We provide testing, assessment, research and development in the field of railway vehicles and equipment, their components and materials. We use the method of verifying technical parameters and driving characteristics of railway rolling stock directly on the track.

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.

We are involved in the inspection of feed, soil and plant nutrition or animal production. We have laboratories to carry out chemical analyses. We focus on organic farming controls and issue exemptions for the use of conventional seeds and seedlings. We organise seminars and issue professional publications.

Offering agricultural testing station services and consultancy.

We provide professional services for the development and implementation of national water policy focusing on hydraulics, hydrology, hydrogeology. We are engaged in promoting water protection, flood prevention and waste and packaging management, research on the status, use and changes of aquatic ecosystems and their links in the landscape.