Developing the
(project at FI MU)
ICT partners
network
Platform for Industrial Cooperation
Platforma průmyslové spolupráce
Project partners:
 IBM Česká republika, spol. s r. o.
 Microsoft s. r. o.
 Red Hat Czech s. r. o.
 JIC, zájmové sdružení právnických osob
This project is co-financed by the European Social Fund
and the state budget of the Czech Republic
Contact information
http://lasaris.fi.muni.cz/pps
pps@fi.muni.cz
Project lead: Tomáš Pitner
Project manager: Stanislava Sedláčková
CZ.1.07/2.4.00/17.0041
The Platform project addresses those requirements by
promoting four key activities that are interconnected
through the two-phased internship model:
 student projects – team or individual ▪ related to
curricula or student's interests ▪ projects are lead by
faculty supervisors and consulted by company experts
 workshops – orientation on technology and business
→ student projects and workshops together create a
first phase of the internship model allowing students
to meet experts from companies at the faculty
 internships at companies – correspond to curricula
and student projects ▪ with support of the faculty
 → internships are a second phase – they offer
students opportunities to use their knowledge they
have gained by participating in first-phase activities
 own business – support for start-ups and spin-offs ▪
incubation at South Moravian Innovation Centre (JIC)
with professional support from the faculty
From idea to realisation
The faculty currently cooperates with
almost 30 companies in area of ICT.
Cooperation with industry is one of
the key instruments to fulfil FI's
vision: '… to become an outstanding
research university with significant
accomplishments in this area...'.
A sustainable approach to
developing partners network has to
meet some requirements like:
a reasonable financial burden,
simplicity of implementation of such
activities and their attractiveness.
Q: Best approach?
Q: What is in it for me?
FI – Faculty of Informatics, S – student, C – company
Benefits FI S C
cooperation as a
source for new ideas   
student as an agent to
transfer knowledge   
distribution of the
“resources load”   
start-ups and spin-offs
as a future FI partner   
?
at FI
Workshops Student projects
Internships
at
companies
start-ups
&
spin-offs