The Register of Artistic Outputs (RUV) application was created to support the process of registration and evaluation of outputs from creative artistic activities at the national level. The application enables the input and editing of records of artistic outputs, supports the process of certification of these outputs and serves for communication between the participants of the whole process including the registration of associated documents. Since the year 2013, information has been gathered about Creative Art Schools (offering university degree courses), Art Faculties or parts of universities that provide education programmes in seven arts subject areas: Architecture, Audiovisual Art, Design, Music, Literature, the Performing Arts and the Fine Arts.
The score achieved by individual universities over the last 5 years is one of the indicators according to which universities are allocated funds from the state budget.
The RUV came into operation in the professional field in September 2016 when the amendment to the Higher Education Act entered into force, in which the RUV is explicitly mentioned (Act No. 137/2016 Coll., §77c). It is administered by the RUV Office at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. The activities of the RUV are regulated by the Statute of the Council of the Register of Artistic Outputs. The individual art sectors then act through their Councils and plenary sessions, to which schools nominate their representatives.
In the RUV application, this is a multi-criteria evaluation - inputs are evaluated in terms of e.g. scope, significance, impact.
