Rectorate and University Units
The university analyses samples for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, applies for a grant for other devices
The University of Pardubice helps with the analysis of samples for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Researchers and doctoral students of the Faculty of Chemical Technology examine dozens of samples a day in unique specially secured laboratories. The faculty has applied for funding to purchase addition…
Marek Vít: His Application Teaches English in Quarantine
Over a million students are learning from home these days. Educator Marek Vít from the Department of English and American Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Pardubice, has decided to help them and their teachers. He now offers his unconventional English Me learning appli…
The coronavirus pandemic is an unpleasant test of our readiness, says historian Vladan Hanulík
Plague, cholera, typhus, smallpox. These diseases at the time were killing the inhabitants of all continents. Like the current COVID-19, which struck a hundred years after the eradication of the Spanish flu. The gauze mask became a symbol of that time. Vladan Hanulík, an expert in the history…
Changes to Academic Year Schedule
The University of Pardubice decided to give students more time to finalize laboratory work, to sit regular and state examinations in the summer semester. The Rector, prof. Jiří Málek, upon an agreement with the deans of all the 7 faculties decided to extend this year´s examination period until mi…
INTERVIEW: Europe will control the virus in two or three months, according to Zuzana Bílková, an immunologist
To date, there are hundreds of coronavirus cases in the Czech Republic. The whole country is under a lockdown and no one can tell how the situation will further develop. The whole world is combating the virus. And people keep asking when we will control the virus. “I believe that Europe will con…
Attention!!! COVID-19 measure
Due to the declaration of the state of emergency dated on Thursday 12. 3. 2020 by the Czech Government, all outbound and inbound mobility of students as well as academic, administrative or other staff involved in the sphere of higher education at the University of Pardubice have been suspended un…
COVID-19 Measures and Recommendations
Update March 27, 2020 Academic year schedule has been updated. Detailed information can be found here. Update March 17, 2020 In order to limit personal contact as much as possible, the University of Pardubice asks you to communicate with its staff only electronically or over …
I want to give students certainty, says British Ambassador
British ambassador Nicholas Stewart Archer visited the University of Pardubice for the second time this past year. He met with the management of the University of Pardubice at the end of February, and discussed education and Brexit with students in Pardubice. Did you spend a part of your…
Pancreatic Cancer Research: What’s New after Another Year in the Lab?
Detection of pancreatic cancer at an early stage. It was precisely a year ago that Professor Michal Holčapek of the Faculty of Chemical Technology presented a method that may save the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients. Journalists kept asking for interviews, doctors asked for the test re…
Researcher of the University of Pardubice Receives a Prestigious Austrian Fellowship
What alloys of copper were used by ancient Egyptians? Where did the copper used by ancient metallurgist come from? Jiří Kmošek, a young researcher of the Faculty of Restoration of the University of Pardubice, who specializes in analysing historical artifacts, is trying to answer these questions. …
