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The University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague is a natural centre of first-rate study and research in the area of chemistry in Czechia and is one of the country's largest educational and research institutions focused on technical chemistry, chemical and biochemical technologies, material and chemical engineering, food chemistry, and environmental studies.

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UCT Prague - A challenge that pays off

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The University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague is a natural centre of first-rate study and research in the area of chemistry in Czechia and is one of the country's largest educational and research institutions focused on technical chemistry, chemical and biochemical technologies, material and chemical engineering, food chemistry, and environmental studies.

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Research University

According to the prestigious Times Higher Education rankings, UCT Prague, one of five Czech universities, ranks among the 4% of the best world universities. The school has also dominated the rankings of the Education Policy Centre of Charles University in the category “Emphasis on Science, Research and Creativity” category.

Currently UCT Prague boasts a number of excellent experts such as Jana Hajšlová, member of the EU Advisory Group “Food Quality and Safety” or František Štěpánek, who has been awarded an ERC grant.

Half of its income is generated from the institution's creative activities focused on science, research and innovation. In the Czech context, this is an extraordinary accomplishment.

It is a member of the European University Association, the European Federation of National Engineering Associations and the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy. It cooperates with more than 100 academic institutions not only in Europe but also in the US, Canada, Japan, Vietnam, and many other countries.

UCT Prague - names in international dimension

The official name of our university in the Czech language, as stated in the law of the Czech Republic is:

Vysoká škola chemicko-technologická v Praze, abbreviated VŠCHT Praha

Foreign language equivalents of the name:

University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, abbreviated UCT Prague,
- English name used before 2014: Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague
Universität fűr Chemie und Technologie, Prag,
École Nationale Supérieure des Technologies Chimiques de Prague,
Chimiko-technologičeskij universitět, Praga.

Virtual tour of the UCT Prague

History

UCT Prague was founded in 1952 but its origins date back to 1807 when the first course in chemistry was delivered at Prague Polytechnic. Reorganization of the polytechnic in 1920 resulted in the transformation of the chemistry department into the School of Chemical Technology, one of the seven sections of the Czech Technical University.

A number of key figures of the history of chemistry relate to UCT Prague. Among them, three figures are renowned in their fields: Vladimir Prelog, Nobel Prize winner, Otto Wichterle, inventor of contact lenses, and Emil Votoček, author of the Czech chemical nomenclature.

Several presidents of the Czech Academy of Sciences – František Šorm, Rudolf Zahradník, and Jiří Drahoš – are connected with the school as well.

UCT Prague was the first Czech university authorised to provide the Eurobachelor degree. As its name indicates, this prestigious recognition certifies the quality of UCT Prague bachelor studies at the European level.

UCT Prague - A challenge that pays off

Notable Research

UCT Prague researchers were very successful within the European Community framework programme, HORIZON 2020, and are actively involved in developing many new research projects and collaborations.

Notable prior efforts include:

RECOBA, Assoc. Prof. Juraj Kosek, Cross-sectorial real-time sensing, advanced control and optimisation of batch processes saving energy and raw materials
PARTIAL-PGMs, Assoc. Prof. Petr Kočí, Development of novel, high Performance hybrid TWV/GPF Automotive afteR treatment systems by raTIonAL design: substitution of PGMs and Rare earth materials
SElySOs, Prof. Karel Bouzek, Development of new electrode materials and understanding of degradation mechanisms on Solid Oxide High Temperature Electrolysis Cells
SuPER-W, Prof. Pavel Jeníček, Assoc. Prof. Jan Bartáček, Sustainable Product, Energy and Resource Recovery from Wastewater
Food Quality Projects : FoodSmartphone, Smartphone analyzers for on-site testing of food quality and safety; MultiCoop, Multidisciplinary approach to strengthen cooperation and establish novel platform for comprehensive assessment of food and feed safety; AUTHENT-NET – Food Authenticity Research Network, Prof. Jana Hajšlová, Monika Tomaniová, PhD
Science education: SCICHALLENGE, Petr Holzhauser, MSc, Next generation science challenges using participatory techniques and digital media

Faculties

UCT Prague (in addition to departments accomodating the needs of the entire university) has four faculties:

UCT Prague in Numbers

Worldwide Cooperation and Collaboration

UCT Prague cooperates with more than 100 universities and institutions worldwide. The university is the most active Czech university participant in the Erasmus+ student exchange programme and has also participated in other programmes such as the 5th and 6th framework programme, COST, EUREKA, and Leonardo da Vinci.

Map: Cooperation with other institutions

Library: ChemTK

UCT Prague operates the superbly equipped library, ChemTK, situated in the modern National Library of Technology (NTK) building. The ChemTK collection includes more than 100,000 books, handbooks, encyclopaedias, periodicals, and other publications. ChemTK subscribes to 300 professional periodicals and provides electronic access to scientific journals. Over 2,500 journals from prestigious scientific publishing houses are currently available in electronic format. ChemTK also provides access to SciFinder, the Chemical Abstracts Service, and other specialised resources (see full list of eResources) that enable research across scientific specialities.

The complete collections of Beilstein's Handbuch der organischen Chemie and Gmelin's Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie are also available in both print and electronic formats. Print editions are available in NTK's Rare Books and Special Collections reading room.

Central Laboratories

UCT Prague's Central Laboratories consist of eight laboratories:

Laboratory of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy
Laboratory of Infra-Red (IR) and Raman Spectroscopy
Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry (MS)
Laboratory of Organic Elemental Analysis
Laboratory of X-Ray Diffraction
Laboratory of Thermal-Gravimetric Analysis (TGA)
Laboratory of Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS) and Laboratory of Surface Analysis

The laboratories provide high-quality equipment for use by students, professors, and research staff members and are equipped with modern instrumentation. Laboratory personnel are experienced in routine as well as specialized experiments. The laboratories are used for student projects, grant-funded research, and industrial applications. External customers (universities, private companies, and others) can also use the facilities.

Laboratory personnel also teach several courses, workshops, and other seminars for members of the UCT Prague community. The courses include practical techniques as well as methods for spectra interpretation.

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Görkem, Turkey

Even in the beginning, UCT Prague introduced me to many options which especially helped me to form my vision for my entire future. While studying at UCT Prague, I can say the best aspect is having the chance to be supervised by really gentle and helpful academic staff. The highly welcoming attitudes to foreign students ensure students feel comfortable studying in a caring atmosphere.

Above all, one studies in a dreamful city, Prague, which offers much more than a student may expect. Studying at UCT Prague was a fantastic experience for me, one which I will always admire.

Thea, USA

I decided to study at the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague because I saw my graduate education as an excellent opportunity to gain a unique international experience. Studying at UCT Prague has provided me with an exceptional education and boundless research options. Every step of your programme is guided by very knowledgeable faculty eager to teach in very personal and small class sizes.

By coming from a different country, and even continent - the whole experience has been better because I have had the chance to meet many people that are all gathered in one place with the same idea: to learn and develop in the biotech field. I know that my education here will well guide me to a future career in the biotech industry.

Apurva, India

I am a doctoral scholar at UCT Prague. I decided to join here for my PhD studies because UCT Prague has global recognition for research in the area of Food and Nutrition analysis. My PhD programme has trained me to gain an analytical outlook for research with the help of required academic courses and the relevant laboratory practices. The laboratories are well-equipped and have state-of-the-art technology. These laboratories are accredited and carry international affiliations from across the world.

Apart from this, UCT Prague also has experienced and highly-qualified experts as professors and other teaching faculty members. All the professors and researchers strive hard to produce novel and quality research work that is eventually published in the globally recognized journals. Ample opportunities are also given to participate and present our novel work at various conferences and symposia. The non-teaching and staffs from International Relations office at UCT Prague are very encouraging and helpful. They assist in getting acquainted with the university environment as well as with the beautiful city of Prague and Czech culture.

My studies at UCT Prague have played a major role in shaping my career and have helped me to progress in the area of my interest. The university has created a sense of confidence to excel in the area of Food and Nutrition analysis, more as a researcher. I am glad to be a part of this prestigious university that is specialized in all aspects of chemistry. I strongly recommend forthcoming students to benefit themselves from the knowledge and the research culture that UCT Prague has to offer.

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Vuk, Bosnia and Herzegovina

I chose UCT Prague as the place of my Master's studies after talking to a few students in the final year of my bachelor studies. My fellow students described to me how studying at the university looks like, what the quality of teaching is, the depth of knowledge offered, and what is student life like, in general. In addition to that, I had also visited Prague a few times before and had a chance to admire its magnificent architecture, specific rhythm, interesting nightlife and cultural diversity; basically, all the interesting features that it can offer to a resident, which I really enjoyed. Thus, I had an extra reason to continue my education here.

Shortly after the start of my studies, I realized that I had made the right decision, for many reasons. The study programme is sufficiently flexible and includes a great number of different optional subjects, as well as the obligatory Laboratory Project, where students are allowed to choose a theme they are most interested in and conduct their own research in a particular field - of course, guided by their mentors. Moreover, it is also possible to take numerous language courses (from the introductory to the advanced level), offered by the university's languages department. I believe that it is also worth mentioning that the university's laboratories are very well-equipped, as are the classrooms. Finally, the university cooperates with many European universities and offers many exchange programs to its students, such as Erasmus+, ATHENS, CEEPUS, etc.

To somehow sum up the whole story: I have to say that I really enjoyed the time spent in Prague and at the university, and I really tried to make the most of everything they had to offer. When it comes to future plans, I will continue my education and do my PhD studies here.

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Thinking about studies in English at UCT Prague but still having some doubts and/or questions to ask?
Would you like to get more details on specific issues?

There are student ambassadors, current students of UCT Prague, who will help you with your questions and provide you with essential information from their students' point of view. They will respond to your e-mails on: ambassadors@vscht.cz

Don't hesitate to ask about:

Is the admission procedure complicated?
What to expect from studies at UCT?
What is the social life like and which student activities I might join when I become a UCT student?
What is the life including living costs in Prague and the Czech Republic?
Will I find a job after graduation?
...

Would you like to see what our students have to say? Check out the video.

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The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) is a tool of the European Higher Education Area designed by the European Commission for making studies and courses more transparent. It provides common procedures to guarantee the full transferability of credits from university studies abroad in order to calculate towards a final qualification in the home country. It provides a way of measuring and comparing academic merits and transferring them from one institution to another.

"Ensuring your Degree and Transcripts are Transferable across Europe"

ECTS is based on a comparison of particular requirements concerning individual subjects and takes into account the time needed by each student to pass an examination in any given subject (i.e. time devoted to lectures, seminars, and self-study).

Students who have successfully completed study programmes may continue their studies abroad with no administrative difficulties because their learning achievements (credits) can be easily recognized by other educational institutions.

Diploma Supplement Label

UCT Prague automatically provides all graduates with a Diploma Supplement. The Diploma Supplement follows the model developed by the European Commission, the Council of Europe, and UNESCO/CEPES.

The purpose of the supplement is to provide sufficient independent data for improving international transparency and for ensuring fair, academic, and professional recognition of qualifications (diplomas, degrees, certificates, etc.).

The Diploma Supplement is published in two languages – Czech and English – and contains the status of successfully completed studies, the list of courses evaluated according to the ECTS, and the number of credits awarded for each course.

The Supplement also includes information about courses completed abroad, Bachelor or Master theses, defense of the theses, final state examinations, and the overall evaluation of study results.

The Diploma Supplement also provides a brief description of the Czech Higher Educational System.

Diploma Supplement Samples

ECTS Credit Allocation

ECTS credits represent the workload needed in order to achieve expected learning outcomes.

Courses are assigned a number of credits depending on the workload students have to fulfill in order to successfully pass the subject.

The workload indicates the time students usually need to complete all learning activities, such as lectures, seminars, projects, practical work, self-study, and examinations. The estimation of workload and number of credits assigned to each course is regularly checked and can be modified according to findings from the evaluations.

The credit weight is 1/30 of the average student workload during one semester. The semester usually takes 14 weeks. At UCT Prague 60 credits represent the workload required for one year’s full-time study or 30 credits per semester. All students are graded A – F scale according to the Local Grade Scheme.

Bachelor's and Master's study degrees are realized through hundreds of fields of study. Some of them can be combined with other study fields (even as an interfaculty study – a combined field from different faculties).

The List of degree programmes shows all disciplines offered by UCT Prague and demonstrates the way how to fulfill all conditions for study completion and getting the diploma within the ECTS semester workload (30 credits).

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Open Days: January 26 & 27, 2024

Information stands of individual study programs and student associations: 9:00 – 14:00

BUILDING A

9:00 and 11:30 – General information about studying at UCT Prague and the Faculties of Chemical Technology (FCHT) and Faculty of Environmental Technology (FTOP)
9:45 and 12:15 – Excursions to the faculties (FCHT and FTOP)
10:15 and 12:30 – Excursion to the Mineralogical Collections

BUILDING B

9:00 and 11:30 – General information about studying at UCT Prague and the Faculties of Food and Biochemical Technology (FPBT) and Chemical Engineering (FCHI)
9:45 and 12:15 – Excursions to the faculties (FPBT and FCHI)
10:00 and 12:0 – Excursion to the University Brewery
13:00 – Discussion with students

Visit UCT Prague

At UCT Prague, we understand the importance of making informed decisions about your education. That's why we are happy to invite all prospective students interested in exploring our campus firsthand to arrange a visit with our admission officers.

