Education, engineering, labor market, students, technical education.

The aim of the paper is to introduce the issues solved within TACR research project (Technology Agency of Czech Republic). The title of the project is “Education in engineering branches and its optimization for the needs of the labor market”. Its content focuses on the current needs of workers in engineering companies and innovation centers. The project proposal resulted from an analysis of the current situation in the field of technical education and the situation on the labor market in the sphere of technical professions. This study focuses on students of high schools with a focus on engineering and their attitudes towards equipping schools with specific tools for digital production process management, the use of tools by teachers of vocational subjects and also on students' attitudes towards evaluating the preparation of schools for their further development.The survey was conducted at the end of 2019 with a sample of 316 students.