SOŠ a SOU Kolin is one of our Vocational Education and Training Schools (VETSs) in the Czech Republic. We have a capacity of more than 1,000 foreign students per year. Kolín is a major industrial and economic center of the Czech Republic, located in the Central Bohemia Region. Kolin has many educational institutions, including vocational schools. Our VETSs are all equipped with modern classrooms and a PC center for theoretical studies. Our experienced team of teachers and of supervisors for vocational training provides both the guarantee of quality training and education. Prospective students can obtain specific expertise in the fields of masonry-work, joinery, carpentry, model-making, painting and varnishing, tinsmithing, electric engineering, and plumbery, etc. Our VETSs are provided with soccer and basketball halls, fitness center, cafeteria, etc. Accommodation for international students is secured in MDACI’s modern students residents and Hotels such as Terezia Hotel. The City of Kolín itself offers a wide variety of cultural activities.

To trace the origins of the trademark FRIGERA, one would have to go back 67 years. As early as in 1924, a Prague Company, Vobofil and Co., became general agent for "General Motors New York", the car manufacturer. Apart from automobiles, this industrial group also produced refrigerating systems from 1926 under the trademark "FRIGIDAIRE".
In 1929 the original company was divided into the original general automobile agency and into a new plant for producing technical and refrigeration equipment FRIGERA, a.s. Because of the experience and expertise it had gained in 1934, FRIGERA, a.s. was granted a refrigerating units manufacturing license by General Motors. In 1939 the Company produced the first refrigeration systems, capable of producing temperatures down to -60°C. In 1999 the Company have been restructured to FRIGERA 21, a.s. and FRIGERA METAL, a.s., increasing the production program of the group.