University of Ostrava

The University of Ostrava (Czech: Ostravská univerzita) is a public university in Ostrava, the administrative centre of the Moravian-Silesian Region in the north-east of the Czech Republic.奥斯特拉发大学（University of Ostrava，捷克语：Ostravská univerzita）是捷克共和国东北部摩拉维亚-西里西亚州首府奥斯特拉发的一所公立大学。

It was founded on 28 September 1991 out of the city's Faculty of Education and today comprises six faculties, two institutes and a research institute for fuzzy modelling, teaching the humanities, sciences, medicine, social studies and the arts.该校于 1991 年 9 月 28 日在该市教育学院的基础上成立，现设 6 个学院、2 个研究所以及一个模糊建模研究所，覆盖人文学科、自然科学、医学、社会研究与艺术。

It enrols about 8,500 students, and in the QS World University Rankings 2027 it is placed in the 1201-1400 band.该校注册学生约 8,500 人，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1201-1400 区间。

History

• Teacher training in Czech Silesia began in 1953, when a higher pedagogical school opened in Opava to prepare teachers for the lower secondary grades.捷克西里西亚的师资培养始于 1953 年，一所高等师范学校在奥帕瓦开办，为初级中学阶段培养教师。
• In 1959 the region's teacher training was consolidated into a single Pedagogical Institute seated in Ostrava, which absorbed the Opava school's work.1959 年，该地区的师资培养被整合为设在奥斯特拉发的一所教育学院，奥帕瓦学校的职能由其承接。
• That institute received the status of an independent Faculty of Education in Ostrava in 1964 and began awarding four-year degrees to future primary and lower-secondary teachers.1964 年，该机构获得奥斯特拉发独立教育学院的资格，开始为未来小学与初级中学教师颁发四年制学位。
• The faculty later extended its offer to a five-year programme for teachers of the upper secondary grades, a course structure that survived into the 1990s.该学院随后增设培养高中阶段教师的五年制课程，这一学制一直延续到 20 世纪 90 年代。
• In 1990 the dean of the Faculty of Education, Jaroslav Hubáček, commissioned Eva Mrhačová and Lumír Dokoupil to draft the project for a Faculty of Philosophy, the first step towards a full university.1990 年，教育学院院长雅罗斯拉夫·胡巴切克委托埃娃·姆尔哈乔娃与卢米尔·多库皮尔起草哲学学院方案，这是迈向完整大学的第一步。
• Two new faculties, Philosophy and Science, were built in late summer 1990 on the humanities and science departments of the existing Faculty of Education, including Czech studies, history, Russian and Polish studies.1990 年夏末，哲学与自然科学两个新学院在原有教育学院的人文学科与理科教研室基础上组建，涵盖捷克学、历史学、俄罗斯学与波兰学。
• The University of Ostrava was established by law on 28 September 1991, with the former Faculty of Education becoming its Pedagogical Faculty, and Jaroslav Hubáček served as its first rector from 1991 to 1995.奥斯特拉发大学于 1991 年 9 月 28 日依法设立，原教育学院成为其教育学院，雅罗斯拉夫·胡巴切克于 1991 至 1995 年出任首任校长。
• The legal instrument was Act No. 314/1991, under which the Ostrava Faculty of Education was merged into the newly created university and its property and staff were transferred wholesale.其法律依据是第 314/1991 号法案，依据该法，奥斯特拉发教育学院并入新设立的大学，其资产与人员整体划转。
• The Faculty of Science was founded on 1 October 1991 with departments of mathematics, informatics and computing, physics, chemistry, biology and geography.自然科学学院于 1991 年 10 月 1 日成立，初设数学、信息学与计算机、物理、化学、生物和地理等系。