Do you have questions about our programs, admission process, or scholarship opportunities? Our admission officers will be on hand to provide personalized guidance and address any queries you may have.

To schedule your personalized campus visit, please contact our Admission Office at admissions@vscht.cz. We look forward to welcoming you to our campus!

Online Meetings for High School Counsellors

The Department of International Relations is happy to virtually meet and explain the admission proceedings of UCT Prague.

Admissions are open until January 31. Please find detailed information about the admission process here:

Admission Proceedings

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The University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague is a center of top study and research in the field of chemistry in the Czech Republic and is one of the largest educational and research institutions focused on technical chemistry, materials engineering, food chemistry and environmental science in Central Europe.

Please, find below the digital brochures for download.

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Rector

prof. Ing. Milan Pospíšil, CSc.

Pospíšil email: milan.pospisil@vscht.cz

Rector's Secretariat

email: rektor@vscht.cz
phone: (+420) 220 444 144

Chancellor

ThDr. Klára Muzikářová, Ph.D.
email: klara.muzikarova@vscht.cz
phone: (+420) 220 445 045

The Rector is responsible for the departments:

Department of Quality Assessment
Department of Internal Auditing
Department of Communication
Department of Safety and Risk Prevention

Based on Decree No. A/V/961/3/2024, the Rector also performs the agenda of the Vice-Rector for Strategies and Development, therefor is responsible for the departments:

Computer Centre
Department of Strategic Planning
Centre for Information Services
- UCT Library
- UCT Press

Vice-Rector for Education

doc. Dr. Ing. Milan Jahoda

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phone: (+420) 220 442 060

Responsible for the departments:

Department of Education
Department of Chemical Education and Humanities
Department of Languages
Department of Physical Education and Sport
School of Business
University Centre Litvínov UCT Prague - FME CTU - ORLEN Unipetrol
Counselling and Career Centre

Vice-Rector for Research and Development

prof. Ing. Pavel Novák, Ph.D.

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phone: (+420) 220 443 026

Responsible for the departments:

Vice-Rector for External Relations and Communication

prof. Dr. RNDr. Pavel Matějka

Michaela Rumlová email: pavel.matejka@vscht.cz
phone: (+420) 220 444 177

Responsible for the departments:

Department of International Relations

Vice-Rector without portfolio

prof. Dr. Ing. Michaela Rumlová
Pospíšil email: michaela.rumlova@vscht.cz
phone: (+420) 220 444 577

Responsible for agenda of doctoral studies.

Registrar

Ing. Ivana Chválná
email: ivana.chvalna@vscht.cz
phone: (+420) 220 443 162

Responsible for the departments:

Registrar's Secretariat
Personnel Department
Records Office
Supplies Department
Finance Department
Department of Operation and Technical Services
Public Procurement Department
General Practitioner

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The Academic Senate is the self-governing body of our University, which is established by the Czech law. The AS is in charge of appointing and dismissing the Rector, approving internal regulations and solving the financial affairs of the school. It consists of the "Large" whole-university Academic Senate and the four "Small" faculty senates. Representatives from both teachers and students are elected to all senates, with at least one third being students.

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Members of the Academic Senate

FCT

Academic staff

prof. Ing. Radek Cibulka, Ph.D. (Chair of the AS)
doc. Ing. Milan Kouřil, Ph.D.
doc. Ing. Kateřina Rubešová, Ph.D.
doc. Ing. Miloslav Lhotka, Ph.D.

Students

Ing. Petra Šimonová (Vice-chair of the AS)
Ing. Vojtěch Domín

FET

Academic staff

doc. Ing. Luděk Jelínek, Ph.D.
Ing. Lucie Pokorná, Ph.D.
Ing. Martin Staš, Ph.D.
Ing. Lukáš Matějovský, Ph.D.

Students

Ing. Petr Lodňánek
Bc. Kryštof Frank

FFBT

Academic staff

Ing. Svatopluk Henke, Ph.D.
doc. Ing. Petra Lovecká, Ph.D. (Vice-chair of the AS)
Ing. Jan Pivoňka, Ph.D.
Ing. Michal Stupák, Ph.D.

Students

Ing. Matěj Malý
Bc. Jakub Halbrštát

FCE

Academic staff

RNDr. Pavel Pokorný, Ph.D. (Vice-chair of the AS)
doc. Ing. Jan Mareš, Ph.D.
prof. Ing. Karel Friess, Ph.D.
doc. RNDr. Dr. David Sýkora

Students

Ing. Lucie Mašková
Ing. Jakub Staś

University-wide departments

Academic staff

doc. Ing. Lenka Švecová, Ph.D.
Ing. Karel Šteker, Ph.D.

Student

Viktor Selyshchev

Committee membership

Organizational committee - Cibulka (Chair), Pokorný, Lovecká, Šimonová

Economy committee - Kouřil (Chair), Frank, Friess, Henke, Horký, Lhotka, Lodňánek, Mareš, Mašková, Pivoňka, Selyshchev, Šteker

Educational committee - Rubešová (Chair), Domín, Frank, Halbrštát, Henke, Jelínek, Malý, Mašková, Matějovský, Lodňánek, Selyshchev, Staś, Staš, Stupák, Sýkora, Švecová

Science and Research committee - Friess (Chair), Domín, Lhotka, Malý, Mašková, Rubešová, Staś, Stupák, Šimonová

More information is available on czech website.

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Members of the board

prof. Ing. Milan Pospíšil, CSc., Rector
Ing. Ivana Chválná, Registrar

doc. Dr. Ing. Milan Jahoda, Vice-Rector for Education
prof. Ing. Pavel Novák Ph.D., Vice-Rector for Research and Development
prof. Dr. RNDr. Pavel Matějka, Vice-Rector for External Relations and Communication
prof. Dr. Ing. Michaela Rumlová, Vice-Rector without Portfolio

prof. Ing. Petr Zámostný, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Chemical Technology
prof. Ing. Pavel Jeníček, CSc., Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Technology
doc. Ing. Aleš Rajchl, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology
prof. Ing. Michal Přibyl, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Chemical Engineering

prof. Ing. Radek Cibulka, Ph.D., Chair of the Academic Senate
Mgr. Michal Janovský, Head of the Department of Communication

Ing. Stanislav Starý, Headmaster of the Administration of University Facilities

Ing. Petra Šimonová, Student Representative
Ing. Milan Petrák, Head of the UCT Technopark in Kralupy

Minutes from the board meetings are available in Czech langugage

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An International Advisory Board (IAB) was established as the Rector's advisory body, namely for defining and assessing the main directions of the scientific and educational activities of UCT Prague, research and educational programmes, social role of the school, its international position, system of funding and evaluation methods.

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Statutes of the board in document section

Members of the Board

Prof. Marcello Cabibbo

◳ Cabibbo (jpg) → (výška 215px) Prof. Marcello Cabibbo is full Professor of Metallurgy with the department of mechanical engineering and mathematics (DIISM) at the Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona. Prof. Marcello Cabibbo has taken a physics degree at the Alma Mater University of Bologna in 1996 and obtained his doctoral degree in Materials Engineering at the the Università di Roma Tor Vergata in 2000. He has been research scientist with the DIISM of the UPM in 2001-2007.

Marcello Cabibbo’s primary research activity focuses on the physical metallurgy and mechanical characterization studies of metallic materials.

He was assigned to be Erasmus local responsible for undergraduate student exchange mobility, member of the local Ph.D. school in Mechanical Engineering in 2018 and since 2019 Counsellor of the Italian Ministry for University and Research.

Prof. Cabbibo is member of the European Microscopy Society, Italian Society of the Microscopy Sciences and Physics Metallurgy of the Italian Metallurgy Association in Milano.

He is teaching Metallurgy, Non-ferrous metallic materials, Laboratory of Metallurgy, Materials selection criteria for mechanical engineering, Additive manufacturing and coating techniques in modern metallurgy at Marche Polytechnic University and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) applied to metallic materials at The National Research Council, the largest public research institution in Italy. He has supervised more than 100 thesis among Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D.

Dr. Jean-Olivier Durand

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Dr Jean-Olivier Durand graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris in 1990 and obtained his PhD in asymmetric organic chemistry with Prof. J. P. Genêt in 1993. He spent a 20 month post-doctoral position with Prof. W. Oppolzer at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). After two other post-doctoral studies in Rennes (Prof. M. Le Corre) and Paris (Dr M. Larchevêque), he was appointed as a CNRS researcher in 1996 at the Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire et Organisation du Solide. He is research director at CNRS since 2012 at Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier. His research interests currently based on nanotechnology for health include the development of mesoporous nanoparticles (silica, organosilica and silicon-based) for theranostic, (anticancer and antibacterial applications), photodynamic therapy, drug and nucleic acid delivery. He particularly studied two-photon light-triggered systems. Recently he investigated CO₂ sequestration and rare earth element recycling with nanoparticles. All the works were mainly carried out through international collaboration programmes such as bilateral projects, European fundings, and Partner University Fund. He trained and exchanged 13 PhD students, 13 Master students and 11 Post-docs in the last ten years. He is co-founder of Start-Up NanoMedSyn, a biotechnology company.

Dr. Hermann J. Feise

◳ Feise (jpg) → (výška 215px) Dr. Hermann J. Feise is an expert in particle technology, with technical interests in the fields of drying, agglomeration and handling of particles as well as the simulation of particle flow with modern numerical methods. A graduate of Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, and University of Waterloo, Canada, he joined DuPont (Wilmington, USA) as a principal investigator and later moved to BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany). In BASF he was responsible e.g. for the Particle Formulation and Handling group at BASF's Chemical and Process Engineering department, globally providing expert services to the plants and laboratories of the BASF Group Companies. Today, Dr. Feise manages large innovation projects at BASF in the field of carbon management and climate change including subjects as battery materials and hydrogen production.

For almost three decades Dr. Feise has been active in professional associations at a national and international level. He participated in the development of the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) in the 1990s and is a leader of the of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE). From 2008 to 2012 he served as the Scientific Vice-President and from 2018 to 2021 as the President of the EFCE. He was also the chairman of the 8^th European Congress on Chemical Engineering in Berlin in 2011 and the virtual 13th European Congress on Chemical Engineering in 2021. Today he is active in the field of innovation and education at Dechema and the chair of the EFCE Working Party on Education, as well as an industrial advisor at University College, London, UK.

Prof. Jarka Glassey

◳ Glassey (jpg) → (výška 215px) Jarka Glassey is professor of chemical engineering education at the University of Newcastle, UK. She is currently the Vice President EFCE and immediate past Vice President Learned Society at IChemE. She is a UK delegate to the EFCE Working Parties on Education and on Quality by Design and a Board member of the European Society of Biochemical Engineering Sciences - ESBES. Her research career as a biochemical engineer focuses on delivering high-quality research at the interface of academia and industrial impact. Her research outputs in the areas of bioprocess development, modelling, monitoring and control, Quality by design (QbD) and Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) have made significant contributions to R&D in the biopharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals and food & drink sectors both within and outside the UK. The research approach is based on the fundamental understanding and monitoring of the biological processes using post genomic methodologies and combining it with engineering principles of scale-up and process intensification. Most recently her group is investigating the use of these methodologies in monoclonal antibody manufacture, cell gene therapy, viral production and ADC production. Specifically, her main interests stem from the area of advanced monitoring and control of processes and, over the years, she has developed and disseminated novel control strategies for the optimisation of recombinant protein production by integrating the physiological and engineering approaches. She is also actively involved in the accreditation of chemical engineering degree programmes across the world and explores active methodologies, such as the use of immersive technologies, in chemical engineering education.

Priv.-Doz. Dipl-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Guenter Langergraber

◳ Langergraber (jpg) → (výška 215px) Dr. Langergraber holds a PhD in Civil Engineering and Water Management from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria where he has been active since 1997. He is currently Head of the Department of Water, Atmosphere, and Environment at BOKU, Co-Chair of the IWA (International Water Association) Strategic Council Sub-Committee for Specialist Groups (SC2SG). During his career he has coordinated multiple EU-funded projects, and has served as chair/secretary of multiple IWA Specialist Groups, Task Groups, and Working Groups. In 2014, Dr. Langergraber was awarded the IWA Fellowship. His research focusses on nature-based solutions (with long-term specific focus on treatment wetlands), resources-oriented sanitation, and circularity in urban water management. As chair of the COST Action Circular City, he leads a multidisciplinary network of over 600 researchers from more than 40 countries. Nationally, he is responsible for the training of operators of small wastewater treatment plants (less than 50 persons connected) organized by the Austrian Wastewater and Waste Association and is coordinating activities related to SDG 6 (Sustainable Development Goal 6 "Clean Water and Sanitation") in the project UniNEtZ (Austrian Universities and the SDGs). Additionally, he is member of various standardization committees in Austria, Germany and the EU in the fields of treatment wetlands and resources-oriented sanitation.

