About CEITEC
Do you know…
- … the scientists in CEITEC will be researching what happens in the brain when a human has realized that they have made a mistake?
- … there will be nearly 800 scientists in CEITEC?
- … in CEITEC we will be researching how the brain works and why some people are motivated and others are not?
- … thanks to CEITEC most of the diagnostic methods will be cheaper, faster and more comfortable for the patients?
- … 58 research teams will be created in CEITEC?
- … there will be 9 research programmes in CEITEC?
- … there will be more than 1,000 modern instruments in CEITEC?
- … more than 31,000 m2 of new infrastructure will be built in CEITEC?
- … more than 1,500 students will use the CEITEC infrastructure per year?
- … there will be 11 shared laboratories created in CEITEC?
- … CEITEC has 7 partners?
- … work will be carried out on self-cleaning surfaces in CEITEC?
- … CEITEC will co-operate closely with the industrial sector?
- … there will also be international scientists working in CEITEC?
- … CEITEC will support the international mobility of scientists?
- … the scientists in CEITEC are developing a subdermal chip which will analyse some life functions and will inform doctors from a distance?
- … the scientists in CEITEC are working on the development of a device which will enable physiotherapy from a distance?
- … the scientists at CEITEC are working on the development of biosensors?
- … CEITEC will be created in the south-Moravian city of Brno?
Mendel University in Brno

- Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno
Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Phone: +420 545 131 111, fax: +420 545 211 128
e-mail: info@mendelu.cz
web: www.mendelu.cz
Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, is the oldest independent institute focussed on agricultural and forestry teaching in the Czech lands. It was established in 1919 as the Agricultural University in Brno and under that name existed until 1994. Its creation was the completion of a long-term effort to establish a centre of agricultural higher learning in Moravia, which always was one of the countries with the most advanced agriculture schools in Central Europe. During its time it has undergone a number of organizational and content changes and has prepared ten of thousands of experts in different spheres of the economy and areas of practice.
Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno (MZLU v Brně) consists of five faculties and one university institute: Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Timber Faculty, Faculty of Business and Economics, Horticulture Faculty, Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies and the Institute of Lifelong Learning. Horticulture Faculty is located in Lednice, the others are in Brno. The number of students in Brno currently reaches 10 621, including 350 foreign students.
The Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno has been a leader of the working group for the project CEITEC. And is represented by the Vice-Rector for scientific research doc. Ing. Miroslav Havlíček, CSc., the chair of the working group is Mgr. Vilém Reinöhl, CSc., other members of the working group are:
Doc. RNDr. Břetislav Brzobohatý, CSc. – representative of the Vice-Rector of CEITEC
Prof. Ing. Stanislav Procházka, DrSc., Dr.h.c. – partner ofr the scientific director for life sciences
Doc. RNDr. René Kizek, Ph.D.
Prof. RNDr. Bořivoj Klejdus, Ph.D.
Doc. RNDr. Aleš Knoll, Ph.D.
Prof. Ing. Ladislav Zeman, CSc.


