Tomas Bata University in Zlín (TBU), (Czech Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně), is a Czech public university in the Moravian city of Zlín, comprising six faculties offering courses in technology, economics, humanities, arts and health care.

[5] This faculty was founded in 1960 as a vocational college for the Svit factory, and it was a part of the Technical University in Bratislava.

[5] The town of Zlín eventually became known for providing higher education and research in a number of specialized fields.

[4] As part of the internationalization strategy of TBU in Zlín, there is considerable emphasis on the teaching of English as well as other foreign languages.

[4] Also, TBU provides maximum support for all forms of international cooperation, thus, lectures and teaching internships, joint research projects, student exchanges among others.

Some of them are Prof. Milan Zelený, a world-famous economist, Prof. Karel Kolomazník, a laureate of the Rolex Award for Enterprise, which is called “a mini Nobel Prize”.

Prof. Petr Hlaváček, prominent international expert in footwear hygiene, conducted a research into the 5000-year-old Alpine Mummy (Ötzi) and was nominated for TOP 100 discoveries of the year 2003.

Petr Hlaváček also conducted the Terracotta Warriors’ Footwear research (2006–2009) as part of the UNESCO’s World Heritage.

Prof. Berenika Hausnerová, a UNESCO-L’ORÉAL Award for Women in Science laureate[9] in recognition of her work on the influence of pressure on the rheological behavior of PIM materials.

Marcela Kubalčíková, Michal Smola, Daniel Málek, Klára Křížová Tereza Marusincova