University of Hradec Králové

The University of Hradec Králové (Univerzita Hradec Králové, UHK) is a public university in Hradec Králové, the capital of the East Bohemian region of the Czech Republic, established as a university on 21 June 2000.赫拉德茨-克拉洛维大学（Univerzita Hradec Králové，UHK）位于捷克共和国东波希米亚地区首府赫拉德茨-克拉洛维，于 2000 年 6 月 21 日正式升格为大学。

It has four faculties, about 6,000 students and a campus at the confluence of the Elbe and Orlice rivers, and it is placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.大学下设四个学院，在校学生约 6000 人，校区位于易北河与奥尔利采河汇流处，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 1201-1400 位区间。

OpenAlex records 9,084 works and 240,429 citations for its research, which concentrates on informatics and management, education, toxicology, archaeology and the natural sciences.OpenAlex 记录其研究成果 9084 项、被引 240429 次，研究集中于信息与管理、教育、毒理学、考古学与自然科学领域。

History

• Teacher training in Hradec Králové dates back to 1775, when the city became one of the first in Bohemia to run a normal school for the preparation of primary teachers.赫拉德茨-克拉洛维的师范教育可追溯至 1775 年，该市是波希米亚最早开办培养小学教师师范学校的城市之一。
• On 1 September 1959 the Pedagogical Institute was founded to prepare teachers for both levels of the primary school, with four departments and Karel Angelis as its first director.1959 年 9 月 1 日，师范研究所成立，培养小学两个阶段的教师，最初设四个教研室，卡雷尔·安格利斯任首任所长。
• The institute grew to seven departments by 1961 and nine by 1964, adding Marxism-Leninism, pedagogy, languages, history, natural sciences, art and music education and the theory of vocational training.研究所的教研室由 1961 年的七个增至 1964 年的九个，陆续涵盖马克思列宁主义、教育学、语言、历史、自然科学、艺术与音乐教育以及职业培训理论。
• By Act No. 166/1964 of 12 August 1964 the independent Faculty of Education in Hradec Králové was created by merging the pedagogical institutes of Hradec Králové and Pardubice, with Angelis as dean.依据 1964 年 8 月 12 日第 166/1964 号法令，赫拉德茨-克拉洛维与帕尔杜比采两所师范研究所合并，成立独立的赫拉德茨-克拉洛维教育学院，安格利斯出任院长。
• The faculty was swept up in the Prague Spring, and in April 1968 Angelis resigned after criticism, to be replaced by the engineer Josef Kittler as dean.学院被卷入「布拉格之春」，1968 年 4 月安格利斯在批评声中辞职，由工程师约瑟夫·基特勒接任院长。
• After the Warsaw Pact invasion the faculty issued a protest statement with the medical faculty and local artistic unions, and students held a week-long occupation strike and a second strike at the funeral of Jan Palach in January 1969.华约入侵后，学院与医学院及当地艺术团体联合发表抗议声明，学生举行为期一周的占领罢课，并于 1969 年 1 月扬·帕拉赫葬礼期间再次罢课。
• Kittler was forced out in December 1969 and Angelis returned to conduct screenings that lasted until 1972, when forty employees were compelled to leave the faculty.基特勒于 1969 年 12 月在压力下去职，安格利斯回任并主持审查，审查持续至 1972 年，四十名教职员被迫离开学院。
• An ODRA 1003 computing centre was installed in 1969 and a television teaching studio was set up with Czechoslovak Television, giving the faculty an early footing in educational technology.1969 年学院安装 ODRA 1003 计算机中心，并与捷克斯洛伐克电视台合作建立电视教学演播室，由此在教育技术领域站稳脚跟。
• The faculty film Rentgenologie srdce won the main prize in the medical sciences category and the television prize at the Academia Film Olomouc festival in 1976.学院影片《心脏放射学》于 1976 年在奥洛穆茨学术电影节上获得医学科学类主奖与电视奖。
