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Education is a lifelong process that takes many forms and never ends. In the region, we develop, inspire, and support young talents and experienced professionals who desire further education, deepening their knowledge, and acquiring new skills.
Given the industrial tradition and specialization of the Pilsen Region, we guide children towards technology, natural sciences, and other fields, and teach high school students to collaborate across disciplines. And you have to be enthusiastic about your field of interest! Where?
The greatest opportunities are offered by Plzeň, the natural center of the region, which operates the unique PINE system.
The Plzeň Innovation Ecosystem (PINE) supports and develops innovative entrepreneurship, nurturing, inspiring, and supporting innovators throughout their entire life cycle, from kindergarten to international expansion. Children are catered for at the Robotics Center, which offers interest groups and individual events. Curious boys and girls are also welcome at the Techmania Science Center or the Radovánek leisure center.
SIT Port takes care of experimenting teenagers, educating innovators and start-up entrepreneurs for whom nothing is impossible. For those who want to start a real business, there is BIC Port, which builds on the start-up phase with a greater emphasis on entrepreneurial skills and knowledge. BIC then supports functioning companies, cooperates in financing innovative projects and their international expansion.
The TechTower technology center, which offers facilities and offices for innovative companies, technology enthusiasts, programmers, and start-up entrepreneurs, includes not only co-working spaces but also a unique testing water tank and a prototype workshop. It is a place where ideas become reality and where a whole range of lectures, workshops, and educational events take place.
More than 13,600 students currently study in the university town of Pilsen, of which almost 11,000 are enrolled at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and the rest at the Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Pilsen. Students of technical fields account for 17% of the total.
The University of West Bohemia in Pilsen offers more than 300 study programs at nine faculties (Faculty of Applied Sciences, Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art, Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Philosophy, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Health Studies).
In addition to master’s degree programs in General Medicine and Dentistry, the Faculty of Medicine at Charles University in Pilsen now also offers a follow-up master’s degree program in Imaging and Irradiation Technology in Radiodiagnostics, Nuclear Medicine, and Radiotherapy, as well as a doctoral program.
More than 13,600 students currently study in the university town of Pilsen, nearly 11,000 of them at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.
The University of West Bohemia is a multidisciplinary university with a long tradition, particularly in the fields of technology and education. It is precisely in technical fields such as electrical engineering, computer science, cybernetics, mechanical engineering, and materials engineering that the University of West Bohemia offers an exceptionally high standard of education.
Today, the strength of the University of West Bohemia lies in strengthening interdisciplinarity in education and creative activities. It offers students a wide range of fields, from technical to humanities, economics, health care, and the arts. The diversity and proximity of the individual faculties of the University of West Bohemia thus create an ideal breeding ground for the creation of interdisciplinary study programs and cooperation on interdisciplinary projects, often with an international character.
The close ties between the faculties and industrial partners, companies, and employers of various fields enable intensive links between study, practice, and research.
1991 year of establishment
12,000 students / year
2 university institutes
4 research centers
9 faculties
64 departments
310 study programs
4 types of study (bachelor’s, master’s, follow-up master’s, doctoral)
1 modern university campus
The Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen was founded in 1945 as part of Charles University, one of the oldest universities in Central Europe, and has educated more than 12,000 doctors working around the world since its inception.
The faculty offers three study programs: general medicine, dentistry, and imaging and irradiation technologies in radiodiagnostics, nuclear medicine, and radiotherapy. Basic instruction is in Czech, and since 1992, also in English. The faculty has around 2,000 students, 500 of whom are foreigners.
Faculty staff are involved in therapeutic and preventive care at the University Hospital in Pilsen and other healthcare facilities. The institution’s scientific and research work is of great importance and scope. In 2022, in addition to the headquarters for the faculty’s theoretical institutes and the Biomedical Research Center, it built a new state-of-the-art university campus.
A specific part of the faculty is its Simulation Center, where students practice real procedures on mannequins – simulators, from basic skills to advanced simulations of intensive and emergency medicine conditions.
1945 year of establishment
2,000 students / year
500 foreign students / year
1 faculty
1 research center
3 study programs
3 types of study (master’s, follow-up master’s, doctoral)
1 modern campus
