaME with other universities, research organizations, enterprises, and stakeholders in the public sector for their mutual benefit and to cooperate with practice in selected areas of basic and applied research.
The main objectives of CAEV are to support the process of preparation and implementation of domestic and international scientific projects at FaME and to help increase the quality of these projects, to coordinate the publishing activities of FaME academic staff to increase the number and quality of publication outputs, to develop effective partnerships with companies and the public sector through various forms of cooperation (offering new educational courses, cooperation with the Gifted Students project, preparation of the pilot project Corporate Scholarship, etc.)
Our vision is to become an essential factor of competitiveness and collaboration and an opportunity for FaME to succeed in the new conditions of university evaluation (and funding).
In the realization of our mission and fundamental goals, we cooperate closely with academic staff from individual FaME institutes, from other faculties of UTB in Zlín, with students and PhD students, as well as with partners from various universities, companies, and organizations in the Zlín region, elsewhere in the Czech Republic or worldwide (e.g., Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Finland, UK, USA).