• The Faculty of Philosophy was formally established in the same year, taking over the Czech, history, Russian, Polish, English and German programmes assembled in 1990.哲学学院于同年正式成立，接管 1990 年组建的捷克学、历史、俄语、波兰语、英语和德语等专业。
• In 1993 the university created a Faculty of Health and Social Studies, which opened with three bachelor fields: therapeutic rehabilitation and physiotherapy, social-health and geriatric care, and functional and laboratory diagnostics.1993 年，该校设立健康与社会研究学院，首批开设治疗性康复与物理治疗、社会健康与老年照护、功能与实验室诊断三个本科专业。
• A master's programme in social work with a health-care profile followed in 1995, and the faculty became the region's main trainer of health and social professionals.1995 年又增设面向医疗领域的社会工作硕士项目，该学院由此成为本地区健康与社会专业人才的主要培养单位。
• In 2001 the two arts departments created in 1991 were transformed into an Institute for Artistic Studies, which prepared the ground for a separate arts faculty.2001 年，1991 年设立的两个艺术教研室改组为艺术研究所，为独立设置艺术学院奠定基础。
• The Faculty of Arts was founded on 1 August 2007 and became the only institution in the Czech Republic offering bachelor's and master's study in musical art at that time.艺术学院于 2007 年 8 月 1 日成立，当时成为捷克共和国唯一开设音乐艺术本硕课程的高校。
• Also in 2007 the university co-founded the European Research Institute for Social Work with partners in Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Hertfordshire, Lille, Kuopio, Trnava and Cologne.同样在 2007 年，该校与艾希施泰特-因戈尔施塔特、赫特福德郡、里尔、库奥皮奥、特尔纳瓦和科隆的伙伴院校共同创办欧洲社会工作研究所。
• The Faculty of Social Studies was separated from the health faculty on 1 April 2008, giving social-science research its own faculty for the first time.2008 年 4 月 1 日，社会研究学院从健康学院中分离出来，社会科学研究首次拥有独立学院。
• General Medicine was accredited in April 2010, and on 1 September 2010 the Faculty of Health Studies was renamed the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ostrava.2010 年 4 月，普通医学专业获得认证，同年 9 月 1 日健康研究学院更名为奥斯特拉发大学医学院。
• In January 2012 the university began preparing a merger with VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, aiming to become the country's third-largest university and a recognised research university by 2015.2012 年 1 月，该校开始筹备与奥斯特拉发技术大学（VŠB）合并，目标是在 2015 年前成为全国第三大大学和公认的研究型大学。
• VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava ultimately rejected the merger and offered only closer cooperation, so the two institutions remained separate.奥斯特拉发技术大学最终拒绝合并，仅同意加强合作，两校因而保持独立。
• A 2016 amendment to the higher education law shortened the official name to Ostravská univerzita from September of that year, dropping the phrase identifying its seat.2016 年高等教育法修订后，该校官方名称自当年 9 月起简化为「Ostravská univerzita」，删去了标明所在地的附加语。
• In 2026 the university awarded an honorary doctorate to the biostatistician Ladislav Dušek and secured 35 million Czech korunas for top-level research projects.2026 年，该校向生物统计学家拉迪斯拉夫·杜谢克授予荣誉博士学位，并获得 3,500 万捷克克朗用于顶尖科研项目。

