ŠAVŠ | Škoda Auto Vysoká škola

Upskilling and Reskilling for Automotive Industry

The automotive ecosystem is going through a revolutionary change. Our research is dedicated to upskilling and reskilling as we believe in people, driving competitiveness and innovation. Our research tackles sub-themes such as aging workforce, increasing diversity at the workplace, interaction of employees with advanced technology, tools for new skills acquisition, and effective on-the-job learning.

Škoda Auto University is a proud member of Automotive Skills Alliance (ASA).

Research Projects

Proposal for a Strategic Framework for Higher Education for the Automotive Sector

Support Provider:
Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TACR)

Project Identification:
TACR BETA2 (TITSMPO116)

Main ŠAVŠ Investigator:
doc. Ing. Pavel Štrach, Ph.D. et Ph.D.

Project Duration:
2022–2024

Number of Investigators (ŠAVŠ; external):
10; 5

Project budget (2022 - 2024):
CZK 2.765 thousands

Project description:The project "Proposal for a strategic framework of higher education for the automotive sector" will be solved by a multidisciplinary team of experts from both universities. The solution will also include an analysis of the offer of higher education in the field of automotive in the Czech Republic. An important objective of the research will be the design of innovations of existing study programmes of technical faculties of universities in order to ensure the consistency of the needs of the automotive sector with government strategies for industry and trade and for the field of tertiary education.

This project is financed from the state budget by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic within the BETA2 Programme.

Framework for Automotive Skills Transformation

Support Provider:
European Climate Foundation

Main recipient:
AutoSAP – Automotive Industry Association of the Czech Republic

Main ŠAVŠ Investigator:
Ing. Eva Jaderná Ph.D.

Project Duration:
2023–2024

Number of Investigators (ŠAVŠ; external):
5; 2

Project budget (2023 - 2024):
EUR 96.152

Project description:
To analyse employment challenges related to the e-mobility transition in Czech Republic and Slovakia and to formulate an action plan to implement upskilling and reskilling agenda in both countries, including dissemination of relevant findings and recommendations among the selected stakeholders.

New Sofware Development for DYNAMIC FUTURE for Predictive Production Planning 4.

Support Provider:
Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, Operational Programme Enterprise and Innovations for Competitiveness

Main recipient:
Dynamic Future s.r.o.

Main ŠAVŠ Investigator:
Prof. Ing. Radim Lenort, Ph.D.

Project Duration:
2018 -2020

Number of Investigators (ŠAVŠ; external):
7; 2

Project budget (2018 - 2020):
CZK 3.575 thousand

Project description:
The aim of the project is to create innovative, universal and easy to use real-time application for effective operational planning and management of production processes, where operators are able to deal with complex simulation for predictive production planning.