Prof. Francois Lapicque

◳ Lapicque (jpg) → (výška 215px) After graduation in Chemical Engineering in Nancy, France, followed by a PhD in chemical reaction engineering in 1983, Francois Lapicque had worked in electrochemical processes as a CNRS scientist, still in Nancy. Since then, he could explore various aspects of electrochemical processes for environment protection, synthesis, metal production or energy conversion: the domain covered has focused on electrochemical engineering, with elements of neighbouring disciplines e.g. physical, inorganic or organic chemistry, electrical engineering or material sciences. Nearly 50 PhD projects have been achieved under his supervision, in relation to French or European colleagues from academia or industry. He co-authored nearly 200 papers and gave 28 plenary or keynotes lectures in symposia or congresses. Besides, he belonged to various councils for research or University in France and coordinated for years State-Region Lorraine funded projects for the improvement on research facilities in sustainable chemistry and processes.

With a special interest for international relationships, he has been a representative from France in the Working Party on Electrochemical Engineering of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. He was also Chairperson of Division 5 « Electrochemical Technology » of the International Society of Electrochemistry from 2010 to 2016. He has expertised several PhD Projects in German or English-speaking countries or in Spain. He was invited to expertise various European universities e.g. KTH in Stockholm or UCT in Prague. Finally, he has been in the advisory board of various journals in chemical engineering and electrochemistry.

Univ. Prof. DI Dr. Erich Leitner

◳ Leitner (jpg) → (výška 215px) Univ. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Dr. techn. Erich Leitner studied technical chemistry at the Graz University of Technology, Austria where he obtained a PhD in organic trace analysis in environmental matrices. He also earned a habilitation in “Food Chemistry” dealing with flavor and off flavor compounds in food and other matrices. Currently he holds a professorship for “Analytics of food and food contact material”, which deals mainly with the interaction of food contact material and the packed good.

His research activities are focused on the identification and quantification of volatile, odor active substances and more recently of toxicological concern in food and food contact materials. He has over 30 years of experience in organic trace and ultra trace analysis mainly based on gas chromatographic methods using several sample preparation techniques and analytical solutions including multidimensional separation. Besides he is a trained sensory expert and member of the expert panel of the TU Graz sensory lab.

He is head of the Institute of Analytical Chemistry and Food Chemistry at the Graz University of Technology. In his research, he combines the use of a trained expert panel and highly specific equipment based on gas chromatographic techniques for the identification and quantification of volatile, odor active and toxicological relevant molecules.

Dr. Pirjo Nikander

◳ Nikander (jpg) → (výška 215px) Pirjo Nikander received her master’s degree in the University of Tampere, FINLAND, and her PhD in social sciences from Loughborough University, UNITED KINGDOM. Currently, she is Research Director of the Doctoral School at Tampere University (2011-), the second biggest university in Finland, and adjunct professor in the University of Helsinki. Tampere University Doctoral School is a key training and quality expert of research education, and it directs, oversees, and develops doctoral education on the university level. The courses and events organised by the school offer all doctoral researchers (2500) opportunities to develop essential research and transferable skills in research methods, research ethics, and the everyday conducting of research.

Nikander’s key areas of research expertise include social science methodology, decision making, ageing, and inclusion and exclusion in working life. Her publications include numerous handbook chapters and research articles on research ethics, methodology, ageing and ageism, and transcription and translation. She has also co-edited books on women and ageing and the analysis of interviews and held editorial positions in international journals. During the past 15 years, she has been strongly engaged with doctoral education on local, national, and international levels, and is currently a steering group member of the European University Association, Council for Doctoral Education.

Prof. Dr. Livia Simon-Sarkadi, DSc

◳ Sarkadi (jpg) → (výška 215px) Livia Simon Sarkadi graduated as a Chemical Engineer at the Technical University of Budapest (BME) Hungary in 1980. In 1986, she received a University Doctorate in Biochemistry from BME, and in 1991, a Candidate of Science degree in Food Chemistry from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS). She was awarded a Dr habil. title from BME in 1999, and a DSc degree in Chemical Science from HAS in 2010.

She began her career in the Department of Applied Biochemistry and Food Science at the BME. Her research focuses on food quality and food safety. She accepted a position as the head of the Department of Food Chemistry and Nutrition at Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Food Science in 2012. In 2016, the Faculty relocated to Szent István University, where she served as vice rector for international relations (2019-2021). Since 2019, she has served as the Head of the Doctoral School of Food Science. Following a further reorganization in 2021, the Faculty became a part of the Hungarian University of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Besides her teaching and research, she has been involved in national and international organisational activities. She is the President of the Hungarian Chemical Society since 2011; Chair of Scientific Committee of Food Science of HAS since 2019. She has served as Chair of the Food Chemistry Division of the European Chemical Societies (EuChemS) between 2009-2014, and was an elected member of the EuChemS Executive Board (2014-2021). Since 2019, she is an elected member of Administrative Council of the European Chemistry Thematic Network Association.

Documents

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The members of the Scientific Board were approved by the Academic Senate on 13 February 2024.

Internal

prof. Ing. Milan Pospíšil, CSc., Rector
doc. Dr. Ing. Milan Jahoda, Vice-Rector
prof. Dr. Ing. Michaela Rumlová, Vice-Rector
prof. Dr. RNDr. Pavel Matějka, Vice-Rector, Rector Emeritus
prof. Ing. Pavel Novák, Ph.D., Vice-Rector
prof. Ing. Petr Zámostný, Ph.D., Dean FCT
prof. Dr. Ing. David Sedmidubský, FCT
prof. Ing. Václav Švorčík, DrSc., FCT
prof. Ing. Radek Cibulka, Ph.D., FCT
prof. Dr. Ing. Karel Bouzek,, FCT
prof. Mgr. Daniel Svozil, Ph.D. , FCT
prof. Ing. Pavel Jeníček, CSc., Dean FET
prof. Ing. Vladimír Kočí, Ph.D., FET
prof. Ing. Jan Bartáček, Ph.D., FET
prof. Ing. David Kubička, Ph.D., FET
doc. Ing. Aleš Rajchl, Ph.D., Dean FFBT
prof. Ing. Jana Hajšlová, CSc., FFBT
prof. Ing. Karel Melzoch, CSc., FFBT, Rector Emeritus
prof. Ing. Tomáš Ruml, CSc., FFBT
prof. Ing. Ondřej Uhlík, Ph.D., FFBT
prof. Ing. Martin Fusek, CSc., FFBT
prof. Ing. Michal Přibyl, Ph.D., Dean FCE
prof. RNDr. Petr Slavíček, Ph.D., FCE
prof. Ing. Miroslav Šoóš, Ph.D, FCE
doc. Ing. Jan Mareš, Ph.D., FCE
doc. Ing. Bohumil Dolenský, Ph.D., FCE

External

doc. Ing. Tomáš Herink, Ph.D., Member of the Board of Directors, ORLEN Unipetrol, a.s.
Mgr. Aleš Laciok, MBA, FEng. Coordinator for Research & Development, ČEZ, a. s.
Ing. Martin Kubů, Director, Divison motor fuels, biofuels & renewable, Agrofert, a.s.
Dr. Ing. Pavel Chudoba, Technical Director of VEOLIA group for Central and East Europe
prof. RNDr. Jan Konvalinka, CSc., Director, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS (IOCB)
prof. RNDr. Libor Grubhoffer, CSc., dr. hc mult., Director, Biology Centre CAS, Rector Emeritus University of South Bohemia České Budějovice
prof. RNDr. Patrik Španěl, Dr. Rer. Nat., Chairman of Institutional Board, J. Heyrovsky, Institute of Physical Chemistry of the CAS (JH-INST)
Ing. Pavel Šebek, CSc., ZENTIVA
prof. Ing. Petr Konvalinka, CSc., Chairman, Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
prof. Mgr. Tomáš Kašparovský, PhD., Dean, PřF MU
prof. Ing. Libor Čapek, Ph.D., Rector UPCE
prof. Ing. Martin Weiter, Ph.D., Vice-Rector, VUT, member RVVI
prof. RNDr. Markéta Martínková, Ph.D., Vice-Rector UK
prof. Ing. Anton Gatial, DrSc., Dean FCHTP STUBA
prof. Ing. Jiří Homola, CSc., DSc., Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the CAS

Documents

Minutes of meetings and documents related to the Scientific Board are published in Czech language.

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Members of the board

Ing. Zdena Čermáková, Ph.D.(chair)
Mgr. Jan Duspěva (vice chair)
prof. RNDr. Eva Zažímalová, CSc. (vice chair)
doc. Ing. Jiří Krechl CSc.
Ing. Petr Knapp
Ing. arch. Bohumil Beránek
prof. Ing. Jiří Drahoš, DrSc.
Ing. Josef Láska, MBA
Ing. Bohdan Wojnar

Documents

Minutes of meetings and documents related to the Internal Evaluation Board are published in Czech language.

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The Internal Evaluation Board performs activities in the area of quality assurance for educational, scientific, research and development and innovation, artistic or other creative activities (hereinafter the “creative activities”) and activities related thereto and of internal evaluation of educational, creative and related activities of UCT Prague.

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(Statute of the UCT, internal regulation of the UCT Prague)

Members of Internal Evaluation Board of UCT Prague

As of February 2024

Chair of IEB – prof. Ing. Milan Pospíšil, CSc. – Rector of UCT Prague
Vice-Chair of IEB – doc. Dr. Ing. Milan Jahoda – Vice-Rector for Education of UCT Prague

prof. Ing. Radek Cibulka, Ph.D. – Chair of the Academic Senate of UCT Prague (FCT of UCT Prague)
prof. Ing. Michal Přibyl, Ph.D. – Dean of FCE of UCT Prague
prof. Ing. Vladimír Kočí, Ph.D. – UCT Prague specialist in evaluation of quality of study programmes (Head of Department of Sustainability and Product Ecology of FET)
prof. Ing. Jan Masák, CSc. – UCT Prague specialist in evaluation of quality of study programmes
prof. Dr. Ing. Karel Bouzek – UCT Prague specialist in evaluation of quality of study programmes (Vice-Dean for External Relations)
prof. RNDr. Marie Urbanová, CSc. – UCT Prague FCE specialist in evaluation of quality of study programmes
doc. RNDr. Josef Cvačka, Ph.D. – External specialist in evaluation of quality of study programmes (Charles University – Faculty of Science, Czech Academy of Sciences – Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Ing. Veronika Kramaříková, MBA – External specialist in evaluation of quality of study programmes (Vice-Rector for Development and Strategy of the Czech Technical University)
Ing. Ivan Souček, Ph.D. – External specialist in evaluation of quality of study programmes (President of the Association of Chemical Industry of the Czech Republic, member of the Board of the Institute of Chemical Processes Fundamentals of the Czech Academy of Sciences, external teacher at UCT Prague)
Ing. Karel Fous. – Representative of students at UCT Prague (FFBT of UCT Prague)
doc. Ing. Pavel Čapek, CSc. – UCT Prague FCT specialist in evaluation of quality of study programmes
prof. Ing. Jana Hajšlová, CSc. –UCT Prague FFBT specialist in evaluation of quality of study programmes
prof. Ing. Václav Janda, CSc. – UCT Prague FET specialist in evaluation of quality of study programmes

Documents

Minutes of meetings and documents related to the Internal Evaluation Board are published in Czech language.

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All employees and members of the UCT Prague academic community follow the Code of Ethics in addition to other related UCT Prague policies.

UCT Prague Code of Ethics

The Code of Ethics states UCT Prague’s ethical principles. For members of the UCT Prague academic community, two purposes of the code have been identified, and thus these are the two pillars underpinning Ethics Committee activities:

Assessment and approval of those R&D activities where an independent ethical assessment by the Ethics Committee determines whether the planned research activities are necessary or appropriate (for example, research involving animals or humans).
Assessment of the deeds and actions of members of the UCT Prague academic community in relation to the Code of Ethics.

In relation to Pillar 1 (above), particularly applicable is Code of Ethics Article IV, paragraph 2, section a):

UCT Prague employees and members of its academic community:

Are obliged to submit, to the UCT Prague Ethics Committee (hereafter “Ethics Committee”), proposals for R&D activities (e.g. proposed projects) and relevant research outputs whenever required. If a proposal if approved by the Ethics Committee, any changes to it that may negatively affect the wellbeing of research subjects must also be submitted to the Ethics Committee for approval.

In relation to Pillar 2, particularly applicable is Code of Ethics Article VI, paragraphs 1 and 2:

If a UCT Prague employee or member of the academic community comes across an action violating the Code of Ethics, he or she will—whenever possible—first bring the violation to the attention of the person involved.
Otherwise, for any other concern, UCT Prague employees and members of the academic community have the right to submit a written letter expressing their concern to the Ethics Committee.

