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UCT Prague
Technická 5
166 28 Prague 6 – Dejvice
Identification No.: 60461373
VAT: CZ60461373


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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.

 

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 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

215 Department of Petroleum Technology and Alternative Fuels    
216 Department of Gaseous and Solid Fuels and Air Protection    

217 Department of Water Technology and Environmental Engineering
   
218 Department of Power Engineering    
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    
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
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 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
   
998 Vice-Rector's without Portfolio Office    




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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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UCT Prague has a long tradition of collaborative and cooperative activities, across technological sectors, with other institutions and laboratories, secondary schools, and industrial and international partners - nearly seventy percent of which are located beyond the boundaries of the Czech capital.

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Contact for media

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

 

You can find older press releases in archive.

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This webpage is intended for graduates of UCT Prague. Here you can register in the Alumni database, view defended theses or get copies of your lost or destroyed documents about your studies.

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Counselling and Career Centre UCT Prague

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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The winter semester will start soon, and UCT Prague’s celebration of 70 years of its independent existence is just around the corner. These events are framed by problems such as rising energy costs and unusually high inflation rates. How is UCT Prague preparing for this challenging period? Rector Pavel Matějka answers.

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The official celebration of 70 years of UCT Prague’s independent existence will soon begin. What will it include?

Several celebratory events are planned, and together, they will show that UCT Prague is an advanced, research-oriented, and internationally connected university cognisant of its present and past successes but continuously charting new future horizons. The most festive events are scheduled for 22 and 23 September. Kicking things off will be the launch of a new book, Focused on Chemistry, and the first meeting of our new international advisory board. The next morning, we will award honorary doctorates and the Emil Votoček Medal in Strahov Monastery, and in the afternoon, I hope to meet all of you at our Dejvice campus in order to enjoy KampusFest, featuring events planned by our student associations, excursions around our campus, and contemporary music performances. I would be very happy if large numbers of alumni would attend KampusFest, so they could see how much UCT Prague has evolved since they graduated.

Can you tell us more about who will be granted doctor honoris causa titles?

On the one hand, the awardees were chosen because of their indisputable scientific achievements and ties to UCT Prague. On the other hand, our selections send a signal to the world about UCT Prague’s ambitions for the future. Professor Peter Seeberger is an extremely respected researcher specializing in chemistry at the globally recognized Max Planck Institute, and his devotion to green chemistry and downstream industrial transformation has greatly expanded possible future directions for the chemical disciplines. In addition to her extraordinary expertise, Professor Eva Zažímalová, President of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, with whom we cooperate in various ways, also serves on our Board of Directors. Doctor Zdeněk Hostomský successfully connected the academic and corporate spheres of pharmaceutical research as head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences for eight years. During his term in office, our cooperation significantly intensified, benefiting both institutions. He is the new Director of the National Institute of Virology and Bacteriology, of which we are members. There is a tremendous future in the field of virology, and we certainly have something to contribute there.

Who will receive the Emil Votoček Medal?

We originally had three laureates, but unfortunately, Professor Per Jensen from the University of Wuppertal passed away this June. In the end, two medals will be awarded to Professor Martin Hof, Director of the Jaroslav Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and to our Professor Aleš Procházka, who has greatly contributed to the development of activities in UCT Prague’s information and control systems and who connects us with CTU in Prague. Of course, representatives of Czech ministries and universities, international partners, and other important institutions will attend the award ceremony.

Earlier in this interview, you mentioned the publication of a new book about UCT Prague’s history, Focused on Chemistry. What is it about? Was it complicated to compile?

Indeed, it was very complex and work on it spanned several years. I would like to highlight the commitment of authors Věra Dvořáčková and Ivana Lorencová, as well as Eva Dibuszová, without whom the book would never have been created. The authors managed to compile an external perspective on the development of technical chemistry in the Czech Republic and at UCT Prague itself, considered from a professional-historical point of view up to the 1990s. This had never been done before. Main obstacles came the authors had to deal with were due to gaps in the historical record from the Bolshevik regime period. Overall, the book leaves the impression of being balanced;  its aspiration is not to cover every single event and personality deserving mention. It is rich in visual materials, many of which are being published for the first time. As a takeaway from the book, you can sense that if we don’t give up on enthusiasm and quality work, UCT Prague has a great future ahead of it.

Will there be any other events connected to the September celebration?

We would like to organize a lecture series that will highlight current UCT Prague research activities, which will also benefit us internally: researchers will have the opportunity to find out in person what their colleagues are doing and how they could be useful to one another. At the end of November, the traditional UCT Prague Advent Concert will take place, connected to the presentation of the Rector's Awards. It’s planned that this time the awards will reflect not only the recent accomplishments, but rather refer to those of previous years.

What will be the role of the aforementioned international advisory board (IAB) and why was it established?

