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Recent events at the FoundationClick on images to enlarge |
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• Results of the finals of the competition Test Your Managerial Skills held on 4 May 2010 in Prague • "BOHEMIAN RAPSODY" - fashion show • Finalists of Miss Akademie 2009 at the Bata Villa • Czech archeologists in Egypt - February 2009 • Luxemburg graves in Moravia? - February 2009 • Michal Viewegh reads to children - January 2009
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Global Classroom - presentation of the project to pupils of elementary schools
Global Classroom is a unique project, the beginnings of which date back to 1997 when the first conference was held in Lerwick at the Shetland Islands, in which 10 students from each involved country participated: the United Kindgom, Germany, Sweden, Japan, South Africa and Czech Republic.
This year already the 13th conference was held in the American state New Jersey. Students of the organizing country elect the topic of the conference (the topic in the USA was "Immigration") and discuss the raised issue in international groups for the period of one week.
Participation in the conference represents a unique experience for all participants; it involves learning the life at other schools, in the homes of other students and, last but not least, it is of relevance for improvement of English language skills.
The grammar school "Gymnázium Zlín-Lesní čtvrť" organized the conference in 2002 and 2008.
Students of the grammar school talked about their experience with the Global Classroom project and their this year's stay in the USA with their younger colleagues from elementary schools in Zlín. Their presentation was held in the Bata Villa in Zlín on Friday 8 October 2010.
Birth day anniversary of Mr. Thomas Bata
Today we commemorate the birth day anniversary of Mr. Thomas Bata
(September 17, 1914)
Thomas Bata Foundation prize for the best thesis written and defended in English
Prize winner in 2010 became Miss Petra Melichárková of Technology Faculty of Tomas Bata University in Zlín.
Thesis: Structure and properties of wood / polypropylene composites.
Award at graduation ceremonies on 8 July 2010 gave a Board member of Thomas Bata Foundation Mr. Stanislav Knotek.
78th anniversary of the tragic death of Tomas Bata in air crash 12th July 1932
We remind the anniversary by laying flowers at the statue of Tomas Bata
Mr. Svatopluk Jabůrek, President of Klub absolventů Baťovy školy práce
Miloslav Blaha, a committee member
Mr. Pavel Velev, director of The Tomas Bata Foundation
Commuter tennis camps for children
Commuter tennis camps for children aged 5 to15 years held on the following dates: Ist run 12 – 16 July 2010
IInd run 16 – 20 August 2010
IIIrd run 23 – 27 August 2010 daily from 8.00 a.m. to 16.00 p.m.
Place of holding: The Bata Villa in Zlín
Organized by the Tomas Bata Foundation, for applications and detailed information please call 577 219 083
Opening of the Sculpture Workshop - 23 June 2010
Workshop participants at the ceremonial opening of the 23rd June 2010
The Sculpture by Soňa Ševčíková, Slovakia
The Sculpture by Richard Šulc, Czech republic
The Sculpture by Katarzina Dudkiewicz, Poland
The Sculpture by Jan Polach
The Sculpture Jana Polácha
The tribute to Rudolf Uher
The 2010 Wood Scultpure Symposium ”WOOD 2010”
Opening of the symposium will be held on Wednesday 24 June 2010 from 6 p.m. in the garden of the Villa Tomas Bata. You are all welcome.
The twelfth year of the International Student Sculpture Symposium „ Wood - Dřevo 2010“ was opened by the Thomas Bata Foundation rather non-traditionally, earlier than usually, on 14 June 2010. The invitation to participate was accepted by students from art colleges in Poland, Slovakia, Austria and Czech Republic. 6 students will took part this year. The students will work continuously in the premises of the Bata Villa for 10 days and their efforts will be concluded by a presentation of the new sculptures at the exhibition opening held on 23 June 2010 from 18:00 pm in the gardens of the Bata Villa. The exhibition opening is open to the public for free.