Ethics Committee

The members of Committee were named by the Rector according to Rules of Procedure of the Ethics Committee of the UCT Prague on January 17, 2019. (Changes followed due to the resignation of some members.)

Current members:

prof. Ing. Kateřina Demnerová, CSc. (chair)
doc. Dr. Ing. Michal Ďurovič
doc. Ing. Luděk Jelínek, Ph.D.
doc. Ing. Olga Maťátková, Ph.D.
prof. RNDr. Marie Urbanová, CSc.
MUDr. Daniela Humlová
Ing. Kateřina Hradečná

Disciplinary panel

According to the Czech Higher Education Act and the internal UCT Prague Disciplinary Code, cases where students appear to have violated the Ethics Code will be handled by the disciplinary Panel of the Faculty in which the student is enrolled. If a student appears to have violated the Ethics Code and is not enrolled in a Faculty, but rather is directly enrolled with the university, such cases are handled by the UCT Prague Disciplinary Panel.

Positive social environment at UCT Prague

Has something happened that you would like to discuss?

UCT Prague is now offering a consultation and notification service for discussing incidents you perceive as running against UCT Prague ethical principles. Such incidents include, for example, misunderstandings between superiors and subordinates, co-workers, academic, and non-academic employees, employees and/or students at any level of study; interpersonal conflicts; ambiguities in faculty policies and/or procedures; humiliating behaviour; unfair treatment; bullying; sexualized behaviour (and so on) in educational, creative, and other university-related activities.

More information about a consultation and notification service

Documents

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Disciplinary Panel of UCT Prague

If a student appears to have violated the Ethics Code and is not enrolled in a Faculty, but rather is directly enrolled with the university, such cases are handled by the UCT Prague Disciplinary Panel.

Members

The Panel as currently constituted was appointed by the Rector from 1 April 2023.

Academic staff

doc. Ing. Vít Pošta, Ph.D.
doc. PhDr. Jitka Lorenzová, Ph.D.
RNDr. Jan Havlík, Ph.D.

Students

Akinfeev Artem akinfeea@vscht.cz
Šimuničová Marie simunicm@vscht.cz
Šnejdárek Jan snejdarj@vscht.cz

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The University of Chemistry and Technology Prague (UCT Prague) is a Czech public university with self-governing powers, academic freedoms and rights determined by the Higher Education Act and specified in the Statute of UCT Prague.

The organisational structure is based on the internal standard Organisational Rules of UCT Prague (see list of internal standards).

UCT Prague consists of four faculties and several other departments.

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Faculty of Chemical Technology

101 Department of Inorganic Chemistry

105 Department of Inorganic Technology

106 Department of Metals and Corrosion Engineering

107 Department of Glass and Ceramics

108 Department of Solid State Chemistry

110 Department of Organic Chemistry

111 Department of Organic Technology

112 Department of Polymers

126 Department of Solid State Engineering

141 Laboratory of Inorganic Materials

143 Department of Informatics and Chemistry

148 Department of Chemical Technology of Monument Conservation

150 Dean’s Office of Faculty of Chemical Technology

Faculty of Environmental Technology

217 Department of Water Technology and Environmental Engineering

218 Department of Power Engineering

228 Department of Sustainable Fuels and Green Chemistry (replacing 215 and 216)

240 Department of Environmental Chemistry

241 Department of Sustainability and Product Ecology

251 Dean’s Office of Faculty of Enviromental Technology

Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology

319 Department of Biotechnology

320 Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology

321 Department of Carbohydrates and Cereals

322 Department of Dairy, Fat and Cosmetics

323 Department of Food Analysis and Nutrition

324 Department of Food Preservation

342 Department of Chemistry of Natural Compounds

352 Dean’s Office of Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology

Faculty of Chemical Engineering

402 Department of Analytical Chemistry

403 Department of Physical Chemistry

409 Department of Chemical Engineering

444 Department of Physics and Measurements

446 Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Cybernetics (replacing 413 and 445)

453 Dean’s Office of Faculty of Chemical Engineering

University Research and Education Centres

504 University Centre UCT Prague - Unipetrol

550 Department of the National Institute of Virology and Bacteriology (NIVB)

554 Department for the History of the Chemical Industry and Applied Chemistry

557 BIOMEDREG

558 Metrology and Testing Laboratory

559 Prague University Analytical Center

560 BAFA

570 Technoparc Kralupy UCT Prague

The Administration of University Facilities

712 Director´s Office

713 Finance Department

721 Operating Department

723 Sázava Dormitory

724 Volha Dormitory

731 Technical Department

747 Conference Center

748 Recreation facility Jáchymov

749 Recreation facility Pec p. Sněžkou

755 Volha Canteen

756 Club Carbon

757 Zikova Canteen

758 Camping site Běstvina

Service Departments for all UCT Prague Faculties

827 Department of Physical Education and Sport

832 Department of Chemical Education and Humanities

834 Department of Languages

837 Department of Economics and Management

Rector's Offices

929 General Practitioner

930 Childcare Centre (Zkumavka)

938 Department of Internal Auditing

939 Department of Supervision

940 Counselling and Career Centre

955 Project Centre

961 Rector's Secretariat

962 Registrar's Secretariat

963 Department of Education

965 Research and Technology Transfer Office

966 Personnel Department

968 Records Office

969 Supplies Department

971 Finance Department

972 Department of Safety and Risk Prevention

974 Department of International Relations

976 Department of Construction and Maintenance

977 Department of Building Administration

979 Department of Communication

980 Central Laboratories

990 Computer Centre

991 Department of Strategic Planning

992 Hollow Glass Workrooms

994 Technology Transfer Office

995 Department of Operation and Technical Services

996 Department of Public Order

997 Centre for Information Services
UCT Library
UCT Press

998 Vice-Rector's without Portfolio Office

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On this page you can find statistsical data about the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague and its standing in international rankings:

The university in numbers

University rankings

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The university in numbers

General

If not otherwise stated, the data are taken from the latest published university’s annual report (currently 2022). The complete annual reports are published in the official board.

Faculties: 4
Faculty departments: 30
All-university department: 3
Higher education institute: 1
Items in university library: 89 238

Pedagogical

Students – total: 4262
Students – bachelors: 2317 / 54,4%
Students – masters: 1125 / 26,4%
Students – doctoral: 820 / 19,2%
Students – women: 2417 / 56,7%
Students – foreign nationality: 993 / 23,3%
Doctoral student ratio to total students: first in the Czech Republic
Study programmes – total: 218
Study programmes – bachelor: 31
Study programmes – master: 35
Study programmes – doctoral: 152
Study programmes – joint/double-degree: 22
Graduates: 1243
Graduates – bachelor: 570
Graduates – master: 582
Graduates – doctoral: 91
Number of lecturers from industry involved in teaching: 439
Partners from industry from masters and doctoral dissertations: 80

Staff

Total staff, of which are female (full-time equivalent – FTE): 1268,74 / 607,00
Academics (FTE): 698,19 / 296,16
Researchers (FTE): 227,32 / 98,61
Administrative staff (FTE): 343,24 / 212,24
Foreign academic and research staff (FTE): 111,17
Lead positions, of which are Vedoucí pozice, z toho žen: 323 / 58

Foreign

No. of students in outgoing exchange programmes: 137

Research and development

Active international projects: 34
Number of patents: 63

Other

Lifelong learning participants: 1249
Dormitory bed capacity: 1651
No. of (co-)organised conferences with international participation: 12

University rankings

UCT Prague is regularly ranked in various rankings assessing different aspects of the university's profile, such as scientific performance, teaching performance or third role.

Quacquarelli Symmonds (QS)

UCT Prague QS profile

Quacquarelli Symmonds (QS) worked with THE to publish a joint ranking from 2004 to 2009. Since 2009, however, THE has separated and created its own methodology. The main criticism of QS rankings is that it places a high weight on reputation (50%), which can fluctuate over the long term.

UCT Prague was ranked 355^th in the world for the first time in 2019 (2020 edition), 2^nd among Czech universities. Since then, it has held steadily among the top 400 universities in this ranking and as the 2^nd among Czech universities. In the last edition, a new methodology was introduced and UCT Prague ranked 556^th in 2023 (2024 edition). The university is ranked highest in academic to student ratio, where it is regularly top ranked in the Czech Republic and among the world’s top universities (in the 2024 edition, the school was ranked 35^th in the world).

Times Higher Education (THE)

UCT Prague THE profile

Times Higher Education (THE) collaborated with QS from 2004 to 2009 to publish a joint ranking. Since 2009, however, THE has separated and created its own methodology. The main criticism of THE rankings is the over-emphasis on science and Anglo-Saxon universities, as well as the heavy emphasis on reputation (33% versus 50% for QS).

UCT Prague was ranked 601-800^th in the world for the first time in 2015 (2016 edition). The university is ranked highest in Teaching, where it regularly ranks 2^nd among Czech universities.

U-Multirank

UCT Prague U-Multirank profile

U-Multirank is not a traditional ranking, it does not provide a list of the best universities with their ranking and therefore does not claim which university is the best in a given year.

U-Multirank is produced by a consortium involving Dutch and German universities and ranks universities according to dozens of criteria divided into five areas. UCT Prague achieved the highest ranking in 11 criteria in 2022, the most of any university in the Czech Republic. Among the top-ranked criteria were research criteria (professional publications, cooperation with industry and the private sector) or, for example, student mobility.

U-Multirank covers almost 1,900 universities from 97 countries. On the ranking website one can compare universities according to criteria relevant to a particular applicant or search for universities with a similar profile. However, for some of them not all data is available and comparisons in some criteria are not possible.

Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), the so-called Shanghai Ranking, was the first international ranking with diverse indicators, first published in 2003. Unlike other rankings, it collects data only from publicly available sources. The main criticism of this ranking is that it does not account for the size of the institution, so larger universities have an increased chance of scoring better than smaller universities.

Methodology in detail

The ranking itself consists of six criteria, which are as follows:

1. Alumni (10% weighting) - alumni awards

This indicator measures the number of graduates of the university who have won a Nobel Prize or a Fields Medal. Recent winners are given more weight, so that whereas a prize won in 2011 or later is worth its full value, a prize won between 1921 and 1930 is worth only 10%. Alumni are taken here to be people who have received a bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree from the university. Absolute values are taken here for evaluation without reference to the specifics, size or focus of the institution.

2. Award (20%) - employee awards

The number of employees of the university who have won a Nobel Prize in physics, chemistry, medicine or economics and/or the Fields Medal in mathematics is assessed here. The values are taken according to the time elapsed since the award, as in the previous point. People who were employed at the university at the time of the award are taken as employees. The value obtained is reduced if the award recipient is employed/associated with more than one university and if more than one person has won the award. Again, absolute values are taken here, see above.

3. HiCi (20%) - highly cited scientists

This takes the number of highly cited scientists as listed by Clarivate Analytics. Only the “parent” institution is considered and is the only one which is awarded points in this indicator.

4. N&S (20%) - publications in Nature and Science

This item assesses the number of publications in Nature and Science over the previous five years (e.g., the 2022 assessment counts publications from 2017-2021). Unlike many other rankings, the source for this indicator is the Web of Science. In the case of multiple authors, more emphasis is placed on the lead author, with scores gradually decreasing with other members of the author collective. As with previous scores, absolute values are taken.

5. PUB (20%) - publications

In contrast to the previous point, the number of articles, i.e. of the type "article", in the Science Citation Index-Expanded and Social Science Citation Index, i.e. the most cited articles according to these two indexes, is counted here. Articles from the social sciences, i.e. of the latter index, receive twice the weight of the former. Absolute values are also taken here.

6. PCP (10%) - performance per person

The sum of the scores of the above indicators related to the number of FTE academic staff. According to the website, ARWU has academic FTE data from the Czech Statistical Office. It is the only indicator that does not calculate absolute values and considers the size of the institution and therefore the efficiency per employee.

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The university in numbers

General

If not otherwise stated, the data are taken from the latest published university’s annual report (currently 2021). The complete annual reports are published in the official board.

Faculties: 4
Faculty departments: 31
All-university department: 3
Higher education institute: 1
Items in university library: 102 526

Pedagogical

Students – total: 3836
Students – bachelors: 1902 / 49,6%
Students – masters: 1099 / 28,6%
Students – doctoral: 835 / 21,8%
Students – foreign nationality: 779 / 20,3%
Students – women: 2191 / 57,1%
Doctoral student ratio to total students: first in the Czech Republic
Study programmes – total: 230
Study programmes – bachelor: 41
Study programmes – master: 41
Study programmes – doctoral: 148
Study programmes – joint/double-degree: 25
Graduates: 1040
Graduates – bachelor: 467
Graduates – master: 490
Graduates – doctoral: 83
Number of lecturers from industry involved in teaching: 271
Partners from industry from masters and doctoral dissertations: 80

Staff

Total staff, of which are female (full-time equivalent – FTE): 1263,37 / 597,92
Academics (FTE): 703,70 / 291,96
Researchers (FTE): 219,27 / 98,54
Administrative staff (FTE): 340,40 / 207,43
Foreign academic and research staff (FTE): 101,4
Lead positions, of which are Vedoucí pozice, z toho žen: 309 / 55

Foreign

No. of students in outgoing exchange programmes: 91

Research and development

Active international projects: 31
Czech patents: 66
International patents: 15

Other

Lifelong learning participants: 1234
Dormitory bed capacity: 1650
No. of (co-)organised conferences with international participation: 17

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The history of the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, runs in parallel to the earliest beginnings of the teaching of chemistry in today’s Czech Republic.

