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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
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| 402 Department of Analytical Chemistry | ||
| 403 Department of Physical Chemistry | ||
| 409 Department of Chemical Engineering | ||
| 413 Department of Mathematics (replaced by 446) | ||
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| 445 Department of Computing and Control Engineering (replaced by 446) | ||
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| 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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| 965 Research and Technology Transfer Office | ||
| 966 Personnel Department | ||
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| 974 Department of International Relations | ||
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| 979 Department of Communication | ||
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| 990 Computer Centre | ||
| 991 Department of Strategic Planning | ||
| 992 Hollow Glass Workrooms | ||
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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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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] => Two Ukrainian researchers took advantage of his offer. Through social networks, Petr was first contacted by a young scientist, a doctoral candidate at Karazin University in Kharkiv, Anna Heleveria (left front in the laboratory picture), who was conducting research in organic synthesis. “Anna fled the war together with her six-year-old daughter, and they completed a rather dramatic journey. They travelled by train from Kharkov with fifteen other people in one compartment with darkened windows so as not to be a target for snipers. Due to the impassability of the crossings in Przemyśl and Užhorod, they ended up going through Hungary, and after four days (!) of travelling, both finally arrived safely in Prague. There I picked them up at the station and escorted them to the UCT Prague dormitories,” says Kovaříček. “A big thanks goes to UCT Prague, especially to the Department of International Relations and the Personnel Department and The Administration of University Facilities, who arranged all the formalities and administrative details incredibly flexibly,” he adds. “Thanks to their great support, Anna was able to start working in our group right away in March 2022, on a project that combines her expertise from Kharkiv with our focus on surfaces and catalysis, which was a completely new topic for her. Anna is a strong fighter with a cheerful soul and a friendly nature and she quickly fit into our team. And I think that concentrating on a new demanding work task helped her to at least partially displace thoughts about the fact that her husband and the father of her daughter remained in Kharkiv,” explains Kovaříček.
Subsequently, Kovaříček was contacted by another young scientist, namely Daria Artemieva, a student of biotechnology from the National University of Food Technologies in Kyiv (front right in the laboratory picture). “Daria contacted me from a gym in Karlovy Vary, where she ended up with her family because the Assistance Centre for Refugees from Ukraine in Prague could no longer keep up. Thanks to UCT Prague’s great support, Daria was also able to resume research in April 2022,” says Kovaříček. “We involved her in a joint project with Dr. Marko Cebecauer’s team at the Czech Academy of Science’s Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, were we develop the functionalization of microscopic glass for the study of specific cell interactions. For Daria, it was a thematic leap, from stem cells to the surface chemistry of glass, which she managed smoothly and at the same time, she fit in perfectly with the team,” says Kovaříček.
The Experientia Foundation, which had, from the very beginning, followed the story of the two Ukrainian scientists thanks to Kovaříček, offered right away in early March 2022 to support the scientists with an extraordinary foundation contribution, increasing the grant amount. “Since the beginning of the invasion, we had been discussing with the whole Foundation team possibilities for how our foundation could meaningfully support the Ukraine. We therefore greatly appreciated Petr’s initiative in opening positions for female Ukrainian scientists. When he, as an Experientia Foundation Start-Up Grant holder, employed young Ukrainian scientists, it only seemed right to us to support his group’s activities beyond the scope of his grant, i.e. he did not have to change his planned budget, but only to increase it with new funded positions,” the founders of the Experientia Foundation, Hana and Dalimil Dvořák, explain. In the end, the Foundation allocated more than half a million crowns to support the Ukrainian scientists working in the Kovaříček Group.
“I greatly appreciate the extraordinary support that the Experientia Foundation gave us to welcome Anna and Daria into the group, thus avoiding drastic cuts in material and other costs. It also means a lot to me personally, knowing that solidarity and willingness to help are still in us and our society even after two difficult COVID years,” says Kovaříček, emphasizing that his group gained two amazing scientists thanks to this initiative, even though Daria stayed just a few months. “Daria’s alma mater resumed part of its instructional activities in August in Poland, and in September, Daria decided to return to Kyiv and complete her studies there. We wish her luck and courage in the future, which she will still need,” says Kovaříček. Anna Heleveria, on the other hand, decided to stay in Prague and she has currently enrolled in a Czech doctoral programme. “We expect that she will complete her doctorate here at UCT Prague, since her laboratory and university in Kharkiv have been completely destroyed. In her doctoral research, we are trying to overturn the generally accepted paradigm about the role of certain reactions in surface functionalizations and their subsequent use for catalysis, optoelectronics, and sensors,” adds Kovaříček.
The Kovaříček Group at UCT Prague, with its Experientia Foundation grant, is doing very well. “We received a Junior STAR grant from the Czech Science Foundation, and thanks to this, we were able to expand the team to 14 scientists, from the Bachelor level to postdocs, including several Erasmus+ students. Most importantly, our chemistry works: we have developed two new organocatalytic systems on our own, we have a photosensitive system that self-assembles by the effect of light, and we are writing the first two separate publications. I am happy that everything is finally starting to go well after COVID,” rejoices Kovaříček. “None of this would have happened without the start-up grant.” adding: “From my personal experience, I would like to emphasize that the grant really functions like a ‘start-up’—you start and it takes you to the next level. It is the best possible way to begin your independent scientific career.”
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