UCT Prague defended its second place among Czech universities and is ranked 358th in the world.

For the fouth time in a row, UCT Prague defended its second place among Czech universities in the prestigious QS World University Rankings 2023. 

The excellent result in the QS World University Rankings 2023 was most influenced by UCT Prague’s small student-to-academic instructor ratio. Individual support for education and the inherent involvement of students in the research process even earned UCT 29th place in the world and first in Czechia in this aspect of rankings system evaluation process.

“The fourth success in a row is, of course, a nice outcome of all the staff and students of our university. We strive to build a supportive and fair environment for everyone, where everyone can participate in scientific activities. But I understand that the ranking is just a number. It is more important that we work on ourselves and continue to improve,” said Pavel Matějka, UCT Prague Rector.

The international environment of the university, with a high number of students (by Czech standards) from abroad in recent years, contributed to the good ranking. The university has also recently attracted international academics who have linked their careers to UCT Prague. After last year, which was greatly affected by the pandemic situation, these indicators have increased again. In the overall result, this means that UCT Prague is ranked 230th in this criterion.

Other Czech universities were also successful in this year’s edition of the rankings. The largest Czech university, Charles University, placed in the 288-290 world ranking range. CTU Prague moved to the 378-379 ranking range; Masaryk University achieved 551-560; Palacký University in Olomouc, 651-700. A total of 16 Czech universities were ranked.

The full list of rankings and a description of the QS methodology can be found on the QS World University Rankings 2023 website.

The award, given by the European Commission to scientific and research organizations, recognizes excellence in strategic HR development.

On 4 January 2023, the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, received the HR Award following several years of preparation. The European Commission gives the award to R&D organizations for excellence in strategic HR development while, at the same time,  committing them to implement and keep the highest standards in providing employee care and career development services.

Obtaining the HR Award certificate should benefit not only UCT Prague as an R&D organization, but all our employees as well. Our common goal is establishing and sustaining an exemplary academic working environment—transparent, motivating, and fair—enabling all employees to fully develop themselves.

Our commitments stated in the HR Award Action Plan are to be fulfilled during the next four years of implementation. Related activities will take place across the University involving the Rector’s Office, all the faculties, and other university units. The expected benefit of the HR Award is also to open up topics that have been neglected up to now for various reasons, as well as to foster discussions that will hopefully involve employees from all career levels, including both the scientific/academic and administrative/support staff.

Thanks to the ongoing improvement of processes related to human resource policies, UCT Prague will also become an even more attractive employer on an international scale. The award will improve UCT Prague’s reputation as an innovative R&D institution.

• Details, Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) at UCT Prague

On Friday, 25 October 2022, UCT Prague’s Rector, Pavel Matějka, signed a memorandum of cooperation with Prof. Eugeny Trushliakov, Rector of the Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding in Mykolaiv, Ukraine.

On Friday, 25 October 2022, UCT Prague’s Rector, Pavel Matějka, signed a memorandum of cooperation with Prof. Eugeny Trushliakov, Rector of the Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding in Mykolaiv, Ukraine.

On Wednesday, November 30, the consortium Study in Prague hosted the 2nd annual ceremony of the Extraordinary Scholarship prof. Miroslav Vlček for exemplary representation of university studies in the Czech Republic.

The extraordinary scholarship of Professor Miroslav Vlček is a form of honouring the memory of the former Vice-rector for international relations of CTU in Prague. From 2015 to 2019, he was behind the idea and coordinator of the Study in Prague project, which attracted hundreds of foreign students to study in Prague.

Scholarships in the amount of CZK 30,000 are awarded by the Study in Prague consortium, which unites seven Prague universities (AMU, CTU, CZU, UK, UCT, VŠE and VŠUP), to foreign students who represented their schools in an exceptional way and contributed to the positive promotion of studies in foreign language at the mentioned schools and generally to promote studies in Prague and the Czech Republic.

This year, the scholarship by UCT Prague was awarded to a student from the Faculty of Chemical Technology Sergej Mrkobrada. Mr. Mrkobrada's contribution to the internationalization of University of Chemistry and Technology primarily lies in his extraordinary involvement in research already during his master's studies.

Sergej Mrkobrada's research activity focuses on the development of new procedures for the preparation of functionalized compounds by the principles of green chemistry. The primary focus of his scientific interest is the preparation of natural compounds containing substituted aromatic hydrocarbons. In the long term, the observed reactivity will enable the transformation of natural compounds with high chemoselectivity for target-oriented organic synthesis.

The awarding ceremony took place under the auspices of the mayor of the City of Prague and Prague Municipality, with whom Studium v ​​Praha has been cooperating for a long time and which once again provided the wonderful event hall of the Mayor's Residence.

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Do you also want to get an internationally recognized degree? The admission procedure for English study programs at UCT Prague is open up to February 28, 2023. Visit our website study.vcht.cz for more information.

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On Tuesday, 6 December 2022, the CzechInno Association announced the winners of the twelfth Visionaries awards. During the gala evening, innovators in the fields of saving natural resources (energy and environmental aspects), the circular economy and innovative waste management were given prizes for their accomplishments.

The title “Visionary 2022” was awarded to six laureates, and the expert jury gave eleven innovations honourable mentions. “Visionaries 2022” with ties to UCT Prague include:

Ing. Milan Petrák, director of UCT Prague’s Technopark Kralupy, for his lifelong contribution in the field of implementing the results of chemical research into industrial practice.

Prof. Martin Fusek, IOCB TECH, s.r.o. Director, for his lifetime contribution in the field of technology transfer support. Professor Fusek regularly lectures to UCT Prague doctoral students on the problematics of technology transfer.

The award ceremony took place in the Žižkov Tower Park Prague conference centre.

The goal of the Visionaries project, already in its twelfth year, is to honour creators of innovative products, devices, procedures, or services developed by entrepreneurs and researchers working within both Czech private companies and research organizations, as well as to recognize outstanding individual endeavours and accomplishments. Its purpose further is to spur the potential for Czech businesses and organizations to be innovative and to help successfully commercialize innovative ideas created recently. In this regard, CzechInno finds it to be especially important that the general public learns about new innovations so that they can be entered into real life to the extent possible.

A complete account of this year laureates and more information can be found on the CzechInno website.