About Us
The Bohemian Centre of Vocational Excellence “TECHVET Bohemia” is established under the leadership of INSTITUT INPRO. It operates as part of the broader European framework of CoVEs and follows the principles defined in the EU Skills Agenda and the Osnabrück Declaration. The Centre functions with an inclusive, multi-stakeholder governance model that includes educational institutions, employers, public authorities, and innovation actors.
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The Bohemian Centre of Vocational Excellence “TECHVET Bohemia” Vision: Empowering learners and workers with future-ready skills for a sustainable and digital economy.
Mission:
Create a collaborative ecosystem of excellence in vocational education and training (VET), rooted in local needs and connected to international best practices.
Led by:
INSTITUT INPRO, a.s.
Part of:
EXCEED CoVE Network, SKILLMAN.EU Network
Focus Areas:
- Green & Digital Manufacturing
- Lifelong learning and upskilling
- Partnerships with schools and companies
- Innovation in VET
Partners
INSTITUT INPRO, a.s.
Full member, coordinator
The company has been active since 1997 as an education, consultancy, and trading organisation specialising in professional training and adult education. Over the years, it has established a strong reputation for delivering high-quality training for employees, managers, adults, and seniors in both hard skills and soft skills. Its core activities include tailor-made training programmes and consultancy services in management, trade, marketing, finance, human resources, digitalisation, and other areas of business development and corporate management. The company also provides certified training for foremen, supervisors, and managers in the engineering sector. In recent years, it has expanded its expertise through the implementation of projects funded from public sources, particularly European Union programmes and national grant schemes. It is actively involved in international cooperation projects, especially under Erasmus+, contributing to innovative education, transnational collaboration, and learning mobility initiatives. Training is delivered in face-to-face, online, and blended formats, with a strong focus on interactive and innovative teaching methods. The company is supported by a broad team of experienced trainers and consultants, including experts with teaching practice and collaborators from leading Czech universities and international partner organisations.
AMSP ČR – Asociace malých a středních podniků a živnostníků České republiky | Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Crafts of the Czech Republic
Full member
AMSP CR was founded in 2001 upon three fundamental pillars: INDEPENDENCE, EXPERTISE, and EXPERIENCE. AMSP CR provides an open, apolitical platform for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), self-employed persons and their organisations across the Czech Republic. The number of members and affiliated members through member associations has risen significantly in recent years to up to 300.000 subjects. Most of the members operate in the following fields: transport, marine, metallurgy, machinery, plastics and rubber manufacturing, electrical engineering, textile, construction, crafts, services, etc. AMSP CR is governed by its own Code of Business Ethics. Primarily, AMSP CR provides its members with information services focused on the segment of SMEs – news regarding subsidy offers, banking products, education, support of export, research, development and innovation, information regarding the EU, statistics, legislation etc.
BB – Střední škola stavebních řemesel Brno-Bosonohy | Secondary School of Building Crafts Brno-Bosonohy
Full member
Secondary vocational school of construction crafts providing both theoretical teaching as well as disposes of a modern complex of workshops for particular construction professions (such as mechanical engineer, carpenter, joiner, plumber etc.). To provide teaching, the school cooperates with guilds, construction groups, associations and sole traders (e.g., Metrostav, RWE, Komfort, Thermona…). Pupils also carry out professional training in the form of internships and in the form of individual training at cooperating companies already during their studies.
SSPBR – Střední škola polytechnická Brno, Jílová, příspěvková organizace | Polytechnic Secondary School Brno, Jílová, contributory organization
Full member
SSPBR is a secondary vocational school, currently having 950 students. SSPBR offers a variety of study fields like timber construction, mechanic (MIEZ), building services, electrical mechanic, plumber, painter and decorator, dry building fitter, floor joiner, bricklayer, carpenter, apprenticeships, electrician, etc. The study can be finishes as a Matriculation course (Final state exam “Maturita”), Vocational certification or as a part-time study. The school also offers retraining courses for adults.
The school is proud on its barrier-free school environment, accessible for students on wheelchairs.
ARP – Akademie řemesel Praha – Střední škola technická |Academy of Crafts Prague – Technical High School
Full member
Academy of Crafts Prague is a secondary vocational school which offers technical education in the fields of construction, engineering, electrical engineering and services. In addition to quality teaching of the necessary theoretical knowledge, the school emphasizes the acquisition of appropriate professional competences useful in professional life. The school implements practical teaching in modern equipped workshops and teaching polygons, including providing vocational training in the real environment of cooperating companies. The school building houses a driving school and a welding school, which are used by pupils to obtain driving licenses and specialised welding courses. During their studies, pupils can obtain an ECDL Certificate. Fresh graduates of electrical engineering courses are subsequently offered training and examination of Decree No. 50/1978 Coll. on favourable terms.
SSK – Střední škola Kateřinky – Liberec, s. r. o. | Secondary School Kateřinky – Liberec, s. r. o.
