The institute ensures the organisation of doctoral studies and manages the administrative and study agenda of doctoral study programmes. It coordinates all content and administrative activities with other departments, especially with training departments and partner institutions.

The department provides teaching of basic and advanced courses in undergraduate computer science, mathematics and statistics in all disciplines and all forms of study. In the field of science and research, the department focuses mainly on information systems in relation to business practice, modelling and simulation of economic systems.

The department ensures the use of information technology in the teaching process as well as in the operation of study, economic and administrative agencies. It manages the faculty's computer network. It operates the comprehensive information system of the faculty. It participates in the teaching of informatics subjects.

We provide undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Economics and Management with a major in Business Economics and Management. Together with the Department of Management and Business, we are involved in providing courses specifically for the needs of these two majors. The courses are designed for both full-time and combined forms of study.

The department guarantees the Bachelor and postgraduate degree in European Integration. The aim of the programme is to prepare graduates for practice whose knowledge is in line with modern trends in the field of European integration and who reflect the requirements of both the Czech and European labour market.

Offering Banking and Accounting and Taxation at the undergraduate level and Banking is also taught at the postgraduate level. The Department also offers and sponsors the specialisation in Business Finance and the specialisation in Accounting and Taxation within the field of Business Economics in Trade and Services.

The Department guarantees, within the Bachelor's degree programme Economics and Management, the Bachelor's degree in Economics of Tourism. Within the Bachelor's degree programme Gastronomy, Hotel Management and Tourism, the Department guarantees the specialisation Hotel Management. These courses are taught in full-time form.

We operate an institute engaged in research and application of fuzzy modeling. We are engaged in the development of new algorithms for global optimization problems or improvement of software tools for fuzzy modeling of complex processes. We try to extend and improve existing fuzzy modeling methods.

The Department provides teaching of subjects in the study programmes at the Faculty of Arts of the OU and specialised teaching of Latin and medical terminology at the Faculty of Medicine of the OU. The scientific research activities of the Department are oriented towards Latin and Latin culture of the ancient, medieval and modern periods.

The Department offers a full-time Bachelor's degree in Sociology - either as an independent study or as a combined study, in which Sociology can be studied in combination with another discipline. Our teaching emphasizes the integration of theoretical and methodological knowledge and practical skills.

The Centre was established as an organizational unit of the Faculty of Science of the University of Ostrava primarily to implement a project called the Institute of Environmental Technologies.

The Centre is focused on research, support and development of science gifted pupils living and studying in the Moravian-Silesian Region. We also support teachers, assistants and parents of the gifted, as well as those who meet them in many other activities.

The main tasks of the Centre are to expand the frontiers of knowledge in the field of kinanthropology; to transfer research results to the general public; to provide high professional support for student education; to cooperate with the commercial sphere in the field of body composition measurement and physical ability testing.

Department provides teaching in physical geography and geoecology. We offer the possibility to study Bachelor's degree in Conservation and Landscape Design, Physical Geography and Geoecology, Cartography and Geoinformatics or Master's degree in Modelling in Environmental Geography and Doctoral degree in Environmental Geography.