University of Hradec Králové

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University of Hradec Králové
University of Hradec Králové
Univerzita Hradec Králové
University of Hradec Králové seal.svg
Latin: Universitas Reginaegradecensis
TypePublic
Established1964 as independent Faculty of Education, renamed on June 21, 2000
Rectorprof. Ing. Kamil Kuča, Ph.D.
Students6,500
Location
Hradec Králové
,
Czech Republic

50°12′35.57″N 15°49′35.22″E / 50.2098806°N 15.8264500°E / 50.2098806; 15.8264500Coordinates: 50°12′35.57″N 15°49′35.22″E / 50.2098806°N 15.8264500°E / 50.2098806; 15.8264500
Websitehttps://www.uhk.cz/en
Logo UHK.png
University Campus Na Soutoku
Faculty of Education UHK

The University of Hradec Králové (in Czech Univerzita Hradec Králové, in Latin Universitas Reginaegradecensis) is a public university founded on June 21, 2000. It traces its roots back to 1959. About 6,500 students attend the university. It belongs to one of the most important education and research institutions in the Eastern Bohemia.

The current rector of the university is prof. Ing. Kamil Kuča, Ph.D.[1]

History[]

The University of Hradec Králové (known as UHK) is a public university with a quite interesting history.

First known information of the teachers´ training in Czech lands is dated back to 1775. Then it took some time to form an official institution. It happened exactly in 1959 when the Institute of Education in Hradec Králové was established and could produce new teachers for elementary level students who were till then educated in high schools. It did not take long and the Faculty of Education in Hradec Králové was born in 1964.

Training for all education levels was enabled after higher education reform in Czechoslovakia in 1976.

The Velvet Revolution took its place in 1989 and some of the former staff from 1968 came back to the faculty. Ever since the fall of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, it opened up new ways and international cooperation has been born.

In 1992 the Pedagogical University of Hradec Králové was officially established!

On February 15, 1993 the university started expanding and a new faculty was added to the unit. It was the Faculty of Management and Information Technologies, which was renamed the Faculty of Informatics and Management in 2000. The same year when the University of Hradec Králové was set as the official name.

On September 1, 2005 the Faculty of Arts, later known as the Philosophical Faculty, was commenced as the third faculty of the university.

Five years later, on September 1, 2010, after the transformation of the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Science was formed.


Hradec Králové experienced many reconstructions and the university was part of them.


First, the modern building called the Building of Common Education (Objekt společné výuky) was awarded by Czech architects as "The Building of Year" in 1998.

Second, long expected and high-technology building of the Faculty of Informatics and Management (FIM) which required an investment of 360 million CZK was finished in 2008. It is situated next to the Building of Common Education.

Third, the Faculty of Science (PřF) was built in 2016. The construction took only 21 months in total and the final cost was approx. 450 million CZK. Located next to the FIM.  

All three buildings are located in one spot that is in general called “Na Soutoku Campus”. These days UHK is not falling behind. Since 2020, there is an ongoing reconstruction of the Philosophical Faculty building (FF), the institution is now temporarily moved to Vít Nejedlý Street. Another big reconstruction is just behind the corner where the Faculty of Education (PdF) should start its revitalization in the year 2021.

Structure[]

Faculty of Informatics and Management UHK
Faculty of Science UHK

Currently the university consists of the following 4 units:

  • Faculty of Education
  • Faculty of Informatics and Management
  • Philosophical Faculty
  • Faculty of Science


The long-term strategic mission of the university is not only to enhance its internal structure, but also to focus on investment projects which are efficiently carried out by a gradual construction of the university campus in the Na Soutoku area.[2] The upcoming plans include a construction of a building for natural and social science specialization with laboratories that will complete and close up the center of a newly emerging campus.

Philosophical Faculty UHK

In 2010, a brand new unified professional visual style[3] was introduced that presents the university as a modern, dynamic institution.

All parts of the university are located in Hradec Králové, capital of the Hradec Králové Region.

UHK offers accommodation for incoming students from around the world as well as for the local ones. Palach Halls of Residence (Palachovy koleje) [1] and Vít Nejedlý Halls of Residence (Koleje Víta Nejedlého) [2] have capacity over 900 beds.[3]

Palach Halls of Residence are partly under ongoing renovation in order to provide comfort to all students living there.

Management[]

Rector: prof. Ing. Kamil Kuča, PhD[4]

Vice-Rector for Science and Creative Activities: prof. Ing. Ondřej Krejcar, PhD[4]

Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Cooperation with Practice: doc. Ing. Mgr. Petra Marešová, PhD[4]

Vice-Rector for International Affairs: Mgr. Leona Stašová, PhD[4]

Vice-Rector for Strategy and Development: Mgr. et Mgr. Pavlína Springerová, PhD[4]

Symbols[]

Rector's Sceptre (designed by MgA. Jan Hásek) is shaped as a linden leaf, in the centre of which a shiny golden ball is situated. There is a silver lion (a symbol of the city of Hradec Králové) standing at the top of it. The sceptre has been given to the university by the city of Hradec Králové.

Statutory emblem is made up by a central crowned Czech lion[5] looking heraldically left and holding in its forepaws large "G" letter. The figure also represents a part of the city of Hradec Králové emblem. In the circular inscription the full title of the university in Latin is written.

Other units[]

Associated institutions[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Univerzita Hradec Králové - Data retrievel". www.uhk.cz. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
  2. ^ "Univerzitní kampus Na Soutoku". Retrieved May 27, 2019.
  3. ^ "Corporate Design of UHK". Retrieved May 27, 2019.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "University Governance". www.uhk.cz. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
  5. ^ "| Government of the Czech Republic". www.vlada.cz. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
  6. ^ "ESN Buddy System HK". ESN Buddy System HK. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
  7. ^ Pudil, Pavel. "Home". Salaš - Křesťanský akademický klub v Hradci Králové. Retrieved May 27, 2019.

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