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Alchemy from the very start

After King Charles IV founded the University of Prague in 1348, the faculty of liberal arts (later the faculty of philosophy) offered courses in the natural sciences, including mathematics, astronomy, and the basics of alchemy.

More about alchemy

In the fourth century AD, the Greek term chymeia started being used for the systematic experimental study of natural materials. The origins of this word are not entirely clear; according to one source, it emerged in Alexandria, Egypt, where alchemic activities are documented as early as the second century AD. Alchemy, as these activities later came to be known, had as its goals the transformation (transmutation) of common metals into gold and the pursuit of extended life (an elixir of youth). Alchemy has always been related to astrology, expressing its recipes in parables and myths. By around 1200 AD, alchemists already had identified a number of elements (sulphur, carbon, copper, iron, tin, mercury, silver, gold, and probably others), basic acids (such as sulphuric acid [aqua vitriolis], hydrochloric acid [aqua salis], nitric acid [aqua fortis], and “royal water” [aqua regia, a mixture of hydrochloric acid and nitric acid]), as well as some salts (alum, salammoniac), and other substances such as borax. In the seventeenth century, an attempt to isolate the Philosopher’s Stone with urine led alchemists to discover phosphorus. Alchemy can be considered the forerunner of chemistry.

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, some alchemy practices moved in an empirical direction, becoming more useful to society. In the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, in the first half of the sixteenth century, Geogius Agricola summarized his experiences in mining and metallurgy while being very critical of alchemists in his pioneering work, De re metallica libria. Nevertheless, in Rudolf II’s court, at the turn of the seventeenth century, alchemists were still prominent. All in all, from today’s point of view, alchemy deserves our respect.

Under Jesuit rule, the teaching of natural sciences at Charles-Ferdinand University was suppressed. An exception to this was Jan Marek Marci, professor of medicine and personal doctor to Emperors Ferdinand III and Leopold I.

Only at the end of the eighteenth century, with Enlightenment-based reforms and the transfer of the university to state administrative hands, was medical education introduced, with an emphasis on the natural sciences.

The development of manufacturing and the beginnings of the industrial revolution in the second half of the eighteenth century in the Czech Lands required the creation of another university, Prague Polytechnic. As early as 1707, the Czech Professional Engineering School was under development. Franz Joseph Gerstner’s vision, inspired by Polytechnic Institute in Paris, led to Prague Polytechnic’s transition to the Professional Polytechnic Institute in Prague in 1806. The Institute had mathematics and chemistry departments and, from its opening until 1870, it was located in St. Wenceslas Seminary (today’s Husova Street). During the nineteenth century, chemistry became an important area of research at the University of Prague.

Chemistry instruction at Prague Polytechnic

At the beginning of 1803, Emperor Francis II signed the charter for Prague Polytechnic (sometimes referred to as the Royal Professional Technical College), where, two departments were opened on 10 November 1806, mathematics and chemistry. The University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, is the direct successor of this chemistry department.

In the chemistry department, instruction included general and applied chemistry focusing on the most important Czech industrial sectors: production of glass, iron, and bleaching and dying agents for textile applications.

A growing demand for knowledge regarding the raw materials for glass and iron production spurred the creation of a mineralogical department that, starting in the mid-nineteenth century, also engaged in preparing geological specialists for large-scale road and railway construction. The first mineralogy professor at Prague Polytechnic was Franz Xaver Maximilian Zippe, who established a mineralogical collection there in the first half of the nineteenth century which was meticulously carried on being continuously enhanced through generations of his academic successors. This collection, located at today’s University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, is the second most valuable (after the National Museum’s collection) mineral collection in the Czech Republic.

Important professors at Prague Polytechnic included Karl Augustin Neumann, Josef Johan Steinmann, Karel Josef Napoleon Balling, Václav Jan Staněk, Vojtěch Šafařík, Bohuslav Raýman, and Emil Votoček.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Prague Polytechnic’s chemistry department taught inorganic, organic, analytical, and physical chemistry with intensive laboratory components, with a number of specialities such as mineral, gas, and sugar technical analysis including laboratory instructions.

The space required for laboratory instruction necessitated the construction of a special building for chemistry on Trajanova Street, where the first classes were held in 1911.

Instruction at the University of Chemical and Technical Engineering

During the reorganization of Prague Polytechnic in 1920, the Faculty of Chemical and Technical Engineering was created as one of seven faculties at Czech Technical University.

Professor Emil Votoček was a leading figure at the newly founded faculty. During his tenure, a number of important chemists were trained here, including Otakar Quadrat and Rudolf Lukeš. Professor Otto Wichterle is known as the inventor of soft contact lenses.

In 1928, Vladimir Prelog graduated from the university, receiving his doctorate here as well. As Professor at ETH Zurich he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975

UCT Prague acknowledges Professor Votoček’s legacy and named its highest award for graduate students, the Votoček Scholarship, in his name. Furthermore, the university bestows its highest awards, the Emil Votoček Medals, for extraordinary individual contributions to the field of chemistry.

On 21 June 1925, President T.G. Masaryk laid the foundation stone for the construction of the first buildings intended for the Czech Technical University’s Dejvice campus, intended to mirror the modern, aesthetic architecture of this district. The first building was intended for the Faculty of Chemical and Technical Engineering and it serves as UCT Prague’s main building even today. Instruction started in the building in 1933. Construction of the other planned buildings stalled due to financial problems. In 1937, a second building for the faculty was completed.

In 1952, the Faculty of Chemical and Technical Engineering was separated from Czech Technical University by government degree. Under a newly established “College of Chemistry in Prague” there emerged three units:

the Faculty for Inorganic Technologies,
the Faculty for Organic Technologies,
and the Faculty of Food Technologies.

A year later, a government decree changed the name to its current one, the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague. That same year (1953), a fourth faculty was created, the Faculty of Fuel and Water Technology, which (in 1959) was changed to the Faculty of Fuel Technology and Water and, in 1960, the Faculty of Automation and Economics was established.

The curriculum of the university included the fundamentals of mathematics, physics, and physical chemistry. At the end of the 1960s, the Faculties of Inorganic and Organic Technologies were merged into today’s Faculty of Chemical Technology, and the Faculty of Food Technology was renamed the Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology. The Faculty of Automation and Economics became today’s Faculty of Chemical Engineering. The Faculty of Fuel Technology and Water’s curriculum and name were changed in 1991 to the Faculty of Environmental Technology.

List of UCT Prague Rectors

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1952 – 1954 prof. RNDr. Jan Kašpar

1954 – 1956 prof. Ing. Dr. Josef Dyr, DrSc

1956 – 1962 prof. Ing. Dr. Vladimír Maděra, DrSc

1962 – 1966 prof. Ing. Dr. Gustav Janíček, DrSc

1966 – 1970 prof. Dr. Ing. Josef Koritta, Dr. h.c.

1970 – 1976 prof. Ing. Dr. Rudolf Bretschneider, DrSc.

1976 – 1988 prof. Ing Jiří Mostecký, DrSc.

1989 – 1990 prof. Ing. Bohuslav Doležal, Csc.

1990 – 1994 prof. Ing. Čestmír Černý, DrSc.

1994 – 1995 prof. Ing. Ivan Stibor, CSc.

1995 doc. Ing. Josef Koubek, CSc. in charge of the management

1996 – 2001 doc. Ing. Josef Koubek, CSc.

2002 – 2007 prof. Ing. Vlastimil Růžička, CSc.

2008 – 2011 doc. Ing. Josef Koubek, CSc.

2012 – 2019 prof. Ing. Karel Melzoch, CSc.

2020 – now prof. Dr. RNDr. Pavel Matějka

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The English version of Annual reports of UCT Prague. A more extensive version is published in Czech, which can be found on the Czech website.

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There are the English version of the Internal Regulations and Internal Documents (together as "documents") in force at UCT Prague on this webpage.

The list does not contain all documents. Some are available only in the Czech version. Although we have made our best effort to translate the documents, only the Czech version of the documents are legally binding.

All documents in original Czech version.

Internal Regulations of the UCT Prague (Czech term "vnitřní předpisy")

Internal Standards of the UCT Prague(Czech term "vnitřní normy")

Directives (Czech term "směrnice")

Decrees (Czech term "výnosy")

Circulars (Czech term "oběžníky")

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All employees and members of the UCT Prague academic community follow the Code of Ethics in addition to other related UCT Prague policies.

UCT Prague Code of Ethics

Assessment and approval of those R&D activities where an independent ethical assessment by the Ethics Committee determines whether the planned research activities are necessary or appropriate (for example, research involving animals or humans).
Assessment of the deeds and actions of members of the UCT Prague academic community in relation to the Code of Ethics.

In relation to Pillar 1 (above), particularly applicable is Code of Ethics Article IV, paragraph 2, section a):

UCT Prague employees and members of its academic community:

Are obliged to submit, to the UCT Prague Ethics Committee (hereafter “Ethics Committee”), proposals for R&D activities (e.g. proposed projects) and relevant research outputs whenever required. If a proposal if approved by the Ethics Committee, any changes to it that may negatively affect the wellbeing of research subjects must also be submitted to the Ethics Committee for approval.

In relation to Pillar 2, particularly applicable is Code of Ethics Article VI, paragraphs 1 and 2:

If a UCT Prague employee or member of the academic community comes across an action violating the Code of Ethics, he or she will—whenever possible—first bring the violation to the attention of the person involved.
Otherwise, for any other concern, UCT Prague employees and members of the academic community have the right to submit a written letter expressing their concern to the Ethics Committee.

Ethics Committee

Current members:

prof. Ing. Kateřina Demnerová, CSc. (chair)
doc. Dr. Ing. Michal Ďurovič
doc. Ing. Luděk Jelínek, Ph.D.
doc. Ing. Olga Maťátková, Ph.D.
prof. RNDr. Marie Urbanová, CSc.
MUDr. Daniela Humlová
Ing. Kateřina Hradečná

Disciplinary panel

Positive social environment at UCT Prague

Has something happened that you would like to discuss?

More information about a consultation and notification service

Documents

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Declaration of the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague on Personal Data Protection

The University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague is a public institute of higher education of university type, established by law, providing independent and liberal education, and performing educational, scientific, research, development, innovative and other creative and related activities. These activities are performed in accordance with Act No. 111/1998 Coll., on Higher Education Institutions, on a regional, national and international level.

The University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague performs all of the above mentioned activities in compliance with all democratic values, including protection of the privacy of every individual.

In compliance with the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council (EU) No. 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) – hereinafter the “GDPR“ – the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague informs data subjects about the conditions of their personal data processing.

Personal data controller

The personal data controller is:

University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague
Registered seat: Technická 1905/5, 166 28 Prague 6
Business ID: 60461373
VAT ID: CZ60461373
Databox address: sp4j9ch
(hereinafter “UCT Prague“)

Personal data protection officer at UCT Prague

For the purpose of surveillance over due performance of all activities in the area of personal data protection, the appointed personal data protection officer at UCT Prague is:

Mgr. Šárka Datlová
Phone: +420 220 442 045,
E-mail: gdpr.poverenec@vscht.cz

The Personal data protection officer can be addressed with questions concerning personal data processing and protection.

Personal data processing principles applied by UCT Prague

Personal data is protected at UCT Prague to the maximum possible extent and in compliance with the applicable valid legislation. The rules and principles of personal data processing are laid down by an internal bylaw of UCT Prague entitled “Protection and Processing of Personal Data at UCT Prague”. When processing personal data, UCT Prague applies principles following from GDPR. These principles include (but are not limited to) the following:

Lawful basis for processing principle requiring that all personal data is always processed in compliance with applicable legislation and on the basis of at least one legal title.
Correctness and transparency principle requiring that data subjects' personal data is processed openly and transparently and that data subjects are provided with information about the way their personal data is processed, etc.
Limitation by purpose principle only permitting personal data collection for a clearly specified purpose.
Data minimisation principle requiring processing of only necessary relevant data in the scope appropriate for the purpose of its processing.
Accuracy principle requiring adoption of all purposeful measures allowing for regular updates or corrections of personal data.
Limited storage principle requiring that the personal data is only stored for the period required for the purpose of its processing.
Integrity, confidentiality, incontestability and accessibility principle requiring securing and protection of personal data against unauthorised or illegal processing, loss or destruction. For these reasons numerous technical and organisational measures are implemented.
Responsibility and accountability principle imposing the liability to be able to document compliance with all of the above mentioned conditions.

