LIVING LAB Mendel University in Brno
A university living lab for software development and research.
01 · Smart MENDELU
My MENDELU is the app students actually use. Timetable, canteen menu, news, campus map, an SOS module and dozens of other modules. 30,000+ downloads, 3,390 students open it every day, and the user base grows about 30 percent every year.
And Smart MENDELU is more than the app. The same team builds the web systems that run the university back office:
Accreditation file builder
Programme accreditation without the paper binders.
Work attendance records
Attendance and leave for every employee.
Employment proposals
The košilka, finally electronic.
Microcertificate generation
Issued, managed and verifiable microcredentials.
02 · Citymind · University spin-off
Citymind, university spin-off builds AI assistants for modern institutions: web chatbots, voicebots and the Aurora internal AI agent. It grew inside the university living lab and now runs as an independent company.
More than 50 municipalities, universities and institutions across the Czech Republic and Slovakia rely on it, from Prague 6 and Kolín to Žilina, plus universities including Masaryk University and MENDELU.
City assistant
online
How do I register a new permanent address?
You can do it at the registry office, room 12. Bring your ID and proof of residence. Want me to book you a time slot?
Yes, tomorrow morning.
Illustrative conversation. AI assistants, chatbots and voicebots for cities, universities and institutions.
03 · Other projects
Storage, management and verification of microcertificates, built as a product universities can adopt. Behind it sits applied research on blockchain-based verification, so a certificate can be trusted without calling the registrar.
More is always in the pipeline.
AI tutors and mentors for every student, a smart campus with a digital twin, gamified learning with Mendeluj. Projects start as experiments in the lab, prove themselves on real users, and graduate to products.
See the upcoming projects04 · For universities and institutions
Every system on this site runs in production at a real university. And every one of them is available to yours. Another university can license the My MENDELU app, and we deliver and implement it for them, end to end. The same goes for the staff systems and the microcredentials platform.
The story
The beginning
Q13 started as a group of people who would rather ship software than talk about it. A living lab where university software gets built, tested and iterated with real users.
The spin-off
The first product to graduate from the lab. Grown with university backing, now an independent company serving 50+ public sector customers across Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Today
The university's own product team, shipping My MENDELU and the systems that run MENDELU behind the scenes. Researchers and developers, side by side.
Software and research, built at a university, used outside it. Meet the people who do it.