Zlín University plans investments of more than one billion crowns

Zlín - Tomas Bata University in Zlín plans to significantly renew and expand its infrastructure for research, experimental development, and innovation over the next five years. Investments exceeding a billion crowns are largely contingent on European subsidies. The university has already secured funding for some planned projects it intends to start implementing next year. This is indicated in the investment strategy for the years 2011 to 2015, which ČTK has available.
The strategy includes, for instance, the construction of a Laboratory Centre for the Faculty of Technology on the site of the former swimming pool, later a marketplace, Baťák. The costs for the construction alone exceed 537 million crowns. The land on which the building is to take place belongs to the city. The city council is supportive of the school's intent, and a future purchase agreement for the land has been closed. If everything goes according to plan, the school will begin construction of the facility in the middle of next year.
At the beginning of the new year, the construction of the Centre for Polymer Systems will commence. It will be located between Antonínova Street and Tomáš Baťa Avenue. Its aim will be applied research for the needs of the automotive industry. The investment will amount to 896 million crowns, with costs for equipment totaling 200 million crowns.
Next year, the school will also begin construction of a science and technology park for information and communication technologies in the Zlín housing estate of Jižní Svahy, where the Faculty of Applied Informatics is located. The building will also house innovative companies. The budget amounts to 250 million crowns.
The university also aims to build new facilities for the Faculty of Humanities, including the Institute of Health Studies. It will also invest in dormitories. Renovation is planned, for example, in a building on Štefánikova Street.
Tomas Bata University in Zlín will celebrate its tenth anniversary since its establishment on January 1, 2011. The project for the future university was prepared in Zlín since the 1990s, when the local branch of the Brno University of Technology (Faculty of Technology) was joined by the Faculty of Management and Economics and the Institute of Advertising Creation and Marketing Communications. Today, over 13,500 students are enrolled across its six faculties. The university consists of the Faculty of Technology, the Faculty of Management and Economics, the Faculty of Multimedia Communications, the Faculty of Applied Informatics, the Faculty of Humanities, and the Faculty of Logistics and Crisis Management.