Academics

• Six faculties make up the university: Philosophy, Education, Science, Medicine, Social Studies and Arts, each with its own dean and academic senate.该校由 6 个学院组成：哲学学院、教育学院、自然科学学院、医学院、社会研究学院和艺术学院，各设院长与学术委员会。
• Study is offered at bachelor, master, follow-up master and doctoral level in full-time, distance and combined forms, which suits working teachers and health professionals.学校提供学士、硕士、续读硕士与博士层次课程，采用全日制、远程与混合形式，便于在职教师和医护人员就读。
• It enrols about 8,500 students, including some 263 doctoral candidates, and employs roughly 830 administrative staff alongside its academic corps.全校注册学生约 8,500 人，其中博士生约 263 人，除教师外还聘有约 830 名行政人员。
• The Faculty of Medicine trains doctors and health scientists and conducts its clinical teaching with the University Hospital Ostrava, the region's principal referral hospital.医学院培养医生与健康科学人才，其临床教学在奥斯特拉发大学医院进行，后者是本地区主要的转诊医院。
• The Faculty of Arts covers music and fine arts, and its graduates include opera singers and instrumentalists who perform in Czech and Polish theatres.艺术学院涵盖音乐与美术，其毕业生中包括在捷克与波兰剧院演出的歌剧演员和器乐演奏家。
• The Institute for Research and Applications of Fuzzy Modeling works on the theoretical foundations of reasoning under uncertainty and on modelling tools for imprecise systems.模糊建模研究与应用研究所致力于不确定性推理的理论基础，以及面向不精确信息的系统建模工具。
• The European Research Institute for Social Work runs comparative projects and produces teaching materials for social-work programmes in its partner countries and beyond.欧洲社会工作研究所在伙伴国及其他地区开展比较研究项目，并为社会工作专业制作教学材料。
• The Institute of Foreign Studies coordinates the university's detached foreign workplaces, which deliver accredited programmes in foreign languages to international students.外国研究所统筹该校在境外的教学点，以外国语向国际学生开设经认证的课程。
• The University Library is a public library with specialised collections, housed in a main building on Bráfova Street and five faculty reading rooms.大学图书馆为面向公众开放的专业图书馆，主馆位于布拉福瓦街，另设 5 个学院阅览室。
• The Faculty of Science manages the university's botanical garden, which supports teaching in botany and ecology as well as public education.自然科学学院管理校属植物园，既服务植物学与生态学教学，也承担公众科普职能。
• The Faculty of Education continues the institution's oldest mission, preparing teachers for kindergartens, primary schools and secondary schools across the Moravian-Silesian Region.教育学院延续该校最古老的使命，为摩拉维亚-西里西亚地区的幼儿园、小学和中学培养师资。
• Social work, nursing, physiotherapy and public health form a distinctive cluster that links the Faculty of Social Studies with the Faculty of Medicine.社会工作、护理、物理治疗与公共卫生构成一个特色集群，把社会研究学院与医学院连接起来。
• The Faculty of Science includes separate departments of physical geography and geoecology and of social geography and regional development, a combination rare in Czech universities.自然科学学院分设自然地理与地质生态学系以及社会地理与区域发展系，这种组合在捷克高校中较为少见。
• Erasmus+ mobility, bilateral agreements and the Welcome Office bring incoming students mainly from Slovakia, Poland, Spain and Germany, and send Ostrava students across the European Union.伊拉斯谟+流动项目、双边协议与“欢迎办公室”主要接收来自斯洛伐克、波兰、西班牙和德国的学生，也把本校学生送往欧盟各国。
• Researchers from the university contribute to the Moravian-Silesian Region's 2028+ development strategy and to the national regional development strategy for the same period.该校研究人员参与编制摩拉维亚-西里西亚州 2028+ 发展战略以及同期国家区域发展战略。
• In 2026 the university obtained 35 million korunas for top-level research, while a team studying how plants manage water won the rectors' award of Ostrava's universities.2026 年，该校获得 3,500 万克朗的顶尖科研经费，其研究植物水分管理的研究团队则获得奥斯特拉发各高校校长奖。
• Lifelong learning is organised through the University of the Third Age and professional retraining courses that use the same lecturers as the degree programmes.终身学习通过第三年龄大学与职业再培训课程开展，授课教师与学位项目相同。
• The first cohorts of the Faculty of Philosophy followed a lecture cycle called Roots of European Thought, devised to fill the gaps left by four decades of ideological schooling.哲学学院的首批学生修读名为“欧洲思想之根”的系列讲座，该课程旨在弥补四十年意识形态教育留下的知识空缺。
• Before the medical faculty opened in 2010 the Moravian-Silesian Region had no medical school, and its school leavers had to train as doctors in Prague, Brno or Olomouc.2010 年医学院成立之前，摩拉维亚-西里西亚州没有医学院，当地毕业生只能前往布拉格、布尔诺或奥洛穆茨学医。
• Programmes are accredited by the National Accreditation Bureau for Higher Education, and the university runs its own internal quality assurance system with student representation.该校课程由高等教育国家认证局认证，并设有带学生代表参与的内部质量保障体系。
• Career services run through the JobTeaser portal, which advertises internships and graduate jobs to students and alumni and links them with employers in Ostrava and beyond.就业服务通过 JobTeaser 平台开展，向学生与校友发布实习和毕业生岗位，并把他们与奥斯特拉发及周边雇主对接。