The objective of the Foundation is, in the spirit of former Bata traditions, to develop the talent of your artists, give them space to execute their ideas, to try working with different materials and devices and to present their works to the public. This year the students may work with a hundred years old oaks. Oak wood ranks among the most suitable materials for sculpting work due to its properties. The gardens and premises of the Bata Villa have become the ideal space for exhibiting the wooden sculptures; currently more than 30 works of art are exhibited in this “Sculpture gallery in the open".
This year’s symposium will offer one specialty, when all the participating sculptors will work jointly on a wooden sculpture during Saturday, which will be created from a huge elm tree in the park opposite the Bata Villa. The son of the late prominent Slovak sculptor Rudolf Uher, the academic architect Michal Uher (Expert Guarantor of the symposium), created a model of a sculpture based on the sketch of his father, which will be the subject of activity of our young sculptors under the supervision of the experienced artist. The new object will culturally enhance the park “under the lime trees”.
The history of the sculpting symposia organized by the Tomas Bata Foundation for students of both local and international art colleges dates back to 1999. In 1999 the Foundation organized its first own symposium with a free topic and the material worked was wood. The year before the Foundation was involved in a workshop in the stone quarry near Žlutava as one of the organizers, where students worked with stone.
The workshop is organized and financed by the Foundation, with the gratuitous help of the following companies: Baťovy lesy a statky, Husqvarna, Pozimos, Švehlák nářadí, Renomix and others.
Prepared by: Ing. Pavel Velev, Executive Director of TBF
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS – SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM ,,WOOD/DŘEVO 2010“
Igor Gazic - Wiener Kunstschule, Vienna
Jan Polách – Tomas Bata University
Richard Šulc – Tomas Bata University
Kamil Słowik - Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow
Katarzyna Dudkiewicz - The Władysław Stzremiński Academy
of Fine Arts and Design in Łódź
Soňa Ševčíková – Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava
The plaster model of the statue by Rudolf Uher
2th day of Student Sculpture Symposium
3rd day of Student Sculpture Symposium
Soňa Ševčíková, Slovakia
Katarzyna Duckiewicz, Poland
Kamil Slowik, Poland
Richard Šulc, Czech
Jan Polách, Czech
Josef Sedláček - professional work with a chain saw
5th day of Student Sculpture Symposium
Realization statue by Rudolf Uher
Commuter music camp with the Yamaha music school for children
Commuter music camp with the Yamaha music school for children aged 6 to 15, held from 9 to 13 August 2010, daily from 9.00 am. to 16.00 p.m.
Place of holding: The Bata Villa in Zlín
Organized by the Tomas Bata Foundation, for applications and detailed information please call 577 219 083
Etiquette for university students
A course (in Czech) for students of the Tomas Bata University focusing on social behaviour and dining. The course discusses the accepted norms of introductions, contacts, telephone conversations, dress, hand movements, speech, table etiquette.
Lecturers: Mgr. Jaroslav Divoký, an expert on hotels and gastronomy
Ing. Pavel Velev. Executive Director of The Thomas Bata Foundation
Results of the finals of the competition Test Your Managerial Skills held on 4 May 2010 in Prague
The most successful managers are again the students of VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava.
The interest of Czech university students in the competion Test Your Managerial Skills is growing year after year.
225 student couples from 25 Czech high education institutions took part in the 3rd year of the competition organized by the non-profit educational organization Junior Achievement and The Tomas Bata Foundation in Zlín. The competition was severe and so the goal of everybody was to succeed in the basic and semifinal rounds and win through to the Prague finals held at the seat of the company Hewlett Packard on 4 May 2010, where eight best manager teams competed for valuable prizes awarded by the partner of the competition, the company Hewlett Packard. The management and economic simulation exercise JA TITAN (simulation accessible via the Internet at http://titan.ja.org) demonstrates to students decision-making within a company and helps them understand the basic market principles. The students represent individual companies, which exist on the same market, sell the same product and compete one with another. In the final round the teams had to deal not only with the launching of a new product on the market, but also with big fluctuations in the demand due to seasonality of the economic cycle of the imaginary product. The following economy students coped best with these difficult conditions and brought their company to the winner's rostrum:
1st place
Martina Palonciová and Stanislav Rejchrt
VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava
2nd place
Martin Kabát and Stanislav Pouska
University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
3rd place
Klára Trávníková and Jan Rojíček
VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava
The winning students brought to Ostrava and Pilsen mini notebooks HP, external harddiscs with a capacity of 500 GB and LCD monitors. We believe that they will use these great prizes during their futher studies or managerial practice.