Since the beginning of my term in office, I planned to create an IAB. As part of the 17+ Methodology evaluation, we assembled an international evaluation panel. Satisfied with its work, we approached members of the panel and the majority of them joined the new advisory body. The important thing is that those people already know a lot about UCT Prague and understand the key topics that we are currently dealing with. These experts are from various countries, from Great Britain to France, Germany, Austria, and Hungary. The board has nine members, including people from out-of-university settings. For example, Dr. Feise works at BASF. He was the long-time Chair of the European Federation of Chemical Engineers and represents the corporate/industrial sector perspective, with BASF being one of the key chemical companies in Europe. Doctoral education is also extremely important for UCT Prague, so the Director of the University of Tampere’s Doctoral School, Pirjo Nikander, who has strong ties to the European University Association and its committee for doctoral education, is also a board member.

In addition to improving doctoral studies, the IAB will be tasked in helping to create conditions for deepening UCT Prague’s global ties and increasing its attractiveness to potential employees and students from abroad. All board members also have received an English translation of our annual report together with a request for feedback on areas of interest to them.

This year’s hot topic is the significant increase in energy costs, high inflation rates, and the related need to start saving drastically (not only) at universities. How is UCT Prague coping with the new situation and what is the outlook for the coming months?

UCT energy costs increases for the 3rd and 4th quarters of this year will total approximately 30 million CZK. This is a lot, but if we compare it to the development of the stock market over the summer, we can be pleased. The bigger question is what will happen next year, because we didn’t have a chance to conclude a longer contract under the given financial conditions due to the tremendous uncertainty in the markets and with suppliers. If the situation does not change, we can assume an increase in expenses for 2023 by more than 100 million CZK over 2022. These are alarming numbers, and I am not even mentioning high inflation. It is certain that universities cannot cope with such increases on their own. That is why negotiations are underway with politicians about financial support at the level of the Czech Rectors Conference, and a meeting of the Chairs of the Boards of the Association of Research Universities is being prepared in order to create a joint position on the topic, which will subsequently be resolved with the Ministries of Education and Finance. Nevertheless, we have to find ways to save money ourselves. We have to be prepared for various crisis scenarios, where, in the event of bad developments, classes may be shortened in the winter semester, there may be even energy-saving furloughs, the start of classes in the summer semester could be postponed, or laboratory access could be limited. These are very extreme scenarios, but they could save electricity, water, and heat in an emergency. However, I emphasize that I am talking about crisis scenarios and we will make decisions based on developments in the coming weeks. The current measures are such that we are looking for ways to save energy costs in the buildings and in the dormitories, and we have cut a number of  budgetary areas and items that are not essential for conducting teaching and research activities. We very strictly monitor the use of our university-wide budget at the level of units and departments. For next year’s budget, however, it is clear that unless there is a miracle, some limitations of departmental activities across UCT Prague will be necessary. The cuts will affect a number of useful activities, but at this moment it seems to be unavoidable, unfortunately. At the same time, it is highly probable that the austerity measures will also affect the faculties. We must also look for new sources of financing, including more project funding, more cooperation with industrial partners, and increased commercial activities. That said, we must not succumb to panic; critical situations are opportunities for bold plans. Every problem has a solution, and the best solutions are created with a cool head. Let’s behave responsibly as we do at home, saving wherever we can.

This summer, Building B renovations were completed, and now UCT Prague is currently undergoing a major move, which logically brings with it problems and occasional dissatisfaction. Do you perceive this?

Of course, but everything must be seen in context. The commissioning of two floors facing the Zikova Street tract means an enormous increase in our spatial capacities, unprecedented in the recent history of UCT Prague. With this, we can finally relieve the long-standing overload and lack of space at a number of units and institutes, certainly outweighing the partial discomforts we are currently dealing with. I believe that a few months after the move, practically everyone involved will be happy about their new premises. It is a tremendous achievement that we could even complete the entire renovation at a time that brought with it a number of unexpected complications, including COVID and increases in the prices of building materials and contractors. After all, for some time there was even a threat that our suppliers would withdraw from their contracts and that the renovation would not be completed. Thanks to the move, work hygiene, fire protection, and work safety will improve. The progress from this point of view is tremendous. It is clear to me that the move itself is not pleasant, that some planned activities looked one way and reality has turned out differently. There is a big problem with sound insulation in some rooms, sometimes demanding adjustments or changes to be made. But I can promise that we are looking for a way to resolve everything as soon as possible.

Would you like to say anything else to students and staff before the start of the winter semester?

Let’s use this anniversary celebration time to look back and be proud of the achievements of chemists from UCT Prague. Let this legacy also be a source of inspiration and courage for us, so that we too can be equally successful, or even better, in the future. At the same time, despite all the negative things happening in the world today, let’s not lose our positive state of mind. Crises, even big ones, are a natural part of life. Let’s have courage, let’s not panic, and let’s try to overcome obstacles together. While it’s not pleasant for anyone to step out of their comfort zones, when we do so, we have the opportunity to grow personally and professionally. We have faced worse challenges in the past and we have overcome them. In closing, I will convey an encouraging quote in Latin attributed to either Publius Vergilius Maro or Publius Terentius Afer: Fortis fortuna adiuvat.

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