The Main
Principles of the Partnership Programme
The Partnership
Programme provides an institutional framework for long-term cooperation
between CUNI MFF and commercial companies.
The aim of the
Programme is to create a long-term mutually beneficial contractual
structure of cooperation in the field of education, research, innovation, and
other activities of the faculty, and promoting such endeavours
together.
The partnership program focuses on the Faculty’s teaching
activities but also fully supports the overlap into scientific
research.
The basis for cooperation is formalized in a Partnership
Agreement, which gives the two parties a clear overview of their mutual
obligations, responsibilities and opportunities. A formal agreement also allows
both parties to publicly present themselves as official partners (e.g. use of
partners’ logos), thereby giving greater visibility of themselves and partners
to the public. The contract also guarantees continuity of cooperation. For
instance, both parties designate contact persons who will negotiate
participation in specific activities of the Faculty. The Faculty’s contact
person represents a clearly legible and easily accessible gateway of cooperation
for the company partners.
Here is a brief overview of the opportunities
and benefits the partners will gain after entering into the partnership
agreement:
- Submission of topics to be assigned for bachelor and
master theses, software projects, class projects and other student work, by
arrangement with the contact person.
- On an individual basis a partner’s employee can act as a consultant for each topic assigned (in which
case the student work receives a supervisor from among the Faculty staff) or
directly as a supervisor (provided all formalities required by the accredited
study program and other regulations are fulfilled).
- General information
about the content of the most common types of student work at CUNI MFF can be
found at the following links. For specific questions please do not hesitate to
contact us directly.
- Potential participation in the
course called “Commercial Workshops”.
- The course Commercial
Workshops consists of state-of-the-art lectures by representatives of commercial
companies and runs every semester. The topics are technical or software
engineering oriented and draw on the company’s professional experience. These
courses, based on practice, should provide students with a new perspective on
the theoretical knowledge gained during their studies.
- This course is
elective with no prerequisites, therefore students from any year or level of
study may enroll. However, students most often enroll in their third year of
bachelor studies or in their first year of the continuing master's program in
Computer Science.
- One of the conditions to satisfy the course
requirements and obtain credit is an evaluation essay. Student essays serve as
valuable feedback to participating
companies.
- Potential participation in the course
“Mathematical Problems of Non-Mathematicians”.
- The course
Mathematical Problems of Non-Mathematicians presents current trends in the
fields of applied mathematics. It introduces students to employment
opportunities and provides them with inspiration for further professional
orientation.
- The lectures are led by business specialists or academics
with practical experience. The topics discussed are always based on the
specialization of the individual lecturers, and for this reason their focus is
very diverse and often interdisciplinary.
- The majority of participants
are students at all stages of their education and from most mathematical areas
of study taught at CUNI MFF. However, the lectures are also attended by
university teachers and members of wider professional
public.
- Potential participation in an appropriate
specialized course taught at the Faculty, either regularly or
extraordinarily.
- The topics of specific guest lectures are arranged on an
individual basis between the course supervisor, the Faculty’s contact person
and the guest lecturers of the partners. Those courses are technical or oriented
towards software engineering (e.g. middleware, virtualization, modern
programming languages, etc.).
- Possibility to create
one’s own specialized course, to be taught by lecturers of the partner or by
agreement in cooperation with lecturers of multiple partners and permanent staff
at the Faculty.
- Such courses are always guaranteed by an employee of CUNI
MFF, thus in terms of accreditation it is a regular elective course. For this
reason, all participating lecturers must comply with the relevant professional
and formal requirements for teachers of courses in an accredited study
program.
- Most often these are courses that present an overview of modern
or newly emerging technologies (e.g. programming for mobile platforms, etc.)
which are not yet included in the syllabus of compulsory and elective courses of
the given study program.
- The option to participate in
the Mentorship programme
of CUNI MFF.
- Participation in the Career Fair „Dny firem
na Matfyzu“ with advantages, as well as other regular Faculty events aimed
at presenting companies.
Discounts of the final price for the Career
Fair in 2025:
Starting Partner: 10%
Partner: 20%
Strategic
Partner: 30%
The relevant date for assessing the payment reduction is the
state by January 10, 2025.
- A separate presentation of the partner
on Faculty premises beyond the usual events, such as the Job Fair.
- This
is a presentation (i.e. the partner’s representatives appearing in front of
students) outside the usual semester schedule. Venues and dates are always by
agreement with the Faculty’s contact person. This presentation gets along
without taking a form of a lecture. Students will be informed of this
presentation through the usual information channels at the Faculty (bulletin
boards, social networks, etc.).
- The total time for individual
presentations is contractually limited in accordance with the
partnership level.
- The option to participate at the
annual meeting of all partners of the Faculty.
- The annual meeting will
generally be organized once a year as a half-day or full-day conference, divided
into a non-public part (meeting of partners’ representatives with each other,
with Faculty representatives and other selected guests) and a public part (a
series of presentations for the wider academic community and
students).
- A detailed program of each meeting will always be subject to
individual negotiation so that the event best responds to current trends and
needs and suitably support the transfer of knowledge and technology between the
academic and commercial sectors.
- Possibility of
sponsorship or donation of prizes for student and scientific competitions (e.g.
competition for best bachelor or master's thesis), including the design of
appropriate competition categories and evaluation criteria.
- The option
to offer incentives (e.g. student grants), including the design of the
evaluation criteria.
- This assumes that the offer of incentives and the
criteria will be coordinated between partners and the Faculty in order to avoid
duplication or inconsistent rules. Evaluation of competitions and incentives
will usually be through evaluation committees established for this purpose.
Committees will be staffed by expert evaluators from among the Faculty staff and
from among the staff of the partner(s).
The CUNI MFF
Partnership Programme is divided into three levels, which differ not in quality
of cooperation but in its expected intensity (usual number of student
theses/projects, length of a partner’s individual presentation), length of
commitment (length of validity of the partnership agreement) and the
initial fee.
We would be pleased to present the specifically defined
parameters of these three levels of cooperation to those interested in our
partnership program at a personal meeting.
There is a registration fee
associated with concluding the partnership agreement which covers overhead costs
of the Faculty to administer the partnership program, to organize the annual
partners meeting, etc. The Starting Partner level of cooperation is so
designed to be financially acceptable even for start-ups and SMEs. The terms of
partnership may also be individually negotiated or modified in special cases
(e.g. higher expected level of cooperation in the form of targeted grants and
lower expected level of cooperation in the form of assigning topics for
student work).
The Faculty reserves the right to modify the conclusion of a partnership agreement with an interested party based on previous successful
cooperation or positive references of staff and students of CUNI MFF, or upon
the recommendation of other cooperating organizations. The statute of
partnership is an expression of mutual trust, declared also towards all students
of the Faculty and confirming the purpose of the partnership program, which is
an umbrella organization of meaningful cooperation beneficial to all
involved.
Should you have any questions or are interested in
participating in our partnership program, please contact us.
