ブルノ獣医大学

ブルノ獣医科学大学(チェコ語: Veterinární univerzita Brno、略称VFUまたはVETUNI ) は、チェコ共和国のブルノにある公立大学です。

1918年12月12日に獣医大学として設立され、初代学長はエドワード・ババクでした。獣医学分野の専門家を育成する自然科学系の大学です。チェコ共和国で獣医学の学習プログラムを提供している唯一の大学です。大学キャンパスには、小動物、鳥類、エキゾチックアニマル、馬、反芻動物、豚の専門クリニック、その他の臨床前分野の研究所、図書館があります。^{[ 1 ] [ 2 ]}

ブルノ獣医大学は学長によって運営されています。学長は、教育担当副学長、科学・研究・国際関係担当副学長、ブルノ獣医大学の発展・建設、実務との連携、大学農業事業担当副学長の3名の副学長によって代表されます。大学の経済運営および行政運営は会計担当官によって管理されています。大学の自治活動は、大学の学術評議会を通じて実施されます。^{[ 3 ]}

VFU Brno の理事会は大学内で運営されています。教育および科学活動の問題は、大学の科学評議会で議論されます。大学は、他の職場を含む学長室と、獣医学部と獣医衛生生態学部の 2 つの学部に分かれています。2020 年に薬学部はマサリク大学に移管され、その後 2021 年に大学名から薬学の言及が削除されました。 ^{[ 4 ]}

Part of university life includes scientific, research, and creative activity. Funds for these activities are usually obtained from external sources in competition with other applicants. The most important sources of funds are from research plans, the national research program, grants from grant agencies, funds from institutional and specific research, contractual research with companies, and possibly other contractors, and participation in international project solutions. The university is involved in an project of the CEITEC Center of Excellence,^[5] while its workplaces are successful in obtaining EU funds.

The university has special workplaces, the activities of which are subject to a special regime and require a special permit. These workplaces are under the supervision of a special commission and a special office of the state administration. Specifically, they include a workplace dealing with high-risk biological agents and toxins, workplaces using genetically modified organisms, workplaces for working with radioisotopes, workplaces using X-ray devices, workplaces authorized to handle certain addictive substances, and workplaces authorized to handle dangerous chemical substances. The university is also accredited as an Animal Experimentation User Facility.

The university is open to gaining international experience and supports exchange stays for students and teachers as part of international projects such as Erasmus, Life Long Learning, or based on bilateral contracts, or as freemovers.^[6] Students and teachers of the university complete short-term and long-term stays at university workplaces in Europe and, in the United States of America.

The school agricultural enterprise is part of the university. It operates on 3,176 hectares in the Nové Jičín area and 179 hectares in the Nový Dvůr area near Brno. Plant production is focused on wheat, barley, corn, rapeseed, mustard, poppy, pea, clover, grasses, and perennial fodder. Livestock production is concentrated on cattle and pigs of all categories. Part of the school enterprise also includes a nature reserve with fallow deer breeding, a pheasant farm with pheasant and other game bird breeding, and hunting mainly of roe deer. A university bird hunt is held every year in the autumn months. The school farm is an important resource for the practical teaching of students in the field of veterinary care for farm animals.