At the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, the traditional gateway to summer is the Employees’ Sports Games. This year’s edition marked the icy weather brought by Saint Boniface, but the enthusiastic athletes were undeterred. Especially not those who, at the end of the day, claimed the championship trophy of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague for an entire year and celebrated to the famous anthem of champions by Queen. This time, fortune smiled on the team from the Faculty of Economics and Management, which defeated the Rectorate athletes by a single point. Third place went to the Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources. For everyone involved, Thursday, 14 May, provided a welcome break from the daily work routine and a day full of sporting competition.
One of the largest student open-air festivals in the Czech Republic, Miss Agro, is just around the corner. In addition to its traditional combination of great music, female beauty, and masculine strength, this year the CZU campus in Suchdol will take a significant step towards sustainability. The main organizer is the university newspaper iZUN.eu, which is preparing the event in cooperation with the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, all its faculties, and other university units. This year, together, they are introducing a system of returnable deposit cups, which will eliminate single-use plastics at all sales points.
The four best university basketball teams from across the country – the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Masaryk University, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, and the University of Ostrava – battled for gold in the North Moravian metropolis.
The growing popularity of the CZU Athlete of the Year poll, which the university announces every year, is also reflected in the incredible number of 55 registered athletes. All of them can boast outstanding performances, so once again the jury did not have an easy decision to make. Given his performances last year and the honour he received from the President of the Czech Republic, sprint canoeist Josef Dostál was the clear favourite. He thus repeated last year’s triumph.
The international QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026 confirms that the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU) belongs among the global leaders in fields related to nature and sustainability. In Agriculture & Forestry, it ranked 58th in the world, the best result among all Czech universities in this year’s evaluation. It is also the Czech leader in Environmental Sciences.
Against the backdrop of a ceremonially decorated auditorium at CZU, the inauguration of the university’s new rector, Professor Michal Lošťák, took place on Tuesday, 31 March 2026. Witnessing the occasion were the rectors of nineteen Czech universities, representatives of public and private institutions, members of the university’s academic community, and other distinguished guests. The inaugural act symbolically confirmed the rector´s appointment as head of CZU – a university with growing potential in fields of science connected to the challenges of the future.
A new self-service store, officially opened on the CZU campus on Thursday, March 26, 2026, offers fast and convenient shopping at any time of day or night. The advantages of this innovative concept include ease of use, easy accessibility, and safe operation.
Smart sensors, a private 5G network, and advanced data analytics tools enable the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU) to measure energy consumption in detail and automatically calculate the carbon footprint of the entire campus or selected buildings. The project was created in cooperation with the largest mobile operator, T-Mobile. Its goal is to make data on energy consumption and emissions accessible not only to the university but also to students and the public.
Generate your own video and experience the university! That is the opportunity CZU offers to all prospective students on the website zazij.czu.cz. The virtual personalized story provides a unique experience, but an in-person visit is still an in-person visit. Seeing the university and campus with your own eyes and learning everything important directly from those who know it best is made possible several times a year through Open Days. The last one, traditionally held before the entrance exams, is always very popular. And this year, Friday, March 13, was a lucky day for everyone who gained clarity about their future.
Wildfires, windstorms, and bark beetle outbreaks may affect European forests far more extensively in the coming decades than they do today. A large international study published in the prestigious journal Science, with contributions from researchers at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, shows that by 2100, the area of damaged forests in Europe could double.
Only the perpetual student doesn’t have to worry about where their steps will lead once they finally leave the campus gates for good. And judging by the attendance at this year’s Career Opportunities Fair, there are quite a lot of those more responsible ones. On Thursday, 26 February, CZU students had the chance to gain a clearer idea of their professional future at several locations across the campus.
Bird populations across North America are declining, according to recently published studies based on long-term biological data collected by volunteers over decades. Until now, however, there has been mostly speculation about what is causing this decline and whether it is accelerating or slowing. Yet acceleration can be an essential signal of environmental change. The causes of the accelerating deterioration in birds are examined in a study by Francoise Leroy and Petr Keil from the Faculty of Environmental Sciences at CZU, carried out in collaboration with Marta Jarzyna of The Ohio State University. It is based on 35 years of research across 1,033 survey routes across the USA and Canada, and it was published on February 26, 2026, in the prestigious scientific journal Science.
On Thursday, 12 February 2026, we welcomed a distinguished guest to our campus. CZU Rector Michal Lošťák met with the United Kingdom’s Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Matt Field, to introduce him to the university—Czechia’s leader in sustainability, with an excellent reputation at home and abroad.
tudents and their teachers were able, right at the start of the summer semester, to take a breather from the duties of the past few weeks and immerse themselves in the carefree atmosphere of Masopust merriment. This folk tradition, reaching back to pre-Christian times, brought academic life to life for the second time. Masopust at CZU kicked off on Thursday, 12 February, with a morning parade of masked revellers and continued with spontaneous fun into the late afternoon. “Fat Thursday” thus earned its place in the calendar of university events that fall into the “must-see” category.
The aim of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, first proclaimed by the United Nations in 2015, is to highlight the role of women in the scientific world and support their involvement in research. It would not be possible to present all the successful female scientists and researchers working at CZU here, even if we wanted to. Nevertheless, we can wish them all much success and good fortune on their day, which falls on Wednesday, 11 February. On this occasion, we are offering a series of interviews with women pursuing scientific careers at CZU.
Over the next four years, the direction for the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU) will be set by the newly elected rector, Michal Lošťák. The Academic Senate elected him from three candidates in the autumn; t
A bust of one of the most prominent figures in Czech landscape architecture, Professor Jiří Mareček, by the academic sculptor Jaroslav Hylas, was unveiled in Libosad on Wednesday, January 21, 2026. Professor Mareček is the creator of the landscape design of the CZU campus, and Libosad is his crowning achievement and the pride of the university.
From February 1, 2026, the future direction of the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague will be in the hands of the current first vice-rector, Michal Lošťák.
Construction of the Forestry House, a teaching wooden building of the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Science of the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, started on Thursday, January 15, 2026, with the ceremonial laying of the foundation beam. The modern two-story building, divided into teaching and multifunctional spaces, will be built on the CZU campus next to the High-tech Pavilion.
Following the successful deployment of the first firefighting robot in Ukraine, the development of which was significantly contributed to by the CZU Faculty of Technology spin-off Prolab Engineering, the next phase of Czech aid is coming.
The year 2026 is starting happily for preschool children whose parents work at the Czech University of Life Sciences. On Wednesday, January 7, the gates of the newly built building for university children´s groups opened on the campus.
Another champion from the CZU Winery in Chloumek near Mělník has made it to the top 100 of the highest-quality wines in the Czech Republic this year. At the nationwide Wine Salon, the local Riesling 2023, batch number 6/23, won a gold medal. It has thus been ranked among the best wines from Bohemia and Moravia, which will be on display at the tasting exhibition in the cellars of the Valtice Chateau throughout the year.
Over the past eight years, he has shaped the direction of CZU in Prague from his position as rector, bringing it to its current state. The university ranks among the top educational institutions in the national and global context.
Excellent alpine skier Jan Zabystřan, a student at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences of the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, achieved a historic success. In Val Gardena, Italy, he became the first Czech in history to win a men's World Cup race. In the super-G slalom, he defeated the best skier of the moment, Swiss Marc Odermatt.
