Organisational Structure

Vice Dean for External Relations, Internationalization and Marketing

doc. JUDr. Ing.

Zdeněk
Dufek

Ph.D.

+420 541 148 012
zdenek.dufek@vut.cz

Vice Dean for External Relations, Internationalization and Marketing's roles and responsibilities:

  • preparation and negotiation of documents, agreements and contracts within the framework of external relations of the BUT, monitoring and control of their implementation,
  • expert activities in the field of Economics,
  • cooperation with the economic and business sphere, strengthening the role of companies in motivating students and closer contractual cooperation aimed at the selection of employers by graduates,
  • coordination of activities within the National Centre for Construction 4.0,
  • communication of the faculty with public institutions and practice,
  • Foreign Commission,
  • foreign relations of the faculty and internationalisation,
  • faculty cooperation within the upcoming EULIST consortium of universities,
  • effective and efficient use of student and staff mobility programmes,
  • provision of information for mobility and presentation of the faculty especially abroad for their development,
  • preparation and negotiation of documents, agreements and contracts within the framework of the faculty's international relations,
  • coordinating the preparation, submission, implementation and evaluation of faculty projects within the framework of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports development programmes in the field of internationalisation,
  • Industrial Council,
  • Alumni association (SA FAST),
  • faculty participation in trade fairs,
  • professional and methodological management of the Office for Internal and External Relations,
  • marketing of the faculty and the marketing committee,
  • preparation and updating of promotional materials (in general and by field) in print and digital formats and their distribution,
  • coordination of promotional activities to secure applicants to the faculty,
  • overseeing the activities of the AdMaS Centre, collaborating and resolving pending construction and operational issues,
  • personal data protection - GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation),
  • promotion of the faculty in the pedagogical field, open days and education fairs in cooperation with the Vice Dean for Graduate Bachelor and Master Studies and English Courses,
  • EUA/IEP evaluation in collaboration with the Vice Dean for Research, Development and Digitalization,
  • coordination of activities under the Gender Equality Plan,
  • cooperation with secondary schools (STAVOKS competition).

All vice-deans, in cooperation with the management of Brno University of Technology, the dean, the secretary and the responsible faculty staff, ensure the following areas in particular:

  • compliance with legal norms related to universities, in particular: zákon č. 111/1998 Sb. o vysokých školách a o změně a doplnění dalších zákonů (zákon o vysokých školách), as amended; zákon č. 130/2002 Sb., o podpoře výzkumu a vývoje z veřejných prostředků a o změně některých souvisejících zákonů (zákon o podpoře výzkumu a vývoje), as amended; relevant government regulations and resolutions and internal regulations and standards of the BUT and the Faculty, as amended,
  • assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of the Faculty's internal regulations and standards, preparing and submitting proposals for their modification,
  • fulfilling the strategic plan of the BUT and the Faculty within the scope of his functional competence, preparing proposals for their update,
  • implementation of decisions, directives and instructions of the Dean (and their control within the functional competence),
  • active participation in the Dean's advisory bodies,
  • creating and managing of advisory boards within his functional competence,
  • organisational and content provision of relevant academic ceremonies,
  • creating supporting materials for faculty presentations in relation to his functional competence,
  • dealing with issues relating to the AdMaS Centre within his functional competence.