FACULTY
OF ECONOMICS AND ADMINISTRATION Dean’s Office, Lipová 41a, 659 79 Brno tel.: ++420–5–43 523 111 |
Dean: | Assoc. Prof. Ing. Antonín Slaný |
Vice-dean: |
Ing. Jaroslav Rektořík. |
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kamil Fuchs | |
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ivan Malý | |
Dr. Luboš Bauer | |
President of the Academic Senate: | Prof. Ing. Jiří Lanča |
Secretary: | Ing. František Křivánek |
The
year 2000, in which the Masaryk University Faculty of Economics and
Administration (MU FEA) entered its 10th year of its existence, was marked by
a number of significant changes at the faculty.
All
departments of the Faculty concentrated on the active introduction of the
Higher Education Act into practice and its application under faculty
conditions. A new faculty charter was prepared, including appendices, and the
MU Information System was put to good use for the purposes of faculty
management and the organisation of study programmes.
The
Faculty experienced very positive development in international relations,
especially in terms of student mobility and in establishing new contacts with
institutes abroad.
Teaching
activities:
the Faculty of Economics and
Administration was busy working on the innovation of study programmes, the
preparation of the fourth study discipline, i.e. Economics and Management in the Ph.D. programme and commencing the
life-long education programme. The innovation is mainly connected with the
systematic introduction of courses on individual branches of law, the
introduction of the Bachelor’s programme and the follow-up Master’s
programme in the full-time study form, and with the preparation of the Public
Law programme in French for accreditation, and its follow-up Master’s
programme starting in the 2001/2002 academic year in co-operation with the
University of Rennes I and the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University.
Courses
in Management as part of a six-semester programme of life-long education (accredited
for combined Bachelor’s studies) and on Finance
(with a specialisation in Building
Savings) were launched (the
latter in co-operation with the Bohemian-Moravian Building Savings
Bank).
In
2000, the interest in studying at the Faculty continued to be high. In the
2000/2001 academic year, 2433 people applied for the full-time five-year
Master’s study programme, and 314 students were registered. For the combined-study
three-year Bachelor’s programme, 1952 applied and 406 were registered. The
total number of people interested in studying at the Faculty in 2000 was 4385,
i.e. 180 more than the year before. Provisions were also made for the
acceptance of disabled students into the programme.
Faculty
research activities
were organised in accordance with its own priorities and Higher Education Act
no. 111/1998.
The
main objective was to make a systematic effort to obtain grant projects from
grant agencies (GA CR, Higher Education Development Fund), grants from
other ministries and international grants.
In
2000, the Faculty obtained 11 grants. One was a research grant, and 1 was a
project financed by the Kontakt programme of the Ministry of Education. Five
projects were obtained from the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (in three
of which the Faculty only assisted). The Faculty obtained one project from the
Higher Education Development Fund. Two other grants were awarded by the
Austrian Institute for Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, and one international
project by the Open Society Fund Praha, Bratislava. Two projects were
researched within bilateral Czech and Slovak cooperation in science and
technology. In the Internal Grant System, six critical assessments were made
at the faculty. In 2000, one Ph.D. student completed her studies. Currently
there are 86 post-graduate students, of which 37 attend full-time type of
courses and 49 are registered in combined study programmes.
Publication
activity:
the Faculty succeeded in meeting its editorial plan for 2000:
it published 17 books on pedagogical issues, 15 works of scholarly research
character (monographs, book publications and almanacs) and 5 publications of
Faculty importance. Other works are ready to be published next year. All of
the published works can be obtained in the Faculty bookshop (also selling
other textbooks and things for students) and in the Ekopress chain of shops. A
catalogue of publications that can be ordered is also available on the Faculty
web site.
As
every year, the Faculty ran its competition for the FEA Dean’s Prize. A
total of 31 students entered in
2000 at MU FEA, a number of important
events took place that were either co-organized by the faculty, or held
under its auspices.
