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VSB–TUO Projects Among 20 Best Practice Examples Selected by EACEA

27. 2. 2026 News
The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), which administers programmes including Erasmus+, selected twenty projects with long-term European impact to mark the 20th anniversary of its establishment. Among them are two projects in which VSB–Technical University of Ostrava (VSB–TUO) played a significant role through a team from the Department of Computer Science at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
VSB–TUO Projects Among 20 Best Practice Examples Selected by EACEA

One of the awarded projects is DRIVES (Development and Research on Innovative Vocational Educational Skills), coordinated by VSB–TUO between 2018 and 2022. The second is the ECS Academy project (European Chips Skills Academy), implemented in the period 2023–2027, in which the Department of Computer Science team leads one of the seven work packages.

As an Erasmus+ Blueprint initiative, the DRIVES project brought together 24 partners from 11 EU countries with a total budget of €4 million. It focused on skills development in the automotive industry in the context of green and digital transformation. Key outputs include open online courses, the Skills Hub platform, and strategic recommendations for systematic education across the entire value chain.

Building on these results, ECS Academy connects 18 partners from 12 countries and responds to the growing demand for qualified professionals in the semiconductor industry. The project develops a comprehensive skills strategy, supports reskilling initiatives, and strengthens cooperation between the education sector and industry.

“Inclusion of both projects among the twenty selected confirms that long-term, systematic engagement in European initiatives delivers tangible results. DRIVES and ECS Academy are the outcome of collaboration among dozens of organisations and hundreds of experts across Europe. In the DRIVES project alone, more than 200 experts from academia and industry were involved in professional activities. Their joint efforts resulted in a portfolio of open online courses that are now used for education and training in the automotive sector. These courses have already helped thousands of people enhance their qualifications and supported students in entering the labour market more effectively,” said Jakub Štolfa from the Department of Computer Science at FEI VSB–TUO, who served as the lead coordinator of DRIVES and currently heads the team within the ECS Academy project.

The success of both projects confirms VSB–TUO’s active and long-term role in European strategic initiatives aimed at transforming key industrial sectors and advancing vocational education and training in the era of technological change.