Personal data processing purposes at UCT Prague

To fulfil its mission, UCT Prague processes personal data for the following purposes:

Provision of accredited courses,
Provision of lifelong education,
Implementation of Docent and Professor inauguration proceedings,
Implementation of proceedings for recognition of foreign credentials,
Entrance examination procedure,
Provision of equal access to education,
Implementation of research, development and innovations, art and other creative activities,
Performance of complementary activities,
Work with alumni,
Information and promotional activities,
Protection of personal and property security,
Commercial activities,
Healthcare activities,
Administrative and operational activities at UCT Prague

Lawful basis for personal data processing at UCT Prague

Lawful basis for personal data processing at UCT Prague includes:

Compliance with liabilities following from the law or other legal regulations,
Contract performance,
Legitimate interest of the controller,
Protection of vital interests of data subjects,
Public authority task implementation,
Data subject consent.

Categories of processed personal data

UCT Prague processes personal data provided directly by the data subjects on the basis of the data subject's consent or on the basis of other legal reasons, and further personal data created in the context of the processing activity and activities needed for data security reasons. UCT Prague processes the following personal data categories, including but not necessarily limited to:

Address and identification data (first and last name / name and surname, date and place of birth, etc.)
Descriptive data (education, foreign language knowledge, professional qualifications, etc.)
Study-related data (transcripts of subjects studied, records of study-related activities, evaluations, awards)
Economic data (bank details, wages, bonuses, etc.)
Job-related data (work and activity sheets, employer, work site, job description, position, evaluation, wages and awards, etc.)
Operation and location data (typically data from electronic systems related to particular data subjects)
Data on data subject's activities (publication activity, professional activities, attendance of conferences, etc.)
Third party data (address and identification data of family members, etc.)
Special categories of personal data (sensitive personal data on health condition, trade union membership, etc.)

Personal data recipients

For the purpose of compliance with legislation-imposed obligations, certain personal data may be disclosed to specified recipients (such as public authorities). This also applies to cases when the authority to forward personal data outside UCT Prague is defined by individual data subjects' consent.

Period of personal data processing

Personal data is only kept for the minimum period required by the particular data processing activity and, after its elapse, this personal data is erased or archived in compliance with the applicable archiving and shredding plan. Personal data processed by UCT Prague on the basis of the data subject consent is only kept for the period of existence of the purpose for which the consent with personal data processing was granted.

Personal data processing related rights of data subjects

Data subjects may apply the following data subject rights against UCT Prague:

Right of access to personal data
- The right to require confirmation as to whether UCT Prague processes the subject's personal data or not and, if so, then for what purpose, what categories of personal data, for which recipient(s) or recipient categories, whether and to which third countries the personal data is sent, for what period the personal data will be kept, the right to lodge a complaint with the Personal Data Protection Office, information about the personal data sources, information whether automated data processing methods are applied and whether profiling is performed
Right to rectification
– The right for correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data
Right to erasure (to be forgotten)
– This concerns the liability of the controller to erase the processed personal data; this right, however, does not always apply for there are cases when UCT Prague must process personal data to duly fulfil its liabilities (legal liability fulfilment)
Right to restriction of processing
– This right can be applied if the data subject does not want their personal data to be processed for other than the necessary legal purposes
Right to portability of personal data
– This concerns the possibility to require the transfer of personal data processing onto a controller specified by the data subject, unless prevented by a legislative obstacle
Right to raise an objection and automated individual decision-making
– This right can be applied in the case of assumed unauthorised personal data processing; an objection can be raised directly against automated decision-making and profiling.

Method of application of data subject rights

A data subject may apply their rights in compliance with the GDPR from 26 May 2018. These rights must be applied against the controller (UCT Prague) in writing or in person through the central registry:

University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Personal data protection officer.

More detailed rules for data subject rights application are defined in the document entitled “Procedure for Data Subject Application Settlement”.

The data subject will be informed about the settlement of their requirement within one month from the documented date of application delivery. This deadline may be extended by the data controller by up to two months if the applications to be settled are numerous and/or complex.

The application of data subject rights is free of charge. UCT Prague may charge a fee for settlement of a clearly unjustified or non-proportional application.

Right of data subjects to lodge a complaint with the Supervisory Authority

The data subject rights include the right to lodge a complaint concerning personal data processing with the supervisory authority, which is the Personal Data Protection Office.

Contact:

Office for Personal Data Protection
Address: Pplk. Sochora 27
170 00 Prague 7
Phone: +420 234 665 111
www.uoou.cz

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The Recognition of Foreign Education is a process of verifying that the education level which you have completed abroad is equal to the education level required for studying at a university in the Czech Republic. In this process, your Diploma/Graduation Certificate and the Transcript of Records are assessed by Czech institutions, and at the end of the process, a Nostrification/Recognition Certificate is issued to you.

The Recognition of Foreign Education is an indispensable requirement for admission to the studies at UCT Prague.

Contact details:
Applicants for a study at UCT Prague please contact admissions@vscht.cz (Chemical Programmes) or business.admission@vscht.cz (School of Business) for guidance if needed.

Explanatory notes:

Recognition of Previous Education / Nostrification = process of verifying that the education level which you have completed abroad is equal to the education level required for studying at a university in the Czech Republic. This process is done in the Czech Republic by Czech institutions.

Authentication: Apostille / Superlegalization = Apostille or Superlegalization is a process of verification that the signatures and stamps on the document are genuine. This process is a mandatory requirement in case of certain countries, and the documents are incomplete without this verification. This process is done in the country where the documents have been issued.

Verified (notary-certified / true) Copy = An official certified copy identical to the original. It is verified by a notary or by an official authority in your country and confirmed with an official stamp.

In the Czech Republic, the verified copies are issued by a notary (the notary makes an official copy of a document and then stamps it, which proves the authenticity of the document).

Please learn what the process is like in your country. UCT Prague needs to receive official true copies of the Diploma and Transcripts of Records which are exactly the same as the originals.

These true copies should be also firmly attached to a translation to English/Czech (if the document isn’t issued in English), and they should be also firmly attached to an Apostille/Superlegalization clause (issued by an authority in your country and/or a Czech embassy).

Why is a verified copy required? UCT Prague must keep the documents archived for 45 years; therefore, if you send us an original document, we cannot return it back to you. Do not provide the originals of your documents to anyone as you may need them for other matters during your life.

A Short Overview of the Process

You can submit the online application without uploading a Certificate of Recognition, however, when filling in the online application, you must choose a method of recognition based on where your Diploma / Graduation Certificate and Transcript of Records have been issued.

In the online application you will find these options:

I have a diploma issued by a school in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland or Hungary = choose this option if your Graduation Certificate / Diploma has been issued in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland or Hungary
I have a European Baccalaureate Diploma = choose this option if you have received a European Baccalaureate diploma
I have a diploma and DON'T have a Nostrification Certificate = choose this option if you haven't got a Nostrification Certificate from a Czech institution yet.
If you choose this option, your documents will be assessed by UCT Prague and if complying with the requirements, the Certificate of Recognition of Previous Foreign Education will be issued as a part of the admission process.
I have a Nostrification Certificate issued in the Czech Republic and a diploma = choose this option if you have gone through the process of Nostrification, and you have already received an official Certificate of Nostrification from Prague City Hall or a similar official Czech authority

Regardless of which option you choose, you will need to deliver a verified copy of your Diploma and Transcript of Records to UCT Prague AS SOON AS POSSIBLE after you receive your Letter of Acceptance, however, by August 31 at the latest.

Timeline

Please see the details below in the table

by March–August

Provide a scan of a verified (true) copy of the Diploma/Graduation Certificate and Transcript of Records with Apostille/Superlegalization and translation

Students from certain countries need to have the Apostille/Superlegalization ready when applying for a visa/residence permit

AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, however, by August 31 at the latest

Send a paper version of a verified (true) copy of the Diploma/Graduation Certificate and Transcript of Records with Apostille/Superlegalization and translation to UCT Prague by a delivery service for the Recognition of the previous foreign education process

If you have received a Nostrification Certificate from another Czech institution: Provide a verified copy of the Nostrification Certificate to UCT Prague by a delivery service

You will be guided by an admission officer on where to send the documents to

If you haven't graduated yet by the time of applying and you are going to graduate in May/June/July, you can submit the online application, and proceed with the below-stated steps as soon as possible after graduation. You will be guided by the admission officer on how to proceed.

Do you have any questions regarding the process? Don't hesitate to contact us at admissions@vscht.cz (Chemical Programmes) or business.admission@vscht.cz (School of Business).

Quick Menu:

You are applying to Bachelor, Master or PhD degree studies
You are not applying to UCT, you just need a Recognition Certificate

APPLICANTS INTENDING TO STUDY AT UCT PRAGUE

When filling in the online application for the studies, you need to choose one of the below-stated options of the Recognition of Foreign Education.

The documents must be delivered to UCT Prague AS SOON AS POSSIBLE after you receive your Letter of Acceptance, however, by August 31 at the latest.

A) A diploma issued by a school in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland or Hungary

The Recognition of Graduation Certificates / Diplomas issued in the following countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, and Hungary is proceeded automatically without any further administrative proceedings.

Per the requirements of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, a verified copy of a Graduation Certificate / Diploma and Transcript of Records with a translation to the Czech language has to be provided to UCT Prague.

B) A European Baccalaureate Diploma

European Baccalaureate diplomas issued by International high schools are recognized without any further administrative proceedings.

As per the requirements of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, a verified copy of a Graduation Certificate and Transcript of Records with a translation to the Czech language has to be provided to UCT Prague.

C) I have a diploma, and I DON'T have a Nostrification Certificate

As UCT Prague is a holder of institutional accreditation, the Recognition of Previous Foreign Education can be conducted as a part of the admission procedure. The Recognition Certificate issued within this process is valid at UCT Prague only and it cannot be used for admission procedures at other institutions.

Accepted Graduation Certificates/Diplomas: International Baccalaureate (IB Diploma), Cambridge International A Level Certificate, other Graduation Certificates and Diplomas issued by accredited schools/universities worldwide

Fee: CZK 800,-
Validity: Only at UCT Prague

HOW TO PROCEED?

*Note that procedures may differ from country to country. In certain countries, the Apostille/Superlegalization is issued only on original documents; in other countries, the Apostille/Superlegalization can be issued on a verified copy too. Therefore the sequence of steps may differ from country to country.

Make a verified (true) copy of the Graduation Certificate / Diploma and of the Transcript of Records (the copy must be identical to the original and confirmed by a notary or any other official authority in your country)
Authenticate the stamps and signatures on the verified copy of the Graduation Certificate / Diploma and the Transcript of Records
Authentication of Documents (Click to open)

In accordance with section 90, subsection 3 of Act No. 111/1998 Coll., on Higher Education Institutions, UCT Prague requires authentication of signatures and stamps on the documents. The authentication must be provided in the country where the documents have been issued!

The authentication requirements differ according to the international treaties applying to the country where the original document was issued.

The authentication methods are:
1. Authentication is not required for documents issued in countries that are parties to a relevant international agreement abolishing the requirement of legalization for foreign public documents
2. Apostille – For members of the Hague Convention the legalization proceeds by Apostille – a unified form of authentication of documents issued by the competent administrative body of the state in which the document was issued
3. Legalization/super-legalization – Unless the international agreement sets otherwise, the authenticity of signatures and stamps on the document must be verified by two bodies:
  1. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country, where the institution which issued the document is based
  2. Respective representative office of the Czech Republic (e.g. Embassy / Consulate) in the country where the institution which issued the document is based
If the Graduation Certificate / Diploma and the Transcript of Records are not issued in the English language, make a certified translation to the English or Czech language by a certified (court) translator
(Note that some Embassies may require translation to the Czech language.)
Ask the certified translator to firmly attach the translation to the verified copy of the Certificate and the Transcript of Records
Send a scan of the verified copy of the Graduation Certificate / Diploma and Transcript of Records with the authentication (Apostille/Superlegalization), and with the translation to the Czech or English language to the email admissions@vscht.cz / mundus@vscht.cz (IMATEC) for confirmation whether they are correct.

This means:
* A verified copy (true copy) of the diploma issued in your language + a verified copy of the transcript of records
* Official translation of the diploma and official translation of the transcript
* Apostille/Superlegalitazion for diploma and apostille/superlegalization for the transcript of records
Pay the fee of CZK 800,- Payment information with a unique code is provided in your online application
Once confirmed by UCT Prague that the documents are correct:
1. Upload the scan to your online application to the section Proof of Education
2. Send the verified copy of the Graduation Certificate /Diploma and Transcript of Records with the translation to the Czech or English language with the authentication (Apostille/Superlegalization) by a delivery company to the address:

Department of International Relations
VŠCHT – University of Chemistry and Technology Prague
Technická 5 (street)
Prague 6 – Dejvice (city, district)
166 28 (postal code)
Czech Republic

We advise sending the documents by a delivery company only after confirmation by UCT Prague that your documents are correct, it will save you time and money!

Note (click to open)

You may be asked to submit the following documents if necessary:

Certified written power of attorney, if submitted by a person other than the graduate,
Certified copy of a Marriage Certificate or a Judgment of Divorce or another document in case of a change of the name indicated on the Diploma,
Confirmation of the relevant secondary school abroad or any other authorized body in the respective country on the fact that the secondary school leaver of the foreign secondary school concerned is in the given country entitled to apply for a bachelor's degree programme.

