What will be the FIR priorities for upcoming 5 years? The new FIR strategy revealed!
On the 3rd June 2021, the academic senate approved the new Education and creative activities strategic plan for years 2021 – 2025, which was handed in by the dean of faculty, doc. Josef Taušer, together with his vice-deans.
The strategy is based on the already approved Strategic plan of the Prague University of Economics and Business and on the factors, which will, during the next 5 years, bring the fundamental qualitative changes of university education, influenced mainly by the change on the labour market and the global environment, demographic changes, progressive development of distance and flexible educative forms, implementation of administration rules and the quality increase, changes in the funding system for the educational and research activities and the growing competition in the field of university education. During the Strategy making, the FIR board cooperated also with the Council of strategic administration and used widely the practical knowledge of FIR graduates or student feedbacks.
Vision
The Faculty of International Relations is the best educational and research institute in the field of international economic relations, international studies and diplomacy in the Czech Republic. It keeps enhancing the quality of education in contact with the international environment and traditionally ranks among the best 3 faculties in the Central and Eastern European region.
Mission
The mission of the Faculty of International Relations is:
- Actively educate students in the field of international economic relations and international studies and diplomacy with an emphasis on the implication of theory into the practical life.
- Provide internationally accepted study programmes, qualitatively comparable with the world prestigious universities.
- With the focus on the personal and social responsibility deepen the intercultural communication and openness throughout the academic community, develop critical thinking of students and accent the importance of life-long education.
- Raise graduates ready to adapt to the dynamically changing world of business, international politics and economics.
The strategy of wide internationalization
The key competitive advantage, distinctive element and a tool to reach the set priorities of further FIR development is the strategy of wide internationalization. “The strategy opens the faculty to the modern foreign trends and innovations in teaching, it brings new findings and significantly strengthens capacities in the sense of scientific research methods,” states the upcoming faculty development the dean of faculty, doc. Josef Taušer.
Not only at the Prague University of Economics and Business, but also throughout the whole Czech educational system, the FIR leads in terms of the internationalization, mainly thanks to the high ratio of student exchanges and foreign internships, international host lecturers, the increasing number of staff from all over the world and the number of international students studying at the university.
The FIR orients itself to the economic disciplines, which are international in its base. “The content definition is not enough, though. It is needed to project internationalization and openness to innovationive ways of management (which have been proved in abroad) as a fundamental requirement also in a way of implementation of all key faculty activites and their outputs. It is essential to complement the authority connected to the flexibility and quick learning with the social and intercultural communication abilities,” adds the dean of FIR.
The wide internationalization of academic activities is the basic value and, at the same time, the main criteria during the faculty priorities setup. It reflects into all connected areas, in which it plays the role of a basic tool for fulfilling the partial goals.
The strategic priorities for the years 2021 – 2025
The usage of human capital in favour of the faculty development
The FIR is made by people and their mutual interaction and communication. The strategic priorities of the faculty for upcoming season are the investments into the human capital, the support of creative and inspirational workplace and lowering the administrational burden of academic members.
The high-quality and relevant education and graduates´ employability
The offer of relevant, up-to-date and internationally comparable education leading to the above-average employability of graduates is the key precondition to gain the best study applicants, togetherness of students with the faculty and the intense cooperation with graduates. It plays the important role in obtaining financial support from both public and private sources and in the further development of togetherness and satisfaction of academic and non-academic staff members.
The relevance of research activities in the national and international context
The faculty strives to reach the long-term development as a research institute both nationally and internationally. It presents itself as an internationally oriented, interdisciplinary and methodologically pluralistic research institution.
The enforcement of the FIR reputation through the outer relations
FIR works towards building its good name in professional and amateur society and study applicants, systematic and long-term cooperation with graduates, constant and two-way beneficial collaboration with Czech and foreign companies and in education of professional and amateur society.