The university campus in Mladá Boleslav will be completed by the middle of next year

BRUSSELS - The university campus that car manufacturer Škoda Auto began building last year in Mladá Boleslav will be completed by the middle of next year. In an interview for ČTK in Brussels today, the company's personnel chief Martin Jahn said this. The new facilities will start being used for education from September 2007. The company initially expected the campus to be completed by the end of this year, but a supplier has not yet been selected.
According to Jahn, Škoda Auto is currently finalizing the selection process. The delay is allegedly partly due to a change in the position of personnel director at Škoda Auto. "Tender processes sometimes take longer. That happens," he added. The automaker is building the campus in cooperation with the city of Mladá Boleslav. According to the original plans, the construction of the educational complex is expected to cost around 400 million crowns. However, the city and other partners will also financially participate in the entire project.
The new campus will fundamentally change a historically valuable but dilapidated part of the city and will prepare conditions in the Na Karmeli area for the education of hundreds of students as well as for the training of the automaker's employees. The planned university campus is also set to include branches of technical universities, a library, and spaces for organizing cultural and educational events. In the future, around a thousand students are expected to study on the campus, and around 7,000 employees are expected to undergo training each year. The new campus will include both modern new buildings and the renovated Piarist Monastery, the Church of St. Bonaventure, and the school building Convent, where a branch of the planned regional university is to operate.