1st May Celebration in 2010
The Tomas Bata Foundation organized, with considerable support of the company Baťa, a. s., the traditional 1st May celebration. It was attended by citizens of the Zlín region, in particular then by families with children, for whom plenty of games, contests and attractions were prepared. We would like to thank all the volunteers helping in organizing the games and contests for children. Students of the Gymnasium Lesní čtvrť Zlín and children from the Children's Home Vizovice were of great help to us.
We would also like to thank all sponsors for financial support, thanks to which all the attractions for child visitors of the 1st May celebration were for free.
We received financial support from: Baťa, a.s. Zlín, Cominfo, a.s. Zlín, Impromat - Computer, s.r.o. Zlín and LUCO klima s.r.o. Otrokovice.
From left to right: Pavel Velev, Managing Director of the Tomas Bata Foundation, Ján Holčík, Member of the Board of Directors of Baťa, a. s. Slovenská republika, Rosemarie Bata - Blyth, Eugenio Olabe, Managing Director of, a. s. Česká republika
10 award winning works in the competition "Spring Shoe"
Zdeněk Babica, 8 years, Zlín
Hanka Čihánková, 13 years, Otrokovice
Honzík Nosálek, 6 years, Želechovice
Kájka Nosálková, 10 years, Želechovice
Maruška Nosálková, 13 years, Želechovice
Lukáš Plšek, 10 years, Zlín - Prštné
Adélka Polanská, 7 years, Zlín
Anička Schovajsová, 7 years, Zlín
Anička Vančuříková, 7 years, Zlín
Nikola Vršková, Zlín
"BOHEMIAN RAPSODY" - fashion show on 30 April 2010
The Tomas Bata Foundation together with the Department of Fashion and Shoe Design of the Faculty of Multimedia Communications of the Tomas Bata University in Zlin organized a fashion show on Friday 30 April.
Students of the Shoe Design Studio and Fashion Design Studio presented their models.
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The Thomas Bata Prize
The winner of The Thomas Bata Prize for the best thesis written and defended in the English language, Ing. Martina Lovecká, is currently staying in the Dutch Best, where she is on a two-week attachment with the Bata company.
Pictrure: Ing. Martina Lovecká (sitting) with her colleagues.
Bata factory in the Dutch Best. The factory manufactures highly specialized safety and protective footwear.
Revealing a new tomb slab of Tomas J. Bata at The Forest Cemetry in Zlin
On 18 September 2009, one day after the day when Tomas J. Bata would be celebrating his 95th birhtday, his wife Sonja Bata revealed a new tomb slab within the grave of his father Tomas Bata and his mother Marie Batova at The Forest Cemetry in Zlin.
This commemorative meeting was further attended by
Ing. Pavel Velev, Managing Director of the Thomas Bata Foundation,
JUDr. Stanislav Knotek, Member of the Administrative Board of the Thomas Bata Foundation,
Miroslav Šenkýř, Deputy Mayor of the Town of Zlin,
Ing. Svatopluk Jabůrek, Chairman of the Bata School of Work Graduates' Club,
Miroslav Hovořák,, director of B.F.P., Lesy a statky Tomáše Bati
members of the Bata School of Work Graduates' Club.
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A meeting to mark the 1st anniversary of the death of Tomáš J. Bata
On 1 September 2009 a commemorative meeting was organised to mark the first anniversary of the death of Tomáš J. Bata.
The meeting was attended by (left to right):
Ing. Michal Janský - General Director of Bata, a.s.
