FIUP web site description

Founded in 1348, the Charles University in Prague (in Czech, the Univerzita Karlova v Praze) is the oldest university in central Europe. It includes 17 faculties with 6310 teachers for roughly 39 707 full time students, of whom 12420 are undergraduates, 24388 are in master’s programs, and 2899 are pursuing doctoral studies. Four thousand three hundred students are from other countries.

The Univerzita Karlova v Praze has been host or alma mater to numerous well-known figures including Albert Einstein (physicist, Nobel laureate, professor in Prague in 1911-1912), Jan Janský (the discoverer of blood types), and Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (the founder of paleobotany).

Home page

http://www.cuni.cz/

Research web site

http://www.cuni.cz/UKENG-27.html

Principal

Prof. RNDr. Vaclav Hampl, DrSc.

Phone number

(420-2) 22491312-4

Email

rektor@cuni.cz

Vice-principal research

Prof. RNDr. Bohuslav Gas, CSc.

Phone number

(420-2) 224491277

Email

bohuslav.gas@ruk.cuni.cz

Vice-principal international

Prof. MUDr. Jan Škrha, DrSc., MBA

Phone number

(420-2) 224491650

Email

jan.skrha@lf1.cuni.cz; jan.skrha@ruk.cuni.cz