On March 30, 2023, a field meeting of the Science, Research, and Innovation Working Committee of the Automotive Industry Association of the Slovak Republic was held at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Technical University in Košice. This meeting was organized at the invitation of prof. Ing. Petra Trebuňu, PhD.. Various topics related to current issues in the direction of the automotive industry were discussed and topics closely related to the education process at universities were also discussed. Members of the working committee also took part in a tour of the premises and equipment of SjF TUKE, including the TestBed 4.0 laboratory premises, which is located in the premises of our department and is the first of its kind in the entire Slovak Republic.