• In the 1980s the faculty acquired part of the New Borromeo building known as the Cube, and from 1976 taught students for all school levels under the reformed Czechoslovak higher education system.1980 年代，学院获得被称为「方块」的新博罗梅奥楼的一部分，并自 1976 年起按改革后的捷克斯洛伐克高等教育体制培养各学段师资。
• During the Velvet Revolution a university strike committee was formed at the faculty, and on 21 November 1989 students began an occupation of the Na Kotli dormitories and created the paper wall on Ulrich Square.天鹅绒革命期间，学院成立大学罢课委员会，1989 年 11 月 21 日学生开始占领纳科特利宿舍，并在乌尔里希广场筑起「纸墙」。
• On 1 July 1992 the independent Faculty of Education became the University of Education in Hradec Králové, a new higher education institution with the right to award bachelor's and master's degrees.1992 年 7 月 1 日，独立的教育学院升格为赫拉德茨-克拉洛维教育大学，成为有权授予学士与硕士学位的新型高等教育机构。
• On 15 February 1993 a Faculty of Management and Information Technology was added, renamed the Faculty of Informatics and Management in 2000.1993 年 2 月 15 日，学校增设管理与信息技术学院，该院于 2000 年更名为信息与管理学院。
• On 1 September 2000 the institution took the name University of Hradec Králové, a change that recognised its transition from a teacher-training college to a multi-faculty university.2000 年 9 月 1 日，学校定名赫拉德茨-克拉洛维大学，这一更名确认了它从师范院校向多学科大学的转型。
• The Faculty of Humanities, later the Philosophical Faculty, opened on 1 September 2005 and made the university a three-faculty institution.人文学院（后改称哲学院）于 2005 年 9 月 1 日开学，使大学成为拥有三个学院的机构。
• On 1 September 2010 the Faculty of Science was established from the transformation of the Faculty of Education, and the Institute of Social Work followed on 1 January 2011.2010 年 9 月 1 日，理学院由教育学院的转型而设立，社会工作研究所则于 2011 年 1 月 1 日成立。
• Construction of the common teaching building at the Na Soutoku campus began in 1995, cost 250 million Czech crowns and won the Building of the Year 1998 award in a national architectural competition.汇流校区的公共教学楼于 1995 年动工，造价 2.5 亿捷克克朗，并在全国建筑竞赛中获评 1998 年度建筑。
• The Faculty of Informatics and Management moved into its own building in 2008 at a cost of 360 million crowns, and the Faculty of Science building followed in 2016 after 21 months of construction and 450 million crowns of investment.信息与管理学院于 2008 年迁入自有大楼，造价 3.6 亿克朗；理学院大楼在 21 个月建设后于 2016 年落成，投资约 4.5 亿克朗。
• In 2019 the open space at the centre of the Na Soutoku campus was named Václav Havel Square, and in 2022 the Philosophical Faculty returned to its renovated building on Freedom Square after a project costing nearly 200 million crowns.2019 年，汇流校区中心的开放空间被命名为瓦茨拉夫·哈维尔广场；2022 年，哲学院在耗资近 2 亿克朗的翻修工程后回迁自由广场大楼。
• During the COVID-19 pandemic the university taught remotely in 2020/21 and returned to in-person classes with safety measures the following year, while the Faculty of Education building was repaired between 2022 and 2025.新冠疫情期间，大学在 2020/21 学年实施远程教学，次年在防疫措施下恢复面授；教育学院大楼则于 2022 至 2025 年间完成修缮。
• After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 the university offered emergency scholarships to Ukrainian students and terminated its cooperation agreements with Russian universities.2022 年俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后，大学为乌克兰学生提供紧急奖学金，并终止了与俄罗斯高校的合作协议。

