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.
CZU is also known as the “University Full of Life,” and, by coincidence, the Ambassador had the chance to see that for himself. He arrived just as a Masopust (Carnival) parade of costumed participants was making its way through the campus. His first words were that the label “University Full of Life” was absolutely fitting. Rector Michal Lošťák described Ambassador Matt Field’s visit as highly beneficial. “It was excellent to present the university to the Ambassador of a country with which we have intensive research connections, and whose citizens study and work at CZU. The Ambassador noted that the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit affected student exchanges in particular, but that the situation is now improving. In last year’s summer semester alone, we registered 35 students from the UK at CZU.”
CZU in Prague offers international students a wide range of degree programmes taught in English. The university currently offers 10 bachelor’s programmes, 26 master’s programmes, and 30 doctoral programmes in English. In 2025, approximately 4,400 applicants subscribed to English-taught programmes. Regarding the ratio of international to Czech students in these programmes, applicants from abroad clearly dominate, accounting for around 95%.
Matthew Robert Field has served as Ambassador to the Czech Republic since 2023. From the very beginning, he won over many Czechs with his “I’m new here” campaign (“jsem tu novej”). Later, after spending some time in Czechia, he revised it: “I’m not new here anymore. Pelíšky helped me understand your humour.” He considers the most powerful experience of his posting in Czechia to be meeting former RAF pilot General Emil Boček on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Shortly after arriving in Prague, he received a letter from King Charles III, which he was to personally deliver to this Battle of Britain legend as a thank-you for his service during the Second World War.
Lenka Prokopová / Photo: Marie Hendrychová