Mendel University in Brno (MENDELU) is the oldest independent specialized university in the Czech Republic. It was established by Act No. 460 as of 24 July 1919. Later the name of the Mendel University in Brno has been accepted as the name better corresponding with the university position in the university sector in the Czech
Republic. In 2011, the establishment of an independent university institute CEITEC MENDELU within the Faculty of Agronomy incorporated the University into an international scientific centre of excellence, the Central European Institute of Technology. At the end of 2012, the University received the prestigious certificates ETCS Label and Diploma Supplement Label from the European Commission, which serves as a confirmation that its study programmes and the examination system are in accordance with the principles of the Bologna Declaration. MENDELU is also a holder of the European HR Award and continually supports a stimulating and favourable working environment for researchers and teachers. Its aims to interconnect educational activities with new scientific knowledge and practice, to ensure the effectiveness of the research outputs and development activities through publication activity, technology transfer and to increase the interconnectedness of research activities with the needs of the practice. Focused on these objectives MENDELU works in close cooperation with various state, research and private/commercial institutions as well as with interest groups and associations. The essential feature of teaching and research activities at the MENDELU is a combined application of knowledge connected with biological, technical and social science disciplines in agriculture, horticulture, forestry, landscaping and wood technology, as well as it is the development of the arts in garden and landscape architecture and furniture production. This involves the level of fundamental research but in general, the emphasis is put especially on applied research.

Faculties


The Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology at the Mendel University in Brno (FFWT MENDELU) concentrate on research and academic activities in the areas of arboristics, furniture design and furniture technology, forestry, landscaping, timber structures and wood building construction, wood technology and timber management and furniture design on bachelor, master and doctoral levels, and in research and expertise in the respective fields. The FFWT mission is to facilitate education, to support scientific research and to nurture creative ecologically sound activities related to land, forests, wood and interior with an emphasis on ecology and aesthetics. Teaching objective of FFWT MENDELU is to groom students on an adequate professional, cultural, ethical and social level so that they were able to solve conceptual issues creatively and adapt themselves to requirements of practice.
The Faculty closely collaborates with the Training Forest Enterprise Masaryk Forest Křtiny, which manages 10 265 ha of forestland, serving with its experimental forest stands, greenhouses, forest nurseries, game preserve, a sawmill, mechanised log depot, and other establishments for educational and research purposes of the FFWT.

The Department of Wood Science and Technology of the FFWT MENDELU deals in its academic and scientific activities with an examination of properties of wood and wood-based materials. The Department of Wood Science and Technology participates in the teaching of courses in the following programmes: B-ARB Arboriculture, B-DSGN Furniture Design, B-DREV Wood Technology, B-LES Forestry, B-NAB Furniture and B-STAV Wood-based Constructions, N-DSGN Furniture Design, N-DI Wood Engineering, N-EUFO European Forestry, N-NI Furniture Engineering, NSTAV Wood-based Constructions.
The research includes developing advanced methods of modification of wood mass for the purpose of improvement of its native properties, modification procedures include impregnation processes by organic and inorganic substances, by thermic and hydrothermal processes, processes optimizing factors of the production process, processes applying alternative technological processes and processes combining individual techniques. The Department also conducts chemical, physical and mechanical analyses, including tests of assessment of qualitative parameters of wood-based materials and resulting products. The Department is also active in fields of wood anatomy, dendrochronology, experimental identifying of physical and mechanical properties of wood and wood-based materials, modelling of physical/mechanical phenomena, wood protection, wood drying, wood modification and composite wood-based materials.

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