The Recognition fee of CZK 800,- is non-refundable, it cannot be waived or reduced.

D) I have a Nostrification Certificate issued in the Czech Republic and a diploma

The General Recognition of Foreign Secondary Education ("Nostrification”) is regulated by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and provided by the educational departments of regional authorities. In the case of Prague, the competent authority is Prague City Hall (Magistrát hl. m. Prahy).

If you have already undergone the process of Nostrification conducted by a competent authority in the Czech Republic, upload a scan of the Nostrification Certificate along with your diploma when submitting the application and provide a verified copy (paper version) of the Nostrification Certificate to UCT Prague as soon as possible.

INFORMATION ON THE NOSTRIFICATION PROCESS

The information about the process is to be found here:

The applicant generally needs to be in the Czech Republic to apply in person and the process of recognition takes a few months. If the curriculum and scope of education at a foreign school partly differ, the Regional Authority may order the applicant to sit a recognition examination.

Contact Details

Mgr. Martin Fučík
Prague City Hall, Department of Education
Jungmannova 29/35, 111 21 Praha 1
martin.fucik@cityofprague.cz

APPLICANTS FOR RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION ONLY

(No studies at UCT intended)

The Recognition of a Foreign Bachelor's or Master's Diploma can be processed by UCT Prague if the degree programme completed abroad has a similar curriculum as a degree programme accredited at UCT Prague.

If the curriculum differs, you are advised to inquire which other (HEI) provides a study programme corresponding to your prior education in order to apply for the Recognition at that institution.

Fee: CZK 3.000,-
Validity: At all universities in the Czech Republic

Please note:
According to the administrative code, the applicant cannot require the recognition of the same higher education qualification from multiple public HEIs simultaneously. If the request is rejected by a university, the applicant can submit it to another HEI only after the rejection has become legally effective (i.e. after 15 days from receipt of the decision).

In case of doubts, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR appoint the respective university to assess the qualification or makes the decision itself. The Ministry acts as an appellate body for rejected applications.

HOW TO PROCEED?

Before submitting an application, it is necessary to make sure that UCT Prague is authorized to process such an application, see Programmes catalogue, or please contact business.admission@vscht.cz (School of Business applicants)
Print and sign the Application Form >
Make a verified (true) copy of the Diploma and Diploma supplement (the copy must be identical to the original and confirmed by a Notary Public or another official authority in your country)
Authenticate the stamps and signatures on the verified copy of the Diploma and the Diploma Supplement
Authentication of Documents

In accordance with section 90, subsection 3 of Act No. 111/1998 Coll., on Higher Education Institutions, UCT Prague requires authentication of signatures and stamps on the documents. The authentication must be provided in the country where the documents have been issued!

The authentication requirements differ according to the international treaties applying to the country where the original document was issued.

The authentication methods are:
1. Authentication is not required for documents issued in countries that are parties to a relevant international agreement abolishing the requirement of legalization for foreign public documents
2. Apostille – For members of the Hague Convention the legalization proceeds by Apostille – a unified form of authentication of documents issued by the competent administrative body of the state in which the document was issued
3. Legalization/super-legalization – Unless the international agreement sets otherwise, the authenticity of signatures and stamps on the document must be verified by two bodies:
  1. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country, where the institution which issued the document is based
  2. Respective representative office of the Czech Republic (e.g. Embassy / Consulate) in the country where the institution which issued the document is based
If the Diploma and the Diploma Supplement are not issued in the English language, make a certified translation to the English or Czech language by a certified (court) translator
(Note that some Embassies may require translation to the Czech language.)
Ask the certified translator to firmly attach the translation to the verified copy of the Diploma and the Diploma Supplement

Pay the fee of CZK 3.000,- in accordance with the section 90a of Act No. 111/1998 Coll., on Higher Education Institutions

Payment Information

Recognition Fee	CZK 3.000,-
Recipient Information	University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technická 5, Prague 6, 166 28, Czech Republic
Bank Name	ČSOB, Banskobystrická 11, Prague 6
Account Number	130197294/0300
IBAN	CZ58 0300 0000 0001 3019 7294
SWIFT Code	CEKO CZ PP
Remittance Information	VS: 963826059
	SS: Date of birth in the format of DDMMYY
	Information: Full name as it appears in the passport/identity card
The full payment of CZK 3000,- shall be transferred to the UCT Prague bank account. Any bank charges shall be covered by the applicant.

Send the Application Form and the verified copy of the Diploma and the Diploma Supplement with the translation to the Czech or English language with the authentication (Apostille/Superlegalization)

The documents shall be sent to the address:

Mrs. Petra Linhartová
Department of Education and Human Sciences, Secretariat and Study Department, Records office
VŠCHT – University of Chemistry and Technology Prague
Technická 5, 1
66 28 Prague 6 – Dejvice
Czech Republic

e-mail: petra1.linhartova@vscht.cz
tel.: 220 443 062; 220 443 818

APPLICATION PROCESSING TIME

The deadlines for the proceedings are set by the general rules of administrative procedures, i.e. 30 days since the delivery. In complex cases, the deadline can be extended by 30 more days. An applicant will receive information on the result of the assessment via email.

More Information

If it is found during the recognition proceeding that it is not within the scope of the rector’s responsibility to make a decision on the request for recognition of foreign higher education, e.g. because UCT Prague does not provide a similar study programme, the fee is not charged, and, if already paid, will be returned to the applicant.

There is no refund of the fee if the recognition proceeding is discontinued due to a deficient application (absence of documents necessary for assessing the application), and the applicant’s failure to remove the deficiency upon request.

There is no refund of the fee in case of rejection of the application due to substantial differences between the compared study programmes.

In case the purpose of the recognition is not further study, the equality of the education will be assessed in accordance with the Agreement – if substantial differences between the compared study programmes are found, the rector may reject the application.

APPEAL PROCEDURE

Applicants are entitled to submit an appeal within 15 days of receiving the decision. The appeal is submitted to the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic through the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (or, in general terms, through the institution that has issued the decision). The university will either allow the appeal in full or passes it on to the Czech Ministry of Education no later than 30 days upon receipt of the appeal. The Ministry will then issue a final decision.

Legislations governing the recognition of foreign education and qualifications

Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education in the European Region signed on April 11, 1997, in Lisbon; published in the Czech language in Collection of International Agreements No. 60/2000 Coll.
International Agreements on mutual recognition of documents on education
International Agreements on the authentication of public documents
Act. No. 111/1998 Coll. on Higher Education Institutions and on Amendment to Other Acts, as amended - § 48, § 89, § 90, § 105, § 106
Act No. 500/2004 Coll. on Administrative Procedure

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The English version of the collective agreement between University of Chemistry and Technology and University Trade Unions (Czech term "kolektivní smlouva").

Although we have made our best effort to translate the documents, only the Czech version of the documents are legally binding.

Collective Agreement in original Czech version.

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Habilitation proceedings at the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (UCT) are carried out in compliance with Sections 71 and 72 of Act No. 111/1998 Coll. on Higher Education Institutions and on Amendments of and Supplements to Other Acts (the Higher Education Act), as amended, and in compliance with Article 29 of the Statute of the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague.

Proceedings for the appointment of professors at UCT take place under Sections 73 and 74 of the Higher Education Act and in compliance with Article 29 of the Statute of UCT.

Documents related to the proceedings at UCT Prague

All documents are available to download at document section at the bottom of the page

List of scientific fields for which UCT Prague has been accredited (in Czech language)
Legal requirements (at national level and at UCT Prague level)
Framework Criteria for the Habilitation Procedure and the Procedure to Appoint Professors at UCT Prague
Rules of Habilitation Procedures and Procedures for Appointment of Professors at the UCT Prague
Methodological manual for habilitation proceedings and proceedings for appointment of professors
- Application form - start of habilitation proceeding (an attachment to no. 5)
- Application form - start of proceeding for appointment of professor (an attachment to no. 5)

In compliance with Decree No. 30.07/03 of 19 March 2003 on Fees for the above-standard administrative tasks, the commencement of the habilitation procedure is subject to a fee of CZK 3,000. The obligation to pay does not apply to emplyees of UCT Prague. In exceptional cases, the Dean or the relevant Vice-Rector may, on the basis of a written request, reduce or forgive payment for the above-standard administrative tasks.

The list of scientific and professional activities of the applicant and habilitation thesis is available at the Dean's Office.

Open and finished proceedings

Habilitation

Links lead to Czech website.

Appointment of Professors

Links lead to Czech website.

Documents

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Erasmus Policy Statement (Overall Strategy) 2021 – 2027

The University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (UCT Prague) is a renowned institution with the reputation of being a centre of premier education and research in the fields of technical chemistry, chemical and biochemical technologies, material and chemical engineering, food chemistry, and environmental studies, not only in the Czech Republic but in the whole Central European region.

The mission of UCT Prague is to educate its students to become either top-performing professionals for industry, government or excellent scientists contributing to strengthening the European Union's global competitiveness by developing a knowledge-based, innovative, and environmentally sustainable economy. The integral part of the mission is the active promotion of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) to the public and especially aimed to spark the interest of the young generation in STEM. The same importance is assigned to the promotion of the values of democracy, openness, tolerance, education, and culture in our society. To accomplish its mission, the UCT Prague institutional strategy calls for all activities of the UCT Prague to be aimed at profiling the institution as the leading research-oriented university focused on a high-quality basic and applied research with an outstanding international reputation and commits UCT Prague to advance values of equal opportunities and to support the diversity of its students and staff.

The priority objectives (based on the UCT Prague Institutional Strategy) are:

1) Modernisation of the UCT Prague education system to increase quality and efficiency of study

Providing high-quality education is the cornerstone of any educational provider. The education offer should cater to the needs of industry and economy as well as to societal demand. Innovative curriculum development will have to be employed. New teaching delivery methods should be devised, including virtual and blended. Continue in the activity of the development of e-learning and other innovative electronic tools for accredited study programmes to streamline teaching and to achieve better learning outcomes. Use in teaching modern methods of project teaching and sharing of pedagogical capacities and infrastructure with other top workplaces at universities and in the industrial area.

2) Cultural learning of participants and creation of European Education Area

Raising participants' awareness and understanding of other cultures and countries, offering them the opportunity to build networks of international contacts, to actively participate in society and develop a sense of European citizenship and identity. Support activities that will lead towards the creation of European Education Area.

3) Development of key competences of students and strengthening their employability

The employability of graduates is one of the most important metrics for students to compare when choosing a higher-education institution to study. The employability of graduates is increased when they possess key competences, so-called "soft-skills", command a good level of a widely spoken foreign language (ideally two), and had practical experience from industry or business – which every student should acquire during his/her studies at UCT Prague. One of the best ways how to obtain all three is take part in mobility.

4) Effective internationalization of UCT Prague

Internationalization – the long-term objective of UCT Prague is active involvement in the international integration of higher-education and growth of cooperation on the international level in research and education with both European and non-European institutions. International cooperation in research and education is an essential condition for their further development the institution. Student and staff mobility, both outgoing and incoming, creation and implementation of joint study programs, internationalization of all areas of university life will help create an inspiring and stimulating environment at UCT Prague, where new ideas are born.

Subobjective 1 – Promotion of two-way mobility of students and staff

Continuation of promoting two-way mobility of students and staff, including in new formats, such as blended mobility, to help students and staff gain international experience and contacts for the future involvement of students and staff in international projects, creation and modification of study programmes or teaching in a foreign language.

Subobjective 2 – Support of development of Internationalisation at home

Inclusion the international and intercultural dimension into the study programs. Support activities that will help students and staff develop intercultural skills and support international understanding and will effectively support the international character of the university in a globalized world.

Conclusion

The vision is to utilize Erasmus+ Programme to help UCT Prague to accomplish its objectives and to strengthen UCT Prague position on the international level by enabling it to engage in cooperation with institutions within European Education Area as well as outside of it, what would not be otherwise possible at such extent. UCT Prague views the Erasmus+ Programme as an effective tool how to elevate its institutional quality and achieve institutional policy objectives that would otherwise take considerably longer time-period or were even impossible for institution of UCT Prague size and capacity. The participation in the Erasmus+ Programme is therefore an integral part of the internationalisation and modernisation strategy of UCT Prague.

Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE) – UCT Prague 2021 – 2027>

Erasmus Charter for Higher Education 2014 – 2020

Erasmus Policy Statement (Overall Strategy)

UCT Prague regards international cooperation as a vital part of its teaching and scientific activities and purposely extends and deepens this cooperation. Due to the active participation of academic staff in international scientific and educational projects and programmes (such as the EU FPs, TEMPUS, COST, COPERNICUS, EEA grants, NATO…), networking and contact making are continually expanding both in the terms of content as well as geographically. The main criterion for a new cooperation partner is the quality—related either to educational activities or to scientific quality and reputation; the assumption of mutual academic collaboration and reciprocity in student and staff mobility is very important. The areas of cooperation are linked more or less to technical chemistry, food chemistry and technology, material sciences, process engineering, chemical technologies and informatics, biotechnology etc. International scientific and educational events ongoing abroad or held at UCT Prague are also used for meeting new potential partners. Information about UCT Prague are disseminated through printed leaflets, brochures and presentations during staff international mobility.