Academics

• The university has four faculties, namely the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Informatics and Management, the Philosophical Faculty and the Faculty of Science.大学设有四个学院，即教育学院、信息与管理学院、哲学院与理学院。
• The Faculty of Education is the oldest part of the institution, formed in 1964, and teaches humanities, pedagogy, social sciences, physical education and teacher training to about 3,000 students.教育学院是全校历史最久的组成部分，成立于 1964 年，教授人文、教育学、社会科学、体育与师范课程，约有 3000 名学生。
• The Faculty of Informatics and Management teaches informatics, economics, management and tourism, and offers up to half of its programmes in a foreign language, attracting about 250 international students.信息与管理学院教授信息学、经济学、管理与旅游，多达一半的课程以外语授课，吸引约 250 名国际学生。
• The Philosophical Faculty covers history, archival science, political science, archaeology, philosophy, sociology and social work, and enrols around 1,000 students.哲学院涵盖历史、档案学、政治学、考古学、哲学、社会学与社会工作，在校学生约 1000 人。
• The Faculty of Science, the youngest faculty, teaches natural sciences, ecology, toxicology and science teacher training to about 650 students and participates in twenty national and international research projects.理学院是最年轻的学院，教授自然科学、生态学、毒理学与理科师范课程，约有 650 名学生，参与二十项国内与国际研究项目。
• The university enrols about 6,000 students in total and employs several hundred academic staff, with a student-to-staff ratio that places it among the smaller public universities in the Czech Republic.全校约有 6000 名学生，教学科研人员数百人，其师生比使其位列捷克规模较小的公立大学之列。
• Bachelor's programmes normally run for three years, master's programmes for two, and the university also offers doctoral study in selected fields as well as lifelong learning courses.本科课程通常为三年，硕士为两年，大学还在部分领域开设博士研究，并提供终身学习课程。
• The Faculty of Informatics and Management reports that up to a quarter of its graduates have studied abroad, a rate that reflects its Erasmus partnerships with universities across Europe.信息与管理学院表示，多达四分之一的毕业生有过海外学习经历，这一比例反映其与欧洲多所大学的伊拉斯谟合作。
• The Faculty of Education runs lifelong learning programmes attended by more than 1,700 participants each year, mainly serving practising teachers in the region.教育学院每年开设的终身学习项目有 1700 多名学员参加，主要服务本地区的在职教师。
• Research output recorded by OpenAlex totals 9,084 works and 240,429 citations, with applied informatics, toxicology, archaeology and educational sciences among the most cited areas.OpenAlex 记录该校研究成果 9084 项、被引 240429 次，应用信息学、毒理学、考古学与教育科学是引用较多的领域。
• The university's toxicology group works on chemical warfare agents, pesticides and environmental contaminants, and cooperates with Czech military and public health laboratories.大学的毒理学团队研究化学战剂、农药与环境污染物，并与捷克军方及公共卫生实验室合作。
• Archaeology at the Philosophical Faculty conducts excavations in eastern Bohemia and collaborates with the Museum of East Bohemia in Hradec Králové.哲学院的考古学团队在东波希米亚开展发掘，并与赫拉德茨-克拉洛维的东波希米亚博物馆合作。
• The Faculty of Science operates laboratories in ecology, molecular biology and instrumental chemistry, and its building opened in 2016 with specialised teaching and research space.理学院设有生态学、分子生物学与仪器分析化学实验室，其 2016 年落成的大楼配备专门的教学与研究空间。
• Gaudeamus Publishing House issues textbooks, monographs and the university's academic journals, and the University Library provides databases and study space on the Na Soutoku campus.高德阿穆斯出版社出版教材、专著与大学学报，大学图书馆则在汇流校区提供数据库与学习空间。
• The university offers short courses, summer schools and professional certificates in information technology, management, tourism and social work for regional employers.大学为地区雇主开设信息技术、管理、旅游与社会工作方面的短期课程、暑期学校与职业证书项目。
• Teaching is mainly in Czech, while the Faculty of Informatics and Management offers English-taught bachelor's and master's programmes for international students.教学主要以捷克语进行，信息与管理学院则为国际学生开设英语授课的本科与硕士项目。
• Its historians, archaeologists and toxicologists work with the Czech Academy of Sciences and with Palacký University in Olomouc on joint projects and doctoral training.该校的历史学、考古学与毒理学研究者与捷克科学院以及奥洛穆茨帕拉茨基大学合作开展联合项目与博士培养。
• The university has a unified visual identity introduced in 2010 and designed by Jiří Toman and Michal Kukačka, which is applied to its publications, signage and recruitment materials.大学自 2010 年起采用统一的视觉识别系统，由伊日·托曼与米哈尔·库卡奇卡设计，应用于出版物、标识与招生材料。