In
January, the traditional international seminar "Issues of NGOs and
Regional Administrations in the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, and
Austria" organised as one of the main outputs of the PHARE CBC FMTP
research project took place at the Faculty.
Held
in April of 2000, the conference with international participation on "Success
Factors in Business" was the presentation of results of research analyses
into success factors in the corporate environment.
At
the end of the 1999/2000 academic year, the international seminar "Institutional
Support of Business in the Regions" took place at MU FEA.
For
the fourth time, the Faculty of Economics and Administration organised the
international conference "European Integration and Education". The
conference was held under the auspices of the Ambassador of the EU the head of
the Delegation of the European Commission in the Czech Republic Ramiro Cibrian,
the Ambassador of the Austrian Republic in the Czech Republic Klaus Daublebsky,
the Ambassador of the Slovak Republic in the Czech Republic Jozef Stank, and
the Rector of Masaryk University Brno Prof. Dr. Jiří Zlatuška.
The objective of the conference was muster support for European integration
processes in education, to help improve the quality of teaching in this
area, to provide information about the possibilities of international co-operation
and to facilitate the meeting of interested conference participants with
important personalities. Particular attention was paid to opinions about the
National Education Programme, and to the changes connected to the reform of
public administration.
In
2000, international relations
were further developed, mainly on the basis of bilateral agreements and
contracts within the SocrateS programme. Through this programme, over 30 Faculty
students had the opportunity to participate in study stays at 16 foreign
institutes.
Thanks
to the active involvement of the Faculty in the MIBP PECO programme organised
under the auspices of École Superieure de Commerce Chambery in France, the Faculty
signed exchange agreements with another four European universities, in Italy
(Milan), Giron (Spain), and Jönköping (Sweden).
Student
exchanges with FHS Eisenstadt in Austria through the CEEPUS programme
continued. A new project of co-operation through the programme was launched
with the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.
One
of the Faculty's priorities in the field of international relations for the
year 2000 was the intensification of contacts with schools in countries that
are closest to us from the geographical point of view. On 28 February 2000, a
preliminary Memorandum of Co-operation was signed by FEA with the Academy of
Economics in Katowice (Poland), and on the basis of that agreement, the
Agreement of Co-operation was signed by Rectors of both universities on 29
September 2000. The co-operation will involve the exchange of students in
Master’s and post-graduate programmes for one semester. Another area of co-operation
will be in research activities.
Another
Polish institution with which co-operation negotiations are underway is the
Akademia Ekonomiczna in Krakow. The Faculty already took the first step
towards establishing co-operation when it visited the Akademia in October 2000
to negotiate a preliminary agreement on the signing of the contract.
Co-operation
was successfully developed with Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, whose teachers
repeatedly came as guest speakers to the Faculty of Economics and
Administration. Because of overwhelming student interest, the 2000 summer
semester course of Dr. P. Trcky Einflüsse der EU auf Managemententscheidungen
was repeated, and in the 2000/2001 winter semester, Dr. Christiane Erten-Buch
returned to MU FEA to teach the course "Human Resource Management".
Another
important foreign guest of the Faculty in 2000 was the American lecturer
Brooke Wilson from McLennan Community College (MCC) in Waco, Texas (USA),
who presented a lecture course on Environmental Economics.
In
August 2000, Professor Paul Concilio, also a lecturer at MCC in Waco, visited
the Faculty. He showed interest in the possibilities of co-operation, the
study programme and a possible exchange lecture visits of teachers of the two
schools.
In
September 2000, Prof. Dr. Anatoli Berditchevsky of FHS Eisenstadt (Austria)
delivered a lecture at the Faculty on The Current Economic Situation in Russia.
A
number of lectures at the Faculty of Economics and Administration were also
delivered by leading Czech economics experts, and lectures by Dr. L. Niedermayer
of the Czech National Bank in Prague and by Miroslav Ševčík of the
Liberal Institute in Prague met with great interest.