At present, the University of Chemical and Technology Prague maintains nearly 150 Erasmus bilateral agreements with universities across Europe and more than 50 other agreements with partners not only in Europe but also in the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, India and many other countries. UCT Prague is open to quality cooperation with all geographical areas. Cooperation with the European partners is of course the most frequent due to the easiest accessibility and lower financial cost.

The main objective of the internationalization is to keep UCT Prague at the top position with respect to both educational and scientific quality. Therefore, attention is consistently paid to the international mobility of staff and expanding opportunities to study abroad for UCTP students. The university seeks after all available resources to support long-term (one-two semesteral) study stays for students at all levels and this form of students' international experience will continue to develop. UCT Prague has fully implemented ECTS and Diploma Supplement Label, facilitating the recognition of studies abroad. For students mostly at doctoral level, internships and placements at leading scientific institutions are provided. Short-term stays at summer schools, conferences and workshops are consistently supported for students of MSc And PhD degrees. In addition to the LLP/Erasmus mobility, students participate in other international programmes, such as AAD, CEEPUS, AKTION, ATHENS, etc. The participation of scientific and pedagogical staff in international projects is highly recommended and supported; the presentation of results and making of new contacts are expected. The attempt to increase the number of teaching staff mobility will be permanently supported.

Great care is given to foreign students and visiting teaching staff. UCT Prague provides international students accredited Bachelor's and Master's study programmes taught in English and—for Erasmus students—a number of courses taught in English. The organization of Czech language courses for foreign students is considered an important activity in the internationalization and students' integration at the university.

Based on a long term cooperation with selected partner universities, double degree study programmes at Master and Doctoral levels in particular were established. Implementation of two Masters and two doctoral ERASMUS MUNDUS programmes resulted from multilateral interuniversity cooperation. Our further aim is to involve more Czech students in courses taught in English.

A very welcome and supported form of internationalization at UCT Prague is receiving doctoral students and trainees from third countries. Other successful activities we will continue to develop are short-term intensive training courses for students and teachers from third countries.

UCT Prague actively participates in a number of international projects and seeks for further participation in projects targeted towards teaching and training. The most successful implemented project is ERASMUS MUNDUS. Two Masters’ study programmes (EM3E and IMETE) have been running for two years; students studying under a consortium of European universities spend one semester at UCTP, some of them prepare also their diploma project and thesis here. UCTP has adopted all necessary procedures for issuing the joint diploma. Similarly, a doctoral programme EUDIME was implemented. During their stay at UCTP, PhD Students are actively involved in scientific research teams. The fourth EM project is EURINDIA where UCTP trains one PhD Student from India.

UCT Prague participates regularly in TEMPUS projects; in the past, through individual advisors/evaluators of several projects, currently as a partner. In this project, UCT Prague organizes intensive professional courses for teachers and students from Russian universities involved in the project.

Another form of cooperation is the participation of UCT Prague in ERASMUS thematic projects. The first one is the ISEKI-Food (originally FoodNet), which maps the teaching of food science and technology in Europe and to which UCTP has contributed a number of documents and data. The second example is the participation in the European Chemistry Thematic Network (ECTN and EC2EN2) which resulted in the possibility to grant IVTP graduates title EuroBachelor®.

Participation of UCT Prague in these projects is reflected in curricula modernization, creation of new degree programmes, awarding of double/joint diploma and implementation of new reaching methods and organization of studies. An integral part of the internationalization is an active students' club ESC and its involvement in the European network ECN; ESC plays an important role in the integration of foreign students into the local environment.

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The University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, is dedicated, over the long-term, to fostering a cultural, fair, and friendly social environment. UCT Prague rejects all forms of behaviour that violate human dignity, including discrimination, aggression, bullying, intimidation, sexual violence, or other forms of oppression.

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UCT Prague fully supports positive relationships in the university environment, including respect for others and a collegial, open, and balanced ways of acting and communicating. UCT Prague’s academic community and its employees respect and adhere to the Code of Ethics.

We thank all of you for helping us to foster and ensure a positive, safe social environment on campus.

Details: General information about the new Guideline for fostering and ensuring a positive social environment at UCT Prague

Has something happened that you would like to discuss?

UCT Prague’s Rector has announced a contact person for social environment-related issues, ThDr Klára Muzikářová PhD.

The UCT Prague contact person will be with you all the way. UCT Prague prefers solving incidents/issues in an informal way, by explaining what happened, finding an amicable way forward with involved parties, and preventing such events in the future. If informal resolution processes fail, we will help you file a complaint with UCT Prague’s Ethics Committee or Disciplinary Panel or to choose another appropriate procedure.

A conversation with the UCT Prague contact person is not an official notification about a problem, concern, or complaint. If we come to the conclusion that a formal resolution process is unavoidable, we will go through the options together. We will ensure confidentiality of the information communicated, protect participants involved in any incident, and search for the most suitable resolution to any issue.

You can use the secure SafeTalk application (anonymously, if you wish). Your message will reach the UCT Prague contact person. After reporting an issue in SafeTalk, we may (or may not) arrange a personal meeting.

Start a conversation in SafeTalk

Continue a SafeTalk conversation

(using Report ID from your first conversation in SafeTalk)

You can also arrange a personal meeting, either with the UCT Prague contact person (klara.muzikarova@vscht.cz) or with psychologist PhDr Vladislava Kuželová (vladislava.kuzelova@vscht.cz).

Whether you use SafeTalk or wish to have an in person discussion, we would ask that you provide as many details as possible, such as a description of an incident, how it happened, names or descriptions of people involved (feel free to use an anonymous descriptions instead of names, e.g. student, female employee, teaching staff), and your perceptions and feelings about the incident as a whole. We would also like to listen to your thoughts regarding how the incident should be resolved, from your point of view.

Contact person - Klára Muzikářová

◳ Klára Muzikářová (jpg) → (ořez 215*215px) I have been a UCT Prague employee since 2019 and am currently UCT Prague’s Chancellor. I studied Theology and Judaic studies at Charles University and am now finishing a Master’s degree in Social and Charitable work there. I passed the Czech Police Academy’s state exams in criminal and administrative law, and this combination of knowledge allows me to (to put it humbly) have an overview of the events that come our way in life and the consequences they may have. My work at UCT Prague does not involve teaching or research, which allows me to avoid conflict of interest. In addition to my volunteer activities in the social/charitable field, I have been active in the UCT Prague’s COVID response team and the team dealing with issues related to the war in Ukraine. I have helped incoming Ukrainian students, organized an aid transport to Mykolaiv University (Ukraine), and co-organized the Donate Blood, Donate Life event. I look forward to helping you solve any issues you may encounter, within the framework of the above-mentioned agenda.

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Defining a “positive social environment”

What the guideline encompasses:

Violation of personal dignity in interpersonal relationships (all forms of behaviour that violate human dignity, including discrimination, aggression, bullying, intimidation, sexual violence, or other forms of oppression).

What the guideline does not include:

Relationships between students and UCT Prague as an institution (meaning non-personal issues involving UCT Prague’s rules/system; such matters are resolved by the disciplinary code/Disciplinary Panel)
Relationships between employees and UCT Prague as an institution (meaning non-personal issues with UCT Prague’s rules/system; dealt with by labour laws; Personnel Department)
Research ethics and plagiarism (violations of scientific fair-play; exclusively handled by the Ethics Committee)

Introduction

In order for universities to fulfil their mission, which includes creating an appropriate environment for education and research, it is essential that they foster and ensure a positive environment in which everyone feels free. UCT Prague students, instructors, and employees need to concentrate on their studies, research, and work, which is not possible if they have to deal with intolerable harassment.

Harassment is verbal or physical behaviour so severe or happening repeatedly resulting in disproportionate interference with an individual’s ability to work or study and/or that creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment/set of behaviours in the workplace or as part of the educational process. Such behaviour stems from different origins: ranging from a pathologically disproportionate pressure to perform; to personal cultural, racial, or gender antipathies; to sexually motivated behaviour, among others.

UCT Prague’s leadership is aware that these are often very complicated situations in which it is not always clear what the ideal resolution procedure should look like. Thus, the procedures and measures described here should serve as a guideline offering help with assessing such situations and resolving them.

The main goal in resolving interpersonal misunderstandings and disputes is reaching a timely and fair state of calm and equilibrium. This usually means:

Explanation and comparison of the asymmetric perceptions and emotions of the actors involved
Having the involved parties reaching an agreement about how to prevent an undesirable state in the future
In cases that will require it, resolution of a formal dispute (=formal solution, most often by the Ethics Committee)

Why is it necessary for interpersonal disputes to be systematically resolved?

A person's subjective belief that their conduct is/is not humiliating, intimidating, or hostile does not necessarily mean that the conduct does/does not constitute intolerable harassment.

Differences in understanding in such situations creates negative consequences for one or both actors involved and also can negatively impact their professional and social surroundings.

The negative effects are multiplied by three primary factors:

1) If the harassment/behaviour persists despite requests to stop it.

2) Power inequality: A supervisor’s either positive or negative behaviour is perceived more intensely by a subordinate. A wide range of relationships can be included as this kind of inequality.

These can be so-called hard power differences (e.g. age, year of study, titles achieved, academic function, generally higher positions in any hierarchical system, or the ability to set the rules in a situation). Hard power differences are more significant, from an institutional perspective, than soft power differences.
Soft power differences include, among others, the superiority of a highly intelligent person over an average person; the “superiority” of an attractive person as perceived by another person; in society, the predominance of a more socially-capable person over a less-social one. Interpersonal relationships tend to be a complex mix of those inequalities. However, it is generally assumed that a person in a higher position carries, together with more experience and power, more responsibility in caring for the social well-being of subordinates.

3) Delay: Not resolving disagreements when they occur. Feelings of wrongdoing that have not been addressed deepen over time, making it more likely that behaviour(s) will be repeated and that the realities of the original situation become less clear and more subject to subjective interpretation.

This is why it is also in UCT Prague’s interest to resolve misunderstandings, disagreements, and possibly more serious problems continuously, actively, and as soon as possible—to prevent additional negative impacts for both parties in a dispute, including future study, research, or work impacts.

Mechanism for handling incidents

We hope that the vast majority of incidents can be resolved informally by finding a settlement or agreement regarding a path forward. This is why UCT Prague’s incident settlement mechanism is based on a robust informal procedure.

SafeTalk Anonymous Chat. This service, above all, provides a way to orient oneself in a situation, regardless of one's own feelings about a problem. Experience from other universities indicates that the majority of issues can be resolved at this stage. Anyone, in any position, in any situation, can contact SafeTalk anonymously (anonymity is guaranteed by the service provider, an independent third party) to discuss a situation and a possible course of future action.
UCT Prague’s contact person serves as a trustworthy guide and moderator for any situation. Using anonymous chat, the contact person communicates with those affected and leads the process of working towards a solution. UCT Prague’s Rector, Pavel Matějka, has entrusted the role of contact person to UCT Prague’s Chancellor , Klára Muzikářová, who reports directly to the Rector.
If it is necessary to ensure psychological stabilization of the parties involved, a psychologist will be consulted. Likewise, the UCT Prague contact person is trained in psychological crisis intervention.
The preferred form of incident resolution is an informally moderated resolution, where, under the guidance of the UCT Prague contact person, an effort is made to find an amicable result and agreement about next steps in confidentiality, without superiors or others being notified.
1. The result of the agreement is a resolution workable for both parties and UCT Prague (represented by the contact person).
If this process fails, an incident will be handled by a formal process after a final consultation with the UCT Prague contact person. Please note that a formal complaint cannot be filed anonymously.
This process is subject to relevant UCT Prague regulations such as Ethics Committee rules/procedures.
1. A formal procedure results in a recommendation for corrective or disciplinary measures provided by the Ethics Committee to the relevant Deans, Rector, or senior employee of a given faculty/department.
2. In the event of an offense by a student, the process will include disciplinary proceedings following valid UCT Prague regulations (read more).

Implementation action plan

A series of educational workshops, together with educational materials, on the topic of interpersonal ethics will be offered to employees and students.

Action/education plan for implementing informal resolution services

UCT Prague contact person appointed: May 2023
SafeTalk anonymous chat launched: May 2023
Regulations and Ethics Committee role modified: June 2023
Informational brochures for students updated: Spring 2023
Educational video launched: Summer/Autumn 2023
Educational workshops for Ethics Committee: Summer to Autumn 2023 (+ regular repetition)
Educational workshops for the academic community: Autumn 2023
Educational articles in SPIN magazine: Autumn 2023+
Activity report/statistics from the first year of service operation: June 2024

Has something happened that you would like to discuss?

Learn more (e.g., where and with whom)

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