Campus

• The main campus is called Na Soutoku, meaning "at the confluence", and occupies land between the Elbe and Orlice rivers on the edge of the city centre.主校区名为「汇流」，意为两河交汇之处，位于市中心边缘的易北河与奥尔利采河之间。
• The common teaching building of 1997 was named Building of the Year 1998 and forms the social and academic heart of the campus, with lecture theatres, library and refectory.1997 年建成的公共教学楼曾获评 1998 年度建筑，是校区的社交与学术核心，设有讲堂、图书馆与餐厅。
• The Faculty of Informatics and Management building of 2008 and the Faculty of Science building of 2016 enclose the campus centre, which was named Václav Havel Square in 2019.2008 年的信息与管理学院大楼与 2016 年的理学院大楼围合出校区中心，该空间于 2019 年被命名为瓦茨拉夫·哈维尔广场。
• The Philosophical Faculty and the Faculty of Education are based on Freedom Square in the historic centre, the education building having been protected as a cultural monument since 1981.哲学院与教育学院位于历史中心的自由广场，其中教育学院大楼自 1981 年起被列为文化保护建筑。
• The Faculty of Education building underwent repair from 2022 to 2025, during which its administration moved temporarily to Building E on Víta Nejedlého Street.教育学院大楼于 2022 至 2025 年间修缮，其间院部暂迁至维特·涅耶德莱街的 E 座。
• The university has two halls of residence, the Palach Halls and the Vít Nejedlý Halls, with a combined capacity of about 900 beds, and the Palach Halls are being gradually renovated.大学有两处学生宿舍，即帕拉赫宿舍与维特·涅耶德莱宿舍，合计约 900 个床位，帕拉赫宿舍正逐步翻新。
• Hradec Králové is a city of about 93,000 inhabitants on the Elbe, roughly an hour and a half by road from Prague, and its centre is known for the architecture of Jan Kotěra and Josef Gočár, while the city also hosts the Charles University Medical School founded in 1945.赫拉德茨-克拉洛维是易北河畔约 9.3 万人口的城市，距布拉格约一个半小时车程，市中心以扬·科捷拉与约瑟夫·戈查尔的建筑著称，城中还设有 1945 年创办的查理大学医学院。
• The city's White Tower and the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit stand a short walk from Freedom Square, and the Elbe and Orlice confluences provide riverside paths used by students.城市的大白塔与圣灵主教座堂距自由广场只有几步之遥，易北河与奥尔利采河的交汇处则为学生提供了滨河步道。
• The campus is served by city buses and trolleybuses, and the main railway station connects Hradec Králové with Prague and with Pardubice, whose university shares some regional facilities.校区由城市公交与无轨电车连接，中央火车站把赫拉德茨-克拉洛维与布拉格及帕尔杜比采相连，后者的大学生共享部分区域设施。
• The university does not have overseas campuses, but it sends students abroad through Erasmus and receives exchange students in the Na Soutoku halls and the Faculty of Informatics and Management.大学没有海外校区，但通过伊拉斯谟项目输送学生出国，并在汇流校区宿舍与信息与管理学院接待交换生。

