Higher education, professional competencies, academic staff, evaluation, students

This study brings the results of an international study of the views of academic teachers (academics) and students from the Czech Republic, Poland, the Slovak Republic, and the Ukraine on the importance of the professional competences of academics. Professional competences are here intertwined into a three professional profiles: 1st - Professional and pedagogical, 2nd - Social and personal and 3rd - Academic. Aggregated data in the first half of 2018 was compiled using statistical procedures for a group of academics, a group of students, and between both groups in each country, as well as across a multinational set. They point to differences and the consensus in perceiving the importance of professional competences of academic staff at Higher Education.