On November 24, 2017, Josef Bernard, President of the Pilsen Region, and Miroslav Holeček, Rector of the University of West Bohemia (UWB), signed Memorandum of Cooperation between the Pilsen Region and the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen at the Regional Office.
The aim of the memorandum is to involve UWB students in current issues related to life in the Pilsen Region and to prepare them for the practical use of their study potential in their future professional fields. The Memorandum builds on the Regional Cooperation and Partnership Agreement concluded between the interested parties on 19 December 2012.
"Our partnership with the Pilsen Region has been working for many years, which I very much appreciate. The fact that we now complement other areas and forms of cooperation together means that we realize how we can benefit from each other," says Miroslav Holeček, Rector of West Bohemian University. "Our students will be able to apply their knowledge in practice as well as help where it is beneficial for the region," explains Miroslav Holeček.
"We would like to use the students to help us make the region better. The money we provide to the university will not only be used at conferences, but will contribute to the development of our region," added Josef Bernard, President of the Region.
The content of the memorandum is support and counselling for small and medium-sized entrepreneurs, participation of students of UWB in counselling for persons in difficult life situations, support of technical education in the form of motivation of pupils and students of elementary and secondary schools to study technical fields, utilization of research centres, practice of students of the Faculty of Education in schools administered by the Pilsen Region, the establishment of an elementary foreign-language school for the needs of foreign employees of the UWB and companies in the region, the participation of UWB experts in the Pilsen Region commissions and support for UWB individual projects by the Pilsen Region.
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