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‘Process-oriented information’
VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic ‘The ECTS Label can send out a good message to incoming students,’ Prof. Petr Noskievič believes. As Vice-Rector for Study Affairs at the VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava, he sees the Label’s impact ‘not only in the recognition of the study results, but also in the Label guarantee that the whole student mobility process is running very well.’ That process encompasses ‘the preparation of mobility, selection of the subjects, travel, accommodation reservation, the stay at the university campus, lectures and all services for students’. The number of incoming students to Ostrava is growing. This is, he thinks, ‘not only because we offer interesting study programmes and subjects, but also because services important for successful student mobility were correctly set up. The effort of preparing for the ECTS Label was helpful in this activity.’ He sees the ECTS methodology as ‘very important for preparing the curricula of the study programmes and the subjects. It is used in defining the learning outcomes of each subject and in the evaluation and assessment of the study results.’ The Label application was part of the University’s internationalisation drive. ‘Very important was the introduction of the new process-oriented information system. This supports all the steps in the students’ mobility, including the recognition of the study period abroad and diploma supplement printing.’
The VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava is a polytechnic and economic university with around 21 000 students and some 1 000 teaching staff. It has seven faculties and many research centres, including the R&D Centre of Nanotechnology, the R&D Energy Centre and the IT4I Centre of Excellence, which focuses on supercomputing. The University has recently been increasing its use of English and was awarded the ECTS label in 2011.