Reputation

• The University of Hradec Králové is placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the joint interval used by QS for institutions in this part of the table.赫拉德茨-克拉洛维大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 1201-1400 位，这是 QS 对该区段院校采用的并列区间。
• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 the university appears in the 801-1000 band, its strongest result among the four major global tables.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位于第 801-1000 位区间，这是其在四大全球主榜中的最好成绩。
• U.S. News ranks the university 1,153rd in its 2026-2027 Best Global Universities list, a result supported by its citation record in computer science and environmental studies.在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单中，该校位列第 1153 位，这一结果得益于其在计算机科学与环境研究方面的引用记录。
• The university did not enter the main table of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities and is therefore listed outside the ShanghaiRanking top group for that year.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，因此在当年被列为上海软科主榜之外的院校。
• Its research record of 9,084 works and 240,429 citations in OpenAlex is small in absolute terms but has grown quickly since the university gained full status in 2000.OpenAlex 显示其 9084 项成果获得 240429 次引用，绝对数量不大，但自 2000 年升格为大学以来增长迅速。
• Applied informatics and management are the university's most visible strengths, and the Faculty of Informatics and Management is the largest single source of its external research income.应用信息学与管理是该校最醒目的强项，信息与管理学院是其外部研究经费的最大来源。
• Toxicology and environmental chemistry have given the university a niche international profile, particularly in research on chemical warfare agents and decontamination.毒理学与环境化学为大学赢得了特定的国际声誉，尤其在化学战剂与去污研究方面。
• The Philosophical Faculty's archaeology and archival science programmes are regionally distinctive and supply museums, archives and heritage bodies across eastern Bohemia.哲学院的考古学与档案学项目具有区域特色，为东波希米亚的博物馆、档案馆与遗产机构输送人才。
• In the Czech Republic the university is regarded as a young, regionally oriented institution, and it is not among the research-intensive universities grouped in the Czech Rectors' Conference elite.在捷克国内，该校被视为一所年轻、面向区域的大学，并未进入捷克大学校长会议中的研究密集型院校行列。
• Employer recognition is strongest in education, information technology, public administration and tourism in the Hradec Králové and Pardubice regions.雇主认可度在赫拉德茨-克拉洛维与帕尔杜比采地区的教育、信息技术、公共行政与旅游行业最高。
• International visibility is modest, but the university is active in Erasmus+, in Czech-German and Czech-Polish border cooperation and in European projects on regional development.其国际能见度有限，但大学积极参与伊拉斯谟+、捷克与德国及波兰的边境合作以及欧洲区域发展项目。

Student life

• The university has no formally adopted motto, and its identity is carried by the Latin name Universitas Reginaegradecensis and by the crowned lion of its emblem.大学没有正式采用的校训，其身份主要由拉丁文名「Universitas Reginaegradecensis」与校徽上的戴冠狮子承载。
• The rector's sceptre, designed by Jan Hásek, takes the form of a linden leaf with a golden ball at its centre and a silver lion at the top, and was presented by the city.校长权杖由扬·哈塞克设计，形似椴树叶，中央嵌金色圆球，顶端立银狮，由赫拉德茨-克拉洛维市赠予大学。
• The emblem shows a crowned Czech lion holding the letter G, a reference to the city's medieval name Gradec, and carries the university's full Latin title in its circular inscription.校徽图案为一只戴冠的捷克狮子，前爪持字母 G，指涉城市中世纪的名称 Gradec，环形铭文则书写大学的拉丁文全称。
• Student associations include the Academic Film Club, which screens films at the Bio Central cinema, the Student Union, ESN Hradec Králové and the student magazine Skrz naskrz.学生组织包括在 Bio Central 电影院放映影片的学术电影俱乐部、学生会、伊拉斯谟学生网络赫拉德茨分会以及学生杂志“Skrz naskrz”。
• Subject clubs in history, archaeology, political science, sociology and philosophy organise lectures, excursions and an annual student conference.历史、考古、政治学、社会学与哲学的专业社团组织讲座、考察与年度学生会议。
• The university's sports centre and the city's riverside paths support rowing, cycling, running and team sports, and students compete in Czech university championships.大学的体育中心与城市滨河步道支撑赛艇、骑行、跑步与团队运动，学生参加捷克大学锦标赛。
• The Na Soutoku campus hosts concerts, exhibitions and the annual welcome events, while Václav Havel Square serves as the main meeting point for students.汇流校区举办音乐会、展览与年度迎新活动，瓦茨拉夫·哈维尔广场则是学生主要的聚会地点。
• Hradec Králové's compact centre, with its cafés, the Bio Central cinema and the riverside, gives students a social life that is walkable and inexpensive by Central European standards.赫拉德茨-克拉洛维紧凑的市中心、咖啡馆、Bio Central 电影院与滨河地带，使学生生活在中欧标准下既步行可达又花费不高。
• The university's halls of residence house about 900 students, and the rest live in private flats in the city, many within walking distance of the Na Soutoku campus.大学宿舍可容纳约 900 名学生，其余学生住在城中私人公寓，许多人步行即可到达汇流校区。

Notable people

• Karel Angelis, a career communist official, was the first director of the Pedagogical Institute in 1959, dean of the Faculty of Education in 1964 and again during the normalisation purge after 1969.卡雷尔·安格利斯是职业党务干部，1959 年出任师范研究所首任所长，1964 年任教育学院院长，1969 年后又在「正常化」清洗期间回任。
• Josef Kittler, dean during the Prague Spring, later became a professor of pattern recognition at the University of Surrey and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.布拉格之春期间的院长约瑟夫·基特勒后来成为萨里大学模式识别教授，并当选英国皇家工程院院士。
• Jan Kříž became rector in 2024 and has continued the university's emphasis on applied informatics, regional partnerships and the renovation of its teaching buildings.扬·克日日于 2024 年就任校长，延续大学对应用信息学、区域合作与教学大楼翻新的重视。
• Kamil Kuča, vice-rector for science and research, is a toxicologist known for work on acetylcholinesterase reactivators and chemical warfare agent countermeasures.主管科研的副校长卡米尔·库恰是毒理学家，以乙酰胆碱酯酶重活化剂与化学战剂应对措施的研究著称。
• Zdeněk Svěrák, the screenwriter and actor, received an honorary doctorate in 2015 for his contribution to Czech culture and education.编剧兼演员兹德涅克·斯维拉克于 2015 年获授荣誉博士学位，以表彰其对捷克文化与教育的贡献。
• Dominik Duka, Cardinal and Archbishop of Prague, received an honorary doctorate in 2013 for helping to establish scientific cooperation with Latin American universities.布拉格总主教、枢机多米尼克·杜卡于 2013 年获授荣誉博士学位，以表彰其协助建立与拉丁美洲高校的科研合作。
• Marek Eben, the television presenter, actor and composer, received an honorary doctorate in 2022.电视主持人、演员与作曲家马雷克·埃本于 2022 年获授荣誉博士学位。
• Petr Piťha, linguist and Minister of Education in the first Klaus government, received an honorary doctorate in 2012.语言学家、克劳斯首届政府教育部长彼得·皮佳于 2012 年获授荣誉博士学位。
• František Šmahel, the historian of Hussitism who spent his career at Charles University, and Milan Myška, the economic historian of Masaryk University in Brno, both received honorary doctorates in 2006.毕生任职于查理大学的胡斯运动史家弗兰蒂谢克·什马赫尔，与任教于布尔诺马萨里克大学的经济史家米兰·米什卡，均于 2006 年获授荣誉博士学位。
• Viktor Fischl, the Czech-Israeli poet, novelist and diplomat, and Karel Otčenášek, the Catholic bishop and Esperantist, were among the university's early honorary graduates.捷克裔以色列诗人、小说家与外交官维克托·菲施尔，以及天主教主教、世界语者卡雷尔·奥特切纳谢克，是大学早期的荣誉学位获得者。
• Adolf Melezinek, the Austrian-Czech electrical engineer who founded engineering pedagogy, received an honorary doctorate in 2004.创立工程教育学的奥地利裔捷克电气工程师阿道夫·梅莱齐内克于 2004 年获授荣誉博士学位。
• Jan Petrof, of the Petrof piano manufacturing family, received an honorary doctorate in 2018 for his support of music education in the region.佩特罗夫钢琴制造家族的扬·佩特罗夫于 2018 年获授荣誉博士学位，以表彰其对地区音乐教育的支持。