Ing. Pavel Velev - Managing Director of the Thomas Bata Foundation
DVM. Stanislav Mišák - Governor of The Zlin Region
Irena Ondrová - Mayor of the Town of Zlín
Judr. Stanislav Knotek - Member of the Administrative Board of the Thomas Bata Foundation
prof. Petr Sáha - Tomas Bata University
The Message of Thomas Bata regarding the Economic Depression
Where are the roots of the economic depression?
The world lived too long relying on disproportionately high economic figures. Businessmen from major countries got used to long rows of nulls in their books. They preferred not selling to selling cheaper. The current situation is an evidence of natural economic laws pushing with their weight life on the soil of reality.
How to resist an economic depression?
Through work. During a crisis the work efforts must be doubled at all cost until we finally find a gound, where the customer may buy and the business thus grow. Entrepreneurs and responsible economic leaders must be determined, self-confident and optimistic. They have to realize that nobody else will solve their troubles and that they cannot escape them.
Protectionism?
This contradiction between theory and practice rests in that laws and political interventions will much rather make inefficient entrepreneurs from efficient ones than the opposite. Incompetent entrepreneurs, who managed to convince politicians that it is in the interest of the state to protect their incompetency, are hiding behind protectionism.
The thing is to make a lifelong occupation from business and trading, not only an opportunity to rob people for several years and then retire.
Major European countries need men, who are affraid neither of the anger of entrepreneurs, who will be forced to count on loosing a part of their capital, nor of the curses of millions of workers, who will be forced to temporarily put up with lower wages. Such intervention in all countries is the only means to stabilizing economic conditions of those countries, reduction of prices, increase of wages and will result not only in a boom of entrepreneurship, but the entire Europe and humankind will benefit.
Once you, entrepreneurs, achieve wealth and power through your business, remember the words of Jesus: "The one, who wants to be the most powerful among you, let be your servant". Remember that your powers, abilities belong to the public. Remember that property, circulating money in your business have about the same importance for your colleagues as your blood in your body has for you.
Tomáš Baťa died tragically 77th years ago.
Tomáš Baťa died during aviation disaster 12. July 1932. Representatives of Thomas Bata Foundation, Club of Bata alumni,city Zlin, Zlin Region and Tomas Bata University reminded his memory in front of the statue in Zlin.
Manager in Rough
The Thomas Bata Foundation and Junior Achievement organized very interesting, entertaining and, most practical computer simulation called JA Titan, whose aim was not only to test the management decisions in the company and see and understand their impact on the market, but also to verify the knowledge of a foreign language. And it's all been "painless", without the risk of bankruptcy and possibly execution.
This year the competition was "Manager in rough" invited students of all universities and universities in the Czech Republic, which have economic, managerial, business or commercial interests. The competition took place in the English language and is appropriate for students of lower classes who do not yet have enough knowledge in the field. A condition of entry into the competition was to build a two-team. The competition did not require precise knowledge of the economy and it can be complete only with the use of so-called "common sense" and intuition.
The competition was supported by Hewlett-Packard, which sponsored the main prizes. The main prize was the HP iPAQ, for the 2nd place of LCD monitors and HP for the 3rd place PhotoSmart printer. Next 5 teams won the small prizes in the final.
Winners of contest Manager in rough 2009 with the main price iPAQ Martina Polonciová, Stanislav Rejchrt
2nd & 3rd place
Finalists of Miss Akademie 2009 at the Bata Villa
Czech archeologists in Egypt
An update on the research achievements of Czech archeologists in Egypt,
specifically in the area of Abúsíru.
Presented by PhDr. Ladislav Bares, CSc.,
Director of the Czech Institute of Egyptology
Luxemburg graves in Moravia
Margrave John Henry of Luxemburg, brother of Charles IV, founded the Augustinian monastery at Brno. Records indicated that he and his son Jošt were buried beneath the Baroque tomb before the altar. Following his successes at the Iufaovy tomb in Egypt, ing. Michael Balík was asked to investigate. What did he find there ?
Lecture by Ing. Michael Balík, 20. January 2009, 18:00 pm
Michal Viewegh reads to children
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