GAUDEAMUS® 2008, The 15th ANNUAL

The 15th year of the Gaudeamus exhibition was held at the second biggest exhibition hall of the showground in Brno. This is a very modern and spacious hall with ground floor surface come up to 9 000 m2. The hall was filled up to capacity with visitors. The most favourite place was the main square under national flags of the participating countries.

The exhibition hall was equipped with two lecture halls with capacity 500 seats and other 450 standing places. Each lecture hall was equipped with good quality audio system, own presenter and technical support. Lecture halls and surrounding areas were the most frequented sites at the exhibition.

Exhibitors could not complain about a lack of interest in their study programmes and information about their schools. Stands with bigger exposition area benefited from it comparing to the smaller ones. Students were more interested in advisory service comparing to the 14th year of exhibition. The advisory service provided information about fields of study, study programmes, contacts of exhibitors and other useful information about future studies. Advisory service for students was free of charge.

The schools which offered mere than a mere repository of information deserve respect. The top left picture shows the meeting with Barbora Špotáková, 2008 Olympic gold winner. The meeting took place next to the stand of Czech University of Life Sciences from Prague. The top right picture shows hostage rescue presented by the University of Defence. Visitors could see and try many interesting pieces of scientific knowledge. It was a part of a new associate program under the name of “Science for Life” in which Brno Technical University, the University of Defence and Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry Brno participated.

On the left you can see street dancing presented by students of Tomas Bata University in Zlin. The street dancing took place in the main square and attracted many students. Visitors filled up all the area in front of the information stand. Various technical demonstrations by Czech Technical University from Prague belonged among traditional interests and visitors could try them at its stand.

The standard of lectures has changed markedly compared to the last year. The speakers made their lecturers much more comprehensible. Many lecturers were actually the university or college students. The main aim of every lecture was to attract attention of future students and inform them about schools, study opportunities etc.