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UCT Prague - A challenge that pays off
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The University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague consists of four faculties and several other departments
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Faculty of Environmental Technology
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 | ||
| 413 Department of Mathematics (replaced by 446) | ||
| 444 Department of Physics and Measurements | ||
| 445 Department of Computing and Control Engineering (replaced by 446) | ||
| 446 Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Cybernetics | ||
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| 560 BAFA | ||
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| 748 Recreation facility Jáchymov | ||
| 749 Recreation facility Pec p. Sněžkou | ||
| 755 Volha Canteen | ||
| 756 Club Carbon | ||
| 757 Zikova Canteen | ||
| 758 Camping site Běstvina |
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| 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
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| 930 Crèche 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 |
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UCT Prague is a research university primarily focused on technical chemistry, chemical and biochemical technologies, material and chemical engineering, food science, and environmental science. Its cutting-edge facilities and equipment together, with an impressive scientific and research profile, make it an ideal training ground for the managerial, R&D, and public sector leaders of the future.
UCT Prague has four faculties. Its competitive edge lies in its unique “weaving together” of teaching activities with the highest-quality basic and applied research. Across UCT Prague, scientific teams are intensively involved in various national and international cooperative R&D efforts. The Project Centre provides methodological and administrative support to researchers submitting project applications and managing funded projects.
UCT Prague considers the commercialisation of applied research to be an important part of its mission. For that reason, UCT Prague’ss Research and Technology Transfer Office offers researchers support, contributing to extending valourisation of scientific outputs and pursuing the quest for new collaborative partners in applied settings. In 2015, UCT Prague opened Technopark Kralupy, a science and technology hub focused on chemistry for building construction applications, materials engineering, and related fields. The Technopark plays an essential role in UCT Prague’s technology transfer efforts and strategies.
The Research and Technology Transfer Office facilitates internal grants for researchers and students, offers opportunities to compete in prestigious research competitions, and promotes active engagement and participation in student conferences.
UCT Prague is an attractive institution for young scientists and early career researchers, and the Project Centre actively supports hosting and mentoring ECRs, e.g. as part of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. Here, ECRs can apply for a prestigious start-up grant, the Dagmar Procházková Fund, in order to create their own UCT Prague research groups. Postdoctoral fellows at UCT Prague receive extensive international mobility support for broadening their research horizons.
UCT Prague is actively involved in global scientific efforts and is continuously expanding and deepening its collaborations with partners around the world. The basic pillars of these activities include scientific research projects, inter-university cooperation memoranda, and Erasmus+ agreements. UCT Prague additionally creates and accredits joint study programmes with universities abroad.
Paving the way for the European Commission’s HR Excellence in Research Award, UCT Prague is committed to creating collegial working conditions, supporting continuous professional development, and transparent hiring procedures. The Personnel Department co-creates facilities for employees together with the Welcome Centre, which supports employees arriving from abroad, from assisting with the visa process to answering questions about everyday life in Prague. In its determination to be an attractive and welcoming institution for all employees and students, UCT Prague has created a Gender Equality Plan, an executive action initiative.
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Feel free to contact Department of Comunication with any inquiry. The department will provide contact on University scientific staff.
Main contact person
L Mgr. Michal Janovský
b Michal.Janovsky@vscht.cz
e + 420 220 444 159
e + 420 733 690 543
- Room: A205a
Deputy contact person
D Mgr. Jan Kříž
b Jan2.Kriz@vscht.cz
e +420 220 443 799
: +420 728 831 726
- Room A318
Whole team of Department of Comunication
Press releases
- 3. 2. 2024 DETECT! (Deep Tech Creativity) successfully completed the first phase of project activities
- 13. 2. 2024 Hydrogen Academy: a new milestone in clean energy education
- 17. 1. 2024 Jitka Čejková's successful book recently released by prestigious U.S. publisher
- 30. 11. 2023 Material genetics will be pursued by the AMULET project, which succeeded in the Excellent Research Call
- 19. 9. 2023 The Prague Dejvice concept to be completed after 100 years
- 5. 9. 2023 UCT Prague co-founds Prague.bio with goal of connecting research and business sectors
- 1. 9. 2023 Faculty of Environmental Technology celebrates its 70th birthday
- 27. 8. 2023 Prague hosted world’s leaders in catalysis
- 8. 6. 2023 UCT Prague to lead on a new project for boosting innovation and entrepreneurship through deep tech
You can find older press releases in archive.
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We offer students and graduates counselling, psychological counselling, soft skills workshops and job offers.
Alumni Club
The Alumni Club of the UCT Prague, brings together alumni and friends of the University. It strives to create a mutual communication platform between the school, alumni and current students. The club offers alumni meetings and lectures by successful alumni.
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[obsah] => 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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