international team, university, adapting, research team

The paper reflects the experience of an international team assembled in the Department of Education and Social Studies at the Faculty of Education, Palacký University in Olo-mouc, Czech Republic. The team includes both European (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina) and non-European professionals (China, Indonesia). Teaching, project and publishing activities are realised within this team. The paper focuses on cre-ating this international team and adapting individual members to the conditions of the university environment with regard to the specifics of Central Europe (education system, science system). The research team’s activities are reflected as the results of a research sur-vey in the given phases of the process with an emphasis on the sustainability of the inter-national team and its activities.