Full member
SSK is a secondary vocational school established already in 1954 as a Factory Apprenticeship School of Local Economy was established. The originally small school with 50 pupils has grown into a large campus where almost 700 pupils are now educated. It is located in the Jizera Mountains Protected Landscape Area on the outskirts of Liberec. In the complex we can find all classrooms, workshops, studio, youth home, gymnasium with fitness room, playground, school kitchen and canteen and also technical facilities (boiler room, coal plant, sewage treatment plant, drinking water treatment plant, small hydroelectric power plant with a total output of 70 kW, car, electrical workshops, etc.). The school offers various fields of specialization: carpenter, upholsterer, advertising, paramedics, interior design and fashion design. The school campus in Kateřinky is home to three linked and cooperating schools.
SKAI – Střední škola automobilní a informatiky | Secondary School of Automotive and Informatics
Full member
The Secondary School of Automotive and Informatics follows the tradition of the SOU auto repair. The school comes with an expanded offer of both teaching and especially study disciplines in modern and newly equipped premises. In addition to professional and experienced teaching staff, the school guarantees its pupils and students very modern multimedia computer rooms, structured data networks including a fixed line to the Internet, professional electrical engineering laboratories, spacious modern classrooms, a large gymnasium with a fitness room, a school canteen, lockers, a youth home, a doctor and a psychologist. The fields of specialization offered are: IT, multimedia communication, Auto-tronic, Auto-mechanic, Auto Painter, Bodybuilder, Auto Electrician and Entrepreneurship.
Vocational training is provided in the school’s own workshop facilities (School Service Bohdalec and School Service Libuš) equipped with the latest diagnostic equipment and technologies. The school aims to be modern, challenging and friendly at the same time, combining theory with practice.
COPAG – Centrum odborné přípravy a Gymnázium: Střední odborná škola | Vocational Training Centre and Gymnasium: secondary vocational school
Full member
COPAG is a secondary school that provides education with a focus on electrical engineering and auto repair, chemistry and ecology, the environment, economics and public administration. The fields of study end in 3 ways, with a Vocational certificate, a high school graduation exam (“Maturita” exam) or extension studies. The school was established already in 1950 and throughout the time became one of the major vocational providers for youth in Prague.
The school has currently 1342 students and apprentices, offers 22 fields of specialization and has 862 successful absolvents in the past 3 years. The school also offers retraining courses for adults.
CzechInvest
Associate
CzechInvest plays a key role in the area of supporting business and investments in its comprehensive form in the Czech Republic. The agency’s unique combination of regional, central and international operations ensures the integrity of services and the ability to connect global trends with regional conditions in the Czech Republic. One of CzechInvest’s main objectives is transformation of the Czech Republic into an innovation leader of Europe. Established in 1992, CzechInvest is a state contributory organization subordinate to the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic.
CzechInvest’s activities include: development of Czech technology firms’ potential, support for “smart” investments,
motivation of foreign investors already established in the Czech Republic toward sophisticated complementary investments,
development and cultivation of the national start-up and spin-off environment, assistance for Czech firms when entering foreign markets, promotion of the Czech economy, technologies and R&D abroad, cultivation of the business and investment environment in all regions of the Czech Republic, linking of partners from the business and R&D spheres and use of trends in progressive sectors of the global economy.
Institut evropských profesních studií, s.r.o. | The Institute of European Professional Studies
Associate
The Institute of European Professional Studies, shortly IEPS, is an educational organization that provides consulting and organizational services in the area of adult and vocational education. IEPS has been established in 2001 in Prague, the Czech Republic and celebrates already its 20 years of existence. The company employs 10 experts from various fields and cooperates with dozens of external experts, teachers, educators, consultants, lecturers, IT and ICT specialists, software developers, graphic designers and translators. IEPS also cooperates with a broad range of Czech companies in different fields of industry and services and have a broad network of vocational and practical schools predominantly on the level of secondary education. The courses and training are based on competence-learning principles with a special focus on interactivity and gamification. Special attention is paid to the use and development of digital training materials, e-education, MOOC and other ICT-based materials like apps and training software.
Jubela, s.r.o.
Associate
JUBELA is a company that provides educational courses to a wide range of customers from large and medium-sized companies, private individuals and state institutions. The company was established in 1999. Over the years, it has become an important company offering accredited retraining courses, ending with qualification exams. And in the last ten years it has taken a leading position in technical and business management education, IT, engineering courses and a whole range of retraining courses. Often as partial fulfilment of large projects financed by EU funds. The company currently offers you free of charge all teaching texts of internal lecturers for self-study and quality preparation for the online courses. Among major clients are Heineken, LeasePlan, Verlag Dashöfer, Česká spořitelna, Marimex, Aspa, a.s., Hutira, Lázně Františkovy lázně, L2M Chomutov, etc.
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