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The 1999 signing of the Bologna Declaration by ministers from 29 European countries, including the CR, significantly improved integration efforts in the field of higher education in Europe.  The Bologna Declaration set out six specific objectives to be met by 2010:

GIS (Geographic and Information Systems) Days is a showcase of dozens and hundreds of maps showing different views of the cities and landscapes around us. The event is primarily intended for primary and secondary school pupils and university students, but also for the general public.

A credit system was introduced at the University for the first time in the 2003/2004 academic year.

The newly established "Department of the National School" concentrated its professional team mainly in the field of artistic pursuits and the Czech language. The founder and the first head of the department was Assoc. PaedDr. Olga Roztočilová, CSc.

The Department of Applied Mathematics was set up in 1998 by merging two mathematically-oriented departments - the Department of Discrete Mathematics and Statistics and the Department of Numerical and Applied Mathematics.

In the academic year 1997/98, a master's degree in physical education and geography was opened at the Faculty of Education of the TUL and at the same time the Geography Worksite started its activity. After one year, this worksite was transformed into a department.

The first "Weeks of Movement through Play", an event for school-age children, was organized In 1996 in the Sports Complex of the Technical University in Liberec. The event was held for the next seven years as part of the Czech Ministry of Health’s “Health Promotion Projects” and was aimed at kids who do not play sports and are not very physically active. As the years went on, there was growing interest in this all-weekend event with its active movement programme with around 1500 children aged 6 to 15 taking part annually.

The Contemporary Literature for Children and Youth conference was born out of an almost immediate impetus at a conference on children's literature in Brno. It was organized by the Faculty of Education of Masaryk University in Brno.

The University in Liberec was established by government decision of 27 February 1953 as the University of Engineering (VŠS). The building of the former F. X. Šalda School in Hálkova Street was freed up for the new college. On 1 October 1953, a total of 259 students entered the first year of the newly opened college. The school focused on those industries typical for North Bohemia: engineering, textiles, clothing, glass and ceramics.

By Government Decree No. 120/60 Coll. of 5 September 1960, the school was divided into the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Textiles and became the University of Engineering and Textiles in Liberec (VŠST). From 1990-1994, four more faculties were established: the Faculty of Education (1990), the Faculty of Economics (1992), the Faculty of Architecture (1994) and the Faculty of Mechatronics, Informatics and Interdisciplinary Studies (1995). The original name no longer corresponded to the university’s focus and character, therefore, on the basis of Act No. 192/1994 Coll. of 27 September 1994, the University of Engineering and Textiles in Liberec could use the name Technical University in Liberec as of 1 January 1995.

The Department of Mathematics was set up in 1953 at the same time as the University of Engineering in Liberec (since 1960 the University of Mechanical and Textile Engineering) and was later divided into several parts, one of which is the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Education (KMD).