[en] VUJE foundation is closely connected with the history of Bohunice nuclear power plant. The team of research and development employees in Bohunice nuclear power plant formed the basis for foundation of the Vyskumny ustav jadrovych elektrarni (Nuclear Power Plant Research Institute - hereinafter referred to as VUJE or Company). Institute started its operations on January 1, 1977 as a concern company of Slovenske energeticke podniky (Slovak Power Enterprises). One year later VUJE became an independent organization controlled directly by the Federal Ministry of Fuels and Power. Excellent results were the impulse for the federal government to accredit VUJE in 1983 to lead the scientific commissioning of all nuclear power plants in Czechoslovakia. In 1983 started VUJE the branch education and training centre, which was in the next year equipped with a full-range simulator of WWER 440/213 reaktor unit. This centre gradually achieved international recognition. The international Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna also carried out training courses here. VUJE moved its headquarters to Trnava in 1985, however multiple experimental facilities, development workshops and some laboratories stayed in the area of nuclear power plants in Jaslovske Bohunice. At the end of the eighties VUJE counted 759 employees and gained an important position not only in Czechoslovakia, but also within international nuclear power industry. Important changes in the whole society in 1989 also influenced the future in the institute. Management developed a new organizational model of VUJE and step-by- step also the institute's strategy and line of business. Company retained its focus and was transformed in to a state company. In the following privatisation the joint-stock company established by the institute's employees bought the state research institute. The institute was transformed into a private joint-stock company Vyskumny ustav jadrovych elektrarni Trnava, a.s as of November f 1, 1994. A The shareholders are exclusively current and former employees and inheritors of the ownership interests. Jan Korec, PhD. was elected to the position of the first chairman of the board oaf directors and the general manager. Under his leadership started the company projects, which ensured its further development. VUJE has gradually changed its focus from a research institute to on engineering and designing Company, which performs important project in the nuclear power industry. Over the last couple of years VUJE broadened its activities also into the areas of distribution networks, conventional power industry and use of renewable energy sources. The company name changed from VUJE Trnava, a.s. - inzinierska, projektova a vyskumna organizacia to VUJE, a.s. (hereinafter referred to as VUJE or Company) in July 2004