Campus

• The university has no single walled campus, and its buildings are distributed across Ostrava, with the rectorate at Dvořákova 7 in the Moravská Ostrava district.该校没有单一围合的校园，建筑分布于奥斯特拉发全城，校长办公楼位于摩拉维亚奥斯特拉发的德沃扎科娃街 7 号。
• Faculty buildings, the library and the halls of residence sit within the compact inner city, so students move between classes on foot or by tram rather than by campus shuttle.各学院楼、图书馆与学生宿舍都位于紧凑的内城，学生靠步行或有轨电车在各教学楼之间往来，而无需校园班车。
• The University Library's main building on Bráfova Street holds specialised collections matched to the profiles of the six faculties and is open to the public.位于布拉福瓦街的大学图书馆主馆藏有与六个学院学科方向相匹配的专业文献，并向公众开放。
• University halls of residence and the university canteen are operated centrally, and the Pyramid Centre provides support for students with specific needs.大学宿舍与食堂由学校统一运营，金字塔中心则为有特殊需要的学生提供支持。
• The botanical garden cared for by the Faculty of Science gives the university a green teaching site rare among Czech urban universities.由自然科学学院照管的植物园为该校提供了捷克城市型大学中少见的绿色教学场所。
• Ostrava is the third-largest city in the Czech Republic, lies about 10 kilometres from the Polish border and grew on coal mining and iron making.奥斯特拉发是捷克第三大城市，距波兰边境约 10 公里，因采煤与炼铁而兴起。
• Ostrava itself has about 280,000 residents and anchors a metropolitan area of close to one million people that stretches into the coal and steel towns of the Karviná basin.奥斯特拉发市区约有 28 万居民，其所带动的都市区人口接近一百万，并向卡尔维纳盆地的煤钢城镇延伸。
• The Dolní Vítkovice industrial complex, a national cultural monument with blast furnaces and the Bolt Tower, is a short tram ride from the city-centre buildings.多尔尼维特科维采工业区是国家文化纪念地，拥有高炉与“螺栓塔”，距市中心的校舍只有几站电车路程。
• Ostrava is served by the Leoš Janáček Airport and by the D1 motorway, which links the city with Brno and Prague.奥斯特拉发由莱奥什·亚纳切克机场以及连接布尔诺与布拉格的 D1 高速公路提供服务。
• Clinical teaching takes place at the University Hospital Ostrava in Poruba, one of the largest hospital complexes in the country and the base for the medical faculty's clinical departments.临床教学在位于波鲁巴的奥斯特拉发大学医院进行，该院是全国最大的医院集团之一，也是医学院临床科室的基地。

Reputation

• The University of Ostrava is placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, its position in the global table having improved steadily since its first appearance.奥斯特拉发大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1201-1400 区间，自首次入榜以来其全球位次稳步上升。
• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 it sits in the 1601-1800 band, a decline from its 801-1000 placing in 2017.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位列 1601-1800 区间，较 2017 年的 801-1000 名次有所下滑。
• U.S. News ranked it 1,761st in the Best Global Universities list for 2026-2027, reflecting its modest but growing citation footprint.在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球最佳大学榜单中，该校位列第 1,761 名，反映出其引用规模有限但持续增长。^[1]
• The university does not appear in the main table of the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026, and it has not been listed in earlier editions either.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，此前的各个版本也未见其名。
• In the QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia ranking it was placed 148th in 2022, the university's strongest showing in a regional table.在 QS 新兴欧洲与中亚地区排名中，该校 2022 年位列第 148 名，这是其在地区榜单上的最佳表现。
• OpenAlex records 11,252 works and 251,264 citations for the university, a research profile concentrated in medicine, social sciences and computer science.OpenAlex 记录该校 11,252 部（篇）文献与 251,264 次被引，科研产出集中于医学、社会科学与计算机科学。
• It is the youngest public university in Ostrava and one of the youngest in the Czech Republic, which shapes both its research ambitions and its reputation.该校是奥斯特拉发最年轻的公立大学，也是捷克最年轻的高校之一，这一身份既塑造其科研雄心，也影响其声誉。
• Its Institute for Research and Applications of Fuzzy Modeling is internationally known in mathematical fuzzy logic and soft computing, giving the university a niche research identity.其模糊建模研究与应用研究所在数学模糊逻辑与软计算领域享有国际知名度，为学校塑造了小而专的研究形象。
• The medical faculty's full general-medicine programme, accredited in 2010, made Ostrava one of the few Czech cities outside Prague and Brno training doctors from the first year.医学院于 2010 年获认证的完整普通医学项目，使奥斯特拉发成为布拉格与布尔诺之外少数能从一年级起培养医生的捷克城市之一。
• It is the only university in the Moravian-Silesian Region that combines humanities, sciences, medicine and the arts, complementing the purely technical profile of VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava.该校是摩拉维亚-西里西亚州唯一兼具人文学科、自然科学、医学与艺术的大学，与奥斯特拉发技术大学纯技术的办学定位形成互补。
• Regional policy documents cite the university's experts on social inclusion, health care and regional development, which anchors its reputation in the Moravian-Silesian Region.地区政策文件引用该校在社会包容、医疗与区域发展领域的专家意见，使其声誉扎根于摩拉维亚-西里西亚州。

