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Extended opening hours in the library

Dear users, From Monday 28 November 2022 we are extending the opening hours of the main campus library. Monday–Wednesday 8 am – 8 pm Thursday 8 am – 6 pm Friday 8 am – 4 pm This change do…

Talk! Grammar can wait

The Help for English website has become popular among students and self-learners wishing to improve their English communication skills. Its creator, Marek Vít, is a well-known English teacher who graduated from the University of Pardubice and works as a part-time teacher at the Faculty of Arts an…

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…

Operating a steam locomotive

A stoker assisted by an interpreter. What may be unique in the world is the daily bread and butter for Ladislav Crha, a graduate of the Faculty of Transport Engineering, who operates a locomotive boiler at a narrow-gauge railway in Zittau. He is overcoming the language barrier fast. Do you…

A more environmentally friendly campus

Beehives next to the dining halls. Solar panels on the roof. Cups instead of plastic bottles. Liběna Tetřevová, a researcher from the Faculty of Chemical Technology, has seen that such things can be reality at a university. Her project dealing with universities’ social responsibility draws on her…

Writefull's Academizer makes your informal language academic

Dear colleagues, dear students, We would like to introduce a new Writefull widget: Writefull Academizer. Writefull has developed an AI model to convert informal language into academic language. Just insert a sentence written in informal English into Academizer, and it will rewrite…