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Industrial Board

The Industrial Board is an advisory body of the Rector aiming to deepen the links of the University and business practice.

About the Industrial Board

The Industrial Board is an advisory body of the Rector aiming to deepen the links of the University and business practice. Its operation is laid down by the Rules of Procedure for the Industrial Board of VSB - Technical University of Ostrava.

The Chairman of the Industrial board is the Rector who also appoints and revokes its members. These members include corporate bodies represented by their agents with whom VSB-TUO cooperates on a long-term basis within the framework of its educational, scientific and research, development and innovation activity, and members of the Academic community of VSB-TUO.

The purpose of the Industrial Board:

  • closer links of tertiary education and technical practice
  • mutual sharing of information between the University and cooperating businesses
  • more intense cooperation in the field of science, research and innovation, primarily by means of working on mutual projects, or through contractual research
  • support of implementation of results of science, research and innovation in practice – technology transfer
  • intensification of important feedback for the University from cooperating businesses
  • promotion of technical education in the Czech Republic and support of development of the Moravian-Silesian Region
  • support of the University PR activities
  • support of other areas the members of the Industrial Board agree on

Industrial Board VSB-TUO

Internal members of the VSB-TUO Industrial Board
Person Function
Igor Ivan Rector
Marek Pagáč Vice-Rector for Cooperation and International Relations
Lenka Kauerová Vice-Rector for Study Affairs
Jiří Pokorný Vice-Rector for Strategy and Legislation
Jan Platoš Vice-Rector for Science, Research and Doctoral Studies
External members of the VSB-TUO Industrial Board
Corporate body Represented by
ABB s.r.o. Vladislav Bezouška
Brose CZ spol. s r.o. Petr Žmij
ČEPRO, a.s. Zdeněk Stejskal
EXCALIBUR ARMY spol. s r.o. Pavel Tuček
FNO Petr Foltýn
Hasičský záchranný sbor MSK Radim Kuchař
Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Czech s.r.o. Martin Klíčník
Invent Medical Group, s.r.o. Jiří Rosický
OZO Ostrava s.r.o. Martin Boháč
RAYNET s.r.o. Petr Kolčář
Recovera Využití zdrojů a.s. Milan Vala
Severomoravské vodovody a kanalizace Ostrava a.s. Anatol Pšenička
Schaeffler Motion Technologies CZ s.r.o. Jiří Linhart
Skanska a.s. Bohuslav Slánský
SSI Schäfer Jakub Flodr
TAPI Czech Industries s.r.o. Aleš Gavenda
TATRA TRUCKS Radomír Smolka
Třinecké železárny, a.s. Robert Zvoníček
VALEO Juraj Prstek
Veolia Energy ČR Jakub Tobola
Contact person of Industrial Board of VSB-TUO
Person Function
Karin Krumlová VSB-TUO