Student life

• The university has no formal Latin motto and presents itself through the strategy slogan Univerzita PRO, meaning a university for students, for the region and for society.该校没有正式的拉丁文校训，而以战略口号 Univerzita PRO 自我表述，意为面向学生、面向地区、面向社会的大学。
• Student organisations span faculty clubs, the student chamber of the academic senate and departmental societies that organise lectures and field trips.学生组织包括各学院社团、学术委员会学生院以及组织讲座与野外考察的系级学会。
• Rakathon, a national artificial-intelligence hackathon against cancer, was hosted by the university in 2026 and drew teams from across the Czech Republic.2026 年，全国性抗癌人工智能黑客松 Rakathon 在该校举办，吸引了捷克各地团队参加。
• Colours of Ostrava, held since 2002 in the Dolní Vítkovice industrial complex, gives students summer work and a music festival within walking distance of the city-centre buildings.自 2002 年起在多尔尼维特科维采工业区举办的“奥斯特拉发色彩”音乐节，为学生提供暑期工作，也让音乐节近在市中心的校舍旁。
• The Golden Spike athletics meeting, staged in Ostrava since 1961, brings world-class track and field to the city and recruits student volunteers from the university.自 1961 年在奥斯特拉发举行的“金钉”田径赛把世界级田径带到该市，并从该校招募学生志愿者。
• Residence halls and the canteen form the social core of student life, and the Pyramid Centre offers counselling and accessibility support from the same complex.宿舍与食堂构成学生生活的社交核心，金字塔中心在同一建筑群内提供咨询与无障碍支持。
• The University of the Third Age lets older residents attend lectures alongside students, a form of intergenerational contact that is unusual in the region.第三年龄大学让年长市民与学生同堂听课，这种代际交流形式在本地区并不常见。
• Physical education courses and sports-facility bookings are administered centrally, and students can reserve courts, halls and the swimming pool through the university sports centre.体育课程与运动场馆预订由学校统一管理，学生可通过大学体育中心预约球场、体育馆与游泳池。
• An International Teaching Week in political, economic and cultural geographies brings visiting lecturers to Ostrava each year and opens classes to exchange students.每年举办的政治、经济与文化地理国际教学周邀请访问学者来到奥斯特拉发，并向交换学生开放课堂。
• The university bookshop sells titles from the university press, including the journals Historica and Studia Germanistica, which publish faculty research in history and German studies.大学书店销售校出版社的出版物，包括刊载历史学与日耳曼学研究论文的《Historica》与《Studia Germanistica》。

Notable people

• Jaroslav Hubáček, a Czech linguist, was the last dean of the independent Faculty of Education and the first rector of the University of Ostrava, serving from 1991 to 1995.捷克语言学家雅罗斯拉夫·胡巴切克是独立教育学院的最后一任院长，也是奥斯特拉发大学首任校长，任期 1991 至 1995 年。
• Eva Mrhačová and Lumír Dokoupil, the scholars charged in 1990 with drafting the Faculty of Philosophy project, shaped the humanities profile that the university still carries.1990 年受命起草哲学学院方案的学者埃娃·姆尔哈乔娃与卢米尔·多库皮尔，塑造了该校延续至今的人文学科格局。
• Petr Kopecký, the current rector, is a literary scholar who has led the university's push for research funding and for closer ties with Ostrava's cultural institutions.现任校长彼得·科佩茨基是文学学者，主导该校争取科研经费并加强与奥斯特拉发文化机构的联系。
• Ladislav Dušek, a biostatistician honoured with the university's honorary doctorate in 2026, is known for applying statistical modelling to epidemiology and medical informatics.生物统计学家拉迪斯拉夫·杜谢克于 2026 年获该校荣誉博士学位，以将统计建模应用于流行病学与医学信息学而知名。
• Pavel Flegontov, an evolutionary biologist at the university, received the President's Award of the Czech Academy of Sciences for research that sharpens the study of ancient human DNA.该校演化生物学家帕维尔·弗莱贡托夫因改进古代人类 DNA 研究的方法而获得捷克科学院院长奖。
• Michał Dziedzic, a tenor who studied at the Faculty of Arts and continues there as a doctoral student, won the Grand Tournament of Tenors in Szczecin in 2026.在艺术学院学习并继续攻读博士学位的男高音米哈乌·杰季奇，于 2026 年在什切青举行的男高音大赛中夺冠。
• The university counts its arts graduates among its public face, since singers and instrumentalists from the Faculty of Arts perform with the Janáček Philharmonic and regional theatres.该校把艺术类毕业生视为对外的名片，艺术学院的歌唱家与器乐演奏家常与亚纳切克爱乐乐团及地区剧院合作演出。
• Martin Hilský, the Czech translator of Shakespeare, lectured at the university bookshop in October 2026 in a public conversation chaired by rector Petr Kopecký, an example of the university's role as a city cultural venue.捷克莎士比亚翻译家马丁·希尔斯基 2026 年 10 月在大学书店举行公开对谈，由校长彼得·科佩茨基主持，体现该校作为城市文化场所的作用。