The aim of the project is to strengthen the academic staff of the Transport and Communications Institute in strategic areas of specialisation in accordance with the university’s strategy and scenarios of development of study directions, thus improving the competitiveness of the academic staff and the university in the long term.The project’s target group is VRU academic staff, doctoral students and foreign lecturers who will cooperate with the university within the framework of the European Social Fund project. The total cost of the project is EUR 676052.35, of which support from the European Social Fund is EUR 574644.50 (85 %) and the State budget funding is EUR 101407.85 (15 %). Investments in human capital are foreseen in four fields of study:1)‘Information technology, computer engineering, electronics, telecommunications, computer management and computer science’ – preliminary EUR 356798.16, 2)‘Mechanics and metalworking, heat, thermal engineering and mechanical engineering’ – preliminary EUR 91575.03, 3)‘Transport services’ – Preliminaryly EUR 149929.66, 4)‘Management, administration and real estate management’ (in the context of a new professional master’s study programme, a semi-annual selection of the project for a short term and a long-term horizon of the project: non-visibility for a long-term project with an open horizon of EUR 77749,50) in terms of a short-term project, in terms of a short term of study, with a short selection of studies for a short-term project with an open-ended horizon of EUR 77749,50.