As the heroine of a detective story
From a young age, Markéta Svobodová dreamed of becoming a detective or working in a lab. Now a student at the Faculty of Restoration, her childhood aspirations have come to life in an unexpected way. When a long-forgotten, mysterious painting surfaced, Markéta wasn't just tasked with restoring it – …
Expand your boundaries!
To improve and grow. The DofE programme founded by the Duke of Edinburgh helps students from the University of Pardubice. Some students go jogging or swimming, others learn archery or pick up waste in the countryside. They have one thing in common: they are looking for a challenge. And wis…
When studies are drowned out by war
It was Thursday, 24 February. They woke up to a day that was supposed to be like any other. A student day. Lectures, seminars and nice meetings with friends on campus awaited them. But that morning they woke up to war. A war they didn't want. Dozens of Ukrainian students, but also Russian ones, t…
From the jungle straight to campus
Coconuts, palm trees and a sunny beach. Faculty of Economics and Administration student Enrique Lysoněk went to paradise on earth as a contestant of the reality show Survivor. On Team Azua, he fought for survival on a desert island. He survived for a month with minimal food and belongings on the …
Returning From Isolation With a Unique Experience
Students of the University of Pardubice have returned from field research in Lapland with unique experience and material for evaluation. During the isolation, they covered in a closed group almost 300 kilometres through the wilderness of Swedish national parks without any mobile network and Inter…
UPCE On Air Episode with Ahmed from Yemen
Check out our facebook, spotify, or youtube to catch the first UPCE On Air podcast in English coming out on Monday 16 August at 5pm CEST. This episode will bring you a story of our student Ahmed. What was it like growing up in Yemen. How does volunteering help him in overcoming homesickness? What…
Universitas Café: Having something sweet, that is where the added value of the talks lies.
The first Universitas Café in the new semester has touched upon the current pandemic in a historical context with a lecture entitled Plague Epidemic in the Early Modern Period in Czechlands. Recently, Veronika Janečková and Aneta Kohoutová, students of the Department of Philosophy and Religious S…
PhD Student’s Book Shortlisted for Czech Literary Prize
A hip hop detective story called Little NY has been shortlisted for this year’s edition of the Jiří Orten Award. Even though Přemysl Krejčík, its author and a PhD candidate of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Pardubice, did not win the award in the end, being shortlisted fo…
Students Waiting to Come Back to the Czech Republic
What university students imagine when they hear Erasmus is a semester spent at a university abroad, travelling around the country and meeting new people. This is what the students of the University of Pardubice hoped to do when they went on their Erasmus stays in January, having no idea at that t…
A PhD candidate contributing to the research of pancreatic cancer
A team led by Professor Michal Holčapek of the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the Faculty of Chemical Technology is trying to detect the pancreatic cancer at its early stage, and introduce a method which will make the lives of hundred thousands of patients easier. Michaela Chocholoušková, …
