Brno University of Technology (BUT) was founded in 1899. With more than 15,000 students, the Brno University of Technology is one of the largest universities in the Czech Republic. Over the more than a hundred years of its existence the number of study areas have increased and at present the Brno University of Technology, as the only technical university in the Czech Republic, covers the whole spectrum of technical disciplines:

The Faculty of Information Technology (FIT) at Brno University of Technology was established on 1st January 2002. It was developed from the former Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Brno University of Technology. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering was established in 1964 and has had a long tradition in teaching computer science and informatics in the framework of the former Faculty of Electrical Engineering, later called Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (FEECS).

The Faculty of Information Technology (FIT) provides education in the Bachelor and Master Study programs in Computer Science and Engineering and the Doctoral study program in Information Technology. Research activities include knowledge representation and reasoning, semantic web technologies, information extraction, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, knowledge mining, multimodal interaction, and technology enhanced learning.

The University has made numerous contacts with universities and other institutions around Europe, United States, Poland, Russia, etc. The Brno University of Technology has supported internationalization of studies through ECTS, participated in EU projects such as Tempus, Leonardo, Socrates/Erasmus, CEEPUS, Aktion, DAAD partnership , studies for two degrees and the Euro-engineer degree, organizing lectures of visiting professors, providing courses for foreign students in English, and organization of international conferences.

For more information, visit the website of the Faculty of Information Technology at Brno University: http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/

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