The construction of the basic part of the campus in Bohunice has finished

Brno - The final stage was completed with the approval of the construction of the basic part of the Masaryk University (MU) campus in Brno-Bohunice. The total cost of one of the largest investment projects in the academic sphere in recent years is approaching five billion crowns. The school is now equipping the new buildings with technology. Students are expected to start using them in September of this year. The school's spokesperson Tereza Fojtová informed ČTK about the approval. The complex will continue to expand thanks to EU structural funds.
    The final part of the construction consists of six teaching and research pavilions intended for the medical and natural sciences faculty, the dean's office, and a shared teaching center with an auditorium and lecture halls. The costs of the last stage amounted to 1.8 billion crowns. The entire construction was made possible for the school by a loan from the European Investment Bank supplemented by the university's own sources and funds from the city of Brno.
    "Currently, we are equipping the buildings with technological equipment and instruments. We are preparing for the ceremonial opening of the last stage of the campus built under the program for the Development of Material-Technical Base of MU at the beginning of the new academic year," said the treasurer Ladislav Janíček.
    The process of Masaryk University in building the campus was reviewed last year by the Supreme Audit Office. The audit found no irregularities. The project was also reviewed by the Office for the Protection of Competition.
    Although the core construction of the campus has been completed, the university and research complex in Bohunice will continue to expand. However, the school will pay for the costs from other sources, mainly from the structural funds of the European Union. For example, the CETOCOEN project will create conditions for research in the field of the environment and sustainable development. The project has been approved by the Ministry of Education.
    Another plan of the school is the Central European Institute of Technology CEITEC and the construction of pavilions for biological fields of the natural sciences faculty. The school aims to complete these parts of the complex in the years 2012 to 2013.