This extraordinary evening will be attended by three outstanding personalities of French science  the Nobel Prize winners:

• Jean-Marie Lehn (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1987),
• Serge Haroche (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2012) and
• Jean-Pierre Sauvage (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2016).

The latest findings from their fields will be presented to the audience in a way accessible to the general public, from high schoolers to researchers.

Their performance will be accompanied by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra with a special "scientific" program, playing music composed by scientists or for scientists.

The event is open for public, with discount for UCT Prague students and employees

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Traditional school co-organized by UCT Prague will take place in Izrael this year in December.

Following four successful years of the Prague Summer School on Advances in Drug Discovery, this year the school will be held Jointly with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel (www.weizmann.ac.il). The school is co-organized by the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague and Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS.

Winter school 2018 website

• Deadline for abstract submission: October 1^st, 2018
• Notification of acceptance: November 1^st 2018
• Winter school: December 3^rd - 7^th

ICETI 2018 - International Conference on Environmental Technology and Innovations will take place on 21^st - 23^rd of November 2018.

The conference will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of scientific papers, covering a number of topics within environmental science and engineering.

ICETI is organized in cooperation between the Faculty of Environmental Technologies, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, cluster WASTen, z.s.,  Faculty of Environment and Labour Safety, Ton Duc Thang University, Université de Strasbourg - Icube and University od Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.

This conference brings together engineers, scientists, researchers, students, managers and other professionals in order to address and discuss emerging environmental issues dealing with interactions of industrial development and environment. The success of this conference reflects the critical environmental topics that are discussed as well as the quality of the presented papers. All the papers which are selected for either oral or poster presentations undergo a review process.

The registration is open until end of August 2018.

ICETI conference website

QS World University Rankings included our school among the world’s best in Chemistry for the first time.

For almost fifteen years, QS World University Rankings has been evaluating universities worldwide. In addition to global overall rankings, which do not reflect a university’s size or focus, it also publishes compares universities according to individual disciplines.

For UCT Prague, a specialized chemistry and technology university, the subject assessment is much more relevant than the overall rankings.

This year, UCT Prague reached the top for Chemistry, achieving a ranking of 301-350^th best in the world.

Cooperation in the areas of research and education. Cooperation regarding substance identification and counterfeiting. Joint development of analytical methods and procedures; cooperation in the fields of certification and accreditation of guidelines. These are the main points of the Memorandum of Cooperation signed on Thursday, May 3, between the UCT Prague and the Customs Administration of the Czech Republic.

Present at the signing of the Memorandum were UCT Prague Rector, Karel Melzoch; UCT Prague Vice-Rector for External Relations and Communication, Pavel Matějka; General Director of the Customs Administration, Milan Poulíček; and the First Deputy General Director of the Customs Administration, Lumír Šatran.

A Conferral Ceremony of Doctor Honoris Causa upon Prof. Jiří Drahoš, former President of the Czech Academy of Sciences and UCT Prague alumnus, took place on Friday, 24 November, at the Dancing House (Tančící dum) in Prague.

Kobe University is pursuing further academic collaboration between Japan and Europe through its Brussels European Centre and Kobe University Liaison Office in Kraków. As a member of the Kobe University Advisory Board, Prof. Drahoš has shared his vast experience as President of the Czech Academy of Sciences to strengthen the international activities of Kobe University in Europe.

Recognizing his significant role and contribution to Europe, the Czech Republic, and Kobe University, Kobe University has conferred a Kobe University Doctor Honoris